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Community colleges suffer from employee shortages

Confessions of a Community College Dean

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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Understanding Higher Education’s Enrollment Cliff, Trough and Recovery

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The 2012–13 academic year presented an opportunity of a lifetime for me as an American Council on Education Fellow (#administratorwannabe #becarefulwhatyouwishfor)—a year to study higher education without the burden of a day job (a sabbatical for administrators). 21, 2022).

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How to Avoid Cringey Communications

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Here’s the thing, my friends and colleagues: we work in higher education, a sector focused on producing experts. Marketing and communications professionals must see what you don’t see at first, critically assess what images communicate and make sure whatever is conveyed is on purpose.

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Should conferences stay put or relocate? It's complicated.

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: The Association for the Study of Higher Education, like many organizations, plots its annual meetings several years ahead. Guilbeau, the higher ed research group’s executive director. California had 133,399 full-time higher education employees as of March 2021, according to U.S.

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