Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 29, 2023

Drawing on his corporate experience, Wingard wrote an opinion piece for Inside Higher Ed last year arguing that “ higher ed must change or die.” Wingard also taught at Temple on topics such as management and leadership.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 6, 2023

” ”A degree is not merely a piece of paper; it is a ‘university’s certification to the world at large of the recipient’s educational achievement and fulfillment of the institution’s standards,’” she wrote, quoting a previous opinion. “My client has absolutely nothing to be ashamed of.”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 15, 2023

But when there are diverging opinions on campus about whether an institution is either a “great employer” or utterly “failing [its] workers,” the seeds of labor activism and unrest will find fertile ground to grow.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 2, 2023

Section: Diversity Editorial Tags: Affirmative action/racial preferences Is this diversity newsletter?: Historian of education Jonathan Zimmerman’s superficial commentary on “affirmative action and anti-Asian bias” (Dec. 12) demands a response. Professor Emeritus of English and History. Disable left side advertisement?:

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 28, 2023

Much ink has recently been spilled about the silencing of unwelcome opinions on both sides of the political debate—an artificial construct of the aggressive “woke” left versus the anti-intellectual, ultraconservative right. What we as educators do is to open and facilitate productive debate, not close it off.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 13, 2023

Erin Shankel, president of the Faculty Senate, said there are “as many opinions as there are people" among her Belmont colleagues. “We don’t share one doctrine, so there’s room for a whole breadth of opinions. It’s one of the things that makes Belmont great. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 22, 2023

Close to half (44 percent) had no opinion. Most (63 percent) have no opinion on their colleges’ efforts to deal effectively with the educational consequences of AI writing tools’ availability. A slightly larger group (30 percent) felt that they should not do either.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 23, 2023

I read opinions about The Bot that I disagreed with, ones that made me bristle with their assumptions and ideas about what education is. I typed in, “600-word opinion piece about why not to use AI to write an academic essay.” But, partway through, something shifted. Sorry, I hit a wall. Plus, it’s research!)

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

A recent Student Voice survey on sustainability opinions and experiences found that 42 percent of 2,164 student respondents are “very worried” and another 39 percent “somewhat worried” about climate change. How Social Rules Shape Our Planet and Our Lives.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Students, faculty and administrators also have more favorable opinions of digital course materials than they did in the fall of 2021, according to the report. On this topic, most administrators (60 percent) were optimistic, and close to half of faculty members (45 percent) and students (47 percent) were as well.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

” Threats Against Faculty Editorial Tags: Faculty Campus Safety and Security Image Source: [link] Image Caption: Thomas Meixner Is this diversity newsletter?: That would include even if Mr. Dervish has moved out of state. That is simply beyond my power to do, as an individual and private citizen.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 6, 2023

Baik, the teaching assistant who didn’t join the strike at first, said, “My objections to the union were sort of based on limited knowledge, and now that I’ve been on strike and put in the work … my opinion has changed.” Unions Faculty Editorial Tags: Graduate students Foreign Students in U.S.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

(At one point, Brock said, the college had to restructure the online survey form because it “didn’t offer enough space” for a few faculty members to share all their opinions on the candidates.) “That, in and of itself, is a win, both for the college and beyond.” Is this diversity newsletter?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 8, 2023

I may read fewer novels than when I was younger, but I read much more non-fiction: a seemingly unending torrent of books and articles, editorials, essays, social commentary, blog postings, tweets, and other long and short-form texts. But of all the articles I recently read, two stand out, and both share a common theme: The power of purpose.

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eLiterate

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

They invest in editorial work and research to improve the content and software development to improve the underlying platform on which it is hosted. ” Likewise, Steel Wagstaff from Pressbooks, in my opinion, missed the mark on a couple of points. The basic facts as I understand them.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

” Yes, many ideas are mistaken, and some opinions may be hurtful to others. When John Stuart Mill writes that the “prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth” and that “he who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that,” he is precisely right.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 12, 2023

I do not have personal feelings or opinions, and I do not have the ability to experience enjoyment or favoritism. In my human opinion, attention to shifts in tone and audience, variations in usage, subtle switching of codes, uses of irony or humor, and quirks of expression are what give life, flavor and humanity to writing.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Individuals sign up by providing information on what they’re looking for—friends or lovers, someone similar to them or someone completely different—and answering a list of survey questions that change year to year about their personality, opinions and habits. Then, on Feb.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 4, 2023

The program encourages students to engage in conversations with peers who have different political beliefs and explores topics such as the paradox of tolerance and where to draw the line between diversity of opinion. The program also invites guest speakers to address these issues and engage in dialogue with students.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 20, 2023

” Both Madnick and Skill believe the bans are primarily political in nature , focused more on influencing public opinion of the universities than on mitigating any real risk. Getting out of bed is a risk. I know people who have fallen in the shower.” “Every interest group in the world wants us to block [something].”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 23, 2023

At the same time, free speech protections should not be “taken advantage of” to demean or discriminate against others, “or engage in opinion sharing that starts to verge on bullying or intimidation,” he said. He added that administrators can also disavow professors’ speech without resorting to punitive measures.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 3, 2023

Image: Tracking public opinion about higher education can be a confounding experience. ” A new public opinion survey released Friday leaves relatively little doubt about the trend line on at least one key issue: the perceived value of getting a four-year college degree. Newsletter Order: 0 Disable left side advertisement?:

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

In a February 2021 Student Voice survey from Inside Higher Ed and College Pulse, one in five students disagreed, at least somewhat, with the statement “I feel comfortable sharing my opinions in class.” ” Broken out by respondents who are Republicans or lean that way, that response increased to three in 10.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 28, 2023

In surveys conducted recently by the UW system , Heterodox Academy and the University of North Carolina , conservative students expressed more fear than liberal ones about their classmates’ reaction to their opinions. Conservative students also reported more self-censorship. “And that changes the willingness to speak.”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 8, 2023

” “There was no subsequent clarification that you were expressing a personal opinion, which led a number of your colleagues to believe that this was the stated position of Indiana University,” Jenson then wrote. Newsletter Order: 0 Disable left side advertisement?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 17, 2023

Since Hamline’s founding in 1854, faculty have taught within the principle of academic freedom and examined subjects through the lens of open inquiry and respect for the beliefs, rights and opinions of the students they teach. “This prerogative goes by the term ‘academic freedom’ and it is an extraordinary privilege.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

“He also does not shy from making his opinions known to elected officials in Texas, including those who oversee funding for UT.” ” Kolde said, “We hope the court agrees with us and issues an injunction to protect his rights to speak.” Newsletter Order: 0 Disable left side advertisement?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 10, 2023

Like just about every policy discussion in Washington these days, this one found the students, consumer advocates, college officials, corporate leaders and others who shared their opinions in three-minute increments to be sharply divided, with little to no middle ground to be found.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 2, 2023

While differences of opinion over course material may arise, the university defends the freedom of instructors to teach any course that has been developed through our faculty-led curricular processes, and the ability of students to enroll in courses of their choice.” 14 ‘die-in’ protest.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The papers vary in everything from content—some are opinion-focused, while others include more traditional news stories—to medium; the recently relaunched Harvard Salient , for one, is predominantly print-focused. But many share a funding source: the Intercollegiate Studies Institute , an organization with chapters across U.S.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Consider an opinion piece , entitled “Newsrooms that move beyond ‘objectivity’ can build trust,” that just appeared in the Washington Post. Today, in contrast, defenses of news media objectivity – reporting undistorted by personal beliefs, bias, feelings or prejudice -- are much harder to find. Leonard Downie Jr.,

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Constitution limits the kinds of cases that can be brought through the federal court system in order to prevent the judicial branch from overstepping its bounds, and a series of court opinions has clarified the doctrine of standing. Editorial Tags: Federal policy Image Source: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

” It is unclear if Texas Tech was responding to the Abbott memo or to an opinion piece published Monday in The Wall Street Journal , which argued that the university penalizes potential faculty members by stressing DEI policies in hiring, such as by asking candidates about their contributions to DEI initiatives.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The legal fight could doom the debt-relief plan and also curtail the authority of the executive branch, depending on the final opinion. Image: Six months after President Biden announced his plan to forgive up to $20,000 in federal student loans for eligible Americans, the administration will defend that plan before the Supreme Court Tuesday.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 12, 2024

I argue that most of our students may not have the information needed to form an opinion, but more importantly, that we seldom provide opportunities for them to talk about their big bugaboo: religion. I find myself compelled to finish this editorial by highlighting that this is not a commentary on the conflict in the Middle East.

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Higher Education Inquirer

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Public opinion was also on our side. Our campaign won the support of major media organizations like the New York Times editorial board and politicians like Sen. By the spring of 2015, applications from former for-profit college students rolled in by the thousands. Our campaign went viral. Strikers met in Washington, D.C.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 3, 2023

A survey Cline conducts each semester tends to show that student belief in the dangers of climate change is about nine in 10, compared to a national average of about three-quarters of Americans, as tracked annually by the Yale Climate Opinion Maps project. Yet fewer than half of students actually think they will be harmed by it.

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