Confessions of a Community College Dean

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

As concerns about college affordability and the economic burden of student loan debt grow, some experts say it might be time not only to boost the budget for federal financial aid but also to go back to the drawing board on how that aid is allocated.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government and higher education institutions have fed the public a steady diet of bad enrollment news. Before and during COVID, most of these students vanished from our most affordable and accessible institutions – our community colleges.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2024

which provided him exposure to policy networking with individuals in the federal government. He currently is also a graduate research assistant with the Center for Community College Student Engagement. Reid’s doctoral coursework is completed, and he is currently focusing on his dissertation.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Purdue University will pay the federal government $737,400 to settle allegations that a researcher falsified data, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Indiana.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 11, 2023

The federal government halted human research at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, the Columbia University psychiatry department’s flagship site, following a study participant’s suicide, The New York Times revealed Thursday.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The legislation would stop the University of California, California State University and their affiliates, and California Community Colleges, from barring students from being hired for jobs due to the lack of federal work authorization — which is often the case for students who have parents who immigrated to the state.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 27, 2023

The National Endowment for the Humanities’ Jefferson Lecture is the highest honor the federal government bestows for distinguished intellectual achievement in the humanities. Simmons will deliver the 2023 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Universities, once struggling to keep up with the surge in demand for counseling during the pandemic, have since scaled up their support services thanks to an outpouring of financial help from various nonprofits , donors, state legislatures and the federal government.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Knowledge about how much financial aid is being offered affects applicants’ decision-making, he said, adding that this delay will cause students added anxiety, frustration, and fear about a college admissions process that can already be daunting for some.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 18, 2023

Temple University’s Hope Center for College, Community and Justice released a brief Wednesday calling on the federal government to extend student emergency aid grants that were available during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 12, 2023

Postsecondary institutions whose mission and operations are optimized to educate, train and credential learners—community colleges, land-grant institutions, comprehensive regional public universities, HBCUs and other minority-serving institutions come to mind—should get more public money. percent of households.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

has the highest educational attainment rate for adults, but it’s also an area known for attracting transplants from other states with high education levels, so its seeming success could mask degree attainment challenges for certain demographics, such as local community college students. For example, Washington, D.C.,

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University Business

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The University of Minnesota Morris is excited to share with potential students that they could potentially save $20,000 on tuition costs for a bachelor’s degree, which may appease a public and federal government pushing for a more affordable higher education.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 13, 2023

government about his Chinese connections and Chinese money has retired from the university. “From 2011 to 2015, defendant developed a relationship with Wuhan University of Technology (WUT) in China and participated in the Chinese government’s Thousand Talents Program (TTP),” Zobel wrote. 1, the university said.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 13, 2023

As a result, the rates on average are significantly higher than the federal graduation rate, the formula the federal government uses to track graduation rates for all students.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 14, 2023

As a result, the rates on average are significantly higher than the federal graduation rate, the formula the federal government uses to track graduation rates for all students.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 23, 2023

The University of Phoenix has come under fire from the federal government in the past for defying bans on recruiting on military bases and misleading students about job prospects. “This may be a more important determinant than profit status for the amounts of benefits paid,” VA spokesperson Gina Jackson told USA Today.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The federal government has settled a lawsuit with Hunter College and a former Hunter professor alleging fraudulent use of grant funding from the National Institutes of Health between 2010 and 2018, according to a statement the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York released Monday.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 20, 2023

Litigation Over Florida’s Stop WOKE Act—‘Positively Dystopian’ In litigation challenging the Stop WOKE Act’s application to public higher education, a federal district court issued a sharp rebuke to Florida (the case is currently on appeal). Florida looked to a 2006 U.S. Florida looked to a 2006 U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2023

UMGC has agreements with all 16 community colleges in Maryland, says Dr. Pam Carter, vice president and dean of the School of Business, which offers seven undergraduate degree programs and 10 stand-alone certificates. Two recent MBA graduates became presidential management fellows, three-year positions with the federal government.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 19, 2023

The for-profit Living Arts College closed abruptly after the shutdown of the embattled Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges & Schools and blamed the federal government for its demise.

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University Business

JULY 6, 2023

Furthermore, universities are under pressure from the public and the federal government to be more career-responsive by offering more programs that directly lead to jobs. However, skills-based training courses coupled with exciting new interactive technologies that appear lifelike makes this no longer the case.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

It said it would look for evidence of “sustained research quality,” including adequate governance and investment. But if we have a system … in which the university college category has cachet, it’s not such a fanciful notion.” ” Sources consider that improbable.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The federal government projects that more than 203,000 new registered nurse (RN) positions will be created each year from 2021 to 2031, according to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN). Information was not provided about new nursing hire recruitment.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 27, 2023

The Congressional Budget Office, Congress’s nonpartisan research arm, has estimated it could cost the federal government $400 billion over 30 years. The Education Department has said the one-time debt relief would cost $300 billion over the next 10 years.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 27, 2023

” Christine Price, program coordinator for the Skills, Training and Education for Personal Success (STEPS) program at Austin Community College in Texas, said she gets phone calls from people wanting to know if STEPS is a “real college” program.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Universities can support these initiatives with dedicated staff who can identify community partners, arrange field visits, and sustain the long-term partnerships required for effective community collaborations. Partner with local governments. How Social Rules Shape Our Planet and Our Lives. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 5, 2023

Community colleges failing to fulfill their mission. Community Colleges The Hechinger Report, a higher ed news source not given to hyperbole or scare headlines, recently posted an alarming article entitled : “‘The reckoning is here’: More than a third of community college students have vanished.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 14, 2023

Lately, university governing boards around the country have been considering the balance and diversity of intellectual scholarship in the institutions they oversee. That takes us to issues of higher education governance—a process that is often tediously slow and too often inefficient but nevertheless the way we do business today.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 20, 2023

However, Collier noted that the changes would be less helpful for community college graduates and those with certificates. So, on average, it’s not going to help the individuals who went to community college and got a degree.” The new rules waive unpaid interest to prevent this from happening.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 29, 2023

” Reynolds added that if the state had “provided the federal funding as requested and it was used to finance debt or other impermissible uses according to US Treasury guidelines, the state and taxpayers could have been liable for potential repayment to the federal government.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 4, 2023

Although the pandemic has negatively impacted enrollment across the world of higher education, the drops for minoritized men at community colleges have been especially precipitous. They discussed their ideas Thursday at a panel co-sponsored by CCEAL and the Association of Community College Trustees.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 13, 2023

One of the complexities of college leadership is that a president typically has approximately nine different constituencies (students, parents, alumni, donors, faculty, staff, local, state and federal government, at the least) whose views are not only not aligned, but frequently diametrically opposed to one another.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 22, 2023

The crisis had been partly obscured, he said, by COVID-19 relief funds that had flowed from the federal government during the coronavirus pandemic—money that the university couldn’t count on for long. “Federal money was really masking the fact that we were already underwater,” Bailey said.

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EAB

MAY 23, 2023

EAB’s Tara Zirkel is joined by Center for Community College Student Engagement Executive Director Dr. Linda Garcia, as well as Associate Director of Publications, Dr. Courtney Adkins, to discuss new research on student engagement. Today, community colleges are being asked to rise to new challenges.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 4, 2023

Department of Education is now considering changes to its guidelines addressing how outside providers bundle the services they offer to colleges and universities and to the regulations that define and govern third-party servicers. The industry has evolved; so too have the OPMs. Half of those who drop out do so for financial reasons.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 27, 2024

We're trying to get students to be engaged in their communities, and voting is just part of that,” said Dr. George Boggs, president and CEO emeritus of the American Association of Community Colleges, and president emeritus of Palomar College in San Marcos, California. Community colleges] need to expand our efforts.

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