Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 31, 2023

Image: Setting community college students up for success can result in institutional partnerships, as demonstrated by the University of Dayton’s work with Sinclair Community College in Ohio. Of UD Sinclair Academy’s 2020 and 2021 cohorts, 96 percent received their bachelor’s degrees.

Academic Advising 98

Academic Advising Financial Aid Community College Enrollment Management 98

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The university restructured to a centralized academic advising model for the first two years of college, ensuring that advising is consistent across all majors, particularly for the most vulnerable populations. Between 77% and 81% of students identify as Latino and 22% self-reported as first-generation college students.

Marketing and Communication Services 336

Marketing and Communication Services Financial Aid Faculty Recruitment 336

Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 6, 2023

Coaches work with their student cohort, either one-on-one or in a group setting, for the first year before handing them off to academic advisers for sophomore, junior and senior year. If a student misses their registration deadline, for example, their success coach can step in and set up a meeting.

Libraries 98

Libraries Academic Advising Career Services First Year Programs 98

Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 18, 2023

Over all, we found that the number of assistant professors increased in 101 of 154 academic disciplines between 2011 and 2021. Our data affirm the well-documented decline of the humanities academic job market over the previous decade, revealing that the number of assistant professors at Ph.D.-granting granting universities.

Academic Advising 102

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Parchment

MARCH 24, 2023

Meanwhile, fewer than a quarter of colleges and universities share transcripts with each other electronically, according to a 2021 report by the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO). Government Accountability Office found in a 2017 report.

Academic Advising 105

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Campus Sonar

AUGUST 15, 2023

We partnered with them to analyze their mentions to see how students’ college-going perspectives changed throughout the pandemic. From August 1, 2018 to July 1, 2021, 7,318 mentions from 5,445 students were collected and analyzed to see how their college-going perspectives changed from prior to the COVID-19 pandemic through the height of it.

Admissions 52

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

In 2021, only 21 percent of college students completed an internship, compared to pre-pandemic numbers—50 to 60 percent of students—according to the National Survey of College Internships from University of Wisconsin at Madison’s Center for Research on College-Workforce Transitions.

Alumni 105

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