Academia Community College Deans 
Faculty Focus
JANUARY 19, 2025
As community colleges across the United States struggle with declining retention rates, it has become increasingly clear that institutional focus should not be limited to numbers alone. Recommendations for Practice While data is still essential, community colleges should balance it with creating solid student relationships.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
Her work around students’ basic needs, supporting undocumented and mixed-status students, and achieving social justice through focused racial equity efforts has made her a rising star in community college leadership. These communities, our communities, hold immense significance for me,” Gilkerson said at the time of her appointment.
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
However, as Black women in academia, many of us, otherwise strangers to her, felt it too. O” had previously served as the fourth president of Tompkins Cortland Community College for four years in Dryden, New York, according to her obituary. A Kingston, Jamaica native who was the youngest of six siblings, “Dr.
Faculty Focus
JANUARY 19, 2025
As community colleges across the United States struggle with declining retention rates, it has become increasingly clear that institutional focus should not be limited to numbers alone. Recommendations for Practice While data is still essential, community colleges should balance it with creating solid student relationships.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 22, 2022
From a sample of over 560,000 first year, first time community college students and over 32,000 instructors in Texas between 2013 and 2020, researchers found that 77% of white students experienced a racial match. Griffin, the dean of the College of Education at the University of Maryland.
Inside Higher Ed
MARCH 28, 2023
Image: When Julianna Barnes set her sights on a career in academia, she envisioned eventually becoming a vice president of an institution and assumed it would be her pinnacle role in the profession. years on average, according to the Community College League of California’s CEO tenure and retention dashboard.
Inside Higher Ed
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
She is also the recipient of numerous awards, including UC Irvine’s Outstanding Social Justice Activist Award, the Social Science Dean’s Awards for Outstanding Teaching and Outstanding Mentorship, and the UCI Academic Senate Award for Distinguished Faculty Mentorship. This turned into an ongoing debate. students as they did.
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