Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Lennor Johnson, president and superintendent of Imperial Valley College in El Centro, California. Student housing is extremely rare at community colleges in California, although affordable housing is increasingly hard to find. million attendees, current housing capacity exists for only 2,369 students.

Student Housing 246

Student Housing Community College Food Higher Education 246

Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 20, 2023

I’m not referring here to faculty salaries or reduced teaching loads or class size or breadth of programs or extensive support services—all of which are good things (within limits). Meanwhile, expenditures on administration, even excluding student services and student life, have increased markedly.

Higher Education 112

Higher Education Development and Fund Raising Fundraising Education 112

Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 13, 2023

For all their talk about caring for individual student’s well-being, most institutions failed to do much to accommodate differences in students’ interests or talents or to offer personalized or customized support services. Their student life initiatives support and reinforce their academic offerings.

Support Services 112

Support Services Faculty Social Justice Financial Aid 112

Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 2, 2023

And yet, I worry that a relationship-rich college experience is a pipedream, what with teaching delivered, in large part, by adjuncts, post-docs, and graduate students, faculty torn between their teaching, research, and family obligations, support services severely understaffed, and mentoring largely unrecognized and unrewarded.

Athletics and Campus Recreation 75

Athletics and Campus Recreation Development and Fund Raising Education Faculty 75