Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Piedmont Community College will be offering a Taylor Swift course next year. Taylor Swift Scott Legato/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management file The course will be taught by Dr. David Townsend, dean of university transfer and general education and a self-proclaimed “life-long Swiftie.” She’s absolutely massive.”.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 4, 2024

Jefferson will become the 18th president of Roxbury Community College (RCC), effective July 1. Coast Guard Academy as well as dean of the schools of business at Clark Atlanta University and Albany State University. Jonathan K. Dr. Jonathan K. He recently served as chief academic officer and provost at Lesley University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 1, 2025

Stout, recipient of the 2025 Diverse Champions Award, has focused her career on helping community colleges achieve outstanding student success. Moono, president of SUNY Schenectady County Community College. Felder, president of Harford Community College in Maryland, where Stout began her community college career in 1984.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 10, 2024

Charletta Barringer-Brown A former Southside Virginia Community College administrator is alleging discrimination as a reason she was fired from her position. Barringer-Brown served as dean of the department of humanities, social sciences, and business at Southside Virginia.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Growing up in South Florida, Jhaneil Thompson remembers playing school with her four sisters as a youngster. Thompson’s connection to the community where her school is headquartered, has also proven beneficial. “As They always chose me to be the teacher,” said Thompson, who was born in St. James, Jamaica. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 31, 2024

“When we received the federal COVID funds, it allowed for students to be able to take summer school courses and not have to worry about the tuition of those classes,” said Dr. Dwayne L. They take the summer school classes, they stay on track, they get ahead, they graduate sooner, which means they have less student debt.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 28, 2023

Massasoit Community College in Brockton, Massachusetts, will begin offering a Black Studies degree. In doing so, it will become the first two-year school in the state to offer such a degree, GBH News reported. Everyone should be taking these subject matters,” said Dr. Carine Sauvignon, an executive dean at Massasoit. “It

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 31, 2023

Reyna Gómez Tippetts says community colleges are “the gateway for education” and provide an opportunity “to help you get to the next step.” Earning a high school diploma, let alone a college degree, once seemed like an unattainable goal to Reyna Gómez Tippetts.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 2, 2023

At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, community colleges across the country saw a decline in enrollment for myriad reasons — financial, family, illness, lack of internet or inability to adapt to online learning. The purpose of community colleges is to increase access to higher education for the most vulnerable populations.”

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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

APRIL 26, 2023

George Timmons will become president of Holyoke Community College, pending approval of the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education, MassLive reported. Dr. George Timmons Timmons is currently provost and senior vice president of academic and student affairs at Columbia-Greene Community College (CGCC).

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University Business

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

But with the well of federal relief aid expired, community colleges that have historically served the nation’s most underresourced populations have been forced to cull together various resources to keep their at-risk students from stopping out and regain those lost due to finances. Of the $76.2 Education will help them.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Two Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C) professors are suing the school, claiming that it and its top administrators retaliated against them for making critical comments about the school to the press, Cleveland.com reported. The lawsuit was filed Monday by attorney Subodh Chandra in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court.

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University Business

MARCH 27, 2025

While Yale and other research universities are offering technical support, they will also gain insight from the consortium’s community colleges that are tapped into the state’s workforce needs, says Ron Harichandran, CAIA co-founder and dean of New Haven’s engineering department.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Facing a national shortage of early childhood educators , the Community College of Vermont (CCV) and the Southwestern Vermont Medical Center (SVMC) have teamed up for an innovative solution: paying students to reduce their hours at their jobs in favor of taking more classes. Leslie Johnson, an associate academic dean at CCV. “So,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2023

This fall semester, Massasoit Community College achieved a new first. It became the first two-year school in the state of Massachusetts to allow students to attain degrees in Black Studies. Massasoit Community College is officially offering a Black Studies curriculum. Census Bureau.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 2, 2023

In 2022, student leaders launched a campaign to challenge the long-standing stigma associated with attending community colleges. To overcome negative stereotypes, the CCSmart advocacy campaign tells the stories of students’ educational journeys and the positive impact community colleges had on their lives.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 4, 2023

Pueblo Community College is offering free career advancement programs for select fields, The Durango Herald reported. The programs come as part of Career Advance Colorado, a workforce development initiative training people for in-demand jobs through Colorado’s 19 community and technical colleges.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 4, 2025

In 2008, the Lumina Foundation, a national private foundation focused on higher education and workforce development, set a national attainment goal that by 2025 60% of working-age adults would earn college degrees, certificates or industry-recognized certifications. That goal is by 2040, 75% of working-age adults (25 to 64) in the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 25, 2023

Marta Yera Cronin will become president of Delaware County Community College (DCCC), making her the second woman and the first Latina to lead the school. Dr. Marta Cronin Cronin – a first-generation college student born of immigrant parents – is currently president of Columbia Gorge Community College.

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University Business

APRIL 12, 2024

Larry Johnson first encountered Stella and Charles Guttman Community College in 2015 as a dean at Broward College (Fla.) when he read the seminal book “Redesigning America’s Community Colleges: A Clearer Path to Student Success.” Johnson is no longer a distant admirer.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

While visiting the kitchen, then Dean of Student Services Dr. Lennor Johnson met a married couple who were both enrolled at IVC, earning above 3.0 Lennor Johnson, president and superintendent of Imperial Valley College in El Centro, California. The Harbour, where 800 Orange Coast College students live on campus.

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

DECEMBER 20, 2023

There’s a magical buzz as schools around the globe gear up for the holiday festivities. Embracing the essence of this season, schools are rolling out a wide range of holiday-themed video highlights , adding their sense of humor, creativity, and sincerity to make each video memorable. And, what is a highlight video for an event?

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The Exploring Transfer program at Vassar College is a summer intensive that immerses currently enrolled community college students in an academically rigorous environment, providing vital support and encouragement so they can ultimately continue their education at a competitive four-year institution.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 27, 2023

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean I lost track of the number of times on Friday I heard someone use the word “refreshing.” ” The context was the “Bringing Community Back to Community Colleges” conference held at Bergen Community College last week.

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University Business

AUGUST 28, 2024

Institutions looking to solidify their non-degree micro-credential and digital badge strategy can model solutions from these 10 schools where thousands of students are upskilling in fast-paced, dynamic environments.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2024

Trish Gorman Trish Gorman has been appointed dean of the Gail Miller School of Business at Salt Lake Community College. Gorman holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematical methods in the social sciences from Northwestern University, an MBA from UCLA’s Anderson School, and a Ph.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Delisle Warden Delisle Warden has been appointed vice president for policy and general counsel at Howard Community College in Columbia, Maryland. He served as associate dean for the Center for Professional Development and Career Strategy at the George Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

This fundamental challenge is a driving force behind recent colleges propped up in the past two years by other widely respected R1 universities, whose leaders also joined the call. Steve Harmon is the associate dean of research at Georgia Tech’s College of Lifetime Learning, the first new college in 36 years.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 17, 2023

Cinnamon Piñon Carlarne , associate dean for faculty and intellectual life at Ohio State University’s Moritz College of Law, has been named president and dean of Albany Law School, in New York. Danielle Ren Holley , dean and professor of law at the Howard University School of Law, in Washington, D.C.,

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean A couple of years ago, Inside Higher Ed did a story on students at the Community College of Baltimore County and a podcast they were putting together. It struck me as an even more inclusive version of what college radio used to be. I recognize the impulse.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 8, 2023

Peter Hopsicker , associate dean for academic affairs at Pennsylvania State University’s Altoona campus, has been promoted to vice chancellor for academic affairs there. Annenberg Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication and Richard Perry University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, has been chosen as provost there.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Elizabeth Mauch Bethany College Mauch, currently president of Bethany College, previously served in faculty and leadership roles at Bloomsburg University, including as dean of the College of Education. In her new position, she will oversee Vermont State University (VTSU) and the Community College of Vermont.

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Insight Into Diversity

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Five pharmacy schools recently received $4.1 The funding comes from the McKesson Foundation , a corporate foundation dedicated to eliminating barriers to health care in vulnerable communities. . million between the universities, to invest in various pathway programs, curriculum changes, and community outreach initiatives. .

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Daniel , executive vice president and chief operating officer of Education Forward Arizona, has been appointed president of South Mountain Community College, in Arizona. Kevin Weinman , chief financial and administrative officer at Amherst College, in Massachusetts, has been selected as president of Marist College, in New York.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Assuming the position when the previous president resigned, she knew everyone was looking to her to bring stability to the community college. In California, we have great workforce needs across the board, and that’s a huge role for community colleges.” Also, the college’s nursing program is experiencing exciting growth.

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University Business

JANUARY 22, 2024

However, several institutions are reaping great enrollment numbers from the high school realm. Creating initiatives that dilate their schools’ access and affordability. Buoyed by a $20 million investment from the state, MCCS targeted high school graduates from 2020 to 2023 who might have been affected by the pandemic.

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