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Understanding Higher Education’s Enrollment Cliff, Trough and Recovery

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Blog: Just Explain It to Me! The 2012–13 academic year presented an opportunity of a lifetime for me as an American Council on Education Fellow (#administratorwannabe #becarefulwhatyouwishfor)—a year to study higher education without the burden of a day job (a sabbatical for administrators).

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Can Art History Be Taught Without Someone Becoming Angry?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Blog: Just Explain It to Me! In art history classes, more than one exasperated student has screamed at me, “It’s just a chair. ” All these responses and more have made me consider the question, “Can art be experienced or art history taught without someone becoming angry?”

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My Take on the AP African American Studies Course Framework and the American Historical Review’s 1619 Forum

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma I have been fortunate to have a perch on which to write about a host of highly charged issues that matter a great deal to me. Let me discuss both of these documents in turn. Given the AP’s importance, let me do my best to evaluate the African American Studies framework.

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The Challenges of International Credential Evaluation

Parchment

You can’t just, you know, shoot from the hip and say, well, they speak English, so they must kind of be very similar to our system. So these are the important factors to take into consideration, as well as just continuous changes that happen in other countries’ education systems. We have Canada is not one uniform system.

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Poverty, Inc.

Hope College Network

Most people, like me, and like the producers of Poverty, Inc. Now, I am about to offer up some of my own opinions and thoughts after watching this movie; I apologize if I hurt your feelings, but here it goes. It’s extremely important to note that that “teenager” David was describing was probably me.

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How Marketing Can Help Ahead of the Enrollment Cliff

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Blog: Call to Action: Marketing and Communications in Higher Education Two years. Invest in Branding Efforts Nearly 75 percent of the participants I visited with had just completed a brand refresh or were undertaking one. “Brand is always important. Don’t Forget About Trying New Things Tik Tok. New platforms pop up.

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EdTech Malaise: “He Not Busy Born is Busy Dying”

eLiterate

I’ve been having trouble blogging lately. But nothing I’ve come across has convinced me that we actually know. Part of it has been that I’ve spent the last two years heads-down, building a business. But now that I’m looking around, I don’t see much happening in EdTech. Plenty is happening in that arena.