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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Created in 2005 by Excelencia in Education, Examples of Excelencia is a national initiative that recognizes institutions and nonprofit organizations that identify, aggregate, and promote evidence-based practices that improve Latinx student access in higher education. I care more than just graduation at community college.

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NWA EDITORIAL | Community college tax hike rejected by taxpayers who were unconvinced of the need

Economics and Change in Higher Education

As much as the college has changed in its 34-year history, there also might be a concern that its relationship to the communities that created has shifted a bit. In 1997 and 2005, NWACC's rates were thus automatically reduced, although left at levels that ensured the college still gained additional dollars annually.

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How Digital Learning Can Expand Learner Pathways and Increase Enrollment

WCET Frontiers

My History with Online Courses Welcome to the third and final post in our series on higher education enrollment shifts. Enjoy the read, Lindsey Downs, WCET When I first began teaching online in 2005, it came as no surprise that most of my students were working adults who had previously abandoned their bachelor’s programs.

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Building a Sustainable Higher Education Model: CSCU’s Partnership for Workforce Readiness: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 175 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Terrence Cheng

The Change Leader, Inc.

3 October · Episode 175 Building a Sustainable Higher Education Model: CSCU's Partnership for Workforce Readiness 34 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton Learn how CSCU’s unification of its once-siloed community college is building a sustainable higher education model and helping improve retention and enrollment.

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Technology Partnerships and Higher Education

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

Can we do it at the community college level?' Drew earned an AB in History and Literature from Harvard in 2005, and served as a board member for Cambridge School Volunteers from 2011-2013. We increased year-to-year retention three percentage points, that's awesome. Okay, we moved the needle for that large lecture course.

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Mid-Semester Course Corrections: Using the MSF Model to Engage Students and Improve Courses

Faculty Focus

By providing students with an opportunity to collectively share their views and potentially effectuate change, students are given the chance to become active partners in the teaching and learning process and, in so doing, help improve their own learning outcomes (Berk, 2005; Harris & Stevens, 2013; Holton, et al., 2016; Kite, et al.,

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Remembering Jim Wright, an advocate for student veterans (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

The memorial reviewed 53 years of hard work by Jim at Dartmouth as a history professor, administrator and president. The Marine Jim Wright in 2005 made his first of dozens of visits to wounded men and women at military hospitals—Bethesda, Walter Reed. That was Dartmouth. Jim retired as president in 2009.