Ray Schroeder

AUGUST 13, 2023

A rift has formed at Spartanburg Community College, where some faculty members are in revolt against what they say is a school administration that has been heavy-handed in its approach to governance since new leadership took over three years ago.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Renshaw offers a practical model based on his expertise in couples’ therapy as an analogue for thinking about how faculty and administrators might best work together.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 26, 2024

“By codifying the program, it gives institutions something to look forward to annually as a source that they may be able to tap, assuming they qualify, for much needed resources,” said Kelly Leon, vice president of communications and government relations for the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2024

Pennsylvania's State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) enrollment has dropped 30% and community college enrollment has decreased by 37% over the past decade, officials reported. Colleges are competing with one another for limited dollars — duplicating degree programs, driving up costs, and reducing access.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 6, 2022

"As President Obama's Secretary of Education, John King helped lead our fight for expanded access to higher education for every American and to ensure that all students had the support they needed to finish college.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 31, 2022

It’s not just a report on diversity, it’s about student success,” said Eloy Ortiz Oakley, president of College Futures and former chancellor of California Community Colleges. Eighty percent of presidents hold a doctoral degree and served in an executive administrative role prior to their current presidency.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

Dominique Turner Institution: Morgan State University Graduate Program: Higher Education Administration Education: B.S., Government/Political Science, Bowie State University; MPA, Management and Public Policy, Bowie State University; Graduate Certificate, Project Management, Bowie State University Mentors: Rev. Dr. Lewis M.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 3, 2023

Today on the Academic Minute : Anna Amirkhanyan, professor of public administration and policy at American University, explores how different populations around the world perceived their governments” responses to COVID. Learn more about the Academic Minute here. Is this diversity newsletter?: Hide by line?:

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

noted they received unfair treatment from school administrators. There was also a standing committee on LGBTQ student needs that the student affairs office had, which did as much as they could within the confines of the administration,” he says. About 45.5% of LGBTQ people reported hearing slurs, and 10.3%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

New College of Florida and Spartanburg Community College have been added to the American Association of University Professors ’ list of institutions sanctioned for substantial noncompliance with widely accepted standards of academic government. AAUP’s Governing Council voted on the measure Feb.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

OCTOBER 2, 2021

In this second post of our five-part series on Embracing a New Higher Education Governance Model , we discuss the updated board duties in higher ed and how boards can embrace their new roles and responsibilities as they work to meet the challenges facing colleges and universities today.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2023

It’s now common knowledge among college administrators and staff that many students experience shortfalls of the essentials. They deserve to be the focus of public attention and philanthropic giving and the priority for governments, instead of the tiny number of already highly-resourced gated colleges always dominating the news.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

Morris Morris’s expertise involves work at several higher ed institutions and medical facilities, where she has held leadership roles including serving as the inaugural department chair for Elon University’s nursing program, dean of health and public safety at Rockingham Community College, and nursing director at Morehead Memorial Hospital.

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University Business

JANUARY 29, 2024

Shapiro is implementing a new governance structure that incentivizes colleges and universities to adhere to these principles, focused on a performance-based funding model. The three-part plan is based on recommendations by the Higher Education Working Group, a team of state higher education leaders appointed last year by Gov.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Even if they were to attend, we do not offer any courses on Kaw language, government, or history. Roueche Center for Community College Leadership, Department of Educational Leadership, College of Education, Kansas State University. The Roueche Center Forum is co-edited by Drs. Roueche and Margaretta B.

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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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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. Throughout this process, Acebo has made shared governance and collaboration with organized labor central, much to the approval of the union members.

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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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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2023

While there are many undergraduates and graduate students aiming for careers in banking or finance, there are also entrepreneurs, innovators, people interested in hospital administration, and others seeking positions at nonprofit organizations. We take a look at institutions that have excelled at graduating a diverse student base.

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University Business

JULY 28, 2023

Eloy Ortiz Oakley, president and CEO of the College Futures Foundation , said the process begins by “flipping the nomenclature,” or reframing how we inherently perceive different kinds of institutions. He believes community colleges should be considered “elite” for housing under-resourced students.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 9, 2023

A growing number of community college systems, in California , Florida , Louisiana , Tennessee , Texas , New York City and elsewhere, have stopped requiring students to take remedial courses before they can enroll in college-level courses—the long-standing model for remedial education. Hopefully, others will follow suit.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MAY 31, 2023

Boston College students have long pushed their Jesuit university to create an LGBTQ+ resource center. Instead, the college will house LGBTQ resources in an intercultural center.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 9, 2023

Even though Saint Augustine’s University (SAU) in Raleigh, NC has been placed on probation by the accrediting agency The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC), SAU President Dr. Christine McPhail isn’t slowing down. Am I concerned about it? Any academic is concerned.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

b of these principles, the manual states, in part: Effective governance includes clearly defining the roles and responsibilities of the governing board, administration, and faculty and ensuring that each of these groups adheres to their appropriate roles and responsibilities. In relation to Section 4.2.b

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 31, 2023

Image: Student journalists at Laney College in Oakland, Calif., are suing the Peralta Community College District for failing to adequately respond to public records requests. District officials say they comply with the law and do their best to handle the administrative burden of repeated requests.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 3, 2023

Thomas Hudson, president of Jackson State University, was placed on administrative leave with pay Thursday by Mississippi's Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning. In January, the newspaper reported that the Faculty Senate voted no confidence in Hudson, citing his lack of support for shared governance.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 5, 2023

Actions by North Idaho College’s Board of Trustees have already prompted scrutiny from its accreditor, but now Moody’s Investor Services is considering a downgrade to NIC’s bond ratings, citing “governance considerations, including board structure,” The Coeur d’Alene Press reported. Hide by line?:

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 30, 2023

Image: When a college president resigns or retires, the institution’s governing board usually announces the steps it will take to replace the outgoing leader. The Board of Trustees of Parkland College followed that script in 2019 when Thomas Ramage told board members he planned to retire in 2022.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

When the senior team identifies issues, and also when we’re seeing them within our student government or president’s council, the council is intentional about what we call a slot analysis. Mantella also wants to improve the pathways for students attending community colleges. “We What are we seeing?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

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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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 14, 2023

American International College is starting a bachelor’s of public administration. program in government. Spartanburg Methodist College is adding a bachelor of arts in psychology. Regent University is starting a Ph.D. University of Hartford is starting an M.S. in computer science.

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Parchment

MARCH 24, 2023

Government Accountability Office found in a 2017 report. Meanwhile, fewer than a quarter of colleges and universities share transcripts with each other electronically, according to a 2021 report by the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO).

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 6, 2023

Thomas Hudson, president of Jackson State University, was placed on administrative leave with pay Thursday by Mississippi’s Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning. In January, the newspaper reported that the Faculty Senate voted no confidence in Hudson, citing his lack of support for shared governance.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Critics of the Board of Trustees’ resolution to establish the new school have attacked it as a violation of shared governance. But shared governance means that the duty of ensuring that students graduate prepared for career, community and citizenship comes from the partnership of board, administration and the faculty.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Ever since the USA-Patriot Act and its successor, the Freedom Act, the National Security Administration continues to monitor electric communications almost indiscriminately. The Chinese government does monitor its people more than does any other country in the world. But so do we! Don’t hold your breath.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Most recently, Florida passed a law exempting public college presidential searches from the state’s open records law, and Purdue University hired Mitch Daniels’s replacement on the same day the university announced its longtime president’s retirement. They thought we would try to elude their meaningful participation.

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