Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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Community colleges play a critical role, providing affordable and accessible education for diverse populations. According to the American Association of Community Colleges, our nation had over 1,000 public, tribal, and independent community colleges enrolling 10.2

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“Financial aid, retention, and faculty/staff representation are part of the Seal,” says Dr. Deborah Santiago, co-founder and CEO of Excelencia in Education, who says she is delighted to see institutions with intentional practices actively working toward increasing Latino representation in key positions. Morishita, interim president at CSULA.

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MARCH 15, 2023

Others, alarmed by reports of the high cost of tuition, believe that going to college will require them to shoulder an oppressive debt burden. Still others, influenced by dangerous myths, are reluctant to attend an open-access institution like a community college. Despite the data, community colleges suffer from low prestige.

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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. As a result, the college received a Title V grant, $3.5 He has a deep connection to community colleges.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Faculty and staff serving Indigenous students at PWIs must be aware of the varying institutional contexts and how students navigate and experience their educational pathways. Funding from the Henry Luce Foundation and support of the American Indian College Fund have maintained the TCURJ as an open access journal. Mathis of the John E.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 13, 2023

There are 116 community colleges in California. Carey Seventy percent of Black men in California pursuing higher education attend a community college, but degree attainment lags. Serving students Lakeland Community College in Ohio created its MRC in 1996 after seeing the success of its women’s center.

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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.” The faculty and staff overseeing EPW know each student personally. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Roueche Center for Community College Leadership. Today, some of our country’s communities are engaged in conversations about talent pipeline shortages, challenges, and opportunities. Deeper conversations were launched between local career-technical center Ohio Tech Prep Northeast Region, and Cuyahoga Community College.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2022

“Macaulay can provide an elite education — or a model that exemplifies the best of what higher ed has to offer — but without elitist recruitment or admissions processes,” says Byrne, who has been a faculty member at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (part of CUNY) since 2003. Upon completion of her Ph.D.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2023

She possesses an associate degree earned in her early 20’s from her local community college. The plight of the place-bound student and the existence of education deserts offer another compelling equity-based argument for expansion of the community college baccalaureate degree. Lawrence A. Roughly 6% to 12% of the U.S.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Smith says Claflin nursing faculty have gone above and beyond to offer psychosocial support to the students. She credits the faculty for creating an environment where students feel safe discussing their concerns while continuing their education with sustained quality. MacNeil School of Nursing.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

When Adrianne Washington, dean of special academic programs at the Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC), found that the Honors Program was overlooking the school’s Black men, it didn’t sit right with her. Washington is dean of the nascent Honors College. We really have to be flexible.

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DECEMBER 2, 2022

Community colleges cannot create substantive and sustainable cultures of teaching, learning, evidence — or any kind of positive cultures — without the vision and support of highly competent leaders at all levels of the institution” (Kinnamon & O’Banion, 2020). Dr. Steven R. The Roueche Center Forum is co-edited by Drs.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2024

A more recent Supreme Court ruling relates to restrictions on affirmative action in higher education, which negatively impacts the opportunity for low-income Black and other minority students to make a successful high school to college transition. Ivery is the Chancellor of Wayne County Community College District. Dr. Curtis L.

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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. In terms of retention, Carter says hiring supportive faculty is a huge component. “We Online, 18.1%

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AUGUST 28, 2023

Succession planning is a collaborative effort involving university and community stakeholders. This process includes the board of trustees, senior administrators, department heads, faculty members, and human resources professionals. Talent identification: A thorough evaluation of potential candidates is crucial. Mathis of the John E.

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MAY 7, 2023

Akbar, who teaches in the department of arts and communication, sees it as a vital means of communicating. Students and faculty find a way to produce creatively, even if it’s not formal,” said Akbar. There are also the technical and aesthetic sides of art. The creative impulse and the tradition are born out of a need.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

Morris Morris’s expertise involves work at several higher ed institutions and medical facilities, where she has held leadership roles including serving as the inaugural department chair for Elon University’s nursing program, dean of health and public safety at Rockingham Community College, and nursing director at Morehead Memorial Hospital.

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OCTOBER 31, 2023

He earned an associate degree in liberal arts from Orange County Community College, a bachelor’s degree in history from Vassar College, and a Ph.D. Latino, African American, and sports history. He is a professor of history at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. in history from the University of Michigan.

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JANUARY 17, 2024

Republicans and some Democrats aren’t happy with campus protests about the Israel/Hamas war, and many Democratic-leaning faculty don’t feel comfortable speaking up on issues if they work for red-state public universities,” says Kelchen. Bonner has his own book series with Routledge, titled Diverse Faculty in the Academy.

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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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FEBRUARY 23, 2023

It’s an online module that we released earlier this year to all our faculty and staff as required training. It was also incorporated into all our new employee/new faculty orientations. There was a recommendation to have focus groups beginning this fall with diverse populations of staff, faculty, and students to capture their stories.

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JUNE 29, 2023

Kristi Noem’s 2021 executive order declaring that public colleges’ diversity centers and multicultural offices, which served ethnic minorities as well as other marginalized students including LGBTQ+ and veterans, would be replaced by “opportunity centers.” Noem had previously accused the diversity spaces of “advancing leftist agendas.”

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OCTOBER 16, 2023

While working full-time, McManus pursued a Master of Divinity degree at Liberty University while simultaneously finishing her first doctorate in community college leadership at Morgan State University. “I She served for nearly nine years as the university’s director of disability services.

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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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DECEMBER 22, 2022

Enrollment remained down at every level from community colleges to graduate schools, but much of academia showed its persistence and resilience. With the COVID-19 pandemic subsiding, colleges and universities have tried to bring students back to campus and provide fresh inspiration. Biden Administration U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Gay previously served in several roles at the school, including the Edgerley Family Dean of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, dean of social science, professor of government, and professor of African and African American Studies. Newman Dr. Timothy Alvarez, president of the Colorado Community College System’s Otero College, retired Aug.

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