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Study: Community College Housing Program Produced Better Life Outcomes

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Education Northwest, an Oregon-based nonprofit organization promoting education for all, unveiled the results on Tuesday of a first-of-its kind, nine-year study of the partnership between Tacoma Community College (TCC) and the Tacoma Housing Authority (THA), called the College Housing Assistance Program (CHAP).

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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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Monthlong Temple strike enters possibly pressing week

Confessions of a Community College Dean

“The strike grew when they cut benefits,” said Bethany Kosmicki, a striking research assistant on the union negotiating team. At the end of the release, TAUP also mentions TUGSA’s continued lack of a contract and ongoing public safety concerns. “People are just as strong as ever out here,” she said.

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Partnership aims to bring Head Start to community colleges

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Community colleges serve high numbers of parenting students, but too few institutions have campus childcare centers, or sufficient spots to meet demand, to help these students persist and graduate. Leaders of the two organizations plan to lay the groundwork to bring more Head Start centers to community college campuses.

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How to Credential Durable Skills

Parchment

In this episode, we speak with Rob Buelow of Vector Solutions to discuss how universities can better engage students and employers by focusing on “durable skills” that better describe the value of the college experience. I wasn’t interested in counseling, psychology or research. mission alignment and student success.

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Political tensions erupt at Bakersfield College

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Black students who attended the meeting of a committee made up of administrators and faculty and staff members say the professors were rude to them and questioned basic measures to support them. The students raised their concerns about the group to the Kern Community College District Board of Trustees in a meeting last month.

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Depression on College Campuses conference: Insights and actions (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

As a clinical psychologist, research scientist and educator specializing in self-criticism and self-compassion, as well as an adjunct faculty member at Seattle University and at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, I recently attended the Depression on College Campuses conference for the first time.