Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 4, 2023

Although the pandemic has negatively impacted enrollment across the world of higher education, the drops for minoritized men at community colleges have been especially precipitous. They discussed their ideas Thursday at a panel co-sponsored by CCEAL and the Association of Community College Trustees.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 14, 2023

Lately, university governing boards around the country have been considering the balance and diversity of intellectual scholarship in the institutions they oversee. That takes us to issues of higher education governance—a process that is often tediously slow and too often inefficient but nevertheless the way we do business today.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

In a recent informal survey of high school counselors conducted by the international admission team at Amherst College, which I lead, more than 80 percent of the 82 Chinese international high schools represented said they planned on hosting admission visitors in the upcoming spring semester.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 12, 2023

Since any associated policy changes could affect a much wider set of services than originally expected, we thought that we’d use this space to share what we think are the key points that university leaders across higher education need to understand about the potential impact of recent and anticipated actions by the federal government.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 27, 2023

Working together, educational institutions can create more accessible and effective pathways for students to enter high-demand career fields. Twenty-four years later, stakeholders are still seeing evidence of community colleges expanding their role in school reform, especially in the State of Missouri.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The 4,155-page draft spending plan, unveiled early Tuesday morning, will be voted on this week as lawmakers in the Senate and House of Representatives plan to work quickly to avoid a government shutdown. The resolution currently funding the government expires Dec. “We had hoped for a larger increase in those programs.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 3, 2023

The adopted budget does increase funding for a range of federal higher education programs, including $137 million more for historically underresourced institutions, but it keeps funding flat for the Office of Federal Student Aid. They weren’t making big, bold strokes in this budget.

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