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At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, communitycolleges across the country saw a decline in enrollment for myriad reasons — financial, family, illness, lack of internet or inability to adapt to online learning. The purpose of communitycolleges is to increase access to higher education for the most vulnerable populations.”
In 2022, student leaders launched a campaign to challenge the long-standing stigma associated with attending communitycolleges. To overcome negative stereotypes, the CCSmart advocacy campaign tells the stories of students’ educational journeys and the positive impact communitycolleges had on their lives.
This fall semester, Massasoit CommunityCollege achieved a new first. Massasoit CommunityCollege is officially offering a Black Studies curriculum. Ten years in the making The story of Black Studies at the Massachusetts public communitycollege goes back a decade.
Gonzales’ passion for education has culminated in a swift rise to being named chancellor of the Maricopa County CommunityCollege District (MCCCD) last September. The district comprises 10 independently accredited colleges in Arizona serving over 94,000 students. He became president of GateWay CommunityCollege in MCCCD in 2013.
With downtown San Antonio as a beautiful backdrop, representatives from 24 communitycolleges in 13 states convened for the 29th Annual CommunityCollege Futures Assembly in February. Hudson County CommunityCollege (N.J.) Hudson County CommunityCollege (N.J.) Roueche and Margaretta B.
Yet there is little research on the underrepresentation of African American communitycollege trustees. However, research has demonstrated a clear underrepresentation of minority communitycollege trustees (Moltz, 2009) with no progress being made in hiring African American administrators (Levin, Walker et al.,
Communitycolleges play a critical role, providing affordable and accessible education for diverse populations. According to the American Association of CommunityColleges, our nation had over 1,000 public, tribal, and independent communitycolleges enrolling 10.2
communitycolleges combined. Communitycolleges serve 6.2 When Princeton announced its wonderful change in policy to support lower-income families, it made the front pages of three global newspapers and magazines and was reported in countless others. However, Princeton had a $37 billion endowment at the time.
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 communitycollege. Despite the data, communitycolleges suffer from low prestige.
Courtney Adkins The beginning of the fall academic term brings to mind images of freshly graduated high school students arriving on college campuses across the country. When the fall 2023 term begins, close to 20% of communitycollege students will also be high school students who are dually enrolled. Dr. Linda L.
Communitycolleges serve the most diverse students in all of higher education. The KSU-CCLP is a unique program that prioritizes recruiting women and minorities as future leaders that reflect the demographics of communitycolleges. A fully designed doctoral curriculum in which all courses focus on the communitycollege.
Communitycolleges have taken great pride over many decades as an open-door institution welcoming students who had no other place to go. It is not known how many of these students are enrolled in communitycolleges, but it is likely these students are represented equally to those in universities.
When Adrianne Washington, dean of special academic programs at the CommunityCollege 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.
Military friendly is a common phrase used by organizations to communicate an appreciation of military service members (Kirchner, et al., If your communitycollege is struggling to have those conversations, outside facilitators can support you. Dr. Susan M. 2) Who are your military-connected learners and how do you know?
Roueche Center for CommunityCollege 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 CommunityCollege.
CommunityCollege. Under the guidance of Dr. Christine Johnson McPhail, president of Saint Augustine’s University in North Carolina, Sabree recently conducted a study to glean perspectives of former African American male communitycollege athletes’ experiences. Engage in relationship building. Practice time management.
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Communitycolleges have historically served as an entry point into higher education for underserved populations. However, we have heard from students that there are sometimes significant hurdles to transferring from a communitycollege to a state university while staying on track to graduate. Roueche and Margaretta B.
As one example, the average age of doctoral students in the Kansas State University CommunityCollege Leadership Program (CCLP) is 51 years old. Roueche Center for Leadership Development, Department of Educational Leadership, College of Education, Kansas State University. The Roueche Center Forum is co-edited by Drs.
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We’re changing the landscape of how communitycolleges 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.” I care more than just graduation at communitycollege.
Communitycolleges 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.
To paraphrase the words of Cornel West in the foreword of another of my books, Urban Voices: Racial Justice and Community Leadership (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022): It is the transcendent power of our voices, our will, and our determination that will activate the next critical phase of the democratization of education and, indeed, our nation.
She also serves on the Kansas State University CommunityCollege Leadership Program (CCLP) National Advisory Board. Roueche Center for CommunityCollege Leadership, Department of Educational Leadership, College of Education, Kansas State University. The Roueche Center Forum is co-edited by Drs.
She was crucial to building smooth transfer pathways from CUNY’s communitycolleges to John Jay. From its inception, Macaulay Honors College only accepted applications from high school seniors and has not accepted transfer students.
in educational administration (higher education leadership) from Indiana State University; a Master of Liberal Arts in African American studies from Temple; a Master of Science in Education in educational psychology and guidance (college student personnel) from EIU; a B.A. Williams-Goliday holds a Ph.D.
Roueche Center for CommunityCollege Leadership, Department of Educational Leadership, College of Education, Kansas State University. Natalie Youngbull serves as Assistant Professor of Adult & Higher Education, University of Oklahoma. The Roueche Center Forum is co-edited by Drs. Roueche and Margaretta B.
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 CommunityCollege, and nursing director at Morehead Memorial Hospital.
He earned an associate degree in liberal arts from Orange County CommunityCollege, 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.
It’s six to eight sessions spread out over the academic year in which topics like navigating college and getting an internship are explored. It is currently based at Rider University and New Jersey Institute of Technology and is being introduced at Passaic County CommunityCollege in New Jersey this year.
He wasn’t surrounded by college graduates or even friends who were planning to enroll. However, he was curious about some aspects of science and engineering, so he decided he’d try communitycollege. Fast forward to 2023. Childs is an award-winning Ph.D.
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Focusing on the associate degree programs at the communitycolleges and public universities really helps to address medically underserved areas and populations,” Mahon says. Mahon offers a different perspective on how to diversify the nursing profession and increase health equity: boost ADN programs.
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brought innovation, excellence, and inclusion to communitycolleges. from the CommunityCollege Leadership Program. Perhaps most notably, he was the founding president of El Paso CommunityCollege (EPCC) in Texas. When de los Santos became president of El Paso CommunityCollege, there was no campus.
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