Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The Program for Leadership and Character already offers scholarships, courses, seminars, speakers and retreats to Wake Forest students. Some 350 students have participated in extracurricular discussion groups that explore such topics as “What Is College For?

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University Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

” Equity is essential as college student demographics change. Declines during the pandemic have been steepest among community college students and African American and Latinx males, Lynn Pasquerella , president of the American Association of Colleges and Universities, points out. First-year college success seminars.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

There are many resources available, including organizations such as Western States Center , Facing History & Ourselves , the Southern Poverty Law Center , and Polarization & Extremism Research & Innovation Lab , and students would benefit greatly from colleges developing partnerships with these types of social justice organizations.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Student success within the library can mean having a quiet study space, finding materials for classwork or receiving research guidance. Above all, librarians work to connect students to the larger systems of the college or university to promote success in all avenues.

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Dr. Al Solano

JANUARY 18, 2024

In this episode, I interview Dr. Christine Harrington, Faculty, Community College Leadership Doctoral Program, Morgan State University. Currently, she is a professor in the Community College Leadership doctoral program at Morgan State University. Previously, she launched and coordinated the Ed.D.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

WIMSE participants can also join the WIMSE Society, which offers the Research Experience Program and other service and research opportunities. Denison University—The Homestead Researchers looking for a hands-on approach to ecological sustainability find themselves at home on Denison’s Homestead.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 5, 2023

Yet it’s unsurprising in light of research showing that students underestimate what they’ve absorbed via active learning. One in 20 students prefers the traditional, discussion-based seminar, though the share is 13 percent for arts and humanities students.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 17, 2023

So in this era of unprecedented research volume , breakthroughs should be increasingly common, right? The idea was to analyze citations and texts to understand whether research and patents “forge new directions” over time and across fields. million U.S. Patent and Trademark Office patents from 1976 to 2010.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 2, 2023

That institution’s first- and second-year seminars ensure that all the campus’s undergraduates acquire fluency in masterworks of art, literature, music, political and moral philosophy, and theology and the frontiers of the biological, brain and natural sciences. That proved to be the model that most institutions followed.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 5, 2023

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. For all of these reasons, I never pursued a tenure-line job in linguistics. I got a front-row seat to student disengagement.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Critical engagement is at the lifeblood of the academic enterprise, and as a US historian I believe I have a duty, indeed a responsibility, to respectfully analyze works that speak to my own areas of research. Obviously, the College Board set itself up for a fall. After all, there’s no shortage of supply.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 3, 2023

“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.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

An accredited entity with a mission to impart knowledge through research and investigation (usually a.edu or.org) is likely more trustworthy than a.com whose purpose is entertainment, providing partisan political commentary or trying to sell you something. Expertise is earned, practiced and recognized by other experts and scholars.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 28, 2023

“I think it highlights, for me, that many of the problems we face on college campuses are due to loud voices that are not necessarily representing how most students think.” ” Outside of universities, some organizations and researchers have also begun looking into potential solutions to campus speech intolerance.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 29, 2023

Should research and scholarship by English faculty conform to the same model as that in the biological, brain, physical and social sciences—evaluated first and foremost by quantity and citations—or might it take different forms? The purpose and value of research in English. If so, how does it differ from linguistics?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 3, 2023

Those attending places like Princeton University, where the intensive first-year writing seminar is capped at 12 students per session, are lucky enough to receive a highly personalized educational experience that could allow for the careful integration of tools like ChatGPT. How does one do that?

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Edu Alliance Journal

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

American higher education overall has 39 million people with Some College, No Credential (SCNC) as of July 2020 according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. The most recent study dated 2017 shows the following: 30% of first-year students drop out before their second year of college.

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Parchment

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

And so early on we had four experiences, study abroad, global education, we had research and we had internship. So you might see something like research on the academic transcript, but then on the experiential transcript, Rodney Lee Parks (03:58.222) It would detail out what that research project truly was.

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Parchment

MARCH 26, 2024

In this episode, we speak with Rob Buelow of Vector Solutions to discuss how universities can better engage students and employers by focusing on “durable skills” that better describe the value of the college experience. I wasn’t interested in counseling, psychology or research. Like all of that is great.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

.” Crace joined Adriene Hobdy, director of leadership development and talent management at Montgomery County Community College (Penn.), One of W&M’s most popular seminars for supervisors is learning to flourish through “chronic too-muchness.” “That’s not them failing.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 8, 2023

” She argues that major research universities need to combat their elitist, exclusionary, and ivory tower reputation. Their research should be evaluated not simply in terms of quantitative “impact factors,” but by its success in tackling global economic, health, and sustainability challenges.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

. “It was great fun to come up with the idea and the model, but [the college] would have remained as a two-page white paper if we didn’t have innovative leadership, starting with our president to vice chancellor for research and our provost. That was the game changer.”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 10, 2023

“It’s more theory, research and statistics, criminal psychology, etc.” “Most criminology, particularly at the Ph.D. level, really doesn’t focus on the analysis of crime scenes,” Fox said.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 2, 2023

Place more students in first-year seminars, learning communities (including learning-living communities), freshman interest groups, and honors and research cohorts. Today’s college campuses juggle numerous priorities: athletics, enrollment, fund-raising, research, teaching, and much more.

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