Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 6, 2023

All About Boulder The bill would apply to all Colorado public institutions, but experts say it would only be meaningful for two: Boulder, the state’s public flagship, and the Colorado School of Mines. And that number is growing, particularly at Boulder. The new bill would give the institution some breathing room.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

DECEMBER 22, 2022

So what does this mean for colleges and universities? Facility with analytics, data mining, data visualization, informatics and probability isn’t a luxury. Our campuses need to recognize that fluency with quantification, probability, statistics and data is essential. It’s necessary.

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Great College Advice

AUGUST 31, 2023

Community colleges, also known as junior colleges These are 2-year institutions that offer Associates degrees in a wide variety of academic disciplines. Community colleges also offer technical and vocational training. Community colleges are generally the least difficult, as they are generally open to all.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 10, 2023

“It’s frustrating to see in real time the ways in which schools like mine create a pipeline into work driving climate injustice. The Texas law school produces 12.9 percent more fossil fuel lawyers than the average law school.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 31, 2023

The future of the event remains up in the air for now as the college mines its data and evaluates the event with stakeholders, Horning says. But college officials believe the collaboration was valuable. More than 100 walked away with a new professional head shot.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 14, 2023

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean A few years ago, The Wife asked me what I would have done for a living if the whole academic thing didn’t work out. TW is an avid reader and has an impressive collection in her own right, but mine borders on disturbing. You might not know it from our house, though.

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University Business

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Power of community-focused education But this isn’t just about Connecticut or CCA. He points to examples like Ivy Tech in Indiana and Central Community College in Nebraska, where high schools and community colleges are developing curricula tailored to local industry needs.

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Great College Advice

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

If high school has not been an academically successful experience, a course or two at a community college could go a long way to help you test the college waters in a way that is less expensive. Also keep in mind that you can take community college courses in things that are not strictly academic.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 10, 2023

However, considering many colleges may have implemented HyFlex not because they believe in its instructional value, but instead to save money by overenrolling courses , the ideal technology investments are not always the reality.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 16, 2023

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean The Education Department is planning to deploy “secret shoppers ” to colleges around the country to suss out deceptive and predatory practices, particularly around financial aid. That’s valuable. When I taught writing, I liked to focus on audience awareness.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 9, 2023

“It’s frustrating to see in real time the ways in which schools like mine create a pipeline into work driving climate injustice. The Texas law school produces 12.9 percent more fossil fuel lawyers than the average law school.

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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 20, 2023

Overcoming mine meant medical leave and ultimately changing careers and institutions. ” It’s hard as a coach and facilitator not to want to fix the problem, to not offer explicit advice for how to get everything done or to change the workplace culture. Everyone’s experience with burnout is going to be different.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 23, 2023

Here was the response: One thing that someone has done for me that has made me happy and thankful in a surprising way was when a friend of mine offered to drive me to the airport for an early morning flight. Who knows what else it’s capable of? But what happens when I rewrite the prompt, asking this time for 500 words?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 30, 2023

Your research skills and ability to ask big questions would suit you well to a job like mine, in R&D. If you have begun to build an academic life or career, I already know you have so many competencies and areas of contextual knowledge that can be incredibly valuable in ed tech.

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Campus Sonar

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

This is mine, and I hope it helps you understand others’. We need to be more aware, nimble, and humble than ever as a concerted effort to devalue higher education plays out in our communities. This is intentional; you haven’t stumbled across a mistakenly published diary entry.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 8, 2023

That said, are there ways that that campuses like mine could be more purposeful? A much bigger university like mine can’t duplicate the sense of mission that one finds at Texas A&M San Antonio. I think the answer is “yes.” ” Here’s how: 1. Offer more programs that cultivate critical consciousness.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 10, 2023

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean. Mine didn’t look anything like that at his age. The Boy has been home for the Christmas break for a couple of weeks; he heads back to Virginia soon. He’s in his final undergraduate year, on track to graduate in May.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

graduating class, who graduated with fantastic dissertation projects but only a published article or book review or two on their CV, found jobs in community colleges or teaching-intensive universities or outside academia. The future of higher education is in your hands, not mine. All of our futures depend on their success.

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University Business

APRIL 10, 2023

26 – McLennan Community College System Jan. 26 – Temple College Feb. 11 – Laredo College The post TikTok tracker: What colleges—or entire states—have banned the popular app? Mississippi Jan. 26 – University of Southern Mississippi Feb. 2 – University of Mississippi Oklahoma Dec.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 29, 2023

It did not occur to me that my book may be an opportunity to declare “war” on an approach with a different emphasis from mine.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 7, 2023

A: I was a first-generation college student from a small coal-mining community in east Kentucky. I arrived at college clueless, scared out of my mind, constantly worried that I would flunk out or not be successful in some way. Q: What led you to your career in higher education?

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 4, 2025

I remember when Tutor got started many years ago, it was of university of Southern California, and you worked with a good friend of mine, Ronni Ephraim, who I worked with years ago when she was the director of instruction at LA Unified School District and worked for Governor Romer. She is a close friend of mine to this day.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Top colleges often ignore AP scores and require students to take a placement test. A profit-making enterprise, AP classes (like early college courses) have become a way for states like mine to reduce college costs. Given the AP’s importance, let me do my best to evaluate the African American Studies framework.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 16, 2023

However, if this tool is to live up to its potential, it must mine the proprietary databases in which serious scholarship resides. Yet to my mind, the platform, even in its current form, is an asset that faculty would be remiss not to leverage.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Gillis: At a small liberal arts college like mine, students are required to live on campus all four years, and they’re paying enormous amounts of money to come here. For institutions like mine, the question is more how can we adapt the modalities that we have so we’re actually meeting student needs better.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 23, 2023

With The Bot, you can effortlessly and almost instantly produce essays that one faculty colleague of mine described as surface level and formulaic but solidly in the B range. What I’m saying is: students for whom writing feels like a transaction or a chore will no longer be motivated to practice it. Writing is, above all, a practice.)

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Gannett is in the extraction business, mining as much local wealth as it can with minimal investment. Imagine such a staff creating a daily Monday-through-Saturday online product and a fat printed Sunday edition (complete with color comics)! Public service is no longer on its corporate agenda.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 5, 2023

“The reason they wanted to fund AUK was because they weren’t getting quality employees from the existing Ukrainian higher education system,” Shangraw said.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 31, 2023

Too many equate active learning with discussion and debate as opposed to inquiry or problem solving or activities involving annotation, concept or geo-mapping, role playing, text mining, visualization, and presentation. Think about teaching largely as a matter of what content to include and readings to assign.

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EAB

JULY 28, 2023

Mine data to get a clear picture of where your current students stand on math. Over the same time, data analytics tools and enterprise-level student success software have become powerful and ubiquitous. The math shark could already be here, and we just don’t know it yet. We lost many of our traditional math measurements during the pandemic.

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EAB

JULY 28, 2023

Mine data to get a clear picture of where your current students stand on math. Over the same time, data analytics tools and enterprise-level student success software have become powerful and ubiquitous. The math shark could already be here, and we just don’t know it yet. We lost many of our traditional math measurements during the pandemic.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

Director for Transfer & Pathways, Central New Mexico Community College University Research Optimizing institutional resources for research growth Nick Hagemeier, Interim Vice Provost for Research, East Tennessee State University Want to learn more about the Rising Higher Education Leaders Fellowship?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 4, 2023

Told from the perspective of the marginalized workers who are often left out of the labor narrative, the book chronicles the union organizing efforts across industries as diverse as online shopping (Amazon), agriculture, mining, manufacturing and sex work.

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Parchment

JANUARY 25, 2024

Augustine for Health Sciences University of the Pacific Vanguard University of Southern California Whittier College Woodbury University Colorado Colorado College Colorado Mountain College Colorado School of Mines Colorado State University Pueblo Community College University of Denver Connecticut Connecticut College Quinnipiac University Sacred Heart (..)

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 2, 2023

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean As a recovering political scientist and longtime college administrator, the fate of President Biden’s student loan forgiveness program at the hands of the Supreme Court is very much on my radar. The usual burden to bring a case to the Court is “standing.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JULY 12, 2023

Brian is also an Adjunct Professor at Naugatuck Valley Community College, where he has developed and teaches cybersecurity courses. I wanted to be a police officer when I started my academic career at a community college in a criminal justice program. A colleague of mine has a website that got hacked.

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