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The Policy, Research, & Practice Disconnect

Dr. Al Solano

The disconnect between policy, research, and practice is extraordinarily real for college practitioners. The intersection of policy, research, and practice at the center of this Venn diagram is often an illusion. A recent research paper analyzed community college institutional research office mission statements.

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AAC&U Suggests Ways to Align Open Educational Resources and DEI Goals

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The report, co-published by the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education, is based on research done on the 66 colleges, universities, and state systems that were part of AAC&U’s first Institute on Open Educational Resources, which took place between 2021 and 2022.

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Transformational Change: Challenges & Opportunities

Dr. Al Solano

There's also another interesting "sub-culture" dynamic at many campuses: groups of racial equity educators who sabotage developmental ed reform and guided pathways efforts in general, egged on for years by some university equity researchers. According to his research, change in attitudes follows or accompanies gradual change in behavior.