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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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3 Questions for Sue Lorenson, Vice Dean for Undergraduate Education at Georgetown

Confessions of a Community College Dean

His frustration was palpable; this was a kid who went to a small school because he wanted nothing more than to be sitting in a seminar kicking around great ideas, but he was Zooming and floundering. My younger son studies engineering at a large public university; I’m a dean for liberal arts education at a midsize private university.

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Sustainability actions students take and want their colleges to take

Confessions of a Community College Dean

“You can create a net-zero campus pretty easily by just shutting it down,” quips Jay Antle, executive director of the Center for Sustainability and a history professor at Johnson County Community College, in Kansas. ” Good and green, but not for the right reasons. The class meets that need. “Seriously.

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