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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WCET Frontiers

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Today, we’re excited to spotlight the Mississippi Virtual Community College (MSVCC) and hear from Christa Wilhite and Krista LeBrun from the Mississippi Community College Board. Over time, as digital learning transformed, so did the MSVCC.

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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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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 3, 2024

By creating and managing their portfolios, students enhance their technical skills, becoming more adept at using technology for learning and professional purposes. Personalization and Differentiated instruction: E-portfolios offer a personalized learning experience for students to highlight their unique strengths and achievements.

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Campus Technology

APRIL 20, 2023

Arizona's Mesa Community College is renovating its classroom audio systems with a variety of solutions from conferencing, collaboration, and streaming technology provider ClearOne. The goal: to "enhance the flexibility and quality of remote learning experiences" for the institution's 20,000 students, according to a news announcement.

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Today's Learner

APRIL 14, 2025

Reading Time: < 1 minute Melissa Reid , Department Chair at Rowan-Cabarrus Community College, was concerned that students in her developmental math course were lacking critical support from her previous publisher and online learning platform , resulting in discouragingly low pass rate numbers. we were blown away.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 27, 2024

California Community Colleges (CCC) will soon offer six new bachelor’s degree programs, an initiative aimed at expanding the accessibility and affordability of four-year degrees. The system, which consists of 116 colleges with a variety of additional campus centers and classrooms scattered across the state, announced the news Tuesday.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Necessary support is provided through GANAS (Gaining Access ’AND Academic Success), an innovative access and retention program that serves community college transfer students. Cerritos College A public, two-year community college, Cerritos College is located in Norwalk, California (Southeastern Los Angeles).

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

I’ve been utilizing mid-semester check-ins for several years now and have noticed that students respond best when I send out informal invitations to reflect on their learning experiences. My rationale here is to not make it a mandatory assignment, but an extra credit opportunity to know more about their current learning experiences.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Like mosquitoes, community colleges have the power to create a ripple of meaningful change. Community colleges, often under-appreciated yet mighty in their mission, are essential agents of transformationparticularly for students from historically marginalized communities. The numbers tell a powerful story.

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WCET Frontiers

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Be sure to follow along throughout the month to learn more about our other honorees, and join us in celebrating them at the Annual Meeting in Long Beach in just a few weeks! These COIL-centered standards support Virtual Exchange (VE) & intercultural online learning experiences.

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Continuous Learning Institute

MAY 8, 2023

Solano ) My three kids were educated at community colleges. My last child will be completing her community college journey this June. I emailed the colleges with my perspective as a parent. Also, universities are highly inconsistent about which AP scores they accept for college credit.

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University Business

JANUARY 12, 2024

Grants created by the proposal would go toward community colleges and four-year institutions. Concerning the latter, grants would help administrative leaders: Develop virtual learning platforms for remote and individualized AI instruction. Build labs that provide students with hands-on AI learning experiences.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Roueche Center for Community College Leadership. Today, some of our country’s communities are engaged in conversations about talent pipeline shortages, challenges, and opportunities. Deeper conversations were launched between local career-technical center Ohio Tech Prep Northeast Region, and Cuyahoga Community College.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Nicholas Cochrane, associate professor of business and economics at Mount Wachusett Community College. “To Now, Cochrane is an associate professor of business and economics at Mount Wachusett Community College (MWCC) in rural Gardner, Mass., To say I didn’t fit in was an understatement,” said Cochrane. “I

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Community college chatbots need to understand a wide range of academic subjects, courses, and student queries. The San Diego Community College District was not so lucky and paid out over $100,000 in fraudulent claims before catching on. That student in your community college class could be a bot. CalMatters.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

I’ve been utilizing mid-semester check-ins for several years now and have noticed that students respond best when I send out informal invitations to reflect on their learning experiences. My rationale here is to not make it a mandatory assignment, but an extra credit opportunity to know more about their current learning experiences.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 7, 2024

Enhancing student experience and learning outcomes At UF CJC Online, implementing a course template has been transformative as it significantly enhances student success by delivering a consistent learning experience. This process has been instrumental in ensuring a consistent, high-quality learning experience.

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University Business

MAY 22, 2024

Colorado students also have the right to know what work-related and prior learning experiences can be awarded as credit, the bill declares. “It will also ensure that students transferring from a community college to a four-year institution receive credits they deserve for the classes they’ve successfully completed.”

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 3, 2024

By creating and managing their portfolios, students enhance their technical skills, becoming more adept at using technology for learning and professional purposes. Personalization and Differentiated instruction: E-portfolios offer a personalized learning experience for students to highlight their unique strengths and achievements.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 7, 2024

Enhancing student experience and learning outcomes At UF CJC Online, implementing a course template has been transformative as it significantly enhances student success by delivering a consistent learning experience. This process has been instrumental in ensuring a consistent, high-quality learning experience.

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University Business

MAY 23, 2024

Higher education’s nearly overnight shift to online learning during the pandemic scattered learners across the country, sending them into relative isolation for months. Despite this, online learning has remained in higher demand, especially at community colleges and among busy adult learners.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Community college chatbots need to understand a wide range of academic subjects, courses, and student queries. The San Diego Community College District was not so lucky and paid out over $100,000 in fraudulent claims before catching on. That student in your community college class could be a bot. CalMatters.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

” “The strength of transfer is really grounded in the structures that are in place within four-year institutions and community colleges and whether or not we are benefiting from the transfer pipeline and the transfer processes,” she said. And that’s a false narrative.”

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

There’s been a movement lately in institutions, particularly community colleges, to incorporate more OER materials as a way to curb the rising costs of higher education. Now a different type of learning experience ensues: how to problem solve and report concerns in the real world.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 14, 2023

These experiences impart invaluable lessons about cross-cultural understanding, teamwork, and the very nature of our global society. Adaptive AI instruction primarily stands out for its ability to bring personalization to the forefront of the learning experience.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Image: Three California community colleges are fighting to start new baccalaureate programs, which their leaders insist would fill critical local workforce needs and help students who couldn’t otherwise afford to pursue a four-year degree. ” Half of states now allow community college baccalaureate degrees.

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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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University Business

JUNE 13, 2024

More from UB: “Too good to be true:” How one IT team unlocked millions with this simple trick For example, the Ringling College of Art and Design announced last month its Artificial Intelligence Undergraduate Certificate to equip students with the knowledge and skills necessary to navigate AI’s complex impact on creative industries.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 24, 2023

“Colleges are aware that the traditional 16-week semester, three to four courses, doesn’t work for everyone,” said Dr. Maria S. Cormier, a senior research associate at the Community College Research Center at Teacher’s College, Columbia University.

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Today's Learner

MARCH 26, 2025

Reading Time: 6 minutes Today, I want to talk about an innovative and exciting tool for teaching and learning the subject of computer networking. I’ve been teaching and learning the expansive subject of computer networking for more than 25 years at the community college level.

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University Business

AUGUST 28, 2024

“If every UMS student earned just one micro-credential, we would have proof that each earner had completed an applied learning experience and demonstrated relevant skills and competencies,” wrote Claire Sullivan, assistant vice chancellor for innovation in digital badges and micro-credentials.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 14, 2023

These experiences impart invaluable lessons about cross-cultural understanding, teamwork, and the very nature of our global society. Adaptive AI instruction primarily stands out for its ability to bring personalization to the forefront of the learning experience.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Michael Ritterbrown Michael Ritterbrown, EdD, vice president of instructional services at Glendale Community College, contends that the classic model of lecture and discussion is often an ineffective teaching practice. He encourages more active classrooms focused on contextualized, project-based, and problem-based learning experiences.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 9, 2023

In order to stay relevant in today’s college classrooms within our fast-paced and ever-evolving world, professors must be ready to utilize instructional tools of all kinds to actively engage students in authentic learning experiences that take them beyond the classroom. Kagan cooperative learning. Service-learning.

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Edu Alliance Journal

MARCH 17, 2025

Experiential Learning: More than 80% of students participate in internships, research, or off-campus programs such as Semester in the West and the Whitman in China teaching fellowship, exemplifying Whitman’s commitment to hands-on learning experiences. Since 2000, students have secured more than 600 awards.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Half of the American workforce — roughly 70 million people — are 25 and older and lack a college degree, but have gained skills and knowledge through alternate routes, such as community college, apprenticeships, military service or on-the-job training and experience.

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