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Dougherty Family College’s Investment in Student Success Pays Off

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. I spend a lot of time fundraising. But he raised some concerns. Staff were everywhere.

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How Gross Inequalities in Institutional Wealth Distort the Higher Education Ecosystem and Shortchange the Vast Majority of Middle- and Lower-Income Undergraduates

Confessions of a Community College Dean

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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Why the Term ‘Friendraising’ Makes Me Cross

Confessions of a Community College Dean

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. Soft skills should never overshadow or replace hard skills in fundraising operations.

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Hard Truths That Higher Education Has Evaded for Too Long

Confessions of a Community College Dean

That despite a quarter century of intensive efforts to raise college graduation rates, rates remain distressingly low for Black and Hispanic students, older students, part-time students, and community college students. We need to redesign and give greater precedence to faculty development and instructional support.

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The Forces That Are Shaping the Future of Higher Education

Confessions of a Community College Dean

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. Students are completing college on time at higher rates nationally at two- and four-year institutions. During the pandemic, the median college received $13.2

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It’s time for wealthy colleges to share the wealth (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The competition for revenue and wealth began 130 years ago among elite colleges and universities that devised now-conventional practices such as annual alumni funds , national fundraising campaigns and aggressive endowment investing. During the Great Recession of 2008–09, Harvard raised liquid funds by issuing $2.5

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Funding Research for Tier Two Institutions with NSF: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 165 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Sethuraman Panchanathan

The Change Leader, Inc.

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.