Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2023

UMGC has agreements with all 16 community colleges in Maryland, says Dr. Pam Carter, vice president and dean of the School of Business, which offers seven undergraduate degree programs and 10 stand-alone certificates. We also have a lot of supports built into our curriculum,” she says. in management and leadership.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 7, 2023

Curriculum “Our students have diverse personal, community-based, cultural and political interests that we welcome by offering a broad range of courses in art history, anime, digital art, drawing, painting, photography, printmaking and sculpture,” said Otitigbe of Brooklyn College.

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Believe in Students

OCTOBER 10, 2024

This anecdote is now a common recognition across institutions and systems : most people in colleges today, especially faculty, have received little to no training on what they can do within their own jobs to better support today’s college students. No faculty member needs to become a social worker; they do need (and most want!)

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COE

AUGUST 26, 2024

Patrick Lehman-Martin, a Student Support Services participant from Chememeta Community College, expressed how the experience deepened his understanding of Dutch politics and the importance of effective governance. The program’s impact on its participants was profound, as evidenced by their reflections.

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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. We love his warmth, candor, and willingness to put a human face on the challenges of higher education leadership.

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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. We love his warmth, candor, and willingness to put a human face on the challenges of higher education leadership.

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The University Innovation Alliance

JULY 18, 2023

It’s creativity and it’s human connection we can engage with as extensions of each other to do something good in the world." - Gabrielle Starr (President, Pomona College) 3. Willis (President, Howard Community College) Focus on Other Individuals While burnout may be a personal issue, combatting it in solitude isn't the only cure.

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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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Believe in Students

APRIL 1, 2024

Over the course of the year we engaged 20 students at Milwaukee and Chicago-area colleges – community colleges and regional public universities that don’t typically offer experiences like this. Last year brought the launch of the Changemakers Fellowship.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Terry O’Banion Community college students who are from lower socio-economic backgrounds, are first generation, and who have not been successful in high school are starving to death trying to find educational sustenance at the cafeteria curriculum.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

Director for Transfer & Pathways, Central New Mexico Community College University Research Optimizing institutional resources for research growth Nick Hagemeier, Interim Vice Provost for Research, East Tennessee State University Want to learn more about the Rising Higher Education Leaders Fellowship?

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COE

OCTOBER 31, 2023

From there, I started visiting local high schools and community colleges, passionately advocating for STEM education. I was taking challenging courses like Calculus, Programming, Physics, and Humanities, and I found myself struggling immensely. I saw it as a superpower, like how elite athletes command respect and inspire kids.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 29, 2023

It is incumbent on faculty, most of whom are white, who say all the right things during interviews to pay more than lip service in doing “the work” to support success among Black college students. While important, “the work” goes deeper than putting Black faces and voices in your curriculum. Will they face the same repercussions?

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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. Hines & E.C. Fletcher (Eds.)

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COE

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Celebration Day Resources At the national level, COE and the Center for First-generation Student Success will co-host a virtual event focusing on career trajectories for first-generation students, featuring a panel of first-generation alumni who have risen to senior leader roles in some of the world’s most recognizable companies.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 30, 2023

Oklahoma City Community College cancelled a fully enrolled sociology class about ethnicity and race, and two professors at the University of Central Florida scrapped courses focusing on racial concepts, leaving the institutions with no sociology classes this fall centered primarily around race. In January, Florida Gov.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Retirements Jennie Vaughan, chancellor of Ivy Tech Community College Bloomington, retired in May, after more than 25 years at the school. Newman Dr. Timothy Alvarez, president of the Colorado Community College System’s Otero College, retired Aug. Montague, president of Volunteer State Community College, died Sept.

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