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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 5, 2024

Colleges typically use a variety of assessments such as standardized tests, essays, and GPA to determine a student's readiness for life in academia. It is important that the culture is inclusive and creates an environment where diverse student populations feel resilient and enriched by the campus. Dr. Merrill L Irving Jr.

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MindMax

MARCH 18, 2024

The corporate world is making a statement about the value of a college degree, and their preferences inevitably impact the perception of higher education. Getting out of the bubble This factor is quite personal for me, but changing my environment has done much to broaden my perspective.

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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. That means making sure that people get tenure and stay in academia.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

By focusing on the present and what students write, say, and want from their writing, I holistically support their growth as writers and their well-being within an academic environment. While mindfulness is often associated with yoga or meditation, it’s a practice that can be done at any time and in any environment.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

She credits the faculty for creating an environment where students feel safe discussing their concerns while continuing their education with sustained quality. She also encourages nurses of color she meets at various events and offers to mentor individuals who are considering entering academia.

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Continuous Learning Institute

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Faculty can be better aware of the sensory environment of their classroom. In the autism community, you often hear people say things like the 'lights are too loud.'" Those can be huge supports for all students, including those who are neurodivergent." "In These systems are telling us how we should grade. Are the lights really bright?

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ACRLog

APRIL 18, 2023

Last semester, I taught my first semester-long class at the community college where I work. Many community colleges offer both credit courses and classes that are for continuing education, workforce training, and recreation — my class was one of these, based on a class that a previous librarian taught.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 27, 2025

By adopting adaptive learning platforms, establishing global online campuses, and forming EdTech partnerships, ASU has set a benchmark for how universities can adapt to rapidly changing environments. Higher education operates within a complex regulatory environment influenced by local, state, and federal policies.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Photo Credit: Macaulay Honors College Finding a lack of diversity Access to higher education has been an important theme in Byrne’s life in academia. She was crucial to building smooth transfer pathways from CUNY’s community colleges to John Jay.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2023

When I got to community college and was doing my own career exploration, he was the first person I thought about and I pursued school counseling because it was a profession that gave me the opportunity to work with students around finding their calling (or career) in life. A Light in the Attic, Falling Up ).

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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Building Pathways to Academia — Columbia University in the City of New York. The College of Urban Education at Davenport University launched a BS in Urban STEM Education program. SAFE Zones Welcome Students Back to Campus — El Paso Community College District. Kendi, author of “How to Be an Antiracist.” .

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The Change Leader, Inc.

OCTOBER 2, 2021

New Governance Model with a New Mandate for Boards Again, as we noted in the previous blog, the National Association of Corporate Directors has created a new mandate for boards which we believe helps address the changing environment in which higher education finds itself in.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 9, 2024

The university has established over 1,300 articulation agreements with community colleges across the country. When a student from any of these community colleges applies to Franklin University, the system can instantly inform them about the transferability of their courses into their desired degree program.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

MAY 4, 2023

Can we do it at the community college level?' As Mainstay, they still empower people to take the next step toward achieving their goals in both academia and business. We increased year-to-year retention three percentage points, that's awesome. Can we move the needle for large lecture classes with high DFW rates?'

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Technology Higher Education Education Retention 52

The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 21, 2023

He recently led a project to develop a data-driven metric for identifying rural-serving institutions (RSIs), and he has been invited to speak by a number of organizations, including the American Association of State Colleges & Universities, National Scholarship Providers Association, and the Oregon Community College Association.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Seventy-five percent of the universities and colleges that have closed or merged over the last five years were not under regulatory watch and/or warning or probation because our measuring stick does not meet the realities of the 21st-century institution. Academia is excellent at identifying the problem.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 29, 2023

South Dakota is just one example of Republican-led states taking action against diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in academia. I think it’s really important for all of higher education to be really in tune with this social and economic environment,” said Crazy Bull.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 29, 2023

Black students continue to be overrepresented among those who are the first in their families to seek higher education and, thus, are often the first ones to navigate professional environments like academia and corporate America in their Black bodies. We are their last stop before entering the workplace as professionals. Dr. Kelly A.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 9, 2022

The UDL framework guides HyFlex course design to embrace inclusion which produces a broad-spectrum of learning environments. The HyFlex format may be a new trend that surfaced because of COVID-19; however, academia understands the importance of continuing to provide access to learning through non-traditional methods. Overton, R.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 14, 2025

I am charged with creating a working environment free of sexism, racism, homophobia, ableism, xenophobia, religious intolerance, and classism. Sokenu is the president of Moorpark College. Behind the Desk: Perspectives of Black Community College CEOs is a column edited by Drs. Dr. Julius O. King, Jamal A. Johnson.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 8, 2025

Share faculty accomplishments in ways that resonate with stakeholders outside academia. Todd Benson: Yeah, especially, we tend to think about higher ed as being these large research universities, but boy, if you go into, community colleges or regional publics, they are a combination of scholar and counselor and mentor.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 9, 2024

executive director of public relations at Bergen Community College in New Jersey, said challenges in the FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) rollout appeared to be a contributing factor in the colleges freshman enrollment decline. In an interview with Diverse , Dr. Larry Hlavenka Jr.,

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