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Community Colleges Increase Housing Options

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The profile of the average community college student is changing. While two-year institutions still have significant populations of adult students and people desirous of enhancing their career options, there is a growing number of first-time college students, age 18 to 22, that are seeking a traditional college experience.

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Profiling Some of the Institutions With the Most Minority Business Graduates

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. It’s because we have special recruitment for folks who want an alternative to the traditional experience.

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Education Department faces calls to rescind outsourcing guidance

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The department wrote a Dear Colleague letter in February that said any entity involved with the administration of an institution’s federal student aid is considered a third-party servicer, which puts them under the department’s oversight authority and subjects the companies’ contracts with institutions to regular audits.

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Using Faculty Satisfaction Data for Strategic Change in Higher Education: Changing Higher Ed podcast 254 with host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and guest Dr. R. Todd Benson

The Change Leader, Inc.

Todd Benson: Yeah, especially, we tend to think about higher ed as being these large research universities, but boy, if you go into, community colleges or regional publics, they are a combination of scholar and counselor and mentor. Or even those who are not on a tenure track, those who may be lecturers or adjuncts or under contract.

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Academic freedom policies should mean something (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Academic freedom policies and standards, such as those adopted by public colleges and universities in Florida, provide a compelling basis for courts not to apply the Garcetti standard to public higher education faculty.

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Take It From Me…These Loans Won’t Stay Paused Forever

College Forward

If that commitment is something up your speed, check with a local recruiter to find out what potential assistance you can receive in exchange for a few years of service. Consider Community College. If the military isn’t on your wavelength, there are other ways to serve your country and receive some financial assistance as well.

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Embracing a New Model for Higher Education Governance Part 2: The Updated Board Duties

The Change Leader, Inc.

However, the consultant—while well-qualified having served as commissioner of higher education, associate commissioner for academic and student affairs for the Institutions of Higher Learning, and a community college president–had never formally applied as a candidate and his name wasn’t presented publicly as one of the eight candidates.