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Tags: Organizational CultureJuly 2024At the League’s 2024 Innovations Conference, Chancellor Lee Lambert from Foothill-De Anza (...
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Tags: DiversityJuly 2024Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT), with over 15,600 students enrolled in 126 programs...
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Tags: EquityJuly 2024Literature has pinpointed metrics such as credits earned and course success as important measures...
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Tags: Leadership DevelopmentJune 2024Developing the next generation of community college leaders may be a matter of survival (Asera,...
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Graduating high school students across the nation are faced with deciding whether to continue their education or enter the workforce. Many seek higher education in order to improve career opportunities and gain economic prosperity and social mobility (Blackwell & Pinder, 2014). The College Board claims that the average annual income for individuals who have a baccalaureate degree is $53,976. The unemployment rate among these graduates is 4.7 percent, which is lower than the U.S. unemployment rate of 6.7 percent (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2014). While these statistics look promising, the...
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At the League’s 2024 Innovations Conference, Chancellor Lee Lambert from Foothill-De Anza (FHDA) Community College District and Dorothy Sisneros from Thunderbird Leadership Consulting (TLC) presented a session on teaming and context-based coaching as a method for executive leaders to cultivate and sustain high-performing teams. FHDA is actively implementing teaming and context-based coaching as part of its leadership professional development initiatives. This article provides a first-hand narrative of the use of this approach with two college leadership teams.
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Students of color, males in particular, face significant challenges in higher education. African American male students, on average, are less successful than other racial/ethnic groups, including African American women. Compared to Asian/Pacific Islander or White/Non-Hispanic students, they are less likely to succeed in both developmental and college-level coursework and are more likely to drop out. Latino students are the least likely of all racial/ethnic groups to transfer. African American students and Latino males have the lowest persistence rates (Elgin Community College, 2010).
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Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT), with over 15,600 students enrolled in 126 programs, has a significant presence in Calgary and southern Alberta, Canada. The region around Calgary and the land on which SAIT is located—Moh’kinsstis, to the Niitsitapi—is home to several First Nations communities, including the Blackfoot Confederacy, comprised of the Siksika, the Piikani, and the Kainai Nations; the Tsuu’tina Nation; and the Îyârhe Nakoda Nation, which includes the Bearspaw, Chiniki, and Goodstoney bands. Additionally, Calgary is home to the Métis Nation of Alberta Calgary Nose...
Literature has pinpointed metrics such as credits earned and course success as important measures to best determine academic momentum for community college students (Attewell, Heil, & Reisel, 2012; Jenkins & Bailey, 2017). In fall 2020, Anne Arundel Community College’s (AACC) average course success rate was 72 percent. However, success rates at the section level often varied widely for the same course. Equity gaps existed among student groups with different demographic characteristics and based on course and section designs, such as modality and section length. To address the issue,...
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Oakton Community College’s Cannabis Dispensary and Patient Care Specialist certificate program is the direct result of a single interaction between a senior Oakton administrator and an Oakton alumnus. The alumnus worked for a medical cannabis dispensary and expressed the need for educated patient care specialists who were able to interact with chronically ill patients—in other words, those with job skills that go beyond being a “weed enthusiast.”
Students and alumni can positively impact curriculum and academic programming as members of career advisory committees and by playing a role in...