Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

In a news release, the State University System of Florida Board of Governors said individual university boards would have to amend their own policies to comply if the state-level board approves the proposals at its meeting next month.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Mount Sinai Hospital did not release details, but New York State Nursing Association President Nancy Hagans says the agreement includes “wall-to-wall safe staffing ratios,” according to reporting from news station NY1. Information was not provided about new nursing hire recruitment. But a November 2022 article in U.S.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 27, 2023

Union members are accusing three University of California, San Diego, professors of giving “unsatisfactory” grades to 21 teaching assistants and a graduate student researcher for participating in the recent strike.

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Higher Education Inquirer

APRIL 12, 2023

[Editors note: The Higher Education Inquirer thanks Hank Kalet for allowing us to reprint his substack Channel Surfing as a record of the Rutgers strike. News sources state this is the first labor strike at the school in its entire 256-year history. Hank is a lecturer at the Rutgers University School of Communication and Information.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 5, 2023

Campuses as America’s next union battleground. Tenure I wholeheartedly agree with one headline: “ Tenure threatened in US more by universities than politicians.” That’s a clear and present danger, but I suspect that unionization campaigns are best understood as a product of a shift that has already taken place.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 17, 2023

As I said several times during the meeting, as long as our students are not getting heat, the heat should be on us.” An unusually cold winter in California brought the issue to the fore, and the union has been posting updates to a faculty blog documenting the low classroom temperatures.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 7, 2023

“We’re not being offered much explanation, or, I would even say, particularly, guidance as to how we’re to handle the various things that are unfolding,” said Brandon Absher, a philosophy professor and faculty union president. The university’s president, Lorrie Clemo, declined an interview request.

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EAB

DECEMBER 2, 2022

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. A few days after that interview, I woke up to the news of the Club Q shooting in Colorado Springs—yet another horrifying reminder that things have to change.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 22, 2023

But before SOU can start installing solar arrays or cutting ribbons on new developments, the Board of Trustees must decide on the future of the university’s workforce. “Anytime there is discussion of losing faculty positions as a means of cost management, the union takes it seriously.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Not all news in higher education is doom and gloom. Cynthia joins us today to talk about the magic that’s happening at San Jose State and how, through the use of public-private partnerships, she’s turning around enrollment and public opinion about higher education at this institution located in the heart of Silicon Valley. [00:31:57]

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Parchment

JANUARY 25, 2024

Book a Demo There’s always more to learn. We discuss the stigma around transfer students, the institutional bias against transfer students, and the insuffiency of transfer articulation agreements.

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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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

News World Report released its annual college and university rankings, a highly anticipated event for prospective students and curious parents. News added a separate category for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). News World Report by public, private, and research designation, and the results look a lot different.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Perko serves as the Commission’s spokesperson and has been quoted and interviewed by leading news media, including ESPN, USA Today, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News, and numerous public radio stations. In 2015, she was named a “Game Changer” by Street & Smith’s Sports Business Journal.

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The Guardian Higher Education

APRIL 21, 2023

Last year saw 15 strikes, the highest number of strikes in academia in at least 20 years, and the surge has continued into 2023 Thousands of workers at universities have gone on strike in 2023 amid new union contract negotiations in demand of pay increases that align with the effect high inflation rates have had on the cost of living.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 27, 2023

In 2015, Lieberman was named President of the Year by the Association of College Unions International for supporting an inclusive and engaged campus community. News & World Report created a new category, social economic mobility, and University of La Verne ranked sixth in the country. That has been wonderful for us.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Now, there is a new analysis based on the Federal government’s College Scorecard that ranks 4,000 higher education institutions, providing prospective students with a clear and detailed view of their earning potential with specific majors, from which colleges and universities, and how quickly graduates pay off their loans.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Authorities said at a news conference Tuesday that the gunman was Anthony McRae, a 43-year-old with no connection to Michigan State. At the news conference, officials said they had no indication as yet of the motive for the shootings. They should not be the sites of bloodshed,” The Detroit News reported.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

His career trajectory included key positions at Union College, Johns Hopkins University, Dickinson College, and Lafayette College. I moved on to Union College in a couple of positions in 1989, became the Dean of Enrollment at Johns Hopkins University, followed by 1999 at Dickinson College as their Vice President for Enrollment.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 28, 2023

Also important are common spaces like student unions, libraries, and their events and programs, like student support organizations, and peer-to-peer relationships and service delivery. Please give us some background to help the audience understand who you are and how you came to do this. For us, design has three pillars.

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Creatrix Campus

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Due to the complexity of this move by the European Union, the GDPR, also known as the new General Data Protection Regulation, is keeping everyone on their toes. One of the most frequently asked GDPR questions is who is affected by these new regulations. EU countries provided research grants to your institution.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 23, 2024

Justin joins us today to talk about how institutions can turn around their enrollment, especially their grad school enrollment, through the principles of strategic enrollment management and what he calls “keeping it simple and real” Justin, welcome to the show. Graduate studies saved us from a much deeper cliff.

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Higher Ed Connects: Diversity

JUNE 15, 2019

The work of diversity and racism is never finished, and…recognizing the lack of an endpoint can help us engage with the issues more honestly, authentically, and effectively.”. “Any emphasis on diversity needs to take place within a broader commitment to addressing inequality and racism, both past and present,” Park writes.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 27, 2023

Image: In January 2022, Bates College employees voted on forming a union that would include non-tenure-track faculty, dining employees, custodians and others. Their employer, a private liberal arts college in Maine, argued that—if there were going to be any unions—there should be separate bargaining units for faculty and staff.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 17, 2023

The NAACP Legal Defense Fund, the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU Florida arm and another pro bono law firm are representing other plaintiffs in the other half of the consolidated case. In his 139-page lower court ruling, Chief U.S. District Court Judge Mark E.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

News & World Report again ranked Florida the No. As those of us in higher education know well, colleges and universities are a public good vital to our communities and our democracy. Feel free to send those statements to us at UFF , and we will help publish them widely. So, what do we all do from here?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Two were killed in the building that houses that College of Social Science and one in the student union. They should not be the sites of bloodshed,” The Detroit News reported. Too many of us scan rooms for exits when we enter them. No information was available about the victims. The shootings started shortly after 8 p.m.

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Higher Education Inquirer

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Thinking about ourselves as “working class” clarifies our understanding of our contingency by helping us identify with the 99% instead of the 1%. It can also inspire us to build alliances to improve our conditions and our industry. The good news is that some are organizing for change.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

But the decision for Brandeis to forthrightly defund a student organization in light of prejudice isn’t the correct way forward, said Harvey Silverglate, co-founder of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), according to WBZ News. “Universities should have no political positions whatsoever,” he said.

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Higher Education Inquirer

OCTOBER 18, 2022

received news that their student loans will be canceled. Organizers from the Debt Collective, a union for debtors, had also heard about the plight of Corinthian borrowers and found our group on Facebook. Dozens of news outlets covered the story of the scammed borrowers who were taking on the Obama administration in March 2015.

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SRHE

JANUARY 17, 2024

At the time of writing, the UK news agenda is being dominated by what is being described as one of the biggest miscarriages of justice the country has ever seen – 736 post office workers between 1999 and 2015 were prosecuted for false accounting or theft based on information from an IT system called Horizon. Narratives are not going away.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2023

Tell us a little bit about yourself. There are threats of violence if you don’t agree with us. You get people standing up in Congress at the State of the Union, yelling, “Liar.” One side says, “You’re trying to cancel us out.” Eric Hogue 02:23 You flatter me, Drumm. I loved it.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

It’s false, backed up by out of context headlines from right wing news sources. He’s proudly started something called America First Legal, a right-wing group intending to be the conservative answer to the American Civil Liberties Union. Sounds like good ole Republican rhetoric. “It

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