Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 20, 2023

I’m not referring here to faculty salaries or reduced teaching loads or class size or breadth of programs or extensive support services—all of which are good things (within limits). Meanwhile, expenditures on administration, even excluding student services and student life, have increased markedly.

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Creatrix Campus

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The council has also worked to attract international faculty and students to Qatar and to encourage collaboration between local and international universities. In addition, the SEC has been instrumental in promoting academic excellence, fostering research and innovation, and providing students with a range of educational opportunities.

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Campus Sonar

APRIL 17, 2024

Campus leaders need to thoroughly assess, streamline, and reprioritize these efforts to ensure all students are aware of and have access to support services and preparation resources and that the teams doing the work can collaborate efficiently and effectively. Invest in the campus professionals doing this work.

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Parchment

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

So there’s a real paradigm shift among institutional staff, faculty. But currently, right, the whole system is based on credit, everything about it, faculty are paid, how courses are scheduled, how financial aid is distributed. There’s policies. One example is automotive technology.

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Creatrix Campus

JULY 20, 2023

Improving Student Success in Higher Education Improving student success in higher education is a collaborative effort involving various stakeholders, including students, educators, administrators, and support services. Embrace Technology Leverage technology to enhance student learning and engagement.

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Creatrix Campus

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

It evaluates a range of factors, including the institution's governance and administration, academic programs, faculty, and student services, to determine whether the institution should receive accreditation. It evaluates factors such as curriculum, faculty qualifications, educational resources, and student outcomes.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 14, 2023

These cuts include cutting 28 majors and 143 faculty. Convincing faculty and other stakeholders to embrace new business models, pedagogies, and technologies requires a delicate balance of respect for academic values and the persuasive articulation of a new vision for the future. Faculty members, too, experienced a shift in perspective.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The pain of losing students is worse than the temporary pain of making a change to better serve those students.” Dr. Tiffany Ray-Patterson VP of Student Services, Germanna Community College [link] Learn More Check out this podcast to learn more about Germanna's streamlined onboarding approach for workforce and for-credit students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2024

To this end, we provide P-12 educators; college/university faculty, administrators, and staff; and other education stakeholders a blueprint to collaboratively work with Black males through a culturally responsive lens. The importance of workforce development for non-degree seeking Black male students will be explored.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 28, 2023

In stark contrast to prevailing trends in higher education, colleges and universities have or are boosting their enrollment, retention, and graduation rates by improving their students’ sense of belonging, student support services, student-faculty relationships, and career readiness programs.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 8, 2023

After finding this was happening, campus leaders had CCD more closely align the course objectives at the two other universities or had faculty identify all of the course learning objectives with an equivalency of transfer and credit. However, you need to have those support services at the schools as well and to be able to monitor progress.

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