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JULY 9, 2024

Colclough hatched an idea — what if they could develop professional learning environments easily accessible for all faculty in North Carolina’s community colleges, and what if that development could move the needle on student success? Course-pass rates are two percentage points higher after faculty have attended a Hub course.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

These are a few of the ways many college students communicate with their instructors over email, much to the dismay and frustration of many educators. "I If you have taught a college class for 15 minutes, you got an angry email from a student." Effective and professional communication is expected from students.

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DECEMBER 2, 2024

“I very much think it has been invigorating for me over the years to see the data-driven decisions that lead us to doing things with our students that are amazing,” she says. Having served as vice president for student affairs at Cal State, Fullerton, from 2012–19, Eanes was familiar with the Cal State system.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2023

A new report from the Center for Community College Student Engagement (CCCSE) indicates that while 8,836 entering students at 40 community colleges around the country indicate that they intend to transfer to a four-year institution, the number that actually do is remarkably low.

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JANUARY 17, 2025

Nicastro, West Chester University; Dr. Jeff Martoff, Temple University; Dr. Ronald Krauss, Transportation Security Laboratory Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty: It sounds silly but say yes to the things you want to do and no to the things you do not want to do. physics education, West Chester University; M.A.,

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MARCH 11, 2025

Bellisario College of Communications at Pennsylvania State University since 2014 and has been a member of the Penn State faculty since 2003, was announced as the 10th president of Quinnipiac University in Connecticut. A first-generation college student, Hardin earned a Ph.D. Marie Hardin Marie Hardin, who has led the Donald P.

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AUGUST 26, 2024

Thirty-two tenured faculty members are slated for layoffs at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM). We will continue to work to find employment opportunities for affected staff, including through the Priority Referral Program, and communicate updates as they are available. Dr. Mark A.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2025

A transformational paradigm shift is needed in the curation of how Black boys and young men are seen and how educators and practitioners - school counselors, teachers, resource officers, administrators, postsecondary faculty and staff - work with them. Communicate. Black males will rise to high expectations held for them! Self-reflect.

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JANUARY 11, 2025

s legacy through the Martin Luther King Day symposium, an academic credit workshop where both students can earn academic or continuing education credits for their participation in the event.The course is offered at no additional cost, regardless of a students credit load.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Faculty at The Ohio State University (OSU) are criticizing the school’s recent free speech policy changes, citing negative effects to classroom dynamics, The Lantern reported. But some faculty have viewed the mechanism as being open to dubious claims. “If However, a policy can’t change that, Eveland said.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Brown, is to advance Latino student success in higher education by promoting Latino student achievement, conducting analysis to inform educational policies and advancing institutional practices. There must be deliberate and continuous assessment to identify and implement strategies that improve Latino student achievement.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Faculty and staff at the University of Colorado Boulder walked out and protested for higher wages and other demands Thursday, CPR reported. Non-tenure track faculty, contracted staff, and student workers demanded raises and better working conditions. In 2021, the majority of CU’s faculty is non-tenure-track (66%).

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APRIL 13, 2025

For example, Black students in P-12 schools tend to be suspended at higher rates than their racial peers and the belief is that this discipline will teach Black students a lesson to behave in class. This happens by first acknowledging structural issues and then reducing negative impacts on students (Hill et al.,

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MARCH 30, 2025

As a soon-to-be septuagenarian, current university faculty member and educational researcher, the guiding principle learn throughout life resonates with me. For college students, intergenerational learning is more than interacting with older adults. Age diversity in colleges and universities is a net asset for our global society.

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JANUARY 13, 2023

The mental health crisis affecting college students has become involved in stalled faculty contract negotiations at the University of Illinois Chicago, WBEZ Chicago reported. With the start of the pandemic, the already declining mental health of college students slid even further, with students experiencing more isolation and anxiety.

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MAY 23, 2023

Faculty at the tumultuous New College of Florida have voted to censure the school’s board of trustees for “disregarding their fiduciary duties,” according to a letter sent to college leaders May 22, the Tampa Bay Times reported. Liz Leininger, an associate professor of biology who raised the motion on behalf of a colleague.

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DECEMBER 6, 2023

As associate director of the university’s Center for Advancement of Teaching, Rahming oversees FSU’s Learning Assistant Program, which has yielded impressive results in helping students excel in some of the school’s high-enrollment, lower-division courses that provide the foundation for learning in late courses.

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JANUARY 8, 2025

Prior to her role at MATC, Martinez Powless accumulated 17 years of higher education experience at Marquette University and MATC, working in administration, enrollment, student affairs, and multicultural outreach. Martin has since retired, and the college is now led by President Anthony Cruz, who is Hispanic.

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JANUARY 12, 2023

Ja’Bette Lozupone Title: Director of Student Affairs, Montgomery College Age: 41 Education: B.A., communications, Hood College; M.A., communications, Hood College; and D.O.L., But Lozupone wasn’t ready for the responsibility of being a college student. “I Ja’Bette Lozupone had always been a star at school.

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JUNE 6, 2024

Karrie Dixon “Being a part of this incredible community of scholars, innovators and leaders on the sloping hills and verdant green is a dream come true,” said Dixon. This is about providing the best education we can for our students to achieve their purpose and take flight.”

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APRIL 25, 2024

Two new reports and an online dashboard from the Community College Research Center (CCRC) at Teacher’s College, Columbia University, are part of an ambitious effort to tell the story of transfer students. No state is doing well in terms of getting their community college students to transfer and complete,” said Velasco Rodriguez.

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MARCH 15, 2024

College students who graduate as English majors actually find jobs at about the same rate as those who major in other subjects, according to a recent report commissioned by the Modern Language Association (MLA). Along lines or race and ethnicity, Black and Latino graduates in the humanities typically earn less than their white counterparts.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Harper is a highly principled and energetic academic leader, with a well-established track record of innovation, student success and inspiring faculty engagement and productivity,” said Dr. Jolene Koester, CSU interim chancellor. “He

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APRIL 11, 2023

Jackson – an urban researcher, media ethnographer, anthropologist of religion, and theorist of race/ethnicity – is currently the dean at Penn’s Annenberg School for Communication and serves as the Richard Perry University Professor and is on the faculty at Penn’s Center for Experimental Ethnography. Jackson holds a B.A.

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JANUARY 24, 2023

Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs) have been in existence for over 50 years, serving not only Native American and Alaskan Native students but anyone from the rural communities where they reside. The majority of TCUs receive no state funding, despite some 20% of TCUs students not belonging to any tribal nation.

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JUNE 26, 2024

A new issue brief from the American Council on Education (ACE) calls on institutions to take care to ensure that voting resources offered to their students are nonpartisan and that their communications with students are received that way.

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MAY 2, 2024

During the residency, Sanders is expected to engage with students, faculty, staff, and the wider community through collaborative initiatives that promote civic engagement, social justice, and environmental stewardship. Monica Sanders Monica Sanders has been appointed social innovator in residence at Grinnell College.

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JANUARY 26, 2024

While some individual campuses have emerged as success stories around college completion, growth in the nation’s college completion rate has stalled at 62.2%, according to a new report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Four- and eight-week courses and shorter terms can accelerate student learning.

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MAY 26, 2023

“We are committed to ensuring that our culture and climate enable every person – students, staff and faculty – to thrive and achieve at the highest levels of their aspirations, and Dr. Bergeron is exactly the right person to partner with our community to advance that mission.”

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MARCH 26, 2024

Legislators are looking to enshrine the Postsecondary Student Success Grant (PSSG) program, a student outcomes-centered federal effort, into law through new legislation this March. We also need students to be supported not only in year one but throughout the entire time they are in college.”

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

From 1996 to 2010, she taught at the school as a professor of communication, graduate program director, and department chair. “I Her scholarly work and expertise focuses on political communication. in communication from the University of Cincinnati. Short-Thompson holds a B.A., and a Ph.D.

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AUGUST 28, 2023

It’s crucial for historically Black schools to understand these students if the HBCU boom is to be more than a blip. It’s crucial for historically Black schools to understand these students if the HBCU boom is to be more than a blip. They were over 20% more likely to say this than Black students as a group.)

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JUNE 24, 2024

The center provides services that students need, such as a childcare center, a food pantry, clothing distribution, and social workers on staff. The radio/television gives me the ability to speak, write, and communicate in a way so that people understand and feel what I believe,” says Walker-Griffea. I’m a great facilitator.

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MAY 28, 2024

University of South Dakota The South Dakota Board of Regents instated a new policy this year that effectively prohibits the use of gender pronouns and other affiliations by the state’s public university faculty and staff members. South Dakota’s population is roughly 9% Native American. The ACLU is considering next steps to address it.

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DECEMBER 4, 2023

Evidence suggests that many minoritized students already perceive campus environments as racist. Thus, removing mechanisms expressly intended to support the diversification of campus environments sends a strong signal to racially minoritized students that they do not belong in many collegiate spaces. These administrators (e.g.,

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AUGUST 28, 2023

It’s crucial for historically Black schools to understand these students if the HBCU boom is to be more than a blip. It’s crucial for historically Black schools to understand these students if the HBCU boom is to be more than a blip. They were over 20% more likely to say this than Black students as a group.)

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JUNE 8, 2023

Nwosu Nwosu is currently provost and senior vice president for academic affairs and student success at Herbert H. His deep-rooted record in higher education … combined with his commitment and belief in student success, equity, access, community engagement and economic development, and shared governance resonated with our university community.”

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