Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 28, 2023

Timothy Alvarez From earning an associate degree to serving as president of a community college, Alvarez understands the value of higher education and the need to create pathways and support systems. He has a deep connection to community colleges. At age 18, he enrolled in a community college in western Nebraska.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 13, 2023

Image: Nearly a decade after the Obama administration broached the idea of rating colleges and universities, the Biden administration is ready to take another crack at the historically fraught concept. The Obama administration didn’t end up rating institutions after opposition from higher education groups and others.)

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Some roles and departments – such as the divisions of administration and finance or student affairs and enrollment management – were consolidated. Prior to Acebo’s involvement with the university, relations between faculty and the last administration were tense and adversarial, Calathes said. He really wanted a relationship with labor.”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 7, 2023

They’re there 10 to 15 hours a week for students to be able to consult with and get some clinical coaching. And particularly with Native American students, we placed one with our American Indian Student Services Office. I don’t want to see disparities across race, social class, health status, first-gen status.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 17, 2023

He noted that he received emails from faculty and staff members and students as far back as winter 2021 about heating issues, which he forwarded to college administrators. Faculty members started posting signs on their classroom doors where they keep a log of class temperatures to urge administrators to address the problem.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 14, 2023

Image: A debate over how to achieve pay parity between two groups of faculty members has left lingering tensions among professors in the Maricopa Community College District in Arizona. The pay of current adjuncts would not change for now and instead could be revisited as part of a separate agreement next summer.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Enrollment remained down at every level from community colleges to graduate schools, but much of academia showed its persistence and resilience. With the COVID-19 pandemic subsiding, colleges and universities have tried to bring students back to campus and provide fresh inspiration. Biden Administration U.S.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Colleges also have overly cumbersome, expensive processes for evaluating students’ past credits and are often subject to state funding models that do little to encourage better practices. The paper also notes that community colleges are underfunded and may not have the resources to provide adequate supports to help students transfer.

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EAB

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Return on Education Award: South Puget Sound Community College. Collaborative Citizen Award: Ramapo College of New Jersey. Excellence in Technology Administration Award: John W. Ellenberger, Programmer/Analyst – Starfish Consultant, Penn State University. Sierra College. Trident Technical College.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 3, 2023

They held four meetings, admitted three violations of open meetings laws, faced two lawsuits and named a new interim president after abruptly placing President Nick Swayne on administrative leave. And at North Idaho College, accreditation concerns have been tied directly to board behavior. “Why are you doing this?”

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University Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

OpenAI mastermind Sam Altman and social media pioneer Jason Citron are just a few A-list investors backing Campus, a completely online community college reimagining the two-year experience for students and faculty. At the K12 level, too, online school alternatives are beginning to percolate.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Image: California State University, Chico, is in turmoil over how administrators dealt with a professor accused of having sex with a graduate student and then threatening to kill two colleagues who reported him. One said that if Stachura returns too campus, he should work out of the central administration building.

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Dr. Al Solano

MAY 15, 2022

We discuss the following topics: 7:38:00: The role of classified senate & the tri-chairs (administrator, faculty, classified) model in key committees. More on the inequitable practice of requiring doctorates for administrator roles. For example, Faculty Academic Senate needs to be consulted on curriculum. AB1725 - 10+1.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Students wrote a letter to MPAP administrators asking for the decision to be reversed. They outlined their concerns about the& lack of transparency and communication with the program's students and adjunct faculty -- who were only told about the admissions pause after the email went out to students. In the Nov.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 16, 2023

The communications and marketing office began working with institutional research to launch a series of two-way text messaging pilot programs this past fall. “We ended up partnering with a two-way texting vendor who caters to the higher education sector and works with several other community colleges in our state,” she says.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 6, 2023

As a result of these threats, I, after consultation with my administrative team, the campus security team, and Bemidji Police Department, made the decision to cancel classes today at BSU and to heighten security on campus. ” Ad keywords: administrators faculty Is this diversity newsletter?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 13, 2023

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean. The most basic is that college leaders don’t act in a vacuum. At community colleges, for instance, leaders have to answer in part to state political leaders, local political leaders, community groups, employers, students, parents, and the public at large.

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Great College Advice

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

If high school has not been an academically successful experience, a course or two at a community college could go a long way to help you test the college waters in a way that is less expensive. Also keep in mind that you can take community college courses in things that are not strictly academic.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 27, 2023

Facing pressure from the governors of Florida and Illinois, the College Board is preparing to unveil a new framework Wednesday for its Advanced Placement African American Studies course. Ad keywords: administrators diversity executive Editorial Tags: Curriculum Race and ethnicity Diversity State policy Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

” Lhamon led the Office for Civil Rights during the second term of the Obama administration and returned to the same role in October 2021. Biden administration officials have reversed many of the Trump-era changes to the office’s operations and worked to boost staffing levels, which fell under Trump.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 24, 2023

Utah representative Burgess Owens, a Republican who chairs the House Higher Education and Workforce Development Subcommittee, focused his first hearing of the new Congress on examining the implications of the Biden administration’s student loan policies for students and taxpayers. We need to have solutions.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 8, 2023

Drumm McNaughton speaks with Dr. Marielena DeSanctis, president of the Community College of Denver, who shares some of the solutions she was able to identify based on her unique understanding of higher ed. She started her education career in K-12 and moved to community college leadership. Dr. DeSanctis is unique.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 12, 2023

“I think that this shows that they do not approve of the performance of City College, and they’re looking for a change in direction,” Wong said. City College has a reputation as the politically beloved , geographically important problem child of the California Community Colleges system. A New Path.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 6, 2023

Ithaka S+R shared results from its triennial survey published last week, which sought to capture college library deans’ and directors’ perspectives three years into the pandemic. Meanwhile, this academic year, demand for one-on-one consultations has skyrocketed. “How do students look up information?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The center, known as the UC Riverside School of Business Center for Economic Forecasting and Development, is not operated by university faculty and is instead run by private consulting company Beacon Economics. ” Ad keywords: administrators faculty Is this diversity newsletter?: Hide by line?: Disable left side advertisement?:

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 20, 2023

Image: The administrative building at Connecticut College is finally quiet, emptied of the students who gathered to protest President Katherine Bergeron. Shamar Rule, a Connecticut College junior involved with the protests and SVE, said the incident raised other troubling issues. “We bring concerns to the board.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

“There were explicit demands from the faculty that it be an open process,” said Brock, director of the Community College Research Center at Columbia University’s Teachers College. I was caught off guard; I hadn’t realized that such distrust had evolved between the faculty and the administration and board.”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 19, 2023

The criteria, which were expected to be finalized later this month following consultation, clarify the rules for international universities setting up Indian campuses, a shift first announced in the 2020 National Education Policy (NEP). They come amid soaring demand for higher education in the world’s fastest growing major economy.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 2, 2023

“I think it isn’t fair to individuals that you hire into a permanent position if they are hired by an individual who leaves that position, and they suddenly find themselves with a new boss,” said Sally Mason, a senior consultant and senior fellow for AGB Consulting and president emerita at the University of Iowa.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

An AAUP advisory letter issued last week also said the “Campus Maverick” blog written by Robin Capehart, Bluefield State’s president, “would appear to be unhelpful in repairing the relationship between the administration and the faculty.” ” “So, what is campus leadership to do?”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Colleges and universities are required to report details of their agreements to the department by May 1. Shireman, who worked in the Obama administration when the 2011 guidance was issued and who has since called for it to be rescinded, said he sees the department’s review as a possible first step in rescinding that 2011 guidance.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Discover how these three interconnected strategies boost higher education enrollment and contain costs with a comprehensive approach that involves the 4 Ps of marketing, aligning pricing strategies with fixed educational benchmarks, and fostering strategic partnerships with community colleges and employers.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

OCTOBER 2, 2021

As we mentioned in the previous blog, this requires the board to step into a consulting role instead of only an oversight role. In this way, board members’ work broadens to include regular interactions with faculty, students, and alumni and creates more of a partnership to work alongside the administration to guide the institution.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 15, 2023

” In January, a nearly weeklong faculty strike at the University of Illinois at Chicago upended operations and led to canceled classes for thousands of students before the faculty union and administrators reached a tentative four-year deal (the union has since ratified the contract ).

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 20, 2023

” Elmendorf wrote that “In recent days, I have spent a great deal of time consulting with faculty members” and “discussing a path forward on this specific appointment and on broader issues around the appointment of fellows.”

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The Change Leader, Inc.

OCTOBER 3, 2023

3 October · Episode 175 Building a Sustainable Higher Education Model: CSCU's Partnership for Workforce Readiness 34 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton Learn how CSCU’s unification of its once-siloed community college is building a sustainable higher education model and helping improve retention and enrollment.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

’s dream, we should not be judged by the color of our skin, but by the content of our character,” Renae Eze, a spokesperson for the Abbott administration, said in an emailed statement to Inside Higher Ed. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s I don’t know if that’s what will happen here.

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