Teaching Matters Academic Support

AUGUST 23, 2024

This post belongs to the Hot Topic theme: Critical insights into contemporary issues in Higher Education. “I Pursuing Higher Education has often been a long-term aspiration for many of us. All of these challenges risk us moving backwards in the fight to make Higher Education accessible to all.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 3, 2023

“I’ve had people tell me you could order hamburgers and the order would come in and it was chicken breast,” says Robert Nelson, chief executive officer at NACUFS, the National Association of College & University Food Services. ” Staffing and logistical issues, along with food and supply delivery, became the focus.

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EAB

AUGUST 23, 2023

Review these 7 aspects of your basic needs strategy before the semester begins Community colleges play a vital role in higher education, offering affordable and accessible pathways to academic and professional success. Collaborations with local food banks, grocery stores, and community organizations can help sustain these programs.

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EAB

JUNE 8, 2023

Dismissing AI as just another hype Many higher education leaders view AI as a passing trend, like the Massive Open Online Course (MOOCs) hype of the 2010s, rather than a lasting innovation. Anecdotally, student usage is even higher. For instructors, this means devising assignments that incorporate AI but push beyond its limits.

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Higher Education Inquirer

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Nearly 75% of faculty in higher education are precarious workers, more like restaurant and hospitality workers, gig performers, contract healthcare workers, and delivery drivers than the tenured professor. All this degraded the institution of higher education, and not just for the contingent majority.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

AUGUST 9, 2021

Image credit: Farai Munjoma In this Spotlight post, Farai Munjoma shares his challenging journey in accessing higher education and how it inspired him to build the Shasha Network: a global network of mentors and scholars working together to close the career aspiration gap for young people across Africa.

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Edu Alliance Journal

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Yet nearly 40 million people from the age of 18-64 started higher education and did not complete one degree. According to the Federal Reserve Bank of Saint Louis, the US Civilian Work Force from 25-34 as of June 2022 has the following educational attainment. Attendance at educational conferences (51%). Higher Education.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

During this same time frame, the report also finds that 26 of these 54 schools will likely pay their head football coaches and ten assistants more than what they spend on hundreds of athletes, their scholarships, lodging, food, medical expenses, and insurance coverage.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 8, 2023

As higher ed nears the looming enrollment cliff , colleges and universities looking to drive enrollment growth must identify more pathways for students to obtain a college degree, especially in the case of first-generation students. These experiences have taught her how both sectors can collaborate and leverage each other’s strengths.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2024

He used powerful imagery to illustrate how the United States had failed to fulfill its promises of equality, comparing it to a bad check marked 'insufficient funds.' In his remarks during the March on Washington in 1963, King spoke metaphorically about a "check" owed to Black Americans.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Steve: As I look back on what’s now 53 years in higher education and reflect on the professors who most influenced me, not one taught in the ways prescribed by teaching centers or cognitive psychologists. In other words, higher education is a life-or-death proposition for those of us who are from underrepresented communities.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 4, 2023

In addition to the standard measures of quality—for example, the share of faculty with a terminal degree or library resources—how about the proportion of students who take part in a high-impact practices, the share of faculty who are undergoing professional development in teaching and postgraduation employment and earnings outcomes?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

It was over 180 years ago that HBCUs were founded, at a time when Black Americans had little to no access to higher education. Still today, they are central to the education and empowerment of Black Americans—offering more than just a degree but also a legacy of opportunity and possibility.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 23, 2023

rural communities face a number of hurdles when it comes to participating in higher ed, including financial literacy, transportation, food and housing insecurity, and internet access, according to the Department of Education (ED). In rural communities, only 29% of people ages 18-24 are enrolled in higher ed.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 22, 2025

What used to be primarily a voter registration staff is actually a multifaceted program dealing with the total life of the community, from farm cooperatives, business development, tutorials, credit unions, etcetera. Their requests include jobs, advertising in Negro newspapers, and depositing funds in Negro financial institutions.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 6, 2023

Instead, the press release cited higher education leaders who heaped praise on the incoming dean. Faculty Senate chair Peter Summers said by email that while some High Point University faculty members raised concerns after the hire, “that was as far as it went, given our lack of authority.”

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