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Reflections on 2019 and Predictions for 2020with Drumm McNaughton and Deb Maue | Changing Higher Ed Podcast 030

The Change Leader, Inc.

Join us in reflecting on 2019 and our predictions for 2020. The Change Leader CEO and President Drumm McNaughton and Aurora University Vice President for Marketing and Communications Deb Maue share their insights during the second annual wrap-up of happenings in higher education.

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Culturally-Sustaining K-12 Education: Who’s Teaching the Teachers?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

There is is a lot of discussion about what K-12 teachers do and don’t (mostly don’t) receive in terms of training in culturally relevant pedagogy, and it is often traced back to teacher education programs. Specifically, 44% of teachers in K-12 education reported that they very often or always feel burned out at work.

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Advising, Counseling, Mentoring and Teaching Black Males in Secondary and Postsecondary Settings

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Black Males in Secondary and Postsecondary Education ( Advances in Race and Ethnicity in Education, Vol. link] Comics and graphic novels can disrupt traditional texts by challenging the worship of the written word ( Torres, 2019 ), a feature of white supremacy that perpetuates textual hierarchies within educational spaces.

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Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig Named Provost at Western Michigan University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“I was attracted to Kentucy because their faculty and leadership are true innovators,” he said, adding that he counts the growing interest in the teacher preparation programs—amid a national crisis around teacher shortages—as one of his many successes.

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Seeking Solutions to Strengthen Career Pathways

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Team NEO, in its 2019 Aligning Opportunities Report, zeroes in on the talent shortage facing three sectors of the economy — IT, manufacturing, and healthcare. Our region has a large healthcare industry with a significantly unmet employment demand exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Community Colleges Up, Four-Year Schools Down in Latest Enrollment Data

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This is part of a trend towards youth at community colleges, with the average age of a student dropping by over a year since 2019. Computer science programs, more often taken by men, had their highest growth since the start of the pandemic (11.6% Another factor in the improved community college enrollment was a 1.1%

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Creating Safe Spaces: Future Teachers of Color Summit

The Scholarly Teacher

Research shows that having BIPOC teachers benefits BIPOC students, providing numerous positive protective factors (Burciaga & Kohli, 2018; Easton-Brooks, 2019; Morales et al., Lessons for teacher education: The role of critical professional development in teacher of color retention. link] Nebraska Department of Education.