Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 10, 2023

That despite a quarter century of intensive efforts to raise college graduation rates, rates remain distressingly low for Black and Hispanic students, older students, part-time students, and community college students. Your actions are more important than your thoughts. Sustaining intimacy takes work. Talent means nothing without hard work.

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SRHE

DECEMBER 12, 2022

A further concern for many educational researchers is that approaches to ethical review, initially developed in relation to biomedical sciences, have largely been positivist.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 23, 2023

20 percent raise pools over the course of the 4-year contract[.] Increased professional development funds[.] University of Illinois at Chicago’s faculty strike is over, just before its second week was to start. It’s unclear when that vote will be. Stronger job protections for non-tenure track faculty[.]

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Parchment

DECEMBER 12, 2023

And so they need to be at the table for federal and state policy conversations as the folks that are often tasked to implement those policies to kind of ground truth and make sure that what is developed makes sense, moves objectives forward in a way that is thoughtful and manageable for the field.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

I thought it connoted something vaguely sinister, like a slush fund. It refers to funding that comes with time limits, typically from external grants. This piece from the Times about COVID funding isn’t about higher ed directly, but I recognized the dynamics. Shortly after the peak, a pile of new public funding arrives.

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CAPD

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

Julia Mongo | Office of Distinguished Fellowships Published by MIT News on November 16, 2024 Yiming Chen ’24, Wilhem Hector, Anushka Nair, and David Oluigbo have been selected as 2025 Rhodes Scholars and will begin fully funded postgraduate studies at Oxford University in the U.K. In addition to MIT’s two U.S.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

AUGUST 23, 2024

The promise of personal and professional development, developing knowledge of a subject you love, and the prospect of a career in your chosen field have all been strong magnets for students. Unnecessary barriers or dissuasive language will do exactly that, and prevent much needed funding from reaching the students who need it.

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SRHE

MAY 10, 2024

by GR Evans Should higher education providers foster a ‘research culture’? As the body responsible for research under the Higher Education and Research Act (2017), UK Research and Innovation offers its own definition. It found it was not sure ‘what a positive research culture looks like’ or what ‘research culture framework to adopt’.

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CAPD

APRIL 25, 2023

Soros Fellowship may contact Kim Benard, associate dean of distinguished fellowships in Career Advising and Professional Development. Born and raised in Jamaica, Edwards lived in rural St. The program recognizes the potential of immigrants to make significant contributions to U.S. Students interested in applying to the P.D.

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Creatrix Campus

JULY 5, 2024

Personal Development In addition to addressing professional development, career counseling provides tools for handling time, stress, and other personal difficulties. Create a fund to assist students who have unforeseen financial difficulties in an emergency situation. This is often the much talked about topic.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The National College Football Association should be funded by the College Football Playoff since the College Football Playoff is already independent of and generates revenue separately from the NCAA. That said, the College Football Playoff does distribute the revenue back to the FBS conferences, which is then sent to the schools.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 24, 2024

Joyce Payne is founder of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF), the national advocacy organization designed to support students who attend the 47 publicly supported HBCUs. Those areas were developed through research and interviews with research scholars, thought leaders, and practitioners. For the past several years, the Dr. N.

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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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SRHE

JULY 5, 2022

It is increasingly apparent that the prevalence of new routes and possibilities for study, including professional and publication-led doctorates, combined with a competitive academic landscape, have reshaped the doctoral experience in new ways (Gravett, 2021). We suggest their teaching should be shaped by a professional development programme.

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Goucher DEI

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

These mini grants funded a reading group that explored the relationship between culture and the environment, a Linguistic Justice faculty workshop, and a “Gopher Trailblazers in STEMM Alumni Speaker Series.” Hugh Dennis, director of risk management and contracts joins the Committee for this coming academic year.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

As more and more institutions continue to raise tuition to meet rising costs due to dwindling revenue streams and state and federal funding, students are not only looking for value but are hesitant to take on the debt of a college education. Remember that wise old saying, “You never get a second chance to make a first impression?”

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Higher Education Inquirer

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

They often lack access to offices, professional development, research funds, and opportunities to collaborate with peers or vote in faculty meetings. Some thought it was a throwback to the 1930s or a tip-off that someone was a Marxist. They are hired on a per-class, per-semester basis.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MAY 23, 2023

But the liberal arts are currently under fire in higher education, with Marymount University in Virginia recently eliminating nine such undergraduate degrees. He’s on a mission to illuminate for society what it means to think critically and live as an educated citizen in a thriving democracy. Jeff, welcome to the program. Great to be with you.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Shaun Harper, founder and executive director of the Race and Equity Center at the University of Southern California (USC) and creator of the National DEI Defense Fund. Forty bills were brought up to limit diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. And the U.S. Supreme Court gutted the use of affirmative action in college admissions.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 30, 2023

Earlier this month, officials at Lewis-Clark State College, a public institution in Idaho, removed half a dozen artworks from an exhibition due to concerns that display of the works, which related to abortion and reproductive health, violated the state’s No Public Funds for Abortion Act. It doesn’t need to be this way.

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