Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 13, 2023

” Lieber hasn’t yet been sentenced for his December 2021 convictions for knowingly making false statements to the federal government, willfully filing false tax returns and willfully not disclosing that he had authority over a Chinese bank account. He was set to be sentenced March 2, but that is being rescheduled.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

But some well-regarded universities conduct little research, while some of the world’s most exalted teaching and research institutions do not call themselves universities. The other universities that failed to achieve 50 percent—Bond, Federation and Notre Dame Australia—are due for re-registration in 2024 or 2025.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 5, 2023

Community colleges failing to fulfill their mission. ” Although the AAUP is highly concerned about post-tenure review programs that could lead to faculty members’ termination, it is even more concerned about the replacement of tenured with contingent positions, said the organization’s senior researcher.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 27, 2023

The Congressional Budget Office, Congress’s nonpartisan research arm, has estimated it could cost the federal government $400 billion over 30 years. The Education Department has said the one-time debt relief would cost $300 billion over the next 10 years.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 20, 2023

Events in the Sunshine State also reflect an ongoing legal debate over the extent that First Amendment rights apply to public college and university professors in carrying out their teaching, research and service duties. In fact, this argument has already been extended to Florida institutions.

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University Business

JULY 6, 2023

According to research from University Professional and Continuing Education Association , institutions are reviewing their existing programs to tighten the pathway to certifications and jobs. Private training providers are one way to create those pathways.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

These findings , from a survey conducted by Inside Higher Ed and College Pulse and sponsored by Kaplan, are consistent with research literature on climate anxiety , which is especially prominent among younger adults. More generally, research shows that fear has only limited power in inspiring action.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

I am particularly concerned about my own institution, Bloomfield College, in New Jersey. We are recognized by the federal government as both a predominantly Black institution and as a Hispanic-serving institution. Unfortunately, like many small private colleges in recent years, Bloomfield has struggled financially.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 13, 2023

One of the complexities of college leadership is that a president typically has approximately nine different constituencies (students, parents, alumni, donors, faculty, staff, local, state and federal government, at the least) whose views are not only not aligned, but frequently diametrically opposed to one another.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 10, 2023

An excellent and diverse faculty is vital to individual colleges and universities and to our communities, states, nation and globe. A diverse faculty brings diverse perspectives, and these diverse perspectives enhance teaching and advising, research and scholarship, clinical practice, and engagement with the community and world.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2024

Of the nearly $50 billion of federal government annual awards in research and development, less than 0.5%, or about $400 million, is awarded to all HBCUs combined,” said Trent. She insisted that HBCUs need to do and present their own research and define and document their successes in their own terms.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

They will face questions about the unpredictable direction of federal government rhetoric and policies toward Chinese students. as it faces a looming demographic cliff that will likely drive down demand for a college education domestically and hurt its leading role in global innovation and scientific research.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 30, 2023

National organizations such as AACRAO, ACE, CHEA, the federal government, the Beyond Transfer Policy Advisory Board and more are asking for institutions to look inward, redefine transfer and engage in transfer reform and reset. Jeff Weber is an AACRAO member with more than 30 years of experience in higher education policy and research.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 14, 2023

In a 2018 Pew Research Center poll , 61 percent of Americans said they believe higher education in the U.S. Among those, 81 percent said one reason is that “colleges and universities are too concerned about protecting students from views they might find offensive. is going in the wrong direction.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

These schools and their leaders have an extraordinary opportunity to work with the federal government to support those students—and it doesn’t require new institutional spending or a new Higher Education Act. Yet there is an enormous SNAP gap in program utilization.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 21, 2023

Drumm McNaughton discusses the misconceptions and essential roles these institutions have in their communities with Executive Director Dr. Andrew Koricich of the Alliance for Research on Regional Colleges, a research collaborative and resource hub that has completed the insurmountable task of defining what rural-serving institutions are.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 27, 2023

Twenty-four years later, stakeholders are still seeing evidence of community colleges expanding their role in school reform, especially in the State of Missouri. These agencies consist of high schools, a state technical college, community colleges, four-year institutions, two state agencies and career centers.

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EAB

MAY 23, 2023

EAB’s Tara Zirkel is joined by Center for Community College Student Engagement Executive Director Dr. Linda Garcia, as well as Associate Director of Publications, Dr. Courtney Adkins, to discuss new research on student engagement. I'm Tara Zirkel, a Director of Strategic Research at EAB.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 27, 2023

The center now counts about 315 such programs, though that amounts to a presence at less than 10 percent of colleges and universities. Proponents of expanding the number of programs point to research showing greatly improved employment outcomes for students, who also learn skills to help them live independently and be less reliant on family.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MAY 31, 2023

In his latest podcast episode, Dr. Drumm McNaughton talks with two CEW professors who worked on the study, Research Professor of Education and Economics Dr. Zack Mabel and Associate Director of Editorial Policy and Senior Editor/Writer Kathryn Campbell.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Broadly, organizations representing nonprofit colleges and universities urged the department to rethink its plans, while for-profit colleges advocated for metrics that would cover all sectors of higher education. Researchers at New America wrote that the department should make the list more consequential.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 15, 2023

“It has traditionally proven to be a really powerful tool for law enforcement to hold schools accountable in instances where their agents are lying to students and using deceptive tactics to get people to enroll,” said Ben Kaufman, director of research and investigations for the Student Borrower Protection Center.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Most notably, he was the Director of the Administration’s College Scorecard, an initiative focused on higher education transparency and accountability. billion in grants and establish policy for nearly $120 billion in Federal student aid every year. You can be someone who’s interested in where to go or a researcher.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The surveys I and many other researchers fielded to try and put numbers to the challenge could only shed partial light, since most colleges and universities refused to participate. But finally, in spring 2020, the federal government asked undergraduates if they had enough to eat or a safe place to sleep.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 4, 2023

The $64,000 question is how institutions can do all these things as well as their existing functions (like research and graduate and professional education) without pricing themselves out of business. The state and federal governments should defund programs and penalize institutions that fail to meet certain gainful-employment standards.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 29, 2023

“The most endowed higher education institutions have all the whistles and bells, and the lower income institutions like the ones we represent don’t get enough support from the federal government or from the states to make up for those inequities that exist in communities. So, its kind of a perpetuation of the inequality.”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 23, 2023

Image: Disinformation researchers at several U.S. universities are getting swept up in House Republicans’ investigation into the “weaponization” of the federal government. Centers at the three universities research disinformation online and how to stop it from spreading.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Over the last two decades, our nation’s community colleges have received increasing recognition, and for good reason. Community college students are more likely to be Black, Hispanic, and from lower-income backgrounds than four-year students. Why should new reform efforts focus on leadership?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 2, 2023

Consider that, under TCJA, some of the wealthiest private colleges and universities are paying tens of millions of dollars of excise tax annually on their endowment income. Iler is assistant director of institutional research at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.

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Edu Alliance Journal

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

American higher education overall has 39 million people with Some College, No Credential (SCNC) as of July 2020 according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. The most recent study dated 2017 shows the following: 30% of first-year students drop out before their second year of college. Conclusion.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

DECEMBER 21, 2022

“We are thrilled that Congress provided the $500 increase,” said David Baime, senior vice president for government relations for the American Association of Community Colleges. “It will significantly help low-income students finance community college.”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 13, 2023

But first the department must decide how to determine which programs have low financial value—a question that’s been the subject of much research but no clear consensus. We’ve been trying to avoid this now for over a decade … We can’t continue to punt this to the federal level.”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 24, 2023

Meanwhile, admissions to the more selective institutions became much more competitive and the market for students became less local, but students from lower-income backgrounds were increasingly concentrated in the colleges with the fewest resources. Don’t just be a teacher or a research or a scholar. Be a transformer.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 11, 2023

Preston Cooper, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, a market-friendly think tank, said the department’s estimate should be considered on the low end of what the revamped IDR will eventually cost. Over all, the changes are expected to have a net budget impact of $137.9

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Higher Education Inquirer

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

As part of a democratic process, we ask readers to be involved in the research and writing of this project. The examination aims to: define and operationalize the concept of fascism, investigate the roots of American fascism since the 17th century, and chronicle the most important cases of fascism in US higher education today.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 11, 2023

Unlike the federal government, which must often use its spending power to influence education policy due to its historically limited authority over education, state governments have more direct control over substantive education policy. Constitution, the federal government in fact plays a substantial role in higher education.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 3, 2023

“We hoped for more support than that,” said David Baime, senior vice president for government relations for the American Association of Community Colleges. Retiring senators sent millions to the colleges and universities in their home states. In the end, Congress gave $2.5 Loan Forgiveness.

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