Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 4, 2023

Image: Community colleges across the country are struggling to recruit and hire new people after losing faculty and staff members in droves during the pandemic. College leaders report staffing losses at all levels, including IT workers, student success professionals, dining hall workers and executive leaders, she said.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Image: Against the backdrop of headlines blaring news about declining community college enrollments, one bright spot has emerged: community college students, faculty and administrators are broadly aligned in their enthusiasm for the digital transformation that has occurred at their institutions since the start of the pandemic.

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MARCH 8, 2023

Upward transfer students from two-year colleges to four-year institutions, however, continue to lag, with a 7.5% decline since the fall of 2020, a semester smack-dab in the middle of the pandemic, according to a new study by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. drops in the fall of 2019. since the fall of 2020.

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EAB

JULY 21, 2023

Blogs Why customer service matters for community colleges Learnings and recommendations from EAB’s 2023 customer service survey I just talked to someone in registration, and they told me to call you! What are the features of a “modern student experience,” and how do community colleges stack up?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University is laying off as many as 15 to 20 staff members, the news website Semafor reported. Kendi, the center’s executive director and a prominent antiracism activist and scholar, famously wrote the best-selling book How to Be an Antiracist, published in 2019.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2024

The literature is replete with research on the negative outcomes Black males experience from employment to education as well as from health and interactions with law enforcement. As such, there needs to be an investment in asset-based research designed to understand the factors that can help Black boys cope with these perceptions.

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JANUARY 3, 2024

The keys to endurance: An investigation of the institutional factors relating to the persistence of Historically Black Colleges and Universities. 2019, December 9). Students pay the price if a college fails. link ) Massachusetts Board of Higher Education (2019). National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 27885.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Community colleges have taken great pride over many decades as an open-door institution welcoming students who had no other place to go. It is not known how many of these students are enrolled in community colleges, but it is likely these students are represented equally to those in universities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 8, 2024

The profile of the average community college student is changing. While two-year institutions still have significant populations of adult students and people desirous of enhancing their career options, there is a growing number of first-time college students, age 18 to 22, that are seeking a traditional college experience.

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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. Many of these careers are associated with a degree or other credential (or pathway) at the College. Roueche and Margaretta B.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

How to engage more community college prospects amid the “great opt out”. As the number of traditional-aged students continues to decline, community college leaders must focus on enrollment and recruitment strategies within their control. of students saying they relied heavily on a resource, 2019-2022.

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University Business

MARCH 13, 2023

Higher education enrollment at Northeastern schools has collectively fallen into a downward spiral since at least 2017, a phenomenon that has plagued every region since the pandemic, according to National Student Clearinghouse Research Center data. Vermont’s public four-year institutions in fall 2022; however, hit a whopping 12.2%

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 18, 2023

Image: Recently released federal higher education data show community college enrollment trends during the first two years of the pandemic differed based on the age of the students, according to a new analysis by the Community College Research Center at Columbia University’s Teachers College.

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JUNE 15, 2023

National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 27885. Mapping community college finance systems to develop equitable and effective finance policy. National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 31291. The distribution of indirect cost recovery in academic research. 2019, December 9). Rosinger, K.

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Robert Kelchen

DECEMBER 19, 2022

But as a researcher, I got an early gift this week when the U.S. This data update included finance data from the 2020-21 fiscal year—the first year to be fully affected by the pandemic following a partially affected 2019-20 fiscal year. Characteristic 2020-21 2019-20 2018-19 2017-18 Median change (pct) -1.2

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University Business

APRIL 3, 2024

Colleges and universities are trudging through inflationary construction costs to successfully reinvest in their existing facilities as students’ interactions with the campus community change in an ever-digitalized world, suggests data from the 11th edition of the State of Facilities in Higher Education report.

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The Scholarly Teacher

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Paula Jakopovic , University of Nebraska at Omaha Kelly Gomez Johnson , University of Nebraska at Omaha Key Statement: This article highlights communities of practice as a means for supporting faculty as they seek to( re)design courses with equitable, research-informed practices. American Educational Research Journal, 54 (5), 803–833.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Another example is Dartmouth College’s recent laughable, but sad rationale to reinstate the SAT/ACT because their internal “research” shows they would effectively be more equitable for low-income students. Freshmen retention rates: 2019-20: 95.5% Freshman retention rates: 2019-20: 94.4% 2021-22: 91.3%

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Robert Kelchen

JANUARY 3, 2022

2019, December 9). Students pay the price if a college fails. Examining the feasibility of empirically predicting college closures. Massachusetts Board of Higher Education (2019). A risky proposal for private colleges: Ten reasons why the Board of Higher Education must rethink its plan. The College Board.

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University Business

JULY 27, 2023

National Student Clearinghouse Research Center’s 2023 Persistence and Retention report concludes that first-year students in fall 2021 had a 75.7% pp recovery from the suppressed persistence level of those who started in fall 2020 means nearly 22,000 more students are still in college today.”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 29, 2023

Image: Rising numbers of community college students kept total enrollment across all sectors of higher education flat this spring despite a decline in the largest category of institutions by share of enrollment: public four-year universities. Community college enrollment increased by 2.1

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Long Beach College Promise is another Latino-serving program in which students are tracked from the K-12 system (the Long Beach Unified School District), through community college, and into CSULB to make sure students are fully supported through all the educational pathways. Morishita, interim president at CSULA. Dr. Janine E.

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University Business

MAY 24, 2023

When aggregating every higher education sector, bachelor’s degrees and graduate credentials were the two most prominent programs driving overall spring enrollment down by 0.2%, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center’s Spring 2023 enrollment estimates. Community colleges experienced a whopping 12.4%

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JUNE 19, 2023

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology received research misconduct allegations against Ram Sasisekharan in 2019. This spring, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology finally announced it had exonerated Ram Sasisekharan, a biological engineering professor, after a three-and-a-half-year research misconduct investigation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 9, 2023

On a Friday night in 2019, Gesy Duran prepared to dine at an Italian restaurant with her wife. But the pandemic got in the way, and the idea lay dormant until Duran, who had since started at the Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC), heard about the Blackstone Launchpad Competition, a business pitch contest for students.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 23, 2023

She’d spent seven years as a part-time student at Los Angeles Pierce Community College after graduating from high school and struggled to earn money and find financial aid to pay for a four-year education. Mora became director of the basic needs center in 2019.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JUNE 6, 2023

At least that’s the view of many colleges, which are increasingly boosting the profile—and resources—of their career centers, according to research by the National Association of Colleges and Employers.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 28, 2023

Barnes eventually reset her goals and reached a new professional peak last August when she was named chancellor of the South Orange County Community College District. years on average, according to the Community College League of California’s CEO tenure and retention dashboard.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 16, 2024

The keys to endurance: An investigation of the institutional factors relating to the persistence of Historically Black Colleges and Universities. 2019, December 9). Students pay the price if a college fails. link ) Massachusetts Board of Higher Education (2019). National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 27885.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 21, 2023

A group of students from the Community College of Baltimore County set out to answer such questions and pull back the curtain on higher education for students through their podcast. One, it’s an opportunity for dialogue led by community college students who are disadvantaged by rankings and the prestige of “good schools.”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

I did not do enough research to answer the questions I was posing. Here is what it looks like: Full+Part-Time 2020 38,510 2019 40,884 2018 41,479 2017 41,490 2016 41,993 2015 42,782 2014 43,610 2013 44,677 2012 67,074 Not sure why there was such a significant drop between 2013 and 2012. The data available spans from 2012 to 2020.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Census Bureau data from 2015 to 2019. As a result, researchers at Georgetown recommended the following to fortify higher education in rural America. Nourish the “education deserts” with free, bachelor’s degree-granting community college and expand K12 dual enrollment.

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EAB

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Among EAB’s partner institutions, for example, click rates increased 61% on Giving Day solicitations from 2019 to 2020. Several colleges reported higher event attendance through virtual channels than they’d ever witnessed during prior “in-person only” times.

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University Business

AUGUST 30, 2023

Nationwide research shows that more than 80,000 students interested in nursing were turned away from nursing programs in 2019 alone due to lack of capacity,” said Marsha Prater, senior vice president and chief nursing officer at Memorial Health. currently unemployed persons got a job, 4 million jobs would remain unfilled.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 23, 2023

Researchers found that the decreases long preceded the virus. ” Colleges and universities lost roughly 600,000 Black students over the course of a decade, with about half of those losses at community colleges, the report notes. For example, it notes that the U.S.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 7, 2023

The article says Dr. Li Wang resigned in September 2019, one day before she was to be fired, after allegedly not disclosing financial affiliations with Wenzhou Medical University and the National Natural Science Foundation of China. Dr. Wang erroneously cited herself on the Yale Liver and on [research paper] #443.” Hide by line?:

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 8, 2023

Higher ed is in crisis because of research-intensive institutions losing status, crappy student mental health, and a career as a university professor is no longer glamorous. Nor does he write about the inadequate investment in community colleges at every level of government. Nothing about public disinvestment?

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