Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 10, 2023

Anyone who cares deeply about American higher education needs to come to grips with a series of hard and unpleasant truths: That this country’s system of postsecondary education relegates the students with the greatest needs to the most underresourced institutions. Adapt or die. It’s what they do. They don’t.

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University Business

MAY 24, 2023

Higher education gained an unlikely asset during the pandemic, and it came in the shape of billions of federal emergency funding. Elite and Tier 1 private colleges are the only segments of higher education well-prepared to embark on the following three academic years without significant financial worries.

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University Business

MARCH 22, 2024

He helped double the university’s endowment, raise external research funding by more than 92% in the past four year, earn an R2 Carnegie Classification to R2 and transitioned its athletics program to the FBS as a Division 1 program. to lead American University. Alger leaves JMU in great shape.

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SRHE

APRIL 10, 2024

Although investment in the area is growing, a recent systematic review highlighted the stressful academic environment and higher levels of burnout within the industry compared to other jobs ( Urbina-Garcia, 2020 ). Centralisation and reduction of academic administrative staff moves much of the work onto the academics.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 8, 2023

As higher ed nears the looming enrollment cliff , colleges and universities looking to drive enrollment growth must identify more pathways for students to obtain a college degree, especially in the case of first-generation students. These experiences have taught her how both sectors can collaborate and leverage each other’s strengths.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Even as endowment returns dipped, colleges tapped those assets to fund their needs. The median percentage of budgets funded by endowments was 5.3 “We’re happy to see donors supporting priorities in areas critical to the mission and future of higher education. Study respondents reported spending $25.8

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Parchment

DECEMBER 12, 2023

And so they need to be at the table for federal and state policy conversations as the folks that are often tasked to implement those policies to kind of ground truth and make sure that what is developed makes sense, moves objectives forward in a way that is thoughtful and manageable for the field. How do I do this to ensure that rigor?

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Goucher DEI

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

While diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice may be under attack at many other higher education institutions across the United States, at Goucher we remain fully committed to these principles and our goals. If you want to know more about the work of the DEIJ Coordinating Committee, please contact Dr. Lee at jasmine.lee@goucher.edu.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 21, 2023

Public RSIs are more dependent on state appropriations but receive fewer appropriations per student because state funding metrics focus on enrollment growth, which is more constrained. Instead, higher ed needs to identify what’s sustainable for each institution rather than penalizing RSIs for something out of their control.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

Bevlee Watford, who earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees at Virginia Tech, CEED has raised awareness about engineering and other technical fields and fueled diversity in the professions. The Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity raises awareness for diversity in engineering and other technical fields.

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Creatrix Campus

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

A Guide to the Accreditation Process with the National Commission for Academic Accreditation and Assessment (NCAAA) editor Thu, 02/16/2023 - 04:07 Overview of NCAAA Saudi Arabia The 2030 vision for Saudi Arabia is causing a rapid change in the country's higher education standards.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 9, 2024

Technology’s Role in Enabling Enrollment Growth Franklin University exemplifies how technology can be leveraged to enhance enrollment and streamline educational processes. This success story underscores the crucial role of technology in not only supporting administrative functions but also in driving institutional growth.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 22, 2023

Smith University (JCSU) in January 2018, he brought his experience in law and investment banking as well as his experience in education that encompassed both K–12 and higher education. That was part of the strategic plan developed during his presidency. Armbrister became the 14th president of Johnson C.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Drumm McNaughton discusses these shocking findings, along with where this money should go and how it must be spent, with Amy Privette Perko, CEO of the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, an independent group with a legacy of impacting college sports policies to prioritize college athletic education, health, safety, and success.

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Parchment

MARCH 12, 2024

Lindsay Daugherty (11:11.66) I mean, I just think the support would be a lot higher for colleges if people understood that 40 % of students are going to these community colleges, a big portion of them are in these workforce development programs. We’re going to provide formula funding for certificates and things beyond degrees.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 23, 2024

The higher education landscape faces a troubling decrease in graduate school enrollment, markedly among minority groups and engineering programs. Dr. Grimes, with over 17 years in higher education, brings a wealth of experience in diversity, equity, and inclusion in graduate education. minority and STEM).

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 3, 2023

Image: Higher education associations, study abroad organizations, colleges and universities, and others are calling on the Department of Education to rescind guidance issued earlier this year that would expand the definition of outside companies that are subject the department’s oversight.

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SRHE

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Historian GR Evans takes the long view of developments in interdisciplinary studies, with particular reference to experience at Cambridge, where progress may at times be slow but is also measured. Many institutions have in recent years developed new academic structures or other initiatives intended to promote interdisciplinary collaboration.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Now, there is a new analysis based on the Federal government’s College Scorecard that ranks 4,000 higher education institutions, providing prospective students with a clear and detailed view of their earning potential with specific majors, from which colleges and universities, and how quickly graduates pay off their loans.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Say what you want about the state of the economy and how it’s creating headaches for higher education institutions, but that doesn’t stop those who have mastered the art of fundraising. In the fiscal year 2022, UA raised nearly $226 million in charitable gifts and pledges, setting a fundraising record for the university.

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eLiterate

JULY 10, 2023

Pivots to corporate learning and development haven’t produced many great successes (although they have enabled some start-ups that would have folded to scrape along). Last year, nearly half of all EdTech funding went to one company —BYJU’S—which is now struggling to make its debt payments. The start-up picture is brutal.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 4, 2023

In addition to the standard measures of quality—for example, the share of faculty with a terminal degree or library resources—how about the proportion of students who take part in a high-impact practices, the share of faculty who are undergoing professional development in teaching and postgraduation employment and earnings outcomes?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

Inferior campus facilities impact the ability to both recruit and retain students as well as attract the best faculty, and the evidence is apparent across the entire higher education landscape. Dr. William Broussard A common refrain is that HBCUs must raise money to address this situation.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 2, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma A Gallup and Purdue poll of 30,000 college grads from 2014 found that students who had a rich, robust relationship with a faculty member were twice as likely as peer graduates to report high levels of well-being. But only 14 percent of graduates said they had experienced such a relationship.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 3, 2023

At stake is local control of an institution in a state that has admitted to years of inequitable funding for its only public historically Black college. A previous legislative report found between $150 and $544 million in unpaid land-grant funds should have gone to the university from fiscal years 1957 through 2007.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 30, 2023

Earlier this month, officials at Lewis-Clark State College, a public institution in Idaho, removed half a dozen artworks from an exhibition due to concerns that display of the works, which related to abortion and reproductive health, violated the state’s No Public Funds for Abortion Act. Which is exactly what I did last year.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 28, 2023

The survey itself initially received pushback from some faculty members who objected to its sponsor, UW Stout’s Menard Center for Public Policy and Service, which was named for Republican donor John Menard and funded through a Charles Koch Foundation donation, according to The Wisconsin Examiner.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JULY 25, 2023

25 July · Episode 165 Funding Research for Tier Two Institutions with NSF 37 Min · By Drumm McNaughton Funding research for tier two institutions enables building robust infrastructures, achieving groundbreaking discoveries and expanding STEM. Dr. Panch also discusses NSF’s mission and vision.

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Higher Education Inquirer

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Nearly 75% of faculty in higher education are precarious workers, more like restaurant and hospitality workers, gig performers, contract healthcare workers, and delivery drivers than the tenured professor. Many contingent faculty are shocked to realize that college teaching is a working-class job.

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EAB

JUNE 8, 2023

Dismissing AI as just another hype Many higher education leaders view AI as a passing trend, like the Massive Open Online Course (MOOCs) hype of the 2010s, rather than a lasting innovation. Anecdotally, student usage is even higher. For more information on early opportunities with AI on campus, check out our blog post.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2023

15 August · Episode 168 Nurturing Free Speech and Respectful Dialogue in Higher Education 40 Min · By Drumm McNaughton Eric shares how faculty, staff, and students can approach free speech and respectful dialogue by conducting co-teaching practices and exercises. He brings a deep knowledge of CCU to his new role.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 6, 2023

Instead, the press release cited higher education leaders who heaped praise on the incoming dean. Faculty Senate chair Peter Summers said by email that while some High Point University faculty members raised concerns after the hire, “that was as far as it went, given our lack of authority.”

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 26, 2023

26 December · Episode 187 2023 Higher Education Year in Review and 2024 Predictions 55 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton Join us in our 2023 Higher Education Year in Review and Predictions for 2024. Join us in our 2023 Higher Education Year in Review and Predictions for 2024.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 30, 2024

30 January · Episode 192 Strategic Presidential Communication in Higher Education 42 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton This episode addresses the required strategic presidential communication training, planning, practice, and consequences for presidents and boards.

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