Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Image: Fifty percent of Utah Valley University students identify as female, but this wasn’t always the case: historically—and in ways that defied national trends about women’s college achievement—women enrolled and graduated from the university at significantly lower rates than men.

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The Scholarly Teacher

DECEMBER 6, 2023

After school I eagerly asked, “How was your first day?” The good news is that there is a plethora of tips and strategies to help you get started on the right foot. 2014) and extensive material in books dedicated to meeting your students and getting the course off to a good start (e.g., There are research articles (e.g.,

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University Business

APRIL 5, 2024

Hired Andrea Chapdelaine – Connecticut College Andrea Chapdelaine, president of Hood College in Maryland, has been tapped as the incoming leader at Connecticut College. Patricia Draves – Monmouth College (Ill.) Patricia Draves will be embarking on a new chapter as the president of Monmouth College.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 17, 2023

Image: The City College of San Francisco Board of Trustees held an emergency meeting Tuesday to approve funds for much-needed fixes to the heating systems on several campuses. But a new deluge of messages about the problem came this winter. “I had a student last week literally ask me why nobody cares,” Finkelstein said.

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EAB

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Our LGBTQ students’ lives and wellbeing are at risk—here are 5 things campus leaders can do to help. The two of us shared our thoughts with a reporter about how college campuses have been impacted by anti-LGBTQ speech and legislative actions over the past several years. My experience was no different.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Develop copy for a news release or marketing email? How about a blog post on a complex research breakthrough, a compelling profile of a donor or engaging stories about successful alumni? But for university and college marcomm departments, ChatGPT may allow you to work more effectively and efficiently—if you use it wisely.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

But while the state is spending millions to close the gap by expanding access to college credentials and good jobs, those efforts will fall short without a crucial, under-the-radar reform effort—transforming the delivery of developmental education. The student is then placed in a series of courses designed to get them up to speed.

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AIFS Abroad

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Last Updated on October 27, 2023 by Cat Rogliano In the competitive job market, students who majored in liberal arts may ask themselves if their degree was “worth it.” She began as a news anchor in Nashville and Baltimore. Butterfield attributes much of his entrepreneurial success to his liberal arts education.

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Parchment

APRIL 20, 2023

It’s no wonder that Admissions teams seek proven yet adaptable strategies to boost student enrollment, especially as the downward trend has impacted schools. Reaching your school or college admittance targets requires applying a fresh perspective to existing workflows and resources. The undergraduate enrollment rate fell 9.4%

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eLiterate

OCTOBER 20, 2022

First, post-traditional students being recruited aggressively by a surprisingly broad swath of colleges and universities. One could argue this trend started with the MOOCs and with OPMs like 2U moving upmarket, if you consider employed white-collar college graduates as post-traditional. Enrollment shifts.

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Creatrix Campus

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Top Strategies for Improving Student Retention in Higher Education admin Fri, 12/23/2022 - 05:27 It is the rule of Gen Z now. Student Retention is picking up like haywire. The main blowgun to combat this issue would be to walk along with the students, providing help whenever needed.

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SRHE

JANUARY 18, 2023

This year every university and college is putting on its own pantomime. Higher Education Cinderella has been condemned to a life of servitude, enforced by the ugly sisters DfE and the Office for Students (you can’t usually tell them apart). He spends years trying to make his fortune, without success. Cinderella.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 1, 2023

The board was following a new set of principles adopted earlier that year to ensure the namesakes of buildings, colleges and professorships lived up to the university’s values; the trustees decided that Williams, a wealthy tobacco farmer and slave owner, did not. Williams enrolled at what was then called Richmond College in 1848.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 13, 2023

At a holiday party, just weeks after ChatGPT was released, a team leader for a large networking company’s cybersecurity division told me his team had just used ChatGPT to write thousands of lines of code for a project (in just minutes), saving them hundreds of hours of outside contracting. Those are distinctly human jobs.

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University Business

OCTOBER 25, 2022

. “During the listening sessions held on the campuses in Hattiesburg and Long Beach, the campus community spoke clearly and passionately about why Dr. Paul is unquestionably the right person to fill the role on a permanent basis,” said Gee Ogletree, co-chair of the board search committee, in a news release. ” Paul, a Bay St.

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EAB

MAY 23, 2023

In doing so, it has also brought clarity to the question of which challenges are most likely to define near-term enrollment success or failure. This post covers five corresponding strategic priorities for enrollment leaders (also addressed, in much greater depth, in our new insight paper on the topic).

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Higher Ed Connects: Student Success Blogs

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

A student graduates high school, goes on to college, completes his or her degree in four years, and then either continues to grad school or enters the workforce. Student demographics have changed rapidly over the last couple of decades. million undergraduate students are parents. by Shelley Seale. When I enrolled at St.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Turn your workforce into a bunch of precariously employed itinerants, while steadily eroding the number and quality of experiences students will have with the humanities in higher ed, and you’re not looking at a healthy ecosystem in which to bring students into the fold. Uhh…nothing? not two (M.A.), but three (M.F.A)

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 5, 2023

Community colleges failing to fulfill their mission. Campuses struggling with a student mental health crisis. Unionization With Princeton and Stanford next on the graduate student unionization front, it’s clear that universities have become the hotbed of labor organizing. It will change higher education forever.

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Campus Groups

MAY 31, 2022

16 Fun College Orientation Ideas to Encourage Student Engagement in 2022 For many students, college orientation can be their first experience on their own. They may be feeling a little lost in a sea of new faces and places. They may be feeling a little lost in a sea of new faces and places. The good news?

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Higher Ed Connects: Mental Health

JUNE 1, 2019

Mental health issues are a serious, pressing issue on campus today — and one that administrators and leaders need to address with a full arsenal of resources to assist students, faculty, and themselves when needed. As colleges try to meet the growing demand for mental health services, some students are slipping through the cracks.

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EAB

MARCH 24, 2023

From advancement to enrollment to student success , thousands of leaders in the industry are looking for ways to fill roles or restructure just to maintain operations. In addition to base salary improvements, EAB research shows that performance-based incentives can contribute positively to employee morale and overall success.

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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? My mentors worked extensively with doctoral students (David Brion Davis had more than 60); few of us will have as many Ph.D.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Now, many of these presidents are departing just as new challenges are emerging. A clear instance of the emerging challenges can be observed in the case of New College of Florida, where the governor has appointed individuals with strong conservative affiliations to the board.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 18, 2023

Presidents and other higher ed leaders that want their institution to grow and sustain that growth can easily replicate Southeastern University (SEU)’s success. Appreciative inquiry involves asking questions like “Where would you like the college or university to be in the next five years.”

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Parchment

DECEMBER 12, 2023

We take all comers, both the secondary and post-secondary side, and on the post-secondary side we very frequently engage with faculty administrators, deans, as well as those coordinator level folks that are working with students and families day in day out. And that when I get college credit, it actually can translate, right?

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EAB

MARCH 14, 2023

EAB’s Tara Zirkel and Mike Saxvik examine systemic weaknesses within the admissions practices at two-year institutions that allow far too many prospective students to fall through the cracks. I'm a director of strategic research here at EAB with a focus on community colleges. Speaker 1: Hello and welcome to Office Hours with EAB.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JUNE 27, 2023

27 June · Episode 161 High-Outcome Internships in Higher Ed: Bridge the Workforce Gap and Enhance Student Success 32 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton Higher ed needs to provide more accessible, high-outcome internships to meet the current workforce demands and enhance student success.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 9, 2024

The university has established over 1,300 articulation agreements with community colleges across the country. When a student from any of these community colleges applies to Franklin University, the system can instantly inform them about the transferability of their courses into their desired degree program.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MAY 9, 2023

Drumm McNaughton Understanding micro-credentials' value for higher ed institutions, students, and the ever-changing business world can help institutions grow revenue. Micro-credentials are also money-making opportunities for colleges and universities that can help address deficits and fund other pursuits. About the Host Dr.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

19 September · Episode 173 Leveraging PEP and EMI Data to Improve Institutional Value and Student ROI 37 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton What does your institution need to improve to ensure you are providing the best ROI for students and in turn, financial stability for your institution? News & World Report findings.

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Parchment

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

And then also like, how is this helping institutions evolve to meet the needs of students and workforce and all the rest? I think it’s good to be wary, like generally of things that are new and like, let’s make sure like to your point that why are we doing this? It’s at community colleges. What are you after?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

An institution’s value proposition, after all, will necessarily drive its economic model and incentive structure. Those can either be oriented toward, or detract from, student learning and success. News gets to write the rules.”

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 28, 2023

In stark contrast to prevailing trends in higher education, colleges and universities have or are boosting their enrollment, retention, and graduation rates by improving their students’ sense of belonging, student support services, student-faculty relationships, and career readiness programs.

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EAB

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Blogs 30 Student Success Priorities for the 2020s All my attention over the last two years has been spent studying the future of students and student success as we emerge from the pandemic. Notably, I am monitoring three macro trends that will converge in the mid-2020s and reshape the student success landscape.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Even as we fixate on headline news, the true drivers of transformation occur out of sight. Hyperbolic and apocalyptic headlines to the contrary, the news isn’t all bad. The cost of college has stopped rising faster than inflation for the first time since the 1980s. Supreme Court decision on affirmative action.

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EAB

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Blogs 30 Student Success Priorities for the 2020s All my attention over the last two years has been spent studying the future of students and student success as we emerge from the pandemic. Notably, I am monitoring three macro trends that will converge in the mid-2020s and reshape the student success landscape.

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