Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 25, 2023

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 11, 2023

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 11, 2023

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MAY 24, 2023

Helping Faculty Increase Their Research Impact Featured Image at Top of Article GettyImages-1127460680.jpg jpg Sarah Bray Thu, 05/25/2023 - 12:00 AM

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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. I use articles, working papers, news coverage, and other online resources to provide a current look at the state of higher education finance. link ) Commonfund Institute (2023).

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 22, 2023

” “Not yet, but I have a lot of ideas …” This is a representative sample of faculty responses to the question “If you have successfully integrated use of ChatGPT into your classes, how have you done so?” Community college instructors were the most likely to have developed guidelines.

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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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The Scholarly Teacher

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Paula Jakopovic , University of Nebraska at Omaha Kelly Gomez Johnson , University of Nebraska at Omaha Key Statement: This article highlights communities of practice as a means for supporting faculty as they seek to( re)design courses with equitable, research-informed practices.

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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. nonprofit higher education sector is “mixed.”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Image: Students cite faculty teaching styles, overly difficult coursework and balancing schoolwork and other obligations as the top three barriers to their academic success, according to Inside Higher Ed ’s first Student Voice survey of 2023. Here’s a sneak peek at some findings, on which readers are invited to comment.

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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). But a November 2022 article in U.S. We’ve had to be vulnerable about our own burnout as faculty during COVID.

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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.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 15, 2023

” In January, a nearly weeklong faculty strike at the University of Illinois at Chicago upended operations and led to canceled classes for thousands of students before the faculty union and administrators reached a tentative four-year deal (the union has since ratified the contract ). Yes In-Article Careers: 3

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Dr. Al Solano

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

The focus of the episode is her article, Recap: What Instructors Need to Know When Working with Neurodivergent Students (Scroll down to access the transcript.) Faculty should assume that the students who do have formal accommodations have jumped through so many hoops to get them, and these accommodations are not giving them a leg up.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 28, 2023

Faculty and staff teach the one-hour virtual workshops three times to give students multiple opportunities to join across the three days. Magazine treatment: Trending: Display Promo Box: Live Updates: liveupdates0 Most Popular: 6 In-Article Advertisement High: 0 In-Article related stories: 9 In-Article Advertisement Low: 0 Include DNU?:

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Four out of five college students believe there is a mental health crisis on campus, according to a January 2023 survey of 1,200 college students from TimelyMD. All community members are eligible to become Mental Health First Aiders, but only staff and faculty serve as instructors, Goodwin says. Share here.

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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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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. Drivers of the rising price of a college education. link ) Commonfund Institute (2023).

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EAB

MAY 9, 2023

Podcast Do Community Colleges Need an “Intervention”? May 9, 2023. Reporter Jon Marcus joins EAB’s Tara Zirkel to explore the root causes behind steep enrollment declines and poor student outcomes at community colleges. EAB · Do Community Colleges Need an “Intervention?” Episode 150. million people.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 7, 2023

10-25 points: You’re a junior faculty member worried about getting tenure. 25-40 points: You’re a jaded tenured faculty member or you’ve spent your professional career working in higher ed. You’re on the verge of primal screams and storming out of a faculty or department meeting. Enrollment is tanking.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

DECEMBER 19, 2022

3 -- San Jacinto College in Harris County, Texas. This community college, which has five locations in the greater Houston area, doles out holiday cookies iced in blue and yellow, the institution's colors, to thank students, employees and parents for being an important part of the San Jac community. #4 Wooster St.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 31, 2023

As faculty members ponder academe’s new ChatGPT-infused reality, may are scrambling to redesign assignments. “I was all ready to not stress about the open AI s**t in terms of student papers, because my assignments are always hyper specific to our readings and require the integration of news articles to defend claims etc.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 28, 2023

” From what we faculty see in the classroom and beyond, our students are engaged and ready to put theory into practice: we need only help them acquire the tools. Inclusion is no longer an ideal but an imperative, and the ability to communicate with nuance, awareness and curiosity a vital skill. Yes In-Article Careers: 3

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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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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Blog: Just Visiting I see we are in another cycle of concern for the academic humanities, this time triggered by a long article in the New Yorker by Nathan Heller titled “The End of the English Major.” We shouldn’t be surprised that the decline in humanities faculty has led to a decline in humanities majors.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 3, 2023

Preparing for the start of winter quarter across the University of California system feels different in 2023, both because fall fizzled out without the usual closures and because my sense of the relationships I’ve cultivated with students through years of practiced intentionality is frayed. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 15, 2023

Saleema is one of more than 126,000 students, including nearly 17,000 refugees, studying at this tuition-free, nonprofit online university with an all-volunteer faculty. Half are nonwhite, and most (60 percent) are the first in their families to attend college. To this end, all UoPeople faculty members are unpaid volunteers.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 3, 2023

Employers Have Questions Most employers (69 percent) are aware of nondegree credentials—they are either “extremely familiar” or “very familiar” with them—but most (65 percent) would also like to see proof of their effectiveness, according to a 2023 report from UPCEA. Yes In-Article Careers: 6

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

” Jamie Bronstein, a history professor and vice chair of the university’s Faculty Senate, criticized the institution for caring too much about its image at the expense of other concerns. She said faculty members were told that mental health counseling services would be made available to students who want help.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Perhaps the following conversation between Anita Casavantes Bradford and Steven Mintz about how R-1s can support their faculty to find fulfillment in meaningful research and as transformative teachers and mentors can suggest some answers. ” However, our campuses and our faculty roles have changed dramatically in the last few decades.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 31, 2023

As with other faculty, whether librarianship is a secure job depends on whether you have tenure track or a tenure-like protection at your institution. Advice Newsletter publication dates: Wednesday, January 25, 2023 Diversity Newsletter publication date: Wednesday, January 25, 2023 Trending: Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

News & World Report ’ s 2023 list. For writing, you can feed ChatGPT specific prompts to generate an article title, topic outline, even the entire piece. Advice Newsletter publication dates: Monday, January 30, 2023 Diversity Newsletter publication date: Monday, January 30, 2023 Trending:

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The UT response: 1) Offer “accelerated” low-cost asynchronous online versions of gen ed classes with little regular, substantive interaction with or feedback from a faculty member and 2) create highly compressed “mini-mester” courses during various midyear breaks. Does he genuinely consider electives a waste of time?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 8, 2023

I may read fewer novels than when I was younger, but I read much more non-fiction: a seemingly unending torrent of books and articles, editorials, essays, social commentary, blog postings, tweets, and other long and short-form texts. But of all the articles I recently read, two stand out, and both share a common theme: The power of purpose.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 4, 2023

When I read about Silber’s presidency, I find he famously fought against staff unions (and faculty who supported staff, like Howard Zinn), the LGBTQ community, and just about anything out of the conservative norm. Silber wasn’t the most popular president from an arts and humanities perspective.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 21, 2023

As an art faculty member, I’ve taught evening classes, watched a kiln burn for 24 hours straight with colleagues, responded to emails from struggling students at midnight and graded through the night to make deadlines. For a period, when my job and family were all-consuming, I didn’t make art or write articles.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 3, 2023

was released in December 2022, there have been dozens, if not hundreds, of articles on the impact artificial reality will have on jobs, society and education. At some point, we may need to move beyond these stages in order to reimagine what these tools mean for how we communicate, how we create and maybe even how we think.

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