Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Image: Career readiness is a critical part of students’ postgraduate success in the workforce. NACE’s executive director, Shawn VanDerziel, sees the following strategies as key and effective measures to place students on the path to success. Translate coursework into career preparation. Share here.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 13, 2023

Image: As students at the University of Iowa’s Tippie School of Business prepare to embark on their careers, a new program is teaching them to tell their stories and personal experiences—a communication skill that will be important during their initial job searches and beyond.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2024

Some of the topics include literacy and math, advising Black male engineering majors, socio-emotional development, leadership, community college experiences, Black male veterans, athletes in P-12 and higher education, and the recruitment and retention of Black males in educator preparation programs. & Alexander, L.D. Hines and E.C.

Engineering 316

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The Scholarly Teacher

MARCH 6, 2024

How do we prepare students for these changes? Faculty and instructors, through intentional curriculum design, play critical roles in supporting students to prepare for seismic shifts in future work. In his speech, he reflected on his own path through three personal stories. Image courtesy of Wix.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Simmons busily prepared to deliver the 2023 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. In reconstructing her life story — detailing her humble beginnings from East Texas as the youngest of 12 children born in a sharecropping family to earning her Ph.D.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 26, 2023

Providing the right services and supports is key to helping students succeed academically, engage in the college experience, be healthy and well, and prepare for life after college. Learn more about contributing or being featured in upcoming Student Success content.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Chase has more than 40 years of experience in academia, including more than 20 years in leadership positions, most recently as vice president for academic innovation, student success and strategic initiatives at Claremont Graduate University in California. First-year programs are not as common for graduate institutions.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

” The University of Iowa hopes to set its new students up for success with the Learning at Iowa program, creating effective ways for its student population to learn and equipping the entire campus to support them. How does your institution incorporate self-assessments into its student success efforts? Share your story.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

At a time when the Latino population in the United States is growing and students are still facing daunting obstacles, Excelencia in Education is recognizing nine institutions for their clear and decisive commitment to Latino student success with the Seal of Excelencia. It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students.

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University Business

JANUARY 17, 2023

Every higher education institution shapes the student experience by applying a storied history to its own unique traditions. But there’s one area where every institution must depart from tradition to prepare students for what happens after graduation and for a central factor in the working world—and that’s digital transformation. .

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 16, 2023

Decades later, the accomplished doctor, medical educator, and mother of three sons, acknowledges she is just starting to feel comfortable sharing “her testimony,” a story of struggle and overcoming. In her new role, she is also discovering that there are similar stories coming from the new cohort — and opportunities for teachable moments.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 26, 2023

--Albert Schweitzer While growing up in the Arkansas Delta, my parents, preachers, and teachers agreed on one thing above all else: education is the engine of opportunity for individual success and the transformation of the Black community. Those who conflate the two are destined for limited success or failure.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Therefore, we cannot and will not engage in deficit-framed financial conversations regarding HBCUs without telling the entire story. That’s like preparing spaghetti with no sauce. In 2021 Harold Love Jr. The NCAA formed in 1906, but HBCUs could not join the organization and so they made their own leagues. Been #1 since 2018.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Adaptation demands that organizations and institutions overcome knee-jerk fears and instead welcome evolution as their durable path to success. However, if organizations do make the courageous move and adapt, they must be prepared for a change-making strategy. If they don’t, the future falters. The truth is more nuanced.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 6, 2023

Image: Recognizing that making connections is vital in a student’s first year, Kansas Wesleyan University’s student success center matches its new faces to seasoned staff to create a recipe for success. Each first-year student at KWU is matched to a success coach in the fall.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2023

Students can choose classes that prepare them to enter the workforce directly, or they can take classes that transfer to four-year institutions to pursue a baccalaureate. The site also features students’ stories about their community college experience and the impact that the colleges had on their lives.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2023

Mine turned out to be an improbable success story, one in which my past did not determine my future. These attacks will only make it more difficult for colleges and universities to serve and support students of color and prepare them for a world that seems hostile to their very existence. After serving three years in the U.S.

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College Forward

MARCH 28, 2024

To start the day, we were greeted by our board members Lisa MacFarlane, Damariz Ibáñez and Ronnie Yates, who relayed to us their own backgrounds, giving us insight into how they navigated their careers, leading to their great successes. This helped us to understand how the job market functions, and how to best prepare ourselves for it.

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Ray Schroeder

JANUARY 15, 2023

When preparing for your next professional move, it’s critical to identify areas for growth and development. During our conversation, I learned about the most in-demand courses worldwide, how to navigate a career change and success stories that will inspire you to take the plunge. That’s where online learning comes in.

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University Business

JANUARY 2, 2024

A report from the Princeton Review last March underscores these values, finding that college applicants are increasingly interested in applying to institutions that provide the best career preparation rather than those with the best academic reputation. “Age is no longer a predictor of learning modalities.”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 15, 2023

The outcomes: From their research, Wu’s team found outcomes needed to be specified better, both in visibility, wording and how it connects to career preparation. ” Seeking stories from campus leaders, faculty members and staff for our new Student Success focus. Share here. No In-Article Careers: 3

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 8, 2023

Merkel has found his class check-ins reflect national data regarding the average student’s mental health—around one-third report excellent health and are prepared to tackle the day, another third are somewhere in the middle, and the last third are averaging toward the bottom. Tell us about it. No In-Article Careers: 6

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Image: Supporting student success is complex goal. Defining Student Success While student success is often thought of in terms of retention and completion rates, both student success and student wellness should be thought of as long-term concepts, Oehme says. of 5 on overall satisfaction, 4.5 on quality and 4.2

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

The IIT-Wright Engineering Program is an open-ended multi-year agreement that reflects the commitment of both institutions to support the successful transfer of community college students to complete four-year degrees in STEM and related fields. I have to understand the students, who they are and their stories,” says Espiritu.

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Creatrix Campus

DECEMBER 3, 2023

How technology-enhanced outcome based education programs can improve student success admin Mon, 12/04/2023 - 02:05 Outcome Based Education (OBE) has emerged as a guiding philosophy, emphasizing measurable student outcomes. Highlight success stories of technology integration in education. What is outcome based education?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 23, 2023

Conway-Turner said students should be prepared for the professions that currently exist, so technology has been a driving issue. Unfortunately, no programming prepared presidents for a global pandemic. Conway-Turner plans to write a memoir, feeling her story will be of interest to several people. “I The pandemic was one crisis.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

We will encourage students to reflect on the times they were most and least successful, and our joint discovery is that success usually is the product of planning and consistency, even when it is uncomfortable. Framing accountability as a part of self-care is, however, essential. Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Image: Academic library professionals across the higher education landscape are championing student success initiatives within their own spaces, particularly to equip new students for their academic careers. Many even have dedicated student success librarians, solely focused on collaborative, resource-focused programming.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 27, 2023

Image: A program at the University of California, Irvine, ensures first-generation or underprivileged students are prepared for their lives after college, with a 100 percent graduation rate among its 630 scholars in the program’s 24-year history. ” While SAGE wasn’t conceived as a retention program, it has become one.

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

MAY 1, 2023

Preplan to Prepare Faculty members aren’t going to be able to dedicate much time to writing articles and speaking with reporters. This should happen prior to engaging with faculty members to ensure they are prepared with actionable and clear steps to success. This is the most important step of them all.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 5, 2023

After two decades of working in higher education, Shrivastav is championing student success in academics at the University of Indiana Bloomington as the college’s newest provost. Q: How does managing student success as a provost differ from your focus on it in your prior role? And to me, those are not measures of success.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 9, 2023

On a Friday night in 2019, Gesy Duran prepared to dine at an Italian restaurant with her wife. The ones that have a real passion behind what they’re doing because it means something more than just making money, those are the ones that become successful.” She was excited for the special occasion. I didn’t do anything besides that. “The

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Parchment

MAY 1, 2024

However, the full scope of these leaders’ goals includes: Better supporting students in achieving their academic goals and progressing toward success. Equipping graduates with the skills and qualifications needed for success in both higher education and the workforce.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Epps tells the story of his forays into the world of acting and directing in a newly-released memoir titled My Own Directions: A Black Man's Journey in the American Theatre. So between the people that weren't invited back or the people that it was too much [for] or they changed their mind, my class got smaller and smaller and smaller.”

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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

JUNE 5, 2023

Allow me to paint a picture: You, an assessment leader, have been given a seemingly impossible task: to tell the story of a failing program. What about student success metrics , you think, that’s got to be positive. Alongside our colleagues, we can tell the story of immense possibilities. Anecdotal evidence was positive.

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Campus Sonar

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

We must be focused on intentional, strategic, and informed ways to transform our campuses for long-term success. How well are your educators prepared to successfully transform their courses to an online experience? Who might you be able to bring into your campus life with successful virtual classes, cohorts, or programs?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 30, 2023

So, I think I’ve been able to develop my sense of self and present myself in a way where I’m telling my own story, trying to be comfortable, and I don’t want to cause wakes but also express myself.” But sometimes you got to do more than that.

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