Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Newman argues in Thinking Critically in College: The Essential Handbook for Student Success (Radius Book Group). Newman, whose book will be published March 7, is former dean of academic advising at Stanford University and John M. Musser Professor of Religious Studies, Emeritus, at Carleton College. and Elizabeth W.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Reddick, University of Texas at Austin Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty members: “Make your career journey what you want it to be and don’t wait for others to define it for you.” Burmicky currently has a book proposal on the subject and is working with a consulting firm on a presidential leadership competency study. Dr. Robert T.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 12, 2023

Image: Landing a grant is essential for many faculty members—grants support their work and likely signal to their superiors that this is a faculty member to nurture. She responded to questions about the book via email. In my book, I use ikigai as a framework for generating grant ideas. Q: What is ikigai ?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 7, 2023

A University of Southern California professor has recalled his new book after the Los Angeles Times found at least “95 instances of plagiarism,” the newspaper reported. Times reported that the book was scheduled to publish today. Ad keywords: books faculty Is this diversity newsletter? ” The L.A.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 13, 2023

Earlier versions of the plan eliminated the books and all librarians from five campuses and drew widespread criticism. The new plan is to keep about 30,000 books, or about 10 percent of what the university currently has. Ad keywords: administrators faculty Is this diversity newsletter?: Hide by line?:

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 28, 2023

Timothy Alvarez From earning an associate degree to serving as president of a community college, Alvarez understands the value of higher education and the need to create pathways and support systems. As a result, the college received a Title V grant, $3.5 He has a deep connection to community colleges.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 23, 2023

Jonelle Knox When I reviewed the question posed to me about [re]engaging the college community, I started thinking about a missed opportunity that many colleges and university leaders are not taking advantage of; the collaboration of student affairs and human resources to create [re]engagement activities.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Did you know that full-time faculty at 4-year universities are: 225 percent more likely to be of a non-Chrisitian faith than other US adults. More than half of full-time faculty have at least one parent with an advanced degree. What explains the faculty’s unrepresentativeness and the sluggishness of change?

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University Business

MARCH 13, 2023

Two big initiatives pushing this change are recent school mergers and a powerful free community college pipeline. Starting this July, Castleton University, Northern Vermont University and Vermont Technical College will consolidate into Vermont State University—a lean, cost-effective hybrid learning machine.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

As a beloved member of the Temple faculty for more than three decades, Epps spent more than half of that time in various leadership roles. O” had previously served as the fourth president of Tompkins Cortland Community College for four years in Dryden, New York, according to her obituary.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

A group of Stanford University faculty members has petitioned for a campus investigation of free speech and academic freedom in light of an anonymous reporting system that they say can stifle expression, The Wall Street Journal reported. The Journal reported that 77 Stanford faculty members signed the petition.

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Dr. Al Solano

JANUARY 18, 2024

In this episode, I interview Dr. Christine Harrington, Faculty, Community College Leadership Doctoral Program, Morgan State University. The focus of the episode is her book, Creating Culturally Affirming and Meaningful Assignments: A Practical Resource for Higher Education Faculty. That's powerful.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 31, 2023

He earned an associate degree in liberal arts from Orange County Community College, a bachelor’s degree in history from Vassar College, and a Ph.D. Burgos has written two books, Playing America’s Game: Baseball, Latinos, and the Color Line, which examines the U.S.’s Latino, African American, and sports history.

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Dr. Al Solano

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Jesse Stommel, Faculty, Writing Program, University of Denver , and co-founder Hybrid Pedagogy & Digital Pedagogy Lab The focus of the episode is his book, Undoing the Grade: Why We Grade, and How to Stop (Scroll down to access the transcript.) They were having to do something novel at that moment. But to me that's harder work."

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Dr. Al Solano

JULY 4, 2022

We discuss the following topics: 6:42:25: The "Why": Impetus for writing the book, On My Own: The Challenge and Promise of Building Equitable STEM Transfer Pathways. 23:54:50: Barriers that faculty create for students. 35:13:82: The challenge and opportunities of continuously improving teaching practices, and book recommendations.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 1, 2023

For example, I used ChatGPT to help me write a letter of recommendation and to assist me with crafting my lesson plan on banned books in libraries. Over recent weeks, I’ve found myself pulling up the chat bot when lesson planning and writing. Here’s the thing: I know how to do these things.

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Dr. Al Solano

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Faculty should assume that the students who do have formal accommodations have jumped through so many hoops to get them, and these accommodations are not giving them a leg up. That's something that I think a lot of faculty don't quite understand because they've never been through this process. It's giving them a fair shot.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 6, 2023

When asked what surprised her most about publishing after a summer spent working as an intern at one of our presses, a history graduate student replied, “In graduate school, we focus on tearing books apart. But I was impressed by how much you do in publishing to build up a book.”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 3, 2023

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean Is your college prepared for climate change? Bryan Alexander’s new book, Universities on Fire, is a structured series of speculations about what that might mean. Is your college coastal? Community colleges in coastal counties are meant to serve those counties.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 5, 2023

Community colleges failing to fulfill their mission. ” As the AAUP puts it: “US faculty are steadily losing the rights of tenure, but far less from bombastic politicians weakening their protections than from universities quietly refusing to grant them.” It will change higher education forever. percent in 2021.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

We should help students in our literature classes to transcend the too-common notion that “the film was funny but the book was not,” writes Douglas King.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 20, 2023

Blog: University of Venus Burnout has been the focus of much of my work life for the last five years—first experiencing it as a tenured faculty member, then writing about it as a researcher and memoirist, and now coaching about and facilitating workshops on it as well as burnout resilience for faculty across the country.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Parwinder Grewal, who will become president of the new university, announced the decision in an email to students, faculty members and staff Tuesday. ” The new university will combine Castleton University, Vermont Technical College and Northern Vermont University. Students criticized the move. Hide by line?:

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 1, 2023

A new book, The Latinx Guide to Graduate School ( Duke University Press ), by Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales and Magdalena L. The book highlights the experiences of Negrón-Gonzales and Barrera in their personal lives and academic careers. Negrón-Gonzales and Barrera answered questions by email about their new book.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2024

Hines Our co-edited book, Black Males in Secondary and Postsecondary Education: Teaching, Mentoring, Advising and Counseling, is one of the most comprehensive textbooks on Black males. This edited volume comprises 19 book chapters divided into two sections: (a) primary and secondary settings; and (b) postsecondary settings. Dr. Erik M.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Students and faculty depend on academic librarians for collaboration in learning and research. From everything I’ve seen, the demands on academic libraries have only increased over the past decade. Libraries seem to stay open later and are open more often.

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EAB

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Her new book co-authored with Lynn Perry Wooten, The Prepared Leader: Emerge from Any Crisis More Resilient Than Before , explores why prepared leadership should be a priority for all organizations. 4 Lessons from University Presidents on Crisis Thinking and Resilient Leadership Nathan D. Grawe Nathan D.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Here, I want to write about a book that has been sorely neglected: Scott Samuelson’s Seven Ways of Looking at Pointless Suffering. ” It was the experience of volunteering as a teacher at Oakdale Prison that inspired this book. I have written in the past about pain, tragedy, and individual and collective acts of evil.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Or we could talk about the mismatch between the supply and demand for tenure-track faculty roles and the growing proportion of all teaching done by contingent and adjunct faculty. How many of your faculty members were born into this cohort? We might mention public disinvestment, student debt and stubbornly low graduation rates.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 17, 2023

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean Some great responses from readers came in this week! ” The idea of an “old books’ home” made me smile. ” The idea of an “old books’ home” made me smile. There’s a great book waiting to be written on this one.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

DECEMBER 19, 2022

3 -- San Jacinto College in Harris County, Texas. This community college, which has five locations in the greater Houston area, doles out holiday cookies iced in blue and yellow, the institution's colors, to thank students, employees and parents for being an important part of the San Jac community. #4 Wooster St.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Parwinder Grewal, who will become president of the new university, announced the decision in an email to students, faculty members and staff Tuesday. ” The new university will combine Castleton University, Vermont Technical College and Northern Vermont University. Ad keywords: administrators faculty Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 8, 2023

Mirroring the complaint of every professor since the University of Bologna was established in 1088, Cowen observes that faculty must deal with “ too much bureaucracy and not enough time for the academic work itself.” Nor does he write about the inadequate investment in community colleges at every level of government.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 14, 2024

Dear Black women in higher education, 2023 should have been a wake-up call to our community, yet the red flags persist. Montague of Volunteer State Community College, was a signal to all other Black women in higher education. Your students, faculty peers, and fellow leaders want you around for the long haul.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 13, 2023

The inscription read, “My alma mater was books, a good library … I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.” ” The full quote, from The Autobiography of Malcolm X , says, “I told the Englishman that my alma mater was books, a good library.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Perhaps the following conversation between Anita Casavantes Bradford and Steven Mintz about how R-1s can support their faculty to find fulfillment in meaningful research and as transformative teachers and mentors can suggest some answers. ” However, our campuses and our faculty roles have changed dramatically in the last few decades.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 23, 2023

With The Bot, you can effortlessly and almost instantly produce essays that one faculty colleague of mine described as surface level and formulaic but solidly in the B range. How wonderful would it be if faculties’ implicit (or explicit) biases about these groups could be squashed by uniformly well-structured essays?

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