Dr. Al Solano

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

LISTEN TO THE EPISODE Learn how to improve accessibility for students and the campus community. In this episode, I interview Dr. Denise Maduli-Williams, English & ELAC Faculty & Accessibility Mentor at San Diego Miramar College. (Scroll down to access the transcript.) We cover the following key topics: 8:42:25: Humanities inquiry & action team project Example inquiry & action teams: Miramar College Santa Barbara City College Irvine Valley College 12:09:25: Journey to being more i

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The Guardian Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Colleges are ill-equipped to deal with allegations of assault and worse Your article demonstrates the immense risk that universities or other institutions take in adjudicating on allegations of behaviour meeting a criminal threshold (“ Students accused in university rape hearings call in lawyers ”, News). Universities have no adequate locus in which to judge criminal matters, nor the skills or necessary legal powers to investigate them.

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Ray Schroeder

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Cerritos College in Los Angeles County was about to cancel plans to build affordable dorms for 396 students at rents of just above $700 a month. Another community college, Sierra College in Rocklin, was planning to abandon construction of homes for 354 students at rents of $450 a month. Now two bills are making their way through the Legislature that will allow those projects to continue and reverse a June budget deal that panicked community colleges.

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Ray Schroeder

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Notre Dame de Namur is celebrating its 100th anniversary as administrators prepare to sell the California campus to keep the institution afloat. Enrollment and revenue were falling when its president announced in March 2020 that the university would stop admitting new students while seeking a way to stay open. The level of optimism on campus about the path forward was not high, especially among some faculty members.

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