Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 7, 2023

Image: While this academic year saw the largest one-year increase in full-time faculty members’ average salaries in over three decades, that still wasn’t enough to stop their real wages from falling due to inflation, the American Association of University Professors noted this Thursday alongside its latest salary survey data.

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EAB

JANUARY 13, 2023

Modern Student Experience Diagnostic for Community Colleges. Modern student expectations are everchanging—can your community college keep up? Community college student demographics are shifting, nontraditional is the new norm, mental health is in crisis, and learning flexibility is a growing demand.

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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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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 13, 2023

There are 116 community colleges in California. Carey Seventy percent of Black men in California pursuing higher education attend a community college, but degree attainment lags. One thing Compton College and President [Dr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 28, 2023

NEW YORK Students, scholars, and administrators from across the City University of New York (CUNY) gathered last week at the Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC) for an ethnic studies conference that both reflected on the discipline’s history and showed off new and on-going work.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 9, 2023

Even though Saint Augustine’s University (SAU) in Raleigh, NC has been placed on probation by the accrediting agency The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC), SAU President Dr. Christine McPhail isn’t slowing down. 2021, when SAU was under a monitoring period by SACSCOC. Dr. Michael J.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Candidates of color confront racial biases, both internal and external, from search committees, board of trustees, and even faculty and staff. It’s not just a report on diversity, it’s about student success,” said Eloy Ortiz Oakley, president of College Futures and former chancellor of California Community Colleges.

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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

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. Public Administration Review, 78 (4), 626-639. Did gainful employment regulations result in college and program closures? College costs, financial aid, and student decisions.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 17, 2023

The meeting came after months—and some say years—of complaints from students, faculty and staff members about overly chilly classrooms caused by aging or broken heating systems. Faculty members started posting signs on their classroom doors where they keep a log of class temperatures to urge administrators to address the problem.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The federal government projects that more than 203,000 new registered nurse (RN) positions will be created each year from 2021 to 2031, according to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN). Smith says Claflin nursing faculty have gone above and beyond to offer psychosocial support to the students.

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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. Return on Education Award: South Puget Sound Community College. Excellence in Technology Administration Award: John W.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Image: Soaring inflation put a squeeze on college endowments in the 2021–22 fiscal year, driving returns down, according to the annual report from the National Association of College and University Business Officers The report , released today, is a marked change from the booming returns of fiscal year 2021 , when endowments soared.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 3, 2023

They held four meetings, admitted three violations of open meetings laws, faced two lawsuits and named a new interim president after abruptly placing President Nick Swayne on administrative leave. And at North Idaho College, accreditation concerns have been tied directly to board behavior. “Why are you doing this?”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

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. The Higher Education Data Sharing Consortium, which is leading the analysis, administered the campus climate survey in November 2021.

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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.” percent in 2021. Grave threats to tenure.

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University Business

MARCH 13, 2023

Two big initiatives pushing this change are recent school mergers and a powerful free community college pipeline. Starting this July, Castleton University, Northern Vermont University and Vermont Technical College will consolidate into Vermont State University—a lean, cost-effective hybrid learning machine.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 23, 2023

Guo has been on leave since the investigation was launched in 2021. Ad keywords: administrators executive faculty Is this diversity newsletter?: A campus investigation found that he had sexually assaulted a high school student who was working in his laboratory. Hide by line?: Disable left side advertisement?:

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 3, 2023

It’s unclear who supported the letter beyond those four, but 23 would represent over two-thirds of the college’s department heads and program chairs. ” “Frantic action in a context of deep dysfunction would only do the college more harm,” that last point said.

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University Business

APRIL 3, 2024

School expenditures on existing infrastructure grew 26% since last year and 33% since 2021, the report found. Plus, how current students, faculty, administration, and overall staff engage with the campus has changed. Its results were comprised of studying 43,000 campus buildings and more than $13.5

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EAB

JUNE 1, 2023

Together, Mott and Ferris have tailored an existing business administration transfer pathway to deliver to students at the Thumb Correctional Facility beginning in Fall 2024. Through this transfer pathway, students will receive their associate degree enroute to their bachelor’s in business administration.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 2, 2023

Nearly two dozen employees, or 13 percent of the workforce, at Bloomfield College will lose their jobs as part of the merger with Montclair State University, according to NJ.com. Of those 22 employees, 10 are faculty members, NJ.com reported. The workforce reduction comes as the two institutions prepare to merge this summer.

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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. percent between 2011 and 2021. Our data source does not contain information about adjunct and non-tenure-track faculty hiring trends, nor, as previously discussed, on postdoctoral research positions.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 7, 2023

“The racial climate at IUN appears to be unwelcoming to faculty members of color,” the report says. He was a communication professor at the time of his 2021 firing and is now interim vice president for academic affairs and provost at Oregon’s Linfield University. Hide by line?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Image: Professor Thomas Meixner’s dying words, according to a University of Arizona faculty report on his murder, were “I knew you were going to do this!” ” That was despite earlier reports to UAPD of Dervish being on campus, the faculty report says. The university criticized the faculty report.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 19, 2023

Community colleges serve the most diverse students in all of higher education. Also, in the fall of 2021, the employee headcount at COD included 440 white employees, 333 Hispanic employees, 34 Asian employees, 30 Black employees, six American Indian/Alaska Native employees, and three Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Island employees.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 7, 2023

Image: The cancellation of two days of classes at D’Youville University almost a month ago turned out to be only the start of computer network problems that have led to frustrations across campus, faculty members say. Faculty members said they resumed teaching after the private university in Buffalo, N.Y.,

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 24, 2023

What happened: When Schofield began in his role in May 2021, he first turned to the data. Muhlenberg’s career center was reaching 62 to 72 percent of its student population annually at the end of the 2021 academic year. “My first question I asked when the team told me that was, ‘Wow, that’s fantastic.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

With an academic background in finance and business administration, including a doctorate in public policy and administration from Walden University, Kuti is no rookie to working on an institution’s bottom line. Song Richardson – Colorado College The 2023-2024 academic year will be the end of the line for President L.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Other parsed the statement’s subtleties, noting the presidents’ careful language used to describe their plan to continue doing what they’ve always done—teach, not compel “belief”—while still appeasing the DeSantis administration. Some faculty members were incensed.

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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.”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Students wrote a letter to MPAP administrators asking for the decision to be reversed. They outlined their concerns about the& lack of transparency and communication with the program's students and adjunct faculty -- who were only told about the admissions pause after the email went out to students.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The announcement noted the administration has already stopped using the memorial as an “iconic image of the university in its publicity.”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Daniel Pollack-Pelzner sued the Oregon university in July 2021, alleging unlawful whistle-blower retaliation, according to a Monday news release. “Most importantly, this agreement allows Linfield to focus on building and expanding upon its rich educational heritage and creating a welcoming community for all.” Hide by line?:

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 19, 2023

Once approved by the University Grants Commission, providers will be free to set their own tuition fees, define student selection criteria and appoint faculty. The guidance also specifies that the quality of education provided by Indian outposts must be “at par” with that of an institution’s main campus.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 21, 2023

Scott Muir, director of undergraduate initiatives for the National Humanities Alliance, which promotes the value of studying the humanities, described challenges faced by deans and faculty members trying to launch new programs. “The world changes, and higher education often gets criticized for not changing with it,” she said.

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