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Harvard Professor Convicted for Hiding Chinese Money Retires

Confessions of a Community College Dean

” Lieber hasn’t yet been sentenced for his December 2021 convictions for knowingly making false statements to the federal government, willfully filing false tax returns and willfully not disclosing that he had authority over a Chinese bank account. He was set to be sentenced March 2, but that is being rescheduled.

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Access Must be Front Burner for Community Colleges

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“In states like Tennessee where it’s performance-based funding, even if a community college does really well in comparison to its previous year, there are still benchmarks to some extent across the state with other community colleges that can have an adverse impact on funding,” said Smith, whose research currently focuses on community colleges.

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Why we need better data on faculty diversity (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

A diverse faculty brings diverse perspectives, and these diverse perspectives enhance teaching and advising, research and scholarship, clinical practice, and engagement with the community and world. A study of employment records of nearly 300,000 tenured and tenure-track faculty members employed between 2011 and 2020 at 368 Ph.D.-granting

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New Student Engagement Data Reveals Surprises

EAB

EAB’s Tara Zirkel is joined by Center for Community College Student Engagement Executive Director Dr. Linda Garcia, as well as Associate Director of Publications, Dr. Courtney Adkins, to discuss new research on student engagement. I'm Tara Zirkel, a Director of Strategic Research at EAB. That goes to research and tools.

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How can America Encourage College Dropouts to Complete their Degrees

Edu Alliance Journal

American higher education overall has 39 million people with Some College, No Credential (SCNC) as of July 2020 according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. of students who started in community college after 6 years have not obtained any degree or certificate (1,071,720 students from students starting in 2011).

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Biden administration to list low-performing programs

Confessions of a Community College Dean

But first the department must decide how to determine which programs have low financial value—a question that’s been the subject of much research but no clear consensus. We’ve been trying to avoid this now for over a decade … We can’t continue to punt this to the federal level.”