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Why Worry?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Campuses as America’s next union battleground. Community colleges failing to fulfill their mission. Campuses struggling with a student mental health crisis. ” We ignore students’ disaffection, alienation, disengagement, and pent-up frustration and anger at our peril. Grave threats to tenure.

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2023 Higher Education Year in Review and 2024 Predictions: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 187 with Host Deborah Maue and Guest Dr. Drumm McNaughton

The Change Leader, Inc.

The federal government’s COVID assistance played a critical role in temporarily sustaining institutions, particularly smaller colleges, which otherwise faced the risk of closure. Strategic Responses and Adaptations In response to these pressures, colleges and universities have adopted various strategies.