Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 6, 2023

The university has said it did so to better align the Graduate College of Social Work with broader institutional priorities. The former dean, Alan Dettlaff—who is returning to the social work faculty, for now—says his views on racial justice got him fired. “Students told me that all the time.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Established 53 years ago and built on principles of social justice, AAP’s mission is to create and administer innovative academic programs for students historically underrepresented in higher education. Salcedo is the director of the Center for Community College Partnerships at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 28, 2023

With a strong succession plan, HBCUs can ensure a smooth transition of leadership, cultivate a pipeline of diverse and visionary leaders, and continue to fulfill their vital mission of empowering generations of students and advancing social justice. Talent identification: A thorough evaluation of potential candidates is crucial.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Did you know that full-time faculty at 4-year universities are: 225 percent more likely to be of a non-Chrisitian faith than other US adults. More than half of full-time faculty have at least one parent with an advanced degree. In his view, this isn’t just a matter of social justice or equity.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

It’s an online module that we released earlier this year to all our faculty and staff as required training. It was also incorporated into all our new employee/new faculty orientations. There was a recommendation to have focus groups beginning this fall with diverse populations of staff, faculty, and students to capture their stories.

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Ridgewater College

JANUARY 19, 2022

To bridge the college family with Ridgewater’s neighboring communities through broader diversity awareness, Schwandt and her DEI office are launching several spring virtual social justice speakers beginning January 19. Spring Social Justice Virtual Zoom Series: Wed., As a faculty member at St.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 13, 2023

plans to break a long-standing tradition of only hiring Christian instructors by opening some faculty positions to Jewish candidates. University leaders recently announced they’re specifically recruiting Jewish faculty members to teach in three of its graduate programs, hopefully as early as this spring.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 28, 2023

The great irony of this situation is that USF is a Jesuit institution, a university built on the premise of shepherding the Ignatian tradition of social justice and intellectual inquiry in an evolving world. What we as educators do is to open and facilitate productive debate, not close it off.

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Dr. Al Solano

MAY 19, 2023

LISTEN TO THE EPISODE: Learn how kindness translates into equitable teaching practices In this episode, I interview Dr. Dayamudra Dennehy, ESL Faculty & Distance Education Coordinator at City College of San Francisco. 39:14:75: Practical tips for faculty. 39:14:75: Practical tips for faculty. Why do we do that?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 23, 2023

Image: Some members of the Renegade Institute for Liberty, a controversial group of professors at Bakersfield College, are enmeshed in an increasingly vitriolic dispute playing out on the California campus that has pitted students and faculty members against each other and prompted their supporters and critics to take sides.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 10, 2023

Leaders and employees at De Anza College, the community college where Lee has been working on contract as a tenure-track faculty member, didn’t comment Thursday. ” Lee provided a letter that O’Neill wrote Friday to the community college district’s Board of Trustees.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

” It must also: “Analyze the role that complex networks of social structures and systems play in the creation and perpetuation of the dynamics of power, privilege, oppression and opportunity,” and “Apply the principles of rights, access, equity and autonomous participation to past, current, or future social justice action.”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 1, 2023

At FGCU, where many full-time advisers have faculty status, Knibbs even teaches a class on the foundations of civic engagement. Looking at responses by institution type, 56 percent of four-year college students say they’ve gotten this kind of advice, compared to 49 percent of community college students.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Perhaps the following conversation between Anita Casavantes Bradford and Steven Mintz about how R-1s can support their faculty to find fulfillment in meaningful research and as transformative teachers and mentors can suggest some answers. ” However, our campuses and our faculty roles have changed dramatically in the last few decades.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Faculty across disciplines, from the sciences to the humanities, can—and should—more directly debunk this false ideology in their courses. Karen Gaffney is a professor of English at Raritan Valley Community College and author of Dismantling the Racism Machine: A Manual and Toolbox (Routledge, 2018).

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Wells Society was formerly based at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where Hannah-Jones rejected a faculty position in 2021 after the Board of Trustees dragged its feet on offering her a tenured position, despite widespread support from academics. She took a position at Howard University instead.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 6, 2023

It was with those goals in mind that Belmont administrators, faculty and staff members, and students got together in the first half of 2022 to map out the vision for the institution’s values, mission and goals by 2030.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 27, 2023

Today’s college students are demographically, ideologically, neurologically and culturally diverse, and diversity statements are seen as a way to recruit faculty and staff who will serve these students well. However, diversity statements have come under fire in recent years.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 8, 2023

Drumm McNaughton speaks with Dr. Marielena DeSanctis, president of the Community College of Denver, who shares some of the solutions she was able to identify based on her unique understanding of higher ed. She started her education career in K-12 and moved to community college leadership. Dr. DeSanctis is unique.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 2, 2023

Faculty members were given leeway to decide if they wanted to excuse students from class. Others questioned the point of the revival and whether it will lead to meaningful, long-term changes when worshippers go back to their church communities at a time of polarized politics and calls for racial justice.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 17, 2023

The report further breaks down public humanities training trends by level, from graduate to undergraduate to faculty. Ad keywords: administrators faculty Is this diversity newsletter?: Hide by line?: Disable left side advertisement?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?: Trending: Live Updates: liveupdates0

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Some are more ideological, touching on interfaith, sustainability, conflict resolution, leadership or social justice. Others still are identity-focused groups for students belonging to different communities, including LGBTQ+, Asian and Pacific Islander, Indigenous , Hispanic/Latino , African or African American, and Middle Eastern.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Our Pillars Scholars program supports first-year African American students, including by providing scholarships and opportunities to engage in community-based, social justice opportunities. They will carry torches of hope into their communities for the rest of their lives. Share here.

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Dr. Al Solano

JANUARY 17, 2022

In this episode, I interview Maritez Apigo , English Faculty and Distance Education Coordinator at Contra Costa College. About Maritez Apigo For over two decades, Maritez has taught English and ESL in community colleges, high schools, and middle schools in California and in Hawaii. Scroll down to access the transcript.).

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Dr. Al Solano

AUGUST 6, 2022

At some campuses it’s the reverse, but by and large, I found English faculty’s culture more ready to implement student-centered, equitable change. My point about culture is that when obstruction becomes part of the pattern of behaviors, attitudes, customs, norms, and routines at a college, students ultimately pay the price.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Supported creation of the Diversity, Anti-Racism and Equity (DARE) Dashboards to set and track diversity goals regarding student, faculty, and staff data. Reorganized administrative processes to improve the efficacy of investigations of gender-based violence on our campuses and support for victims of such violence.

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Dr. Al Solano

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

For example, some university researchers have convinced themselves (and policy makers too) that counting words on college documents and websites is an effective methodology to make assumptions about practice. A recent research paper analyzed community college institutional research office mission statements.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 23, 2024

This plan should be developed with input from a diverse group of stakeholders, including alumni, current students, faculty, staff, and community partners. Raised in Little Rock, Arkansas, Dr. Grimes is deeply committed to equity, social justice, liberation, storytelling, service, and healing. Justin Grimes: Absolutely.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2024

To this end, we provide P-12 educators; college/university faculty, administrators, and staff; and other education stakeholders a blueprint to collaboratively work with Black males through a culturally responsive lens. The overlooked conversation: Black male success in community colleges. Hines & E.C. Fletcher (Eds.)

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 24, 2023

Image: Hundreds of West Virginia University faculty members have registered their opposition to proposed policy changes that could alter how they are evaluated, promoted and terminated. The policy, if ultimately approved, would spell out evaluation, promotion and termination rules for tenured, tenure track and non-tenure-track faculty.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 13, 2023

College’s impact hinges largely on the level of student engagement: the time and effort devoted to studying, the frequency and quality of interactions with faculty, peers, and professional staff, and the extent to which students take advantage of extracurricular activities. Their faculty take teaching and mentoring seriously.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

“Complete College, America: Harnessing the Power of Higher Education to Renew American Democracy” examines actionable steps that colleges and universities can take to prepare students to be ready for today’s workforce and be active, informed citizens. This prepares students for careers and to be good citizens.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 28, 2023

The survey itself initially received pushback from some faculty members who objected to its sponsor, UW Stout’s Menard Center for Public Policy and Service, which was named for Republican donor John Menard and funded through a Charles Koch Foundation donation, according to The Wisconsin Examiner.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

The academy and the classroom are, in fact, sites of power, privilege, and hierarchy (one hopes rooted in expertise) – and a key purpose of the new language of social justice is to invert power relations, lay bare previously unrecognized power dynamics, and challenge established authority and assumptions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 14, 2025

The core of my leadership was formed by the combined strengths of my own layered identities, and my practice and decision-making, whether focused on my commitment to racial and social justice or simply my ability to listen to students and colleagues, is shaped by the multilayered identities I bring to leadership. Dr. Julius O.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 28, 2023

A highly competitive higher educational marketplace encourages institutions to compete aggressively for prestige, resources, faculty, and students. American higher education exceptionalism American higher education is distinctive in its radical decentralization, diversity, dependence on tuition and fees – and stratification.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 16, 2023

The economy stagnated, the war dragged on, and the freedoms that college youth enjoyed, including the freedom from many or most academic requirements, faded. The faculty devoted more time to research and interacted less with their undergraduates. The environment got colder, uglier, and more pessimistic. An epoch had ended.

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