Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 31, 2023

Image: Setting community college students up for success can result in institutional partnerships, as demonstrated by the University of Dayton’s work with Sinclair Community College in Ohio. The initiative also increases the number of graduates who remain in the Dayton area and contribute to its local workforce.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas, partners with over 62 high schools across the state, facilitating college access for Latino, rural, and other marginalized communities. Based on data gathered, we increased support services such as Ram Pantry, counseling, technology availability, and academic advising,” he continues.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 10, 2023

(Just one in five Student Voice survey respondents says they’re required to meet periodically with advisers, though the number is closer to three in 10 for students at private institutions and just 14 percent for community college students.)

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

California is home to a disproportionately large number of the country’s public colleges and universities and higher ed employees, so its law has a sweeping impact. Image: The Association for the Study of Higher Education, like many organizations, plots its annual meetings several years ahead. Census Bureau employment data.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Associate Engineering Program at Wright College (EPW) Part of the City Colleges of Chicago, Wright College is home to an engineering cohort program that has grown from nine students at its inception to 550 today. We’re changing the landscape of how community colleges serve underserved students,” says Espiritu.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 4, 2023

Seven or eight advisers working furiously to help them. That’s how academic advising at Tallahassee Community College used to look, says Pamela Johnston, dean of career and academic planning there: “Very reactionary.” percent this academic year over last.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 31, 2023

Faculty wanted to support student retention and provide greater academic support through a day of just academic advising in the spring semester. And, as originally intended, faculty academic advisers were available by appointment to meet with students all day.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 6, 2023

Coaches work with their student cohort, either one-on-one or in a group setting, for the first year before handing them off to academic advisers for sophomore, junior and senior year. If a student misses their registration deadline, for example, their success coach can step in and set up a meeting.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2024

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. Emerald Publishing Limited.

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Parchment

MARCH 24, 2023

She said the wider the network of colleges using the platform becomes, the more useful it is. Parchment is a juggernaut in its niche of the ed-tech world, serving about 2,800 colleges and universities in the U.S. “It requires advising, program alignment, more human-process sorts of things.”

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University Business

APRIL 26, 2023

Source: Connecticut Office of Policy and Management, originally published by CT Mirror More from UB: Cash is king for this university’s new student success strategy Programs in trouble Student support services such as mental health support and academic advising will be severely impacted by the cuts, according to Chen.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 4, 2023

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean It took me years to get past my first impression of academic advising. Graduate school advising is something else altogether, probably best described through fiction. So for years, I didn’t put much stock in advising. I was entrusted to a physics professor.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

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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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

MARCH 27, 2024

Asynchronous Learning While many colleges and universities seek to hold fast to the tradition of synchronous learning, from an enrollment perspective, this strategy can be unwise. Communicating Value and Career Pathways Effective enrollment strategies begin with clear and consistent messaging about outcomes. You guessed it.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 5, 2023

It took a year for me to make a match, but when I saw an ad for a job as an academic adviser to language and linguistics majors at Georgetown, I immediately knew that I was going to get the job. Twenty-five years later, I’m still at Georgetown, in a much different position, but still working to support student academic life.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 16, 2023

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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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

“These messages are reinforced through meetings with academic advisers, who use the same principles and recommendations that students have heard previously,” Vecera adds. Introductory courses, such as College Algebra, also use the Learning at Iowa resources to support the new models of learning. Share your story.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

During her academic career, Rivera Restivo says she’s found advisers have high levels of responsibility but are not always helpful. Rivera Restivo is working on her associate’s degree at Northwestern Connecticut Community College and feels advising resources neglect nontraditional students, like herself.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Personalized Academic Advising: Personalized academic advising is crucial in guiding students toward the right courses and resources to help them catch up and succeed academically. It's essential that your messaging is deliberate; click here to explore how to implement equity-based communication strategies.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

While it can be intimidating or burdensome to a first-year student to consider life after college, starting small with different processes like a skills assessment can begin to drive career readiness, VanDerziel shares. There’s a communications gap,” VanDerziel says. Get students thinking about career prep early.

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Campus Sonar

AUGUST 15, 2023

From August 1, 2018 to July 1, 2021, 7,318 mentions from 5,445 students were collected and analyzed to see how their college-going perspectives changed from prior to the COVID-19 pandemic through the height of it. These conversations consistently reflected stress, worries, and concerns about future plans and pressures to achieve success.

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Parchment

APRIL 9, 2024

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. There’s 116 community college strong system and 26 California state universities. But there’s a lot there that has combinatoric challenges. 23, excuse me.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Newman argues in Thinking Critically in College: The Essential Handbook for Student Success (Radius Book Group). Newman, whose book will be published March 7, is former dean of academic advising at Stanford University and John M. Musser Professor of Religious Studies, Emeritus, at Carleton College. and Elizabeth W.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 17, 2023

Innovations in Experiential Learning OSU Cascades additionally features an Innovation Co-Lab , a department emphasizing start-up culture and innovation in private and public sectors for its students, staff and community members and is building an Innovation District to complement. … How do we engage more students?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 9, 2023

Meanwhile, Amarillo College had launched an initiative in the wake of the pandemic to determine the mental health status of students and the resources available to help them address mental health challenges. He believes it’s just as important for colleges to be cognizant of what their employees are feeling or experiencing.

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Parchment

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Matt Sterenberg (01:15.49) So I think that’s a good segue into my first question, which is how do you advise students on all those different pathways? And how do you advise those students on what the best pathway is for them? They do amazing things here at Vandegrift. So it’s a great place to be. What are your future goals?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Interventions include completion grants , college-to-career transitions and proactive academic advising , all three of which the alliance has turned into free “playbooks” for other institutions’ use. The alliance uses different tools to develop evidence-based solutions for student success that can be scaled.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 20, 2023

” Q: What led you to your role as associate provost for student success at York College? This position, in what was then Academic Services, came open, and we revamped it into a student success division. My [academic] path was such twists and turns that I wouldn’t have been measured well by retention or graduation rates.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 2, 2023

Turning Around Retention and Graduation Numbers Arrupe College of Loyola University Chicago has broken the mold for turning around retention and graduation numbers. Dougherty Family College and its host institution, the University of St. This takes place on campus even though the college is a commuter school. Thomas in St.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Insights from Dr. Tiffany Ray-Patterson, VP of Student Success at Germanna Community College Based on our Office Hours with EAB podcast, Episode 166, Could Your Students Benefit from “One Front Door” Onboarding? Blogs What is “one front door” onboarding and how could it help your students? Enrollment saw a 16% increase.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

In an era when nearly all students would benefit from improved transfer and credit mobility, the ecosystem continues to be plagued by many disconnects that make completion of a college credential more expensive and challenging for students.

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Creatrix Campus

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Student retention refers to the ability of an educational institution to keep enrolled students enrolled until they have completed their academic program or attained their educational goals. Institutional support: Students need a variety of resources to succeed in college, such as academic advising , tutoring, and mental health services.

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College Forward

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Through a collaboration with national nonprofit College Possible , the community college district will bring evidence-based near-peer coaching to 700 AlamoPROMISE students on two of its campuses, the majority of whom are from under-resourced backgrounds or are first-generation students. SAN ANTONIO , Nov.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 2, 2023

This is just one finding from Inside Higher Ed and College Pulse’s recent Student Voice survey of 3,004 undergraduates about navigating their academic paths. Some examples: a student who hasn’t completed an advising requirement doesn’t register for the next semester at all. ” What about financial holds?

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Parchment

JANUARY 16, 2024

And we talked about there’s a lot of students that are attending a community college that want to transfer to another institution, but don’t end up doing it. In part one, we talked about why do students transfer and really why it’s so important and sort of the problem statement. So it’s a big topic.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Colleges and universities can emulate the initiatives at the California State University (CSU) System, which was forced to create and rely on other diversification methods when an earlier ruling imposed similar restrictions on California schools with the passage of Proposition 209. In June 2022, CSU held its first-ever Juneteenth symposium.

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EAB

MAY 16, 2023

I enjoy engaging with the university community, how I could help collaborate across the campus in supporting our students. I'm just so happy you all get to share that with the rest of the higher education community through Office Hours. What does academic advising look like at our institution? It's been some time.

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