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It may be time to rethink the college minor (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Sometimes, the minor is related to the college academic major; other times, the academic minor is in a different discipline altogether. Academic advisers often guide their students to choose a minor to either complement their academic major and/or expand their job opportunities. Yes In-Article Careers: 6

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York College academic administrator won't leave students behind

Confessions of a Community College Dean

It was a constant jabbing at each other over theory and the approach to psychology and research, and I just loved it. But I wasn’t a good high school student, so I had to learn a lot just to get up to the level that my peers were. So we put up one barrier … and that is you have to talk to an academic adviser.

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

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Guilbeau, the higher ed research group’s executive director. ” Louisiana’s laws run counter, too, to the values of NASPA: Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education, which is scheduled to hold its 2025 conference in New Orleans, says Kevin Kruger, its president. Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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SCOTUS, Affirmative Action, and the Future of University Diversity: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 174 with Host Drumm McNaughton and Guests Thomas Parham and Dilcie Perez

The Change Leader, Inc.

Drumm McNaughton speaks with two leaders from CSU who have led successful systemwide programs to help its Black community, President Dr. Thomas Parham of CSU Dominguez Hills and Deputy Vice Chancellor of Academic and Student Affairs Dr. Dilcie Perez, who serves the CSU System. Parham Thomas A.

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Career-readiness initiatives are missing the mark (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Especially from the perspective of someone like me, who has long been an advocate for the transformative impact of experiential learning on students’ social and economic mobility, and a critic of higher education’s tendency to overlook students’ career preparation in favor of other goals?

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What’s the Deal with Comprehensive Learner Records?

Parchment

Rodney Lee Parks (00:26.106) This will be the sixth time in January that I’ve climbed Kilimanjaro and the 13th time that I’ve done the Inca Trail with students over Thanksgiving. So I’m one of those registrars, you know, a little bit of student affairs, a little bit of teaching, a little bit of registrar work.