Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

We’re changing the landscape of how community colleges serve underserved students,” says Espiritu. “We Having cohorts here is really important, especially for engineering and computer science because it’s a community that supports each other.” I care more than just graduation at community college.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 17, 2023

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean Some great responses from readers came in this week! Another reader referred me to this piece by Kevin Dickinson, which covers both the Japanese concept of tsundoku and Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s notion of an “anti-library.”

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Financial Aid Libraries Academic Administration Community College 40

Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 6, 2023

Over time, my roles on campus shifted across units and evolved to include a wide range of administrative experiences in school units, from finance and HR to research support and event management to even a library.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The interviewees were successful comebackers from California State University, Sacramento State and the Shasta-Tehama-Trinity Joint Community College District. For students who had a high number of college credits, raising their GPA above the 2.0

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

In addition to the content from the subject-matter expertise and professional skills development sessions, the fellows also had access to EAB’s research library and experts, and they were paired with a partner to help develop ideas and get feedback along the way.

Budget and Finance Management 52

Budget and Finance Management Marketing and Communication Services Enrollment Management Higher Education 52

EAB

JANUARY 30, 2023

Moderately selective institutions were also significantly more interested than other types of schools in “ nonconsumption ”—the phenomenon of high school graduates choosing not to pursue college. This result is surprising.

Marketing and Communication Services 52

Marketing and Communication Services Recruitment Admissions Utilities 52

Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Vann Woodward stopping me in Yale’s Sterling Library and asking what I thought about Clement Eaton’s Freedom of Thought in the Old South , which I awkwardly likened to Woodward’s Strange Career of Jim Crow. None were pedagogues; they were mentors, who treated me as if I had ideas worth considering. I still vividly recall C.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

“Nothing made me question my life choices more than knowing that my hours spent cleaning other people’s toilets to put myself through college weren’t enough—and that my hours spent earning a degree didn’t matter…they were telling me that higher education was something I simply could not afford.”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 29, 2023

Image: Howard Community College in Maryland opened its first family-friendly study space on campus earlier this month. How it happened: Howard president Daria Willis got the idea for the space when she toured the library last year upon beginning her tenure at the college.

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Libraries Community College Financial Aid Engineering 52

Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 2, 2023

Should unpaid parking tickets or housing and library fees result in a registration hold, she asks, “or should students be penalized based on that resource—car being towed, housing contracts revoked and library privileges removed?” ” What about financial holds?

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Financial Aid Bursar Libraries Academic Advising 105

Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

For decades, colleges have consolidated many of their admissions and enrollment services functions under a single umbrella office—including, but not limited to, the bursar, the registrar, the cashier’s office and financial aid.

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Veteran and Military Services Financial Aid Bursar Student Affairs 105

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 5, 2023

We can now see clearly: food insecurity and homelessness are affecting students everywhere, at all types of colleges and universities. Despite federal and state financial aid, 23% of undergraduates, an estimated 4 million nationally, lack the resources to afford adequate food on a regular basis.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Editor (2009-15) and Associate Editor(1982-2009), American Library Association Newsletter on Intellectual Freedom. They certify federal financial aid. And that got me really interested in issues of intellectual freedom, free speech, and, once I did get back into academia, academic freedom.

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