Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

She possesses an associate degree earned in her early 20’s from her local community college. The plight of the place-bound student and the existence of education deserts offer another compelling equity-based argument for expansion of the community college baccalaureate degree. Lawrence A. Roughly 6% to 12% of the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 10, 2024

He would go on to earn three associate degrees in general studies, liberal arts, and biology. These degrees allowed Njumbe the opportunity to transfer to a four-year institution to study for his bachelor’s degree, said Dr. Jack Bloom, a professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at IU and one of Njumbe’s instructors.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 14, 2023

There, she worked with students academically underprepared for college, she says. in African American studies and sociology from EIU; and an Associate of Arts in African American studies from Olive-Harvey Community College. And from 2002 to 2006, she served as academic adviser for Temple University.

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University Business

APRIL 3, 2024

Antioch College President Jane Fernandes was elated when she discovered her college would be formally designated as a Federal Work College by the Department of Education. Nearly 50% of Sterling College’s 2018 graduates earned their degree without accruing any debt. Berea College in Berea (Ky.)

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University Business

OCTOBER 2, 2023

. “If used appropriately, AI can do some of the things we pay college consultants to do.” ” More from UB: Presidents corner: How can courage breathe new life into a classic liberal arts education? The University of North Texas and Reynolds Community College (Va.)

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 12, 2023

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean. They develop college-level writing and synthesis skills in an applied context, with the unwritten rules of the various workplaces revealing themselves over time and through comparison. In senior administration, you’re forced by circumstance to be more fox than hedgehog.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

“We’re not just marching through the archives,” said Blackwood, who chairs the English department at Pace. Even so, English departments are constantly testing new approaches to win devotees, including by adding courses that students find particularly appealing, such as creative writing. million Andrew W.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean. He notes: – If your kid attends a community college, they're going to take Introduction to Philosophy with me, a doctored and published professor, with (blessedly) hours of graduate training in pedagogy. He’s a philosophy professor and a dean.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Internationalisation is also a focus for community colleges, as strategy leader / senior international officer at Hillsborough Community College , Michael Brennan, explained. International recruitment.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Department of Education. The Education Department reached a key milestone late last month when it released final regulations that set standards postsecondary prison education programs will have to meet in order to access Pell Grant funds. ” New Rules.

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Marcia J. Ballinger, Ph.D.

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Lorain County Community College is the community’s college, providing pathways to rewarding careers in all fields, including liberal arts and the humanities. Bill Burges, the fund honors the memory of his wife Charlene Moskal-Burges, a powerful force for good who was dedicated to improving her communities.

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Dr. Missy Alexander

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Over the last few weeks, I have been in several conversations about the impact of career focused education on the liberal arts. This framing reveals deeply held biases about what qualifies as liberal arts (and therefore a quality degree) which are pervasive in higher education.

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WCET Frontiers

JULY 27, 2023

Outside of the liberal arts, programs in risk include business, journalism/communication, education, nursing, and family & consumer sciences. In December 2022, Catawba Valley Community College in North Carolina laid off 21 staff and six faculty members. Wesley College is now DSU’s downtown campus.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean Yesterday I asked my readers what rule they would enact for higher education in their state if they were somehow declared Grand Poohbah of Higher Education for a day. (I I took the term from Howard Cunningham’s fraternal lodge on Happy Days.) Sounds good to me. He was serious.

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WCET Frontiers

JULY 28, 2023

Outside of the liberal arts, programs in risk include business, journalism/communication, education, nursing, and family & consumer sciences. In December 2022, Catawba Valley Community College in North Carolina laid off 21 staff and six faculty members. Wesley College is now DSU’s downtown campus.

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Helix Education

MAY 16, 2024

Student satisfaction data is informative as well as relevant for goal-setting and improvement activities for a variety of departments and campus constituencies. Using the SSI has given us actionable insights that have helped the college to understand and improve the student experience to set students up for success.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The College of Marin posted heat warnings on Twitter last Thursday telling students of expected temperatures at or above 90 degrees through Tuesday. ” the community college tweeted. ” Helping Communities Cool Down. “Plan ahead and have a buddy system!”

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 11, 2023

An unfortunate truth about career-related learning opportunities on a typical campus—think internship fairs, courses featuring work-integrated learning or networking events with alumni—is that they are too often fragmented or siloed across various departments or career centers. Toward a Classroom-Centered Transformation.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

They also talk about the careers with the best ROI and how those with liberal arts degrees fare by comparison. Podcast Highlights Michael draws on his background as the former director of the College Scorecard program during his time in the Obama Administration to create user-friendly reports, utilizing the dataset’s 2,000 variables.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 2, 2023

entry into the First World War posed an existential threat to many colleges as military conscription prompted fears of a catastrophic loss of students and tuition. As a workaround, campus leadership and the War Department devised the Students Army Training Corps. Students joined in, demanding more electives and choice.

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eLiterate

OCTOBER 25, 2022

This was back in the 1990s, so it was early for a professor outside of an education or computer science department to be thinking about such things. It will take on the challenges of cost and career value without rejecting the value of liberal arts of human teachers. On the bottom was the California Community College System.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2022

AACC – American Association of Community Colleges – One of “The Six” Higher-Education Organizations in Washington, DC; they represent almost 1,200 institutions · AACSB – Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business – This is the leading accrediting body for business schools in the U.S. . ·

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

We’ve seen the broader higher education community latching on to this narrative just to get a better understanding of whether or not specific institutions and programs are paying off. If you’re a college administrator, you know about this data, or you should be aware now. We have data from the U.S.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 21, 2023

Also, don’t fully disregard liberal arts education since students still need a well-rounded education. Drumm McNaughton 05:51 More than half of those are community colleges, and community colleges in more urban areas are not so much focused on trades as they are the first two years of gen-ed.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Asked to assess general building quality across campus, more than half of Student Voice respondents believe buildings seem well maintained, with about equal numbers from those at two-year colleges (n=250) and four-year colleges. No one—student or professor—wants to spend most of their time in a dilapidated building.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MAY 31, 2023

Wraparound support programs and comprehensive student support programs like the CUNY ASAP program for the community colleges in New York City is a holistic program that works. The report highlights three basic pathways: high school, community college, and university. I just released a podcast today with Jeff Scheuer.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

00:18:14] Bill: And in this first year cohort, community colleges are flat. And those colleges, especially private, small liberal arts colleges, are highly clustered in the Midwest and the Northeast. And if you’re a president of one of those colleges, or frankly, a regional public in these areas.

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WCET Frontiers

AUGUST 3, 2023

That report, Supporting Instruction and Learning Through Artificial Intelligence: A Survey of Institutional Practices and Policies , found that only four percent of respondents reported that their institution had an overall institutional strategy for approaching AI, and only seven percent had strategies at the department or college level.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

Director for Transfer & Pathways, Central New Mexico Community College University Research Optimizing institutional resources for research growth Nick Hagemeier, Interim Vice Provost for Research, East Tennessee State University Want to learn more about the Rising Higher Education Leaders Fellowship?

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2023

They were approved to the department level, the school level by the Dean, by the provost and by the preceding president himself, who was interim president after the original president had been fired by the new board, and he is now the provost. And it took faculty from all different departments. gender studies being one of them. [00:18:47]

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 23, 2024

You can find these individuals at historically black colleges and universities, minority-serving institutions, predominantly white institutions, and liberal arts colleges. If I have the link on my department and website to the application. They are spread across higher education. This is critical stuff.

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University Business

MARCH 25, 2025

Hiring Megan Coval – Butler County Community College (Penn.) Megan Coval has been promoted to permanent leader of Butler County Community College. Michael Hill, Randolph-Macon College Michael Hill will become the next president of Randolph-Macon College on Aug. Retiring Forrest E.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 10, 2023

(Just one in five Student Voice survey respondents says they’re required to meet periodically with advisers, though the number is closer to three in 10 for students at private institutions and just 14 percent for community college students.) To meet demand, some colleges offer group advising appointments.

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eLiterate

JANUARY 17, 2023

And some people add to the congestion in overburdened hospital emergency departments. Clark is ready to go back to college and become an engineer, will he get credit for the knowledge and skills he has learned through the program? New York City has a robust collection of community colleges within the CUNY system.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

My department has fallen in size from 72 tenure-stream faculty to a little over 50, with no real decline in enrollments. Journals and presses find it hard to find manuscript reviewers, while departments often can’t locate external evaluators in tenure and promotion cases. Last semester I taught 800 students and this semester 80.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Strategic Responses and Adaptations In response to these pressures, colleges and universities have adopted various strategies. Some institutions, like Franklin University, successfully pivoted to online education and effectively managed articulation agreements with community colleges, showcasing a proactive approach to these challenges.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

For-profit institutions that have continued to be profitable and grow are, to Kevin’s point, those that are really specific in either the community they serve or the programs they offer. I love community colleges. Your completion rates are going to be bad. I write about them all the time. What’s acceptable?

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