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Working Smarter: Leveraging Digital Tools for Student Advising

The Scholarly Teacher

These include building strong relationships, timely communication, staying organized, and effective time management. Academic advising is complex and multifaceted, and yet many faculty advise without much training. Navigating technology can be a very challenging aspect of academic advising. Educause Review.

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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

We’re changing the landscape of how community colleges serve underserved students,” says Espiritu. “We Having cohorts here is really important, especially for engineering and computer science because it’s a community that supports each other.” I care more than just graduation at community college.

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Micro-internship gives students experience without barriers

Confessions of a Community College Dean

An August 2022 Student Voice survey conducted by Inside Higher Ed and College Pulse found that first-generation students were likely to lack any internship experience or experiential learning within a course: half of all first-gen students and two-thirds of first-gen community college students had not had these experiences.

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Growth in assistant professorships is uneven (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

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 liberal arts colleges, community colleges and master’s-level institutions) is necessary to understand the full picture of academic hiring.

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Advising, Counseling, Mentoring and Teaching Black Males in Secondary and Postsecondary Settings

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Some of the topics include literacy and math, advising Black male engineering majors, socio-emotional development, leadership, community college experiences, Black male veterans, athletes in P-12 and higher education, and the recruitment and retention of Black males in educator preparation programs. Hines & E.C.

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Faculty and Credit Transfer

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Blog: Beyond Transfer For many students, transferring between community colleges and 4-year institutions is sometimes the only path to a bachelor’s degree. Community colleges provide a valuable service to students due to lower costs, closer proximity to home communities, and more flexibility for non-traditional students.

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Affordability Disconnects

Confessions of a Community College Dean

To read the full paper and recommendations in Affordability Disconnects: Understanding Student Affordability in the Transfer and Credit Mobility Era , please click here.