Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 8, 2024

Joshua Reda There are also students who don’t have stable or consistent homes who want a place to reside while pursuing their education. Presently, about 10% of CMCC’s student population reside in residential housing. The college has slightly over 3,000 degree-seeking students and a total of 4,000 students.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

This is often used as an opportunity to present the syllabus as a “contract” and to make course policies and penalties clear to students. But what if the syllabus were seen as a critical tool for student engagement and success and used as an opportunity to set the tone for a positive learning environment?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 3, 2023

Nostalgia doesn’t help us live in the present, though. The significant improvement in wages and benefits for teaching assistants, graduate student researchers and postdoctoral scholars are milestone changes, marking an important victory for organized labor. New contracts take time to implement.

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SRHE

JULY 5, 2022

This blog post picks up three doctoral borderland trajectories taken by some of the SRHE symposium presenters. This desire for ‘belonging’ in the academy has seen them take up casualised contracts with the hope that they would one day land up a permanent contract. Harry Rolf.

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