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Access Must be Front Burner for Community Colleges

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, community colleges across the country saw a decline in enrollment for myriad reasons — financial, family, illness, lack of internet or inability to adapt to online learning. The purpose of community colleges is to increase access to higher education for the most vulnerable populations.”

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Why Worry?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Community colleges failing to fulfill their mission. ” Although the AAUP is highly concerned about post-tenure review programs that could lead to faculty members’ termination, it is even more concerned about the replacement of tenured with contingent positions, said the organization’s senior researcher.

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Is a merger a closure by another name? (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

We are recognized by the federal government as both a predominantly Black institution and as a Hispanic-serving institution. Unfortunately, like many small private colleges in recent years, Bloomfield has struggled financially. More than 81 percent of our students are people of color. The average Bloomfield class size is 13.

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Australia asks universities to show they merit the title

Confessions of a Community College Dean

But some well-regarded universities conduct little research, while some of the world’s most exalted teaching and research institutions do not call themselves universities. The other universities that failed to achieve 50 percent—Bond, Federation and Notre Dame Australia—are due for re-registration in 2024 or 2025.

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Academic freedom policies should mean something (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Events in the Sunshine State also reflect an ongoing legal debate over the extent that First Amendment rights apply to public college and university professors in carrying out their teaching, research and service duties. In fact, this argument has already been extended to Florida institutions.

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Five ways to help students take smart sustainability actions (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

These findings , from a survey conducted by Inside Higher Ed and College Pulse and sponsored by Kaplan, are consistent with research literature on climate anxiety , which is especially prominent among younger adults. More generally, research shows that fear has only limited power in inspiring action.

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College presidents move to cultural institutions (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

One of the complexities of college leadership is that a president typically has approximately nine different constituencies (students, parents, alumni, donors, faculty, staff, local, state and federal government, at the least) whose views are not only not aligned, but frequently diametrically opposed to one another.