The Scholarly Teacher

MAY 17, 2023

Roxanna Dewey , Glendale Community College Key Statement : As the prevalence of autism spectrum disorder rises, challenges for college students with ASDs may be mitigated through instructional strategies beyond accommodations. Differences between HS and college. Differences between HS and College | Chapman University.

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University Business

APRIL 12, 2024

Larry Johnson first encountered Stella and Charles Guttman Community College in 2015 as a dean at Broward College (Fla.) when he read the seminal book “Redesigning America’s Community Colleges: A Clearer Path to Student Success.” Johnson is no longer a distant admirer.

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Ray Schroeder

AUGUST 13, 2023

A rift has formed at Spartanburg Community College, where some faculty members are in revolt against what they say is a school administration that has been heavy-handed in its approach to governance since new leadership took over three years ago.

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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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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. The institutions lost 13 percent of their employees nationally from January 2020 to April 2022, according to an estimate from EAB, a higher education consulting firm.

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EAB

OCTOBER 24, 2022

5 Tips to Recruit and Enroll Latine/x Students in Your Community College. Prospective Latine/x college students in the U.S. are the most likely to choose community college as their first step when pursuing a higher education. Spotlight: Holyoke Community College. Tip #1: Build belonging.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Image: To increase enrollment and retention of male students, Queensborough Community College in New York is investing in a Male Resource Center, aimed at its smallest populations of Black and Latino men to create equity, President Christine Mangino says. At community colleges, the ratio grows, with nearly three women to every two men.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 5, 2024

It’s not an everyday occurrence when a community college leader gets a phone call telling them their institution will receive an influx of funding in the millions. when MacKenzie Scott, one of the richest women in the world, decided to make a major investment in community colleges.

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Ray Schroeder

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Colleges employed 3.9 percent from 2020 but still down from more than four million in 2019. Community college employee rolls have continued to shrink. percent from 3,868,066 in fall 2020, during the heart of the COVID-19 pandemic. million people in 2022, up 1.75

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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., Between Fall 2020 and Fall 2021, 62.1%

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 23, 2023

Image: The University of Rochester launched a training program and research study for faculty member mindfulness in January, promoting self-care, stress relief and wellness so professors can put their best foot forward in the classroom. What it is: The faculty participants attend seven Zoom workshops, engaging with wellness content material.

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EAB

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Blogs 5 areas for community college leaders to take stock in 2023 And resources to help sustain your post-pandemic momentum Now that community colleges have weathered the storm of the pandemic, it’s time to take a moment to recognize all you have accomplished, and then to begin to steer the transition from a “crisis” mindset to a sustainability one.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

But after showing up at one of Michigan’s community colleges, the returning student is given a high-stakes test in math and English to see if they are “ready” for college-level work. And Michigan colleges have begun making those changes. And they follow through.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 16, 2023

Blog: Beyond Transfer For many students, transferring between community colleges and 4-year institutions is sometimes the only path to a bachelor’s degree. Community colleges provide a valuable service to students due to lower costs, closer proximity to home communities, and more flexibility for non-traditional students.

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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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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

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Community colleges cannot create substantive and sustainable cultures of teaching, learning, evidence — or any kind of positive cultures — without the vision and support of highly competent leaders at all levels of the institution” (Kinnamon & O’Banion, 2020). Dr. Steven R. The Roueche Center Forum is co-edited by Drs.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JUNE 13, 2023

Institutions’ contributions to full-time faculty members’ health and retirement benefits significantly declined in real dollars over the pandemic and still haven’t returned to their pre-2020 levels, the American Association of University Professors says in a new report.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 22, 2022

From a sample of over 560,000 first year, first time community college students and over 32,000 instructors in Texas between 2013 and 2020, researchers found that 77% of white students experienced a racial match. For Odle, the reason for the match disparity was clear: a lack of faculty diversity.

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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. The invisible colleges revisited: An empirical review. Intended and unintended consequences of for-profit college regulation: Examining the 90/10 rule. link ) Gándara, D. Kelchen, R.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

“Financial aid, retention, and faculty/staff representation are part of the Seal,” says Dr. Deborah Santiago, co-founder and CEO of Excelencia in Education, who says she is delighted to see institutions with intentional practices actively working toward increasing Latino representation in key positions. Morishita, interim president at CSULA.

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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

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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Robert Kelchen

DECEMBER 19, 2022

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. At the time, I wrote plenty about how I expected 2020-21 to be a challenging year for institutional finances. Changes in total spending, public 4-years (n=550).

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2024

Between 2010 and 2020, Latinx people accounted for over 50% of the U.S. Dallas College (DC), a system of community colleges serving greater Dallas area of Texas, “is in the barrier-busting business,” said Chancellor Dr. Justin H. population growth. Currently, one fifth of the U.S.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Whether rebounding from a sluggish 2022 or rivaling pre-pandemic enrollment numbers, colleges and universities embraced a variety of initiatives to win new students and maintain a healthy cohort. gain in first-time college students, thanks in part to an 8.9% increase in community college transfer students, NC Newsline reports.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The person will replace Dr. Alex Johnson, President Emeritus of Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C), who has been serving as interim president since July 2023, after Dr. Jack Thomas announced that he would not seek a renewal of his contract. Progress completely stopped, and chaos reigned,” he said. That’s why I left.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

After the death of George Floyd in 2020, Dr. Philomena V. It’s an online module that we released earlier this year to all our faculty and staff as required training. It was also incorporated into all our new employee/new faculty orientations. A faculty fellow takes part in the president’s council and meets with Mantella monthly.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

The data available spans from 2012 to 2020. 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. Probably some change in how library staff are counted. What is going on?

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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 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. Instead of looking endlessly on Goodreads or Amazon (I know, I know) for what to read after Bad Feminist , I asked ChatGPT and I had a list of contenders in moments.

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EAB

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Awardees are chosen from among the colleges, universities, and individuals that use Navigate , EAB’s student success management system, or Starfish , the student success platform EAB acquired in 2021. Congratulations to our 2022 winners: Technology Pioneer Award: Bakersfield College. Sierra College. Trident Technical College.

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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 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

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

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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