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Faculty Voices Are Critical in Significant Discussions
Laurance J. Warford, Marsha VanNahmen November 2010
Volume: 13 Issue: 11
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Community colleges are in the national spotlight today due in part to President Obama's agenda calling for a 50 percent increase in student completion rates at community colleges. Major educational foundations are embracing the completion agenda, with countless state and national initiatives mobilizing to advance efforts nationwide. This spotlight on community colleges, while mostly positive, does present challenges that may underscore chronic concerns community colleges share with employers and other segments of education across the country.
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Infusing Sustainability Into the Curriculum
Maria Harper-Marinick, Eric Leshinskie September 2010
Volume: 13 Issue: 9
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The Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD), located in the Phoenix metropolitan area, is one of the largest community college districts in the United States. Serving more than 250,000 students, the Maricopa Community Colleges, comprised of ten colleges and two skill centers, are dedicated to educational excellence and to meeting the needs of the citizens of Maricopa County.
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Connecting With Online Students and Assessing the Connection
Susan L. Kendall, Connie Strain August 2010
Volume: 13 Issue: 8
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Teaching online courses presents many of the same conundrums as teaching face-to-face classes. Participation in class, whether online or face-to-face, is traditionally difficult to encourage and to assess. Does just showing up or logging in count? What if a student is present, yet silent? What if a student raises a hand or makes a posting simply to gain the incremental peg count toward full participation points?
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Changing Styles, Meeting Needs
William Wade July 2010
Volume: 13 Issue: 7
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Colleges that have been offering online courses for a while are running into a new wave of challenges: changing student needs and static online course content. West Kentucky Community and Technical College (WKCTC) in Paducah, Kentucky, began offering courses via computer modem in 1991 and moved to the Internet in 1996. From 1996 to 2006, the college used seven different course management systems (CMS). The systems were of increasing complexity and the configuration of each required mastering a steep learning curve.
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Fluency in Distance Learning
Celeste Fenton, Brenda Watkins June 2010
Volume: 13 Issue: 6
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An old adage, "Necessity is the mother of invention," was certainly found to be true for the authors of Fluency in Distance Learning. In 2007, Celeste Fenton and Brenda Watkins were preparing for a presentation and workshop to help postsecondary faculty acquire skill in teaching online. Their research turned up a dearth of literature devoted to the history of distance learning, and a paucity of information on how to teach online.
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The 10-Minute Playwriting Festival
Sinclair Community College May 2010
Volume: 13 Issue: 5
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Pairing College Mentors With High School Participants Benefits Education, the Arts, and the Community of DaytonA "wicked" partnership between Sinclair Community College's Theatre Department and a professional theatrical company, The Victoria Theatre Association (VTA), produced the 10-Minute Playwriting Festival, Changed for Good. The festival was held in conjunction with the area premiere of the popular musical, Wicked. The goal of the workshop was to partner local high school students with Sinclair theatre majors to write and produce new plays.
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ScholarSpace @ JCCC
Barry Bailey April 2010
Volume: 13 Issue: 4
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The concept of institutional repositories is frequently thought of as an exclusive implement of universities (1) and other "Publish or Perish" four-year colleges. If this were the limit and scope of valuable repositories, the implication would be that they are the only entities that create scholarship worth preserving and sharing. Fortunately, a few community colleges have stepped up to reserve space within the Web's global scholarly community.
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Educating Citizens
Anne Colby, Thomas Ehrlich, Elizabeth Beaumont, Jason Stephens, Lee S. Shulman March 2010
Volume: 13 Issue: 3
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During the twelve years we have spent at the Carnegie Foundation, we have co-authored several books that attempt to capture what we have seen in a number of different areas of higher education. Each one builds on the good work of educators throughout the country and also points to the barriers that need to be addressed if the thoughtful practices we have seen are to become the norm rather than the exception.
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Outreach Efforts for Part-time Faculty at Central Piedmont Community College
Debbie Bouton February 2010
Volume: 13 Issue: 2
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Much discussion and speculation has taken place recently concerning the role of part-time faculty in the community college and the practical and ethical responsibilities of the institutions to support them. Such attention is warranted, given that the number of part-time faculty in higher education increased 422 percent between 1970 and 2003 (Schuster, J.H. & Finkelstein, M.J., 2006). Indeed, for community colleges, part-time instructors now make up approximately 70 percent of the faculty (Schuster, J.H. & Finkelstein, M.J., 2006).
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The Nature of Innovation in the Community College: Guidelines for Innovators
Cynthia Wilson January 2010
Volume: 13 Issue: 1
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Throughout 2009 the League for Innovation in the Community College, with support from MetLife Foundation, conducted a research project on "The Nature of Innovation in the Community College." (See Leadership Abstracts, December 2009.) Among the project's goals was the development of a set of guidelines for comm
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A Framework for Leading Change Through the Lens of Student Success
Irvin Clark III, Jody Simpson, Charlene Newkirk, Debra Wyvill December 2009
Volume: 12 Issue: 12
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Laying the FoundationIncreasingly, community colleges are joining forces with their stakeholders to create an open exchange that generates ideas while promoting student learning and success (Harvey, 2003; O'Banion, 1997). The College of Southern Maryland (CSM), like many educational institutions, echoed the sentiments of Harvey and Tinto when it began a collegewide effort to explore innovative ways to respond to the academic and student development needs of the student population.
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Surviving Voices, the Narrative of Refuge: An Intergenerational Project
Lisa Shaw November 2009
Volume: 12 Issue: 11
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The Intergenerational Project grew out of the Literature and Culture course I teach at Miami Dade College North Campus, which explores the connections between diverse cultures and literary expression. Featuring the recording, compilation, and publication of oral histories of trauma survivors seeking refuge in South Florida, the project focused on our readily available primary resources: Holocaust survivor war veterans, former Cuban political prisoners, and hurricane Katrina evacuees.
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The Accelerated Learning Project (ALP) at the Community College of Baltimore County
Pete Adams October 2009
Volume: 12 Issue: 10
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When the English Department at the Community College of Baltimore County conducted several longitudinal studies, we discovered that only 27 percent of students enrolled in our higher-level developmental writing course passed ENG 101 within four years and that 73 percent either failed or dropped out of the writing sequence. Discovering such low success rates and such high attrition rates made us determined to find a more effective model for developmental writing.
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Building a Learning University
Tony Gurr September 2009
Volume: 12 Issue: 9
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The type of university needed for the new age of higher education will have to engage in a continuous process of self-review and refocusing over its lifetime. This will require systematic and purposeful processes of strategic planning that draw on the active participation of a broad range of stakeholders who, in their work together, align the institution's policies, processes, and practices to make them more responsive to the changing needs of students.
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Faculty Mentoring in the Community College Setting
Katina Gothard August 2009
Volume: 12 Issue: 8
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Even though a single definition of mentoring does not exist in literature, we all intuitively know what it is. As educators, we engage in the act of mentoring, at least informally, every day, whether with peers or students.
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