Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

Artificial intelligence (AI) has transitioned from a speculative concept to a transformative tool in higher education, particularly within community colleges. Drawing on the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), it argues that AI can enhance accessibility and efficiency while preserving the human essence of education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2023

This fall semester, Massasoit Community College achieved a new first. Massasoit Community College is officially offering a Black Studies curriculum. Ten years in the making The story of Black Studies at the Massachusetts public community college goes back a decade.

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Liaison International

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Key Takeaways: AI empowers community colleges to personalize student engagement by tailoring resources and communication to diverse student preferences. Combining AI-driven insights with human empathy ensures ethical, accurate, and meaningful interactions that foster trust and improve the community college student experience.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

While there are FAFSA webinars available, I believe community and family focused FAFSA and financial aid workshops in tribal communities might be an effective way to promote college going overall among indigenous students.” FDLTCC is both a tribal college and a community college part of the state system.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JUNE 29, 2023

The History of Higher Education in the US over the last 4 centuries is worse than horrible--from a People's perspective. To make history, it's helpful to know history. At the front end of the higher ed pipeline, the US is not producing enough domestic students with the resources or skills to succeed in college and beyond.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2023

The rest is history. Gonzales’ passion for education has culminated in a swift rise to being named chancellor of the Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD) last September. The district comprises 10 independently accredited colleges in Arizona serving over 94,000 students. A passion for education Dr. Steven R.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 19, 2024

Fundamentally, the police are responsible for understanding the culture, history, and issues affecting the communities they serve. As noted by Dennis (2020), community colleges in the U.S. Together, community colleges and professional policing lead the way for new police officers’ cultural competence.

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WCET Frontiers

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

in 20th-century US history with an emphasis on civil rights from Vanderbilt University and a Bachelors in history from Southwestern University. Some highlights include: A Virtual Member-only Summit on Humanizing AI that delves into how artificial intelligence can be integrated responsibly. He earned a Masters and Ph.D.

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Liaison International

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Kalamazoo Valley Community College is a fully accredited, two-year public college with approximately 10,000 students enrolled at its four Michigan campuses. The post Data-Driven ROI: Liaison’s Intelligent Names Helps Kalamazoo Valley Community College “Identify the Right Population” appeared first on Liaison.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Sacramento State — home to the largest number of Black students within the California State University (CSU) system — is launching what will become the nation’s first-ever Black Honors College. Slated to begin operating in the fall, the honors college will enroll students who have a GPA of 3.5 Dr. Donna Y.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 13, 2023

There are 116 community colleges in California. Carey Seventy percent of Black men in California pursuing higher education attend a community college, but degree attainment lags. Serving students Lakeland Community College in Ohio created its MRC in 1996 after seeing the success of its women’s center.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

Leslie Hall, director of the HBCU Program at the Human Rights Campaign — the largest LGBTQ lobbying organization in the U.S. It coincided with HRC’s HBCU Out Loud Day, which takes place the third Wednesday of October during LGBTQ History Month. In 2022, the university finally launched an official LGBTQ alumni affinity group, ARC.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2024

Hines, professor in the College of Education and Human Development at George Mason University, who was director of ScHOLA²RS House (Scholastic House of Leaders in Support of African American Researchers and Scholars) at University of Connecticut when Reid was an undergraduate.

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ACRLog

JUNE 26, 2023

Alejandro is a Collection Development Librarian at the Auraria Library which serves the University of Colorado Denver, Metropolitan State University of Denver, and the Community College of Denver. James Baldwin once said, “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Wallace State Community College in Alabama put an instructor of history on leave, according to a CBS42 report about the instructor’s social media comments condemning a local LGBTQ pride event. The employee has been placed on administrative leave pending further investigation.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

As Pauline Lipman powerfully states in the book referenced above regarding school segregation: “It breaks a web of human connections in which the social and cultural practices of daily life are rooted, race and class identities are formed, and community is constituted.” Dr. Curtis L. The Roueche Center Forum is co-edited by Drs.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 23, 2022

” Community colleges and for-profits have borne well over 90 percent of the drop. Trends that predated the pandemic persisted: the declining number of humanities majors. Free community college? The intensifying crisis of the humanities. Underserved markets exist. Loan forgiveness?

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 31, 2022

Blog: Beyond Transfer Millions of community college students are pursuing their higher education journeys right now. Many aspire to transfer to a four-year college or university. Now that we can look at data from the fall 2017 cohort, we see just three percent of community college transfer students enrolled at selective schools.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Gavin recently addressed in his Inside Higher Ed op-ed “ Presidents Must Speak Out Against White Nationalism ,” we should also focus on what colleges can do to help our students navigate this rising threat. Today they can help repair that legacy of harm by exposing this growing racist myth for what it is.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2023

Scholarship has nearly always been done from a position of privilege, with respect to the vast majority of the human population, as studying arcane texts or elusive natural phenomena has never been something most people have had time or resources to do.

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WCET Frontiers

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The University of Hawai‘i System is an indigenous-serving institution with seven community colleges and three universities–consistently ranked as among the most diverse in the nation–with nearly 50,0000 students on campuses throughout our islands.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 22, 2023

” A few short months after OpenAI released ChatGPT—a large language model with an unusual ability to mimic human language and thought—the company released an upgrade known as GPT-4. But by OpenAI’s own admission, humans are susceptible to overrelying on the tools, which could have unintended outcomes.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 2, 2023

Here, I’d like to discuss the history of general education: its rise, fall, current status and need to be radically rethought and reimagined. As Gilbert Allardyce observed in his history of the Western Civ survey course , in 1882, only five Harvard classes enrolled 100 or more students; but by 1901, 14 had over 200 students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 21, 2023

National University (NU) announced the launch of the Cause Research Institute (CRI), a new applied Research and Development arm that will coordinate research, scholarship, and other innovation efforts focused on social sector challenges, including education, health, human services, and criminal justice.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The Los Angeles Community College District’s $5.3 The district of nine colleges with more than 200,000 students has borrowed more than $9 billion in bonds over the last two decades, but this year’s bond measure would be its largest bond ask, the Los Angeles Times reported.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 23, 2023

The students raised their concerns about the group to the Kern Community College District Board of Trustees in a meeting last month. Davis told the Kern Community College District Board of Trustees at their December meeting that the students got a frosty reception. They were invited by Parks, who was presenting the idea.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

The Higher Ed Gamma blog has provided a platform from which I’ve been able to share my opinions about such hot topics as the future of the professoriate, pedagogy, curriculum design, the humanities, campus activism, academic freedom, in loco parentis , and much more. After all, there’s no shortage of supply.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

“As an African American from Appalachia, whose father was illiterate and mother had an 8th grade education, I knew the value of college, and if I had a chance to express that with policy, process and procedures to help other people live out that generational dream, then I wanted to take advantage of that,” says Thompson. “My

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

We’re changing the landscape of how community colleges serve underserved students,” says Espiritu. “We Having cohorts here is really important, especially for engineering and computer science because it’s a community that supports each other.” I care more than just graduation at community college.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean Chad Orzel’s piece this week, “ Physics Is a Liberal Art ,” is a must-read. He’s a physicist who attended a small liberal arts college and works at another one, so he’s well acquainted with the various ways in which the term “liberal arts” is used.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 16, 2023

Blog: Beyond Transfer For many students, transferring between community colleges and 4-year institutions is sometimes the only path to a bachelor’s degree. Community colleges provide a valuable service to students due to lower costs, closer proximity to home communities, and more flexibility for non-traditional students.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 24, 2023

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean “Journalism is paywalled, but disinformation is free.” Yes, it can replace human effort with machine effort, thereby defeating the purpose of student writing. That means some history and civics, so they know some basics of what and why.

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PeopleAdmin

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Telling our story As many institutions did during the shifts in work environment of 2020 and 2021, Linn-Benton Community College decided to dive into a digital transformation. The [onboarding] checklist feature is especially helpful for human resources. We have a lot of unique aspects of our university.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 7, 2023

Curriculum “Our students have diverse personal, community-based, cultural and political interests that we welcome by offering a broad range of courses in art history, anime, digital art, drawing, painting, photography, printmaking and sculpture,” said Otitigbe of Brooklyn College.

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WCET Frontiers

AUGUST 10, 2023

My History with Online Courses Welcome to the third and final post in our series on higher education enrollment shifts. Using virtual reality and augmented reality technologies, students can experience the past, go deep into space or into the human body, and experience dangerous weather events.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

However, as a UU alumnus with a history of balancing optimism and proactive problem-solving, he’d already engaged in several notable accomplishments (one of which was bringing his institution into the UIA). We love his warmth, candor, and willingness to put a human face on the challenges of higher education leadership.

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Continuous Learning Institute

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

critical race theory, Black history, etc.), Community colleges and open access universities serve the most vulnerable students in our society. Lastly, I love your three points of summary: human kindness, genuine learning, and faculty growth. The WHAT is the content (e.g., Let’s finally take this crisis seriously.

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