Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Can a research-intensive university also be learning- and learner-centered, as dedicated to the quality of students’ educational experience as it is to scholarship, publication and invention? ” However, our campuses and our faculty roles have changed dramatically in the last few decades.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 14, 2023

Image: A debate over how to achieve pay parity between two groups of faculty members has left lingering tensions among professors in the Maricopa Community College District in Arizona. Adjuncts who work as service faculty currently make $53 per hour, and those who only teach earn $32 per hour.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The college will have its own dean of students, director, counselors, academic advisors, and outreach and support staff, and it will draw from existing faculty who have “a demonstrated record of success in teaching Black students,” said Wood. Wood — whose research focuses on racial equity in education — saw an opportunity.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

You need a better content library. In response to our discussion, the Enroll360 creative team crowdsourced a list of tips and suggestions for enrollment and marketing teams who want to create the ideal asset library. What is an asset library? 7 Tenets of an Effective Campaign Asset Library. Mind the minimum quality.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

A special feature section from CUNY's Hunter College in the report about the rise in labor activity in higher ed from 2022 to 2023 illustrates the quickening pace of student worker organizing, to that degree that in the past year and a half, student worker unionization growth has surpassed that of faculty.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2023

Academic work requires material access to information in libraries, and other resources like computers and (relatively quiet) space in which to write. Gramsci, toiling away at his notebooks in his prison cell, and other geniuses who have done important research and literary creation under the hardest circumstances, are the exceptions.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 6, 2023

Image: DENVER—As snow fell from gray skies on Tuesday, higher education professionals, publishers, librarians, information technologists, government researchers and others met this week for the Coalition for Networked Information spring membership meeting. Budget cuts—real or imagined—are not the only challenge.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 29, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation In an email response to my piece “ How Do Academic Libraries Spend Their Money? ” David Lewis took me to task for not doing the necessary research to answer the questions posed. Academic libraries are going to change and if you work in them, you will need to grow and change as well.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

David Johns, NBJC; Dr. Ellen Pinderhughes, Tufts University; Angela Patton, Girls for a Change; and Eunique Jones Gibson, Because of Them, We Can Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty members: “In the words of Wilma Rudolph, ‘never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

We’re looking at creating a national clearinghouse of diversity, BIPOC [Black, Indigenous, People of Color] initiatives for minoritized students, faculty and staff at universities,” said Byrd. There’s diversity happening among students, where the pipeline is slowing down is at the faculty level.” We’ve not seen the growth that we want.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2023

Burwell also steered the campus through several racial controversies, including a 2019 incident in which campus police officers forcibly removed a Black student from a university apartment, and the 2023 discovery of a racist message written on a library whiteboard. Burwell has developed an increasingly diverse group of advisors.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2023

Burwell also steered the campus through several racial controversies, including a 2019 incident in which campus police officers forcibly removed a Black student from a university apartment, and the 2023 discovery of a racist message written on a library whiteboard. Burwell has developed an increasingly diverse group of advisors.

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Great College Advice

JANUARY 16, 2024

Nationwide, liberal arts colleges average 11 students per faculty member. You might grab a coffee with them after class to discuss your research paper. Faculty incentives are different in liberal arts college than in major research universities. But many liberal arts professors don’t stop there.

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University Business

JANUARY 17, 2023

In fact, a 2022 Cengage survey of 641 US institutions found that 97% of institutions reported using faculty with no prior online teaching experience for some of their courses. Fortunately, online teaching is a competency that instructors, faculty, and staff can develop over time with the right support. Build circles of peer support.

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University Business

MARCH 13, 2023

Higher education enrollment at Northeastern schools has collectively fallen into a downward spiral since at least 2017, a phenomenon that has plagued every region since the pandemic, according to National Student Clearinghouse Research Center data. Vermont’s public four-year institutions in fall 2022; however, hit a whopping 12.2%

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University Business

APRIL 3, 2024

Gordian, a facility and construction management leader, analyzed its extensive higher education database, conducted qualitative research on campuses and spoke with facilities services leaders to examine how colleges and universities are managing their physical space three years removed from the disruption of the pandemic.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

million research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The faculty and staff overseeing EPW know each student personally. “I Through partnerships with organizations such as the aerospace and defense technology company Northrop Grumman, EPW is able to offer internships and research opportunities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 6, 2023

based attorney who served as Ogletree’s research assistant during his time as a student at Harvard Law School. “He Charles, an expert in constitutional law, election law, and race who joined the Harvard Law faculty in July 2021, currently serves as the inaugural Charles J. Guy-Uriel E. Ogletree, Jr. Professor of Law.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 6, 2023

KWU’s student success coaching program gives students a personal connection to library resources and its personnel, which in turn boosts retention, says student success center director JD Koons. Each coach is affiliated with one of KWU’s majors. Nationally, retention is a bit higher; about 66.4

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Great College Advice

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The library may be on limited hours if it is open at all. Faculty leave town and go on their own vacations. Make sure you do your research and look at the school’s campus tour calendar. The winter holiday is not the best time for college tours Winter holiday break is just as bad, if not worse.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 13, 2023

In addition to Decatur at the Museum of Natural History, Daniel Weiss at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Tony Marx at the New York Public Library; Karen Lawrence at the Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens in California; and Dan Porterfield at the Aspen Institute all served as liberal arts college presidents.

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Robert Kelchen

JANUARY 3, 2024

This spring, I get to teach my PhD class in higher education finance again—the eighth time that I have taught it in my eleven-year faculty career. National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 27885. Educational Researcher. National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 31291. Research in Higher Education.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 21, 2023

At Queens College, part of the City University of New York, a faculty member has teamed up with two students—one of them neurodivergent herself—to create a virtual resource hub for supporting neurodivergent students. When faculty and staff are supported, they can do a better job of supporting students.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 12, 2023

Faculty are also restricted in the number of materials that they can bring into prisons, as well as what type. It was hard for you to concentrate and dig deep in the research that you were most passionate about,” he said. It becomes a normal thing, just like a law library,” he said. “I

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Image: Last week, Vermont State University announced plans for an “all-digital” academic library when the new institution, formed from the consolidation of three colleges, officially launches on July 1. “What we heard was that they need and want access to library resources where they are, whether on or off campus.”

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EAB

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The good news is parents of alumni, community members, and the dedicated faculty and staff at your institution all represent promising contributors. EAB enrollment research has shown that they have become increasingly involved in their children's college experiences, forming a deep personal connection with your institution.

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University Business

MARCH 24, 2023

If you’re still remotely skeptical about whether the explosive developments in AI will impact higher education, a recent academic study done by researchers from Princeton, New York University and the University of Pennsylvania may finally cause you to embrace the new horizons. Library Science Teachers, Postsecondary 10.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Image: Against the backdrop of headlines blaring news about declining community college enrollments, one bright spot has emerged: community college students, faculty and administrators are broadly aligned in their enthusiasm for the digital transformation that has occurred at their institutions since the start of the pandemic.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

of all NIH-funded studies concerned LGBTQ+ health—excluding projects about HIV/AIDS and other sexual health matters, according to the National Library of Medicine. For every $100 awarded by U.S. Additionally, only 0.1%

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 6, 2023

Our units and service areas include credit programs, summer sessions, professional and community programs, online program services, a research hub, and a conference center. And for other academics who might want to consider an alternative path to a traditional tenure track faculty career, what advice can you share?

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College for Creative Study

OCTOBER 24, 2023

He quickly recognized the need to adapt and implement guardrails for AI usage so that students and faculty have the ability to use AI as a process tool, but can continue to produce original high quality art and design work. Over the course of one year, CCS systematically researched, surveyed and crafted a robust plan for broadscale AI usage.

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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.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

WIMSE participants can also join the WIMSE Society, which offers the Research Experience Program and other service and research opportunities. Denison University—The Homestead Researchers looking for a hands-on approach to ecological sustainability find themselves at home on Denison’s Homestead.

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Creatrix Campus

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Additionally, the HEC encourages collaboration between higher education institutions and industry, supports and promotes research in higher education, and works to enhance the international visibility of Bahrain's higher education system.

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Great College Advice

JULY 26, 2023

Think about and research the educational opportunities that are offered at the school. specific research facilities, academic centers, specialized libraries, and/or study abroad). Do your research Before you ever start typing your response to this essay question, know what you are talking about. is to do your research.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 16, 2023

An essay that builds on the ChatGPT foundation, supplemented with additional research that must be cited in a bibliography. I recently attended a collegewide discussion of ChatGPT’s teaching implications, and I was struck by the exasperated faculty participants’ intense and insistent negativism.

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University Business

APRIL 14, 2023

Grewal, however, faced student, faculty and community backlash for his plans to reformat their library systems into an “all-digital” model that would have eliminated several full-time positions and a huge selection of its books. and more recently as interim associate vice president at Alabama A&M University in Huntsville.

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