Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 6, 2024

Americans Over 50 Hold Student Debt, New Report Shows jessica.blake@… Tue, 08/06/2024 - 03:00 AM Urban Institute researchers say the financial burden not only puts a strain on the borrowers themselves but also the social welfare programs designed to be their safety net. Byline(s) Jessica Blake

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 21, 2023

These colleges and their certification advocates argue that certification not only readily equips students with the real-world skills to transition successfully to their first job post but also addresses many of the equity concerns colleges face by validating the idea that all forms of learning are valued, including forms of skilled labor.

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Dr. Al Solano

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The disconnect between policy, research, and practice is extraordinarily real for college practitioners. The intersection of policy, research, and practice at the center of this Venn diagram is often an illusion. A recent research paper analyzed community college institutional research office mission statements.

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Dr. Al Solano

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Darla Cooper, Executive Director of the RP Group , a nonprofit research and planning organization focused on supporting California community colleges to increase student success and equity. Note: While the RP Group is California-based, the research findings and resources are applicable to all U.S. Access the Transcript ].

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EAB

JANUARY 30, 2023

Blogs Creating a data-informed campus: part 3 Using data to facilitate institutional effectiveness The conversation around data-informed decision making in higher education continues to accelerate. All too often, however, the question of how to capture these data and use them to positively affect the institution remains.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Northeastern University has agreed to repay $616,695 of grant money to the National Science Foundation after a federal audit found evidence of financial mismanagement on several of the institutions research projects, The Boston Globe reported.

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Institutional Research Research 90

Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 5, 2023

Imagine two postdoctoral researchers in an academic lab. However, if one of them were awarded a prestigious training fellowship from the National Institutes of Health, that same postdoc may lose their employment status with their institution, causing a loss of critical employee benefits in their overall compensation package.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 16, 2023

The communications and marketing office began working with institutional research to launch a series of two-way text messaging pilot programs this past fall. ” She also advises a casual, conversational and friendly tone in the messaging (for Moorpark, that includes the use of emojis and exclamation points).

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University Business

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Enrollment In order to funnel student applications through the admissions process, institutions must ensure they are catching potential students’ desire to apply in the first place. The University of North Texas and Reynolds Community College (Va.)

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 4, 2023

There is that conjectural concern that as universities become more research-oriented, or move “up” in Carnegie classification, seeking R-2 (high research activity) or R-1 (very high research activity) status, they become less focused on students, more exclusive and less responsive to their communities’ needs.

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University Business

APRIL 19, 2023

Determined to leverage these tools in higher education, the University of North Texas and Reynolds Community College (Va.) Staff was churning out literally thousands of static PDFs out of my unit,” says Melanie Boynton, director of institutional research and analytics at Reynolds. ‘Why is this a game changer?’

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EAB

MAY 22, 2023

Accelerators are designed to help leaders answer a common set of institutional questions. The dashboards include templatized reports, metrics, and key performance indicators (KPIs) based on EAB research and experience with hundreds of institutions so that partners need not start from scratch.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 6, 2023

What it is: Chatterjea and her colleagues Nancy Bostrom, associate director of assessment, and Bethany Miller, director of institutional research and assessment, launched the Classroom Community and Connectedness Project at Macalester in September 2021.

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Parchment

OCTOBER 8, 2024

In this episode, we sit down with John Fink from the Community College Research Center to discuss what we learned from the data and how it can help dual enrollment practitioners. It’s a favorite part of my job is going out into the world, outside of the college and visiting. and only about 74 community colleges.

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Higher Ed Connects: News

AUGUST 28, 2019

The two most obvious, building on the skills that students are learning during their degree programs, are teaching positions and research positions. Colleges and universities also hire for research scientist roles, which are full-time staff positions. Student recruitment often involves travel and one-to-one student advising.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 2, 2023

The wealthiest colleges and universities adopted and established a new successful financial strategy for higher education 130 years ago, and they can do it again today. Iler is assistant director of institutional research at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.

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EAB

MAY 16, 2023

EAB · TSU’s Systematic Approach to Student Success Navigate Navigate is higher education's leading student CRM, built based on a decade of research to improve recruitment, student success, and the student experience. So for me, being an institutional research person, we're always saying, let's address the true problem.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

The culminating experience for the EAB Rising Higher Education Leaders Fellowship was the capstone project that substantively contributed to the fellows’ professional advancement and helped solve a pressing challenge facing their home institutions. In many cases, partners jointly completed a project that benefitted both institutions.

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EAB

JUNE 30, 2023

Many institutions have a staff member whose primary function is to complete such reports. But what might that staff member achieve if they could complete reports faster without compromising accuracy?

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

In its 2017 report, the Babson Survey Research Group looked at online education in the United States and reported the following: Seventy-one percent of the 4,717 U.S. degree-granting institutions offer some form of online education. Educational apps will help facilitate instruction.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The Education Department received nearly 13,000 comments from borrowers, lawmakers, researchers and others about the draft regulations for income-driven repayment during the 30-day comment period that ended Friday.

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Dr. Al Solano

AUGUST 6, 2022

There's also another interesting "sub-culture" dynamic at many campuses: groups of racial equity educators who sabotage developmental ed reform and guided pathways efforts in general, egged on for years by some university equity researchers. According to his research, change in attitudes follows or accompanies gradual change in behavior.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean You know how sometimes you forget about food that has been in the freezer for a while? I was surprised at how many responses amounted to shopping in the freezer; they were requests for data that most colleges already, and routinely, collect. It can be revealing in useful ways.

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University Business

APRIL 14, 2023

Raney currently serves as the vice chancellor for academic affairs at Eastern Iowa Community Colleges. Previous to that at Saint Paul College (Minn.) Known for his interest in enhancing institutional research , he intends to incentivize the community’s fundraising efforts to strengthen the administration’s resources.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 28, 2023

These experiences and national research studies revealed that students who feel like they belong on campus are about 40% more likely to continue after their freshmen year. But toward the end, I realized that this research and stakeholder engagements uncovered many problems and solutions. I really enjoyed that work. Tell us more.

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