Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

However, the Minority Male Success Initiative (MMSI), a three-year project from the North Carolina Community College System (NCCCS) and Watermark, an ed tech company, has offered a glimmer of hope: students who received success coaching using an online platform were 22.4% The COVID-19 pandemic has only exacerbated the trend.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 19, 2023

These variations raise serious questions about how differing approaches play out across agencies and/or programs, how accreditors view their responsibilities, and what that means for equity in student outcomes. Interviews with a broader group of accreditors and a literature review supplemented our engagement with WSCUC and its members.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 20, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Ask yourself: Would the $20 million gift that Bloomberg Philanthropies gave to Princeton in 2021 to support the university’s first-generation and low-income students have a greater impact at Tougaloo College, an HBCU with a $10 million endowment? The very question—posed by educational historian Bruce A.

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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. She started her education career in K-12 and moved to community college leadership.

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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. Without innovation no organization can thrive. They don’t.

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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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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. Childcare Services: More than two million community college students are parents of children under 18.

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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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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

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

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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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). But the divide among educational institutions (and workplaces) can be equally stark and has a cascading effect. Develop a lightweight assessment tool like a rubric.

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Parchment

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Amy Williams I love the word critical and I would say that really our organization plays a critical role in uniting, supporting, elevating the voice of education professionals working in what I would distinctly say is the most unique, nuanced, challenging field of education, this dual and concurrent enrollment space.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 24, 2023

Image: Since the Taliban suspended the rights of Afghan women to pursue higher education last month, many American higher education institutions and leaders have decried the ban. ” IIE has been working to provide Afghan refugees with access to higher education since the Taliban took control in 2021, Kokodyniak said.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 9, 2023

The Department of Education is supposed to release an updated version of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid in October, but organizations representing financial aid officers and college access groups are seeking to confirm that timeline. 1, as currently planned. 1, as currently planned.

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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. In rural communities, only 29% of people ages 18-24 are enrolled in higher ed. Secretary of Education Dr. Miguel A. The Biden-Harris Administration is providing $44.5

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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

Podcast Highlights RSIs are their communities’ primary or only post-secondary education access point and are their most critical employer by launching businesses and consuming most of their goods and services. Therefore, RSIs are tied to their community’s focused industry and must remain targeted. Dr. Koricich earned a Ph.D.

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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. The university has established over 1,300 articulation agreements with community colleges across the country.

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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

Because the reality now is we have students that come from across the country to this college of social work specifically because of our focus on abolition,’” he recalled. With this stance, we raised awareness of calls for abolition within the profession, and we also caused some controversy.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Can a research-intensive university also be learning- and learner-centered, as dedicated to the quality of students’ educational experience as it is to scholarship, publication and invention? By any standard, I had a privileged education, first at Oberlin, then at Yale.

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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. This is the case in politics, but it’s also true in higher education. What were the most important events in higher education in 2022?

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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. citizen or lawful resident.

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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. Beam Institute for Kentucky Spirits Faculty Fellow.

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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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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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Parchment

MARCH 12, 2024

The Department of Labor defines them really broadly as a series of credentials, education or training credentials that can be earned throughout a career to prepare you for different jobs. Or if you have an industry certification that’s integrated into an educational degree program, that can be an example of a stackable credential.

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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. ” Global Editorial Tags: Graduate education International higher education Is this diversity newsletter?:

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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. I recently ran across a white paper called Ideas for an Affordable New Educational Institution out of MIT’s J-WEL center. J-WEL is one of many funded centers at MIT. The context of the paper.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 7, 2023

Image: Huddled around a table in the Georgetown University Alumni House, roughly two dozen academics convened last week to address two of the most persistent challenges in higher education: improving student outcomes and lowering the cost of a bachelor’s degree. Those losses led her to rethink the program’s curriculum.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 16, 2023

Image: The King’s College has long relied on the generosity of billionaires. Richard DeVos—Amway co-founder and father-in-law of former education secretary Betsy DeVos—donated millions to the small evangelical institution before his death in 2018.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

One of the biggest challenges students face is determining their return on investment for obtaining a college degree. Since leaving the Department of Education, Michael has found that college is still worth the investment, providing graduates with more opportunities, on average, than non-college grads.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 7, 2023

They are educators that convey lessons that generations of game players have internalized. Today, many board games purport to be educational: introducing children to rules and competition and the importance of luck and chance and tactical maneuvering. ” Games, in other words, aren’t innocent diversions.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 4, 2023

These are issues that need to be addressed if we are to improve the quality of the education our campuses offer. The functions that colleges and universities are supposed to fulfill and the responsibilities they are expected to meet are constantly expanding, and only the wealthiest institutions can meet those expectations.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JULY 12, 2023

The recent MOVEit hack has serious implications for higher education. EDUCAUSE’s Higher Education Community Vendor Assessment Toolkit (HECVAT) framework helps address third-party risk. Learn what institutions can do to protect themselves. The importance of having a process in place for vetting third-party risk.

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