Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Dartmouth’s Admissions Dean on the Return to Testing Liam Knox Wed, 02/07/2024 - 03:00 AM Admissions dean Lee Coffin spoke with Inside Higher Ed about the data behind Dartmouth’s decision to reinstate standardized testing, and more. Byline(s) Liam Knox

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 23, 2024

Connecticut could become the first state in the country to ban legacy admissions, reports CT Insider. Derek Slap, who chairs the legislature's Higher Education Committee. "I This is really about fairness," Kelly said. Derek Slap Legacy admissions gives priority to students whose family members once attended.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 12, 2023

How many times have you seen something about “ways to increase students’ sense of belongingness lately”? I see it everywhere, especially within higher education. We have finally come to the conclusion that the way that higher education institutions make people feel matters. Isn’t that what higher education is really about?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 1, 2023

Within the academy, the field of higher education, it is not difficult to find examples of racism in the form of micro-civilities, or implicit bias. Hilton Micro-civilities are a problem having detrimental impacts on professionals seeking a successful career path in higher education. Dr. Adriel A. Do I have a solution? Am I frustrated?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 29, 2024

Dr. Jamie Washington Washington connects all these responsibilities and commitments with a very simple but unifying approach: find the humanity inside everyone. “I There’s something about him — it’s magical. And the thing that impressed me so much about Jamie was, he got it immediately.” It helped me navigate higher education.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 19, 2023

Issues about religion and academic freedom remain a tough balancing act for higher education. Hear Inside Higher Ed Editors Scott Jaschik and Doug Lederman's take on this modern case study about academic freedom on college campuses. Insider members, log in and click below to register.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 15, 2024

This week’s episode of The Key, Inside Higher Ed’s news and analysis podcast, features a conversation about some of the hottest news developments unfolding in higher education today.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Voices of Student Success, a six-episode series focused on student retention, engagement and graduation in higher education, takes over this week’s episode of The Key, Inside Higher Ed’s news and analysis podcast. The episode features two higher education professionals, Mike Krause from the John M.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 18, 2024

Any conversation about technology has to start with the society that gives rise to tech, the pre-existing forms of stratification that get encoded in digital systems,” said Benjamin. Benjamin encouraged listeners to think carefully about the labor behind apps used every day, whether its Amazon or a food delivery service.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Similarly, the higher education reforms signed into law by Florida Gov. Agyemang Amofa Prempeh Several faculty members in Florida have expressed their concerns that these new higher education reforms may hinder the recruitment of faculty members and enrollment of students in state colleges or universities. Combat negative stereotypes.

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Hanover Research

APRIL 11, 2023

Findings of the survey, conducted in conjunction with Hanover Research, reveal that campus chief executives fully recognize the strains and pressures prompting many observers to question the viability of hundreds of institutions and to worry about the state of higher education generally.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

He brings outstanding results in growing enrollment, increasing student and faculty diversity, developing innovative programs, and forging beneficial partnerships inside and outside the academy," added Montgomery. Vincent, president of Talladega College, a historically Black institution in Alabama.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2023

“If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near.” Alexander is already thinking about other ways in which technology can assist students, faculty, and staff, like making advising more efficient, providing early alerts for academically at-risk students, or even improving student socializing. “I

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Campus Sonar

MARCH 7, 2024

Its prospectus highlights the impact the anonymous forum site has on public trust—and how higher education leaders can leverage the insight within its 17 billion posts and comments to rebuild trust and inform a proactive, audience-centric market strategy. People already trust Reddit.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 30, 2023

One of the realities of moving up the executive leadership ranks, whether in higher education or other sectors, is that the higher you ascend, the fewer people you have with whom to commensurate or in whom to confide. At its core, fit is about having a coach whose commitment and experience align with your interests and needs.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

After Business Insider suggested Neri Oxman—a prominent MIT grad and wife of billionaire philanthropist William Ackman—had plagiarized in her dissertation, Ackman promised to leverage AI capabilities to review the published work of all of MIT’s faculty, its president and the work of the faculties at other Ivy Leagues.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Does the possible sale of the University of Phoenix to a public university system signal the demise of the for-profit higher education sector that Phoenix once epitomized?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

DECEMBER 19, 2022

They weren't worried about whether they would still be able to graduate; the email sent Nov. More than anything, the students were worried about their own development as music educators. Typically, the student said, they oversee about 20 students. With no incoming class, they wondered, who would they conduct? During the Nov.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 9, 2023

We weren’t graduating,” said the master’s candidate in higher education student affairs at the Morgan State University School of Education & Urban Studies. I didn’t really have a lot of mentors growing up who were in higher ed or had any idea what research was. I saw that people that looked like me did not matriculate.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

At the start of 2020, there was robust availability of online higher education, but no one anticipated that a worldwide pandemic called COVID-19 would soon usher in a new world of distance learning. “The The university purchased PlayPosit, which enabled faculty to embed questions inside the videos to ensure that students watched.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

If you focus on minoritized populations, there’s a lack of understanding about why this research is relevant,” she says. She was even told that she focused too much on race in a class about diversity. Steele was able to consult her cluster-mates for advice inside and outside of the classroom. “We The experience was isolating.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Don Lemon in conversation with Bomani Jones said, “ I kinda feel like we’re talking about family business in front of everybody ”, and he was correct! Many of the individuals who have thrown their useless opinions about would most likely disagree or scowl at such an accusation. Dr. Frederick V. HBCUs lack the resources….HBCUs

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Weston In the classic fairy tale Goldilocks and the Three Bears readers are introduced to a little girl who happens upon a cottage in the forest where she boldly invites herself inside to explore. In a 2018 article titled, "About Fat Campus" students also articulated similar experiences.

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Great College Advice

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

College Application Process The United States of America’s higher education sector is subject to constant change and surfing these changes requires an optimistic mindset. They help you learn about the academic offerings and campus culture in detail. Ready then? Let’s go! Key Steps in the U.S.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 13, 2023

Confidence in higher ed is low. I imagine that readers of Inside Higher Ed heard the news that the Gallup survey on public confidence in institutions registered the lowest level of confidence in higher education in the survey’s history. It’s best to ignore that and get to work.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Image: An English professor at Palm Beach Atlantic University said his teaching contract has been put on hold after complaints about his instruction on race and racism. He said that the letter inside was to notify me that my contract was being delayed pending a review of the material I use in my racial justice unit. “On Feb.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JUNE 5, 2023

When I began writing recently for Inside Higher Ed about career opportunities beyond academe, my first essay mentioned a sentiment that is pervasive among Ph.D. students struggle to identify such positions outside the professoriate, writes Jocelyn Frelier, who recommends a few key questions to help get started.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

A connection to Compton It’s impossible to talk about Howard’s impressive and meteoric rise, both in and outside of academe, without interrogating Compton’s impact on his life. He has been spending lots of time thinking about what happens to deteriorating neighborhoods over time. “As He was elected and served a three-year term.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 6, 2023

Get inspired by this incredible conversation about leadership with University of Maryland Baltimore County President Valerie Sheares Ashby, Bridget Burns from University Innovation Alliance (UIA) and Doug Lederman from Inside Higher Ed.

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JANUARY 10, 2023

Podcasts are booming, and higher ed podcasts are no exception. We rounded up ten of our favorite higher ed podcasts that capture some of the most pressing issues facing today’s institutions. The Best Higher Ed Podcasts For 2023. Read on for our picks and a brief synopsis of each show!

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

miles from campus, but in Nashville traffic, the commute took about an hour. “We recognize The Broadview may not be suitable for all graduate and professional students for a variety of reasons, and we hope to broaden the types of housing available in the future,” Vanderbilt told Inside Higher Ed in an emailed statement.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

“It’s still an open investigation,” Oubré told Inside Higher Ed regarding the threats. He added that he didn’t “feel comfortable talking about what those concerns are” that drove his decision. ” Critics who spoke with Inside Higher Ed raised concerns largely unrelated to DEI.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

This week’s episode of The Syllabus, from the Office of Open Learning at American Jewish University and Inside Higher Ed, features a discussion with David French, a New York Times columnist Raphi Gold, about what he calls the "moral collapse" at Liberty University and what it says about the state of

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The Scholarly Teacher

APRIL 24, 2024

Harvard’s bell curve design transformed over the decades into an A–F grading method most American teachers in kindergarten through higher education still use today. Students pursuing higher education present with many unique strengths, barriers, and other factors that make up the whole. Inside Higher Ed. Accessed 2 Dec.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 20, 2023

Image: Last month, more than 20 years after the Archives of Sexual Behavior published research surveying gay people about whether they were molested as children—and whether they identified as gay before or after—a note appeared online. Zucker, the editor of Archives of Sexual Behavior , told Inside Higher Ed.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Join us for this fantastic Weekly Wisdom conversation with the Interim Chancellor of the California State University Jolene Koester, CEO Bridget Burns of University Innovation Alliance (UIA) and Editor Doug Lederman from Inside Higher Ed. The show was broadcast live on Monday, February 27, 2023.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2023

It is World Series time, so why not devote a blog post to one of the most fascinating inside baseball conversations within higher education? After multiple blue-ribbon panels and meetings across the higher education industry, ACE gave the public the first glimpse of what the Carnegie classifications may look like in 2025.

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