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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Long Beach College Promise is another Latino-serving program in which students are tracked from the K-12 system (the Long Beach Unified School District), through community college, and into CSULB to make sure students are fully supported through all the educational pathways. Morishita, interim president at CSULA. Dr. Janine E.

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If My Grades Are Bad, Can I Still Go To College?

Great College Advice

If Your Grades Are Bad, You Have Choices Certainly, the structure of university life is very different from the more rigid structures of secondary school. As well as attend lectures and labs, study for tests, and write research papers. However, a college or university can throw you out if you refuse to do the academic work.

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2022 Delphi Award Winners Share Practices to Support Part-Time Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Representatives of Montgomery College, a Maryland community college, presented the school’s Institute for Part-Time Faculty Engagement Support (IPTFES). Adjunct faculty have designated slots on key shared governance committees,” Behmand said.

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Apply to US Universities from Brazil

Great College Advice

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. How difficult is it to apply to US universities from Brazil?

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Asking the Right Questions

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean Is your college prepared for climate change? Bryan Alexander’s new book, Universities on Fire, is a structured series of speculations about what that might mean. Is your college coastal? Community colleges in coastal counties are meant to serve those counties.

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Fundraising During Uncertain Times: What Not to Do

EAB

A large private university reported to EAB that their donor counts in FY’20 had been closely tracking their 2019 numbers. However, when the university decided to stop all solicitations four months before the fiscal year end, their donor counts dropped so dramatically that they finished 2020 with 17% fewer donors for the year.

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Unions organizing in states that lack collective bargaining

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Unions for Private University Grad Students Under federal law, private university employees can unionize—except, generally, tenured and tenure-track faculty, following a 1980 U.S. But Matthew Thomas, a Duke University Ph.D. ” “We become a union by acting like one,” she said.

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