Robert Kelchen

JANUARY 3, 2024

This spring, I get to teach my PhD class in higher education finance again—the eighth time that I have taught it in my eleven-year faculty career. I use articles, working papers, news coverage, and other online resources to provide a current look at the state of higher education finance. Friedman, J. Gorton, N., & Lovenheim, M.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 10, 2023

An excellent and diverse faculty is vital to individual colleges and universities and to our communities, states, nation and globe. 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.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 13, 2023

plans to break a long-standing tradition of only hiring Christian instructors by opening some faculty positions to Jewish candidates. University leaders recently announced they’re specifically recruiting Jewish faculty members to teach in three of its graduate programs, hopefully as early as this spring.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 9, 2023

It was fall 2020, and he knew he wanted to try being a corporate chaplain, but not in a corporate setting. Gray felt inspired to instead become a chaplain at Amarillo College and help faculty and staff of the two-year institution with their mental health struggles. Jacqueline S.

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The Scholarly Teacher

MAY 10, 2023

Keywords: Advising, Relationships, Technology Introduction Advising is important to a college student’s academic success and perceived quality of experience (Hart-Baldridge, 2020). These include building strong relationships, timely communication, staying organized, and effective time management. References Felten, P.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 1, 2023

Instead of digging into Google Drive for ethics discussion questions from a class I taught in 2020, I had ChatGPT devise a few discussion questions to start with. Trending: Live Updates: liveupdates0 Most Popular: 3 In-Article Advertisement High: 9 In-Article related stories: 12 In-Article Advertisement Low: 15 Include DNU?:

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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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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 30, 2023

Many students worry about succeeding in gateway college-level mathematics courses needed to enter most community college degree and certificate programs. In addition, faculty intentionally integrated the courseware into their classes instead of using the tools as a supplemental resource.

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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

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. percent were Black.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 18, 2023

Large-scale quantitative data such as these provide an invaluable evidence-based context about the areas of scholarship in which institutions are investing new faculty lines, a matter of interest to deans of graduate schools and provosts alike. Notably, the COVID-19 pandemic prompted hiring freezes at many U.S. Finally, we only explored Ph.D.-granting

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 6, 2023

The former dean, Alan Dettlaff—who is returning to the social work faculty, for now—says his views on racial justice got him fired. Dettlaff did start to focus more on abolition—of the police and of the child welfare system—more in 2020, after the murder of George Floyd, however.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 6, 2023

Academic advisers are faculty members who support students with class schedules, major interest identification and career preparation, building off the success coaching from freshman year. Each coach is affiliated with one of KWU’s majors. Nationally, retention is a bit higher; about 66.4 Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 23, 2023

” 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. Yes In-Article Careers: 3

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Dr. Al Solano

JULY 4, 2022

23:54:50: Barriers that faculty create for students. Resources: - Practice guide for faculty in supporting transfer students, published by the National Institute for the Study of Transfer Students: Supporting Transfer Student Success: Five Key Faculty Practices. - 49:04:00: Barre as a metaphor for institutional change.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 6, 2023

Yet as Susan D’Agostino recently reported in her article, University of California System Bans Fully Online Degrees , the University of California system has decided to remain frozen in the past. Yes In-Article Careers: 3 It is deliberate design—not learning modality—that ultimately makes the difference.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The course, launched in 2021, aims to help faculty, staff and administrators reach their students and provide supports in new ways. ” Meeting Professionals’ Needs Faculty, staff and administrators from within Florida and beyond have taken the course. They also need coping skills.” of 5 on overall satisfaction, 4.5

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 27, 2023

In 2020, Spain’s Supreme Court ordered the University of Barcelona to publicly denounce its statement of support, which six other universities had also backed. ” University staff assemblies in Spain are supervisory bodies, with members elected from different faculties, although not necessarily in proportion to their size.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 16, 2023

percent from 2016 to 2020—the largest drop since it began its survey in 1958. The pandemic decreased college enrollment over all, but “language enrollments at four-year public and private nonprofit institutions decreased disproportionately, declining by 15 percent while overall student enrollments declined by only 0.4

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 16, 2024

[Editor's note: This article first appeared at the Kelchen on Education blog.] This spring, I get to teach my PhD class in higher education finance again—the eighth time that I have taught it in my eleven-year faculty career. The invisible colleges revisited: An empirical review. Friedman, J. Gorton, N., & link ) Gándara, D.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 5, 2023

Community colleges failing to fulfill their mission. ” As the AAUP puts it: “US faculty are steadily losing the rights of tenure, but far less from bombastic politicians weakening their protections than from universities quietly refusing to grant them.” It will change higher education forever. percent in 2021.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 19, 2023

The criteria, which were expected to be finalized later this month following consultation, clarify the rules for international universities setting up Indian campuses, a shift first announced in the 2020 National Education Policy (NEP). They come amid soaring demand for higher education in the world’s fastest growing major economy.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

I, along with faculty colleagues from many different types of institutions, am finding that students are just not as engaged as they have been in the past. How Human Connection Drive Success in College (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020). Some disappeared altogether. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 6, 2023

According to the study, the number of graduates with an undergraduate degree in public health jumped by more than 1,100 percent between 2001 and 2020, outpacing master’s degrees as the most popular public health degree by 2020. The increase comes from a combination of new undergraduate public health programs in the U.S.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 13, 2023

“We wanted to give faculty around the university the chance to identify students who were struggling in the beginning of the semester and then recommend that they enroll in the second section in the second half, so that we didn’t have to capture students in that first week,” she said. Unlike most college courses, U SAD?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 4, 2023

If Blackwood’s course sounds like a divergence from the humdrum small-group discussions that college English courses bring to mind, well, you probably haven’t taken a college English class recently. ” The New Yorker article centered on the claim that the number of humanities majors in the U.S.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Image: Tranquilino “Kino” Hurtado became Salt Lake Community College’s inaugural Hispanic-serving institution initiatives director in November 2022, poised for the challenge and opportunity of preparing the college for HSI designation. I actually moved to Utah in the summer of 2020 to pursue my Ph.D.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 3, 2023

Vinick founded The Women’s Network (TWN) in 2017 as a student club at Syracuse University, and in 2020 she partnered with two other schools to establish a national network. ” Seeking stories from campus leaders, faculty members and staff for our Student Success focus. No In-Article Careers: 3 Share here.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Recently, those of us who serve as McNair Scholars directors around the nation were informed that some faculty members become frustrated when participating students don’t send a thank-you note (or email) after spending time with them. Faculty members are often gatekeepers to our scholars’ entrance and success in graduate school.

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Higher Ed Connects: Student Success Blogs

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

My experience at Ad Astra’s 2020 Winter California Summit shows the importance of having a corporate partner that understands the institutional landscape, and is willing to create a flexible product that can adjust to programming from community colleges to large research universities.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 13, 2023

Participants learn the basics of storytelling, receive feedback from a member of the institution’s management faculty and get guidance from peer mentors as they develop their ideas. ” Courtright launched the Tippie collaborative in 2020 to provide customized training to managers and employers. No In-Article Careers: 1

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Much of my professional development is reading journals from faculty specializing in college student success, articles in Inside Higher Ed and other reported national trends. It’s vital to have a good understanding of academic curriculum, faculty observations and academic goals. Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 23, 2023

With The Bot, you can effortlessly and almost instantly produce essays that one faculty colleague of mine described as surface level and formulaic but solidly in the B range. How wonderful would it be if faculties’ implicit (or explicit) biases about these groups could be squashed by uniformly well-structured essays?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Image: Some students and faculty members at historically Black Atlanta colleges and universities are speaking out against plans to build an 85-acre, $90 million police training facility nearby in forested land owned by the city. ” Picking Up Momentum Scholars at Morehouse have also joined the fray.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 19, 2023

“We understand and share the heartbreak by our students, faculty, staff, alumni, and Aberdeen community, and we will work closely with them to succeed through this transition,” Sister Mary Thomas, president of the Presentation Sisters Corporate Board, said in the statement. Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

A total of 5,301 students applied to Whittier for the fall 2020 class , but that number subsequently fell to 3,062 for fall 2022. “I think less information is being shared about that area of the college,” said Anne Sebanc, president of the Whittier College chapter of the American Association of University Professors.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 27, 2023

Chancellor Kent Syverud agreed to address the students’ list of concerns in October 2020; Schenandoah joined the counseling staff at the Barnes Center at The Arch in the summer of 2021, along with Susanne Rios, an Indigenous therapist. ” But the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic temporarily put any discussions on hold.

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