January, 2020

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The Post-Transfer Blues: Adjusting, Settling, and Thriving

Castleton Trio

Starting new things can be scary. Even students who are excited to start college will likely report that some things scared them—and that’s when they start as a freshman in the Fall with everyone else. Switching schools can offer a whole new set of frightening experiences. Starting new in the Spring means everything is new to you even when it isn’t to your classmates.

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Watch Free Webinar: Interfolio and Faculty-Centered Technology (Product Suite Overview)

Interfolio

Free Limited Availability Webinar: Interfolio and Faculty-Centered Technology (Product Suite Overview). This first 30-minute installment in the 2020 Faculty Lifecycle Webinars series introduces the faculty-centric technology movement that Interfolio is helping to lead and gives a functional overview of all four modules. Watch the free webinar to learn: What sorts of challenges Interfolio addresses, related to faculty information, workflows, and development.

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2020 Vision: 10 Higher Ed Trends to Watch This Year

MCC Academic Advisement Resources

From insidetrack on 01/02/2020: 2020 Vision: 10 Higher Ed Trends to Watch This Year – InsideTrack [link] What will drive 2020’s innovations? The tried-and-true fundamentals of student support. Before auld acquaintance with 2019 is completely forgot, we invite you to take one last look at the news and views that shaped the past year in … Continue reading 2020 Vision: 10 Higher Ed Trends to Watch This Year.

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Hot Beds of Community College Enrollment Growth

Community College Review

Community colleges have been soaring in popularity since the recession, but some areas are seeing tremendously more growth than others. Learn about which areas are the hot beds for community college enrollment.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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5 Tips to Beat the Winter Blues & Make the Spring Semester a Little Easier.

Castleton Trio

Winter in Vermont is so beautiful. The mountains are covered in snow, and the trees bend beautifully with its heavy weight. It’s a season we look forward to. We break out the cozy sweaters, sip hot chocolate, and listen to Christmas music. But once the holidays are over, we feel winter will never end. In most states, winter will last an average of three months.

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Culinary Arts, Athletics, Massage Therapy and More: Programs Cut at Community Colleges

Community College Review

Against massive budget cuts, community colleges have been forced to take drastic measures, including cutting entire programs ranging from the culinary arts to athletics.

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5 Ways Community Colleges Have Improved in the Last Decade

Community College Review

We analyze some of the ways in which community colleges have changed and improved over the years, from online classes to new degree programs.