Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 11, 2023

Students from underrepresented backgrounds face considerable barriers when it comes to completing a community college program. But Dougherty Family College (DFC), a two-year associate degree program at the University of St. But he raised some concerns. Staff were everywhere. Resources were everywhere,” said Jalyn A.

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University Business

APRIL 19, 2024

Stephenson is currently the president of Northwest Florida State College, a community college. A tenured community college leader, Stephenson has 15 years of experience serving institutions across Alabama, Missouri and Kentucky, Tampa Bay Times reports. Rebecca Bergman – Gustavus Adolphus College (Minn.)

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 30, 2023

has riled leaders of a nearby college who say the development would harm their students and the region. The community college also is partnering with the developers to serve as a workforce training hub. For example, students may be susceptible to gambling away their financial aid funds, she said.

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EAB

AUGUST 23, 2023

Review these 7 aspects of your basic needs strategy before the semester begins Community colleges play a vital role in higher education, offering affordable and accessible pathways to academic and professional success. Collaborations with local food banks, grocery stores, and community organizations can help sustain these programs.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 7, 2023

The private Alabama college has made appeals to state and local authorities in recent months, requesting a $37.5 Birmingham-Southern has also launched an effort to raise $200 million by May 2026. In 2010 it was discovered that errors in administering financial aid cost the college millions of dollars, which then prompted layoffs.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 18, 2023

Image: Recently released federal higher education data show community college enrollment trends during the first two years of the pandemic differed based on the age of the students, according to a new analysis by the Community College Research Center at Columbia University’s Teachers College.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 20, 2023

As Kimball and Iler show, the wealthiest 1 percent of the nation’s 3,285 four-year colleges and universities holds 54 percent of campus endowments. To put it bluntly: the wealthiest colleges and universities began to engage in a positional and spending arms race, with a goal of maximizing their reputation and prestige.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean I was well into my administrative career the first time I heard someone use the term “soft money.” I thought it connoted something vaguely sinister, like a slush fund. It refers to funding that comes with time limits, typically from external grants. A crisis hits.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

21 Dartmouth College 8,065,743 8,484,189 -4.93 Colleges appearing at the bottom of the full endowment list are Oakton Community College ($6.2 million), Lakeland Community College ($5.7 Even as endowment returns dipped, colleges tapped those assets to fund their needs.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 31, 2023

Ken Burnett’s classic 1992 fundraising text, Relationship Fundraising , taught and touted the value of developing relationships with donors based on the attributes of friendship, such as care, understanding, respect and mutual trust. The trust that develops between an employee and a donor can run deep.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 8, 2023

Drumm McNaughton speaks with Dr. Marielena DeSanctis, president of the Community College of Denver, who shares some of the solutions she was able to identify based on her unique understanding of higher ed. She started her education career in K-12 and moved to community college leadership. Dr. DeSanctis is unique.

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eLiterate

OCTOBER 2, 2023

As readers of this series know, I’ve developed a six-session design/build workshop series for learning design teams to create an AI Learning Design Assistant (ALDA). And, unfortunately, it also has implications for the digital divide due to the way in which it needs to be funded. I will address that concern as well.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 10, 2023

That the main contributor to college’s rising college costs isn’t the cost of instruction, which has stagnated. Accreditors could, for example, require institutions to undergo professional development training in teaching. Because of a lack of accountability. They don’t. They haven’t.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 9, 2023

The National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators and the National College Attainment Network wrote to the White House and the department last month to ask whether the administration could confirm that the 2024–25 FAFSA will be ready Oct. 1, as currently planned.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The agreements raised questions, as the Times put it, “about whether promoting gambling on campus—especially to people who are at an age when they are vulnerable to developing gambling disorders—fits the mission of higher education.” Their contracts have raised a number of ethical and policy flags.

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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. The students that are, yeah, it’s.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 24, 2023

20 percent raise pools over the course of the 4-year contract[.] Increased professional development funds[.] Increased minimum salaries for the lowest paid faculty: $60,000 [non-tenure track] and $71,500 [tenure track]. Stronger job protections for non-tenure track faculty[.] And more…!”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 23, 2023

20 percent raise pools over the course of the 4-year contract[.] Increased professional development funds[.] Increased minimum salaries for the lowest paid faculty: $60,000 [non-tenure track] and $71,500 [tenure track.] Stronger job protections for non-tenure track faculty[.] And more…!”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 24, 2023

Jonah Kokodyniak, senior vice president for program development and partner services at the Institute of International Education, said it's the kind of assault on the values of higher education that prompts an international response.

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Parchment

MARCH 12, 2024

We were working with colleges 10 years ago who are building community college baccalaureate programs. So these are, you know, bachelor’s degrees program at community colleges. All of this stuff is going on in colleges. You might have a community college system that’s got a lot of authority.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 30, 2023

It isn’t clear from college officials who filed the complaint, though a Stanford spokeswoman, in response to questions from Inside Higher Ed , said a “concern” was raised by an unnamed student organization. Kirschner said some Jewish students found the photo concerning.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 21, 2023

Therefore, RSIs are tied to their community’s focused industry and must remain targeted. 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. Dr. Koricich earned a Ph.D. in Higher Education and a B.S.

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EAB

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Blogs Your student loan payments are due: 3 strategies to support community college students’ financial wellness When I think back to my time in college, student loans were something that nearly everyone had, but not something any of us fully understood. Specifically, we weren’t educated on how to repay them.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 6, 2023

With this stance, we raised awareness of calls for abolition within the profession, and we also caused some controversy. ” Regarding their 2020 letter, Abrams said that both she and Dettlaff believed that social work needed to support the Black Lives Matter movement, “which was calling for defunding the police.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 23, 2023

million in grants to 22 colleges and universities to improve enrollment, persistence, and completion rates for students living in rural communities. By contrast, in urban and suburban communities, the percentages of enrollees are almost 48% and 42%, respectively. The Biden-Harris Administration is providing $44.5

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 9, 2024

The university has established over 1,300 articulation agreements with community colleges across the country. The university has established over 1,300 articulation agreements with community colleges across the country. These agreements are not just on paper; they are integrated into a sophisticated technological system.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

To be clear, I have nothing against business or science—we need them both, especially in this brave new world of global pandemics and dramatically diminished state funding for higher education—nor am I afraid of hard work or the need to “produce” as a research scholar.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 23, 2023

The Renegade members say they’ve been falsely accused of racism and their jobs are at risk after some of them raised questions about a racial climate survey at an October diversity committee meeting. 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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Confessions of a Community College Dean

DECEMBER 23, 2022

It’s these long-term developments, processes and trends, which take place under the surface, that even the most powerful politicians or institutions must respond to. ” Community colleges and for-profits have borne well over 90 percent of the drop. During the pandemic, the median college received $13.2

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 23, 2024

Identifying underrepresented groups, understanding demographic shifts, and recognizing the evolving landscape of graduate education are all critical for developing effective SEM strategies. This plan should be developed with input from a diverse group of stakeholders, including alumni, current students, faculty, staff, and community partners.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 3, 2023

institutions wouldn’t be able to partner with foreign universities or offer workforce development programs if they include placement at a foreign-owned organization. ” Other universities raised concerns about whether their current contracts for learning management systems would be allowed under the new guidance.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 3, 2023

The LERU paper says “neglect or violation of good supervision practice requires suitable repercussions,” possibly including temporary loss of the right to supervise, intensified training requirements or loss of funding. ” paraphrasing an African proverb.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 16, 2023

Bill Hwang, a trader who earned billions on Wall Street, pumped several million into the college before his 2022 arrest on fraud charges. Now another billionaire, Peter Chung, may hold the key to the fate of the King’s College. As fundraising fell far short of the goal , Chung stepped in with a $2 million loan. and Canada.

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eLiterate

OCTOBER 25, 2022

I’ll be developing and calling out tags I use for these themes so that you can go to an archive page on each one. J-WEL is one of many funded centers at MIT. The group started its work with some funding from J-WEL and continued on a volunteer basis afterward because they all cared about the project. The context of the paper.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 7, 2023

Others, like Merrimack College and BYU Idaho, have developed ready-to-launch proposals that they hope their respective accreditors will approve. Zemsky and Carrell did not provide a template for a three-year degree, tasking the participants involved with developing their own programs.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 27, 2023

The Holocaust Education Initiative, run by UK professors and funded by a grant from the Jewish Heritage Fund, aims to prepare teachers to meet state standards of a 2018 law requiring Holocaust education at Kentucky public schools. Teachers who participate receive a $250 stipend. Beam Institute for Kentucky Spirits Faculty Fellow.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 7, 2023

Develop a healthy skepticism about how popular culture depicts the past while learning how to assess the games’ accuracies and inaccuracies. Topics that many video games address include the development of trading networks, military and geopolitical diplomatic maneuvering and the influence of geography and technology.

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