Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Necessary support is provided through GANAS (Gaining Access ’AND Academic Success), an innovative access and retention program that serves community college transfer students. CSUSM’s inclusive hiring practices have increased Latino representation among faculty, administrators and staff. in the last two years.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 19, 2023

Community colleges serve the most diverse students in all of higher education. Jessica Enders COD's leaders support staff development to ensure its faculty, administrators, and staff are up-to-date on issues and teaching and learning strategies. in community college leadership.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 17, 2023

In legislatures and courtrooms across the country, attempts to ban books, impose educational gag orders, limit what can be taught and by whom, and defund and discredit diversity, equity, and inclusion work in colleges and universities pose a monumental threat to the nation’s future.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 22, 2024

4) Put all conversations you have with anyone in administration - about anything related to your public voice- in writing. I hope these starting points help decipher the hidden curriculum of scholar activism. Frankly you need that list handy every day you work for a university. Write it all down immediately. (5) You will need them.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2024

Keith Curry likes to walk the campus of Compton College, the two-year school that he has led for the last 13 years — two as interim president and chief executive officer (CEO) and 11 as its permanent leader. It was a devastating blow to the college. There is much to celebrate. This is it.” The trio call themselves the Equity Avengers.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

“It’s not just taking any GE class, we’re handpicking GE classes that focus on the Black experience,” said Wood, who noted that the college curriculum will be broadly influenced by Pan-African studies. So far, administrators have already set aside over 6,000 square feet of space to house the college.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2024

Those who returned to education overwhelmingly chose to return to public, two-year community colleges or primarily online institutions. This suggests, said Shapiro, that these students were encountering other barriers to credentials, including fees or administrative holds.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 30, 2024

Arriving as a freshman at a predominantly white college, I was in for a culture shock. I did not see myself reflected in the curriculum, my professors, or the administration. There is a profound indignity in rarely seeing a teacher, administrator, or institutional leader that looks like you.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 28, 2023

Timothy Alvarez From earning an associate degree to serving as president of a community college, Alvarez understands the value of higher education and the need to create pathways and support systems. He has a deep connection to community colleges. At age 18, he enrolled in a community college in western Nebraska.

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Civitas Learning

AUGUST 8, 2023

The Outcomes: Results of the study sparked cross-functional strategic conversations aligning institutional policy and course curriculum to improve success throughout the student experience. Identify opportunities to improve the FYE curriculum to serve students better.

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NACAC's Admitted

APRIL 16, 2023

Numerous campus administrators and staff members are concerned and offer plenty of potential ideas to reach more students. Here are some factors to consider: Your competition: Who are the education competitors for your community college? But in most cases, this is not increasing community college enrollment.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

in rhetoric and intercultural communication, she earned a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship in the Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean at the CUNY Graduate Center. During her time in administration, John Jay’s graduation rate rose from 24% to 41%. Upon completion of her Ph.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2023

While there are many undergraduates and graduate students aiming for careers in banking or finance, there are also entrepreneurs, innovators, people interested in hospital administration, and others seeking positions at nonprofit organizations. We also have a lot of supports built into our curriculum,” she says.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2023

When I got to community college and was doing my own career exploration, he was the first person I thought about and I pursued school counseling because it was a profession that gave me the opportunity to work with students around finding their calling (or career) in life. student council, debate team, student newsletter). (3)

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

We’re changing the landscape of how community colleges serve underserved students,” says Espiritu. “We Having cohorts here is really important, especially for engineering and computer science because it’s a community that supports each other.” We design the curriculum individually to students’ needs.

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Believe in Students

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Recognizing today’s college students for the highly motivated and talented people they are, the #RealCollege movement is about investing in America’s future by re-investing in students. Students are featured as instructors in our content, and sit alongside researchers, administrators, and practitioners to guide learners to improved practice.

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NACAC's Admitted

APRIL 16, 2023

Numerous campus administrators and staff members are concerned and offer plenty of potential ideas to reach more students. Here are some factors to consider: Your competition: Who are the education competitors for your community college? But in most cases, this is not increasing community college enrollment.

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Civitas Learning

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Austin Community College (ACC) models this approach by involving faculty from the beginning in designing their early alert system. Recognizing the crucial role faculty insights play in evaluating students’ academic goals and targeting support for specific groups, administrators introduced innovative strategies to secure faculty buy-in.

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Civitas Learning

MARCH 7, 2024

Additionally, it prevented advisors from having meaningful student interactions and made it harder for administrators to manage classroom space and class scheduling effectively. SUNY Broome Community College faced a similar challenge of gauging how effective their outreach to students with high DFW (Drop, Fail, Withdraw) rates.

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Civitas Learning

JULY 11, 2024

When Snow College leveraged Civitas Learning’s Administrative and Initiative Analysis solution to determine if all students benefit equally from a one-on-one advising experience, the answer was clear. When teams coordinate their efforts, students receive consistent communication, strengthening their relationship with the institution.

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The University Innovation Alliance

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

He talked to us about his leadership philosophy, setting expectations to manage transformation, reshaping curriculum based on student input, and how passion and creative tension can fuel positive change. Chancellor Larive described how she went from avoiding administrative leadership to embracing it. Click here for full audio.

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EAB

JANUARY 5, 2023

Articulate inclusive vision Develop executive understanding Engage governing bodies Develop DEIJ infrastructure and resourcing Integrate stakeholder voices in planning Select metrics and outcomes Set and communicate accountability. -->. -->. --> Reimagine institutional administration. -->. -->. -->. Activities. Activities. Activities.

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The University Innovation Alliance

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

He talked to us about his leadership philosophy, setting expectations to manage transformation, reshaping curriculum based on student input, and how passion and creative tension can fuel positive change. Chancellor Larive described how she went from avoiding administrative leadership to embracing it. Click here for full audio.

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The University Innovation Alliance

APRIL 1, 2024

However, in this episode of the Weekly Wisdom Series , we spoke with President Casey Sacks , who began working at West Virginia’s BridgeValley Community and Technical College after serving two years as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Community Colleges at the U.S. So often, we're really practical in community colleges.

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Believe in Students

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Well, Delaware County Community College has been the village that turned this man into a graduate. Delaware County Community College embraced my story, and education became the passport to a new life. I achieved these awards and gifts with the help of a community of people from all walks of life behind the scenes.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

Many tackled improving student success, retention, and equity at their institutions, while others focused on budget models and streamlining administrative processes. The blog posts below are written by the participants to showcase their project and early outcomes.

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EAB

JULY 28, 2023

In response, colleges have been expanding or altering math requirements to include statistics and quantitative reasoning courses that may be better aligned with the overall program curriculum. For guidance on responding to other long-term impacts of the pandemic, read our insight paper Navigating the Recovery.

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EAB

JULY 28, 2023

In response, colleges have been expanding or altering math requirements to include statistics and quantitative reasoning courses that may be better aligned with the overall program curriculum. For guidance on responding to other long-term impacts of the pandemic, read our insight paper Navigating the Recovery.

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College Planners of America

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Moreover, they do this cost effectively by paying an exam fee of $90 instead of the cost of college tuition for a three-credit course, which can range from about $300 at a community college to almost $5,000 at the top colleges in the country. CLEP exams can earn students up to two years of college credits.

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COE

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

He’s taken the research-based Caring Campus framework, which he called “transformational” for community colleges, to his Hispanic-Serving Institution of 4,845 students. “If It doesn’t have to all be done by us [faculty or administrators].” She said programs such as “near-peer” mentoring are powerful. “It

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Efforts by the Biden administration to pass a rule on student loan forgiveness was a major story from 2023 that will again be front and center in the new year. He is currently expanding that line of inquiry by exploring inclusive philanthropy and fundraising at four-year colleges and universities. That, too, could end up in court.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 29, 2023

Too often, we hear administrators complaining about their teachers being unprepared/under-prepared to work with Black students. K-12 administrators can learn to ask better questions during the interview process to assess teachers’ preparation for and commitment to diversity. Will they face the same repercussions? Dr. Kelly A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2024

To this end, we provide P-12 educators; college/university faculty, administrators, and staff; and other education stakeholders a blueprint to collaboratively work with Black males through a culturally responsive lens. link] The success of Black males in community colleges across the nation is at a pivotal turning point.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 29, 2023

In terms of day-to-day administration, Crazy Bull points to teamwork. “I He counters with an explanation that e-sports “is not an outcome but a strategy” that incorporates coding, math, critical thinking, logic and other courses in an interdisciplinary curriculum.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Brendan Cantwell, Associate Professor of Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education at Michigan State University’s College of Education quite a while,” said Cantwell. You could see Florida as the model : a concerted effort to insert partisan rule over public universities , including their management and curriculum.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 24, 2023

Sacramento State was critical to Wood’s ascension to academic and administrative stardom after a difficult childhood. He then moved on to Arizona State University, where he earned a master’s degree in Curriculum and Instruction in Early Childhood Education and a Ph.D. He’s a visionary individual, a brilliant Black male.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

“All of our divisions and our colleges are now appointing DEI leads and liaisons who are going to work with their vice president or deans around some part of our commitment to inclusion and equity and also convene with each other to set the university strategy moving forward.” We have good transfer agreements,” says Mantella. “We

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