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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.

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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

million research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). We’re changing the landscape of how community colleges serve underserved students,” says Espiritu. “We There is a dual admission program with the Armour College of Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), which provides scholarships.

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The literature is replete with research on the negative outcomes Black males experience from employment to education as well as from health and interactions with law enforcement. As such, there needs to be an investment in asset-based research designed to understand the factors that can help Black boys cope with these perceptions.

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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 The long-lasting effects of COVID-19 policies on the academic marketplace are not yet known. Olejniczak is director of Academic Analytics Research Center.

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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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Micro-internship gives students experience without barriers

Confessions of a Community College Dean

In 2021, only 21 percent of college students completed an internship, compared to pre-pandemic numbers—50 to 60 percent of students—according to the National Survey of College Internships from University of Wisconsin at Madison’s Center for Research on College-Workforce Transitions.

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AI for Pathways & Credentials

Parchment

2006 published the first paper with a research supervisor on estimating student knowledge using machine-learn models. If you look at the California Community College, I’m from Berkeley, which is a member of the University of California, which are nine campuses. 23, excuse me. 23, excuse me.