Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The Connect Team at Hamilton College in New York serves as a bridge between students and graduates working in various industries. The team puts on dozens of events and works with hundreds of alumni who conduct interviews and writes a blog to create resources for their classmates.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 10, 2023

laid off eight tenured and tenure-track faculty members and froze various programs last month, citing realignment of academics with changing student demands. ” That is, undergraduate programs with fewer than 12 students per full-time faculty member over a period of five years are no longer accepting new students.

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AIFS Abroad

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Pack your phones with useful apps before your study or intern abroad program just like you would your suitcase! If you are staying in Europe, South Africa, or parts of Latin America, you should be able to take Bolt should Uber not be working for whatever reason. Luckily, we live in a time where we have tools at our literal fingertips.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 14, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation I’m totally psyched about the newly announced master of science in artificial intelligence (MSAI) degree from the University of Texas at Austin. Perfect for working adults. I was (and still am) the first faculty director of the MSCS program. Let me say that slowly. Totally online. Totally online.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 17, 2023

Malaika Finkelstein, who serves on the grievance team for AFT2121, the college’s faculty union, said she started hearing about ongoing heating problems in buildings at two of the campuses this past fall, while the campus where she teaches has been without working heat for years. “That was heartbreaking.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 6, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma A freshman dormmate won the Pulitzer Prize in poetry nearly a decade ago. The share of adults who said that they had read a poem (not plural) not for school or work, 12 percent in 2017, was nearly a third less than in 1992. Wrote yet another critic: “modernism killed painting and music as well.

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