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Why Data Alone Won’t Improve Retention

Faculty Focus

This reliance on numbers has driven many colleges to focus heavily on metrics in an effort to improve outcomes, streamline operations, and secure funding. 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.

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Tribal Colleges and Universities as Conduits for Intellectual and Political Sovereignties

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

education or universities, specifically. However, there is a network of tribally run colleges and universities that are the ongoing extension of those sovereignties as well as key vehicles for continuing to liberate the sovereign potential. These priorities often are not the focus in U.S. There are 37 TCUs within the U.S.

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Why Data Alone Won’t Improve Retention

Faculty Focus

This reliance on numbers has driven many colleges to focus heavily on metrics in an effort to improve outcomes, streamline operations, and secure funding. 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.

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Humanizing Online Learning with Dr. Michelle Pacansky-Brock

Continuous Learning Institute

LISTEN TO THE EPISODE: Learn about the power of humanizing online learning for college students. In this episode, I interview Dr. Michelle Pacansky-Brock, Faculty at the Foothill-De Anza Community College District (Scroll down to access the transcript.) 30:11:25: Benefits of asynchronous learning.

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The Administration of a Higher Education Faculty Online Learning Community

Faculty Focus

Distance learning in colleges and universities is now recognized as more than an alternative to the traditional face-to-face classroom (Higher Ed Partners, 2021), which is how distance learning was largely viewed at the time that institutions turned entirely to virtual teaching and learning during COVID-19 (Suruchi & Dutt, 2021).

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Equitable STEM Transfer Pathways with Dr. Xueli Wang

Continuous Learning Institute

Resources: - Practice guide for faculty in supporting transfer students, published by the National Institute for the Study of Transfer Students: Supporting Transfer Student Success: Five Key Faculty Practices. - University of Illinois, Office of Community College Research and Leadership (OCCRL). - USC CUE. -

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The Administration of a Higher Education Faculty Online Learning Community

Faculty Focus

Distance learning in colleges and universities is now recognized as more than an alternative to the traditional face-to-face classroom (Higher Ed Partners, 2021), which is how distance learning was largely viewed at the time that institutions turned entirely to virtual teaching and learning during COVID-19 (Suruchi & Dutt, 2021).