Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 15, 2024

As an undergraduate, I took a seminar dedicated entirely to Ulysses by James Joyce. Murphy outlines five ways to encourage them to shift their focus from the instructor to one another in whole class discussions. Joyce’s modernist novel is mystifying, so question marks hung on the ends of students’ contributions.

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University Business

MARCH 27, 2025

While Yale and other research universities are offering technical support, they will also gain insight from the consortium’s community colleges that are tapped into the state’s workforce needs, says Ron Harichandran, CAIA co-founder and dean of New Haven’s engineering department.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

You Can’t Tell a Quilt by Its Cover Elizabeth Redden Sat, 11/11/2023 - 09:07 AM Laura Skandera Trombley reflects on the artful stitching together of a first-semester first-year seminar. Byline(s) Laura Skandera Trombley

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 3, 2023

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean Is your college prepared for climate change? Is your college coastal? Most community colleges have defined service areas, and they’re sponsored (in part) by governments with clear geographic boundaries. Some of his questions look different from here.

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University Business

DECEMBER 19, 2024

To ease the transition to college, Montclair State University in New Jersey created a two-credit course, the Adult Academic Success Seminar , that eases the transition to college and satisfies a general education requirement. Support returning learners from re-enrollment to completion. This is where the work really begins.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Drawing from her rich experience in socially interactive educational methodologies, Dr. Smith discusses the pivotal role of active learning seminars in the SLICC (Student-Led Individually Created Course) in Critical Care, particularly tailored for healthcare professionals.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 20, 2023

What it is: The 360 seminar is an interdisciplinary course focused on a single theme, featuring guest lectures and atypical assessments. In the future, Adelphi officials plan to expand some of its interdisciplinary learning into first-year seminars, capturing students earlier in their undergraduate careers. Tell us about it.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Educating the Whole Person “Focusing on character can help many colleges and universities realize their aspirations to educate the whole person and generate the knowledge, capacity and character that our students will need to live and lead well in the 21st century,” says Michael Lamb, program executive, F.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 4, 2023

” She cited LaGuardia Community College, part of the City University of New York system, as one institution that is helping its students grasp the versatility of English. But the general public doesn’t know.”

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University Business

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

In this 30-minute Ed Talk, learn how food impacts key staff initiatives beyond the dining hall and how Quinsigamond Community College provides its staff with the catered meetings and events they crave without overhauling their current food service system.

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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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University Business

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

“U nless the community is well.” ” 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.”

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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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Clark Nesxen

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Conference attendees receive learning opportunities to fulfill continuing education requirements with various seminars and site visits. This conference includes opportunities to network with architects, allied professionals, emerging professionals, and students.

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University Business

MARCH 18, 2025

Schools should train students for specific jobs that are in demand, which is a lesson that can be extended from the community college model.” . “Historically, many four-year schools have been somewhat detached from the job market, focusing more on traditional liberal arts education,” Dinski says.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

A required freshman seminar course could be one place to focus on this work. Karen Gaffney is a professor of English at Raritan Valley Community College and author of Dismantling the Racism Machine: A Manual and Toolbox (Routledge, 2018). We cannot afford to keep our heads in the sand.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Faculty and other guests will host weekly Homestead seminar sessions for discussions relevant to the Homestead. Cabin Bob also boasts a Homestead library, with books related to Homesteaders’ lives and interests as well as a study space, adding another academic dimension to the living-learning community.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Image: Sacred Heart University administrators have long encouraged students to understand the institution’s mission and values by attending seminars and events designed to reflect and promote the “Pioneer Journey,” the academic, spiritual and social-emotional learning path that encompasses the student experience at the university.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

An older model among libraries is coming into classrooms like an English 101 course or a first-year seminar to share information. Over the past few decades, libraries have shifted attention from primarily instruction work toward purposeful collaborations in first-year programming.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 8, 2023

Its first year for-credit JagX transition-to-college program introduces new students to classmates, faculty, and staff, college expectations, and campus traditions and pairs freshmen with peer mentors.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

More from UB: How can an 8-week term improve community college student success rates? .” You can listen to this episode at any time on Spotify , Amazon Music , Apple Podcasts , Podbean or down below. The post The University Business Podcast: How to turn an evolution into a revolution appeared first on University Business.

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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. There were days when we sat next to each other on the porch, working side by side for hours. I got a front-row seat to student disengagement.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 17, 2023

As for the rest of the time, he said, “There are so many obligations for a professor, including attending student committees, attending seminars, preparing and delivering lectures, writing and submitting grants, writing progress reports, traveling to present the work, reviewing manuscripts, reviewing grants, answering emails.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

I, for one, believe that college-level courses should be taught by instructors who have training and credentials comparable to those of instructors at 4-year institutions. Even at community colleges, I think accreditors should insist that instructors be at least ABD, with a specialization in the areas they are teaching.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 24, 2023

“These are American seminar-style courses, using the best of the liberal arts classroom in an online forum,” Becker said. But Afghan women may even be unable to access online classes if the government is monitoring their internet use.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 13, 2023

The eight-hour seminar is offered in both virtual and in-person formats through UMD’s health center. It was also inspired in part by Mental Health First Aid , a program by the National Council for Mental Wellbeing that teaches people how to identify and address various mental health and substance abuse issues.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 10, 2023

” According to the website for the DeSales master’s program in criminal justice, which Kohberger completed in 2021, the curriculum consists of six core classes: advanced criminology, research methods, ethics, justice systems and processes, statistics and data analysis, and a project seminar.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 29, 2023

Guillory also underscores the rapidity with which the Latin- and Greek-based classical curriculum collapsed and how quickly it was replaced by a radically new educational model emphasizing departments, electives, essay examinations, seminars, faculty research, the study of the social and natural sciences and the new professions (including architecture, (..)

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Creatrix Campus

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Enrolling in a community college for a two-year degree where tuition is inexpensive could also work. Campus programs, seminars courses, and placements cells with highly helpful, knowledgeable, and accessible advisors improve retention rates. A better idea could be to work part-time for a year to save up money.

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Parchment

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

And going back and we have ambassadors that, you know, now they go into those first year seminar classes and they showcase their, you know, co -curricular experiential transcript. And so you have multiple touch points on campus that continue to be able to see that transcript and use that transcript and ask those very detailed questions.

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Parchment

MARCH 26, 2024

Pathways are important and there’s a lot of research that suggests like for community college students like… Hey, what classes do you need to take to get to four years so that you can graduate on time? Of course, it’s better not to waste time taking classes you won’t need towards your degree.

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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.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

” Professor Lloyd asked the non-profit Telluride Association if he could lead one of its free summer seminars for highly motivated diverse high school students. ” What Professor Lloyd discovered was that his seminar and the anti-racism workshops were very different beasts.

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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. But we can take meaningful steps forward.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 28, 2023

He believes his curriculum could have wider impact if the university included lessons on how to disagree in the first-year writing seminar that all students are required to take. Primo acknowledges the limitations of his course, which enrolls about 20 students each semester. “It spans disciplines.”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Should first-year seminars focus on the issue of fact versus fiction through a series of exploration and readings? I’d start with Carl Sagan’s chapter “The Fine Art of Baloney Detection” from his final book, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (1996).

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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. In-house training seminars (61%).

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