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A Dream Deferred: Minority Male Achievement in the 21st Century
Larry Johnson, Jr. December 2015
Volume: 18 Issue: 12
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What happens to a dream deferred?Does it dry uplike a raisin in the sun?Or fester like a sore—And then run?Does it stink like rotten meat?Or crust and sugar over—like a syrupy sweet?Maybe it just sagslike a heavy load.Or does it explode?
Tags: Learning and Organization, Diversity, Innovations
Creating Student Success by Supporting Faculty Performance: The Missing Link in Current National Efforts
Adrianna Kezar and Daniel Maxey November 2015
Volume: 18 Issue: 11
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Leaders in community colleges are being challenged to graduate and transfer more students. Many national projects and initiatives are aimed at supporting this effort, including Achieving the Dream, Completion by Design, Next Generation Learning Challenges, and Global Skills for College Completion. As a result, student success and completion are among the top priorities of institutional leaders. Often, campus efforts focus on support programs, supplemental instruction, and new models of remediation, and tend largely to emphasize the roles of staff and student affairs professionals.
Tags: Learning and Organization, Learning Environments, Programs and Practices, Innovations
Massively Micro: Unbundling Education 2.0
Sasha Thackaberry October 2015
Volume: 18 Issue: 10
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The rise of massive open online courses (MOOCs), combined with a recent renewed interest in both competency-based education and the escalation of adoption of open educational resources (OER), have resulted in an environment ripe for “Unbundling 2.0,” a secondary Great Unbundling of higher education supported by technology (Wiley & Green, 2012; Daniel, 2012; Beaven, Comas-Quinn, & Lewis, 2014; Thornton, 2013).
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Technology Services, Innovations
Curriculum: The Missing Element in Reform
Terry O’Banion September 2015
Volume: 18 Issue: 9
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Data are beginning to come in on reform efforts related to the Completion Agenda, which has a goal of doubling, by the year 2020, the number of students who achieved a certificate or an associate’s degree, or who transferred to a university. According to Policy Meets Pathways (Couturier, 2014), a report by Jobs for the Future, “A decade of interventions and improvements have fallen short” (para. 1).
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Learning Environments, Innovations
Student Success and Mindset
Barbara Bouthillier August 2015
Volume: 18 Issue: 8
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Have you heard faculty make the following comments or, perhaps, made them yourself?Sam doesn't even try. He shows up for class every day but never picks up a pen, never does any homework, and never asks any questions. What am I supposed to do?Stefanie failed the first test and then just gave up. She doesn't come to class anymore and won't respond to any emails I send. What am I supposed to do?
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Teaching Strategies, Innovations
5½ Tips for Engaging Students Outside of Class
Trey Mireles July 2015
Volume: 18 Issue: 7
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Whether studying before coming to class or reflecting after class, learners who actively engage with content outside of class better retain the content they are studying. So what can we do to ensure our learners are engaging with the material outside of class?
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Teaching Strategies, Innovations
Student Mentoring in Community Colleges
Eugenia Paulus June 2015
Volume: 18 Issue: 6
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The U.S has occupied a premier position in the world in part because of its prominence in education and innovation. For the U.S. to remain a competitive leader, particularly in science and engineering, it must engage its students and prepare its next generation of professionals for global competition. This matter of great urgency will require the adoption of a variety of approaches to prepare future students to maintain U.S. eminence both educationally and economically.
Tags: Student Services, Student Completion, Student Retention, Innovations
Creative Inquiry and Undergraduate Research in the Community College
Lee Edwards May 2015
Volume: 18 Issue: 5
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What does an employer want to see in a college graduate? The Chronicle of Higher Education and American Public Media's Marketplace conducted a survey in 2012 of 50,000 employers who hire recent college graduates to understand employer perceptions of the role of colleges and universities in career preparation.
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Teaching Strategies, Innovations
Unpacking the Language of STEM for English Language Learners
Kristen Lems, Jason Stegemoller April 2015
Volume: 18 Issue: 4
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This article is a follow-up to a workshop we presented at the League's 2013 STEMtech conference entitled Unpacking the Language of STEM for English Language Learners. We chose this topic because, in our roles as co-directors of the ESL STEM Success Grant (a five-year national professional development grant from the Office of English Language Acquisition, U.S. Department of Education), we have been exploring ways that teachers across grade levels can rise to the challenge of more effectively teaching English language learners (ELLs) in the STEM disciplines.
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Teaching Strategies, Innovations
Improving Online Instruction: A Case Study
John Squires, Anita Polk-Conley March 2015
Volume: 18 Issue: 3
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In fall 2009, the Chattanooga State Community College math department faced a problem not uncommon to colleges around the nation: Online course offerings had high failure rates and were not a quality experience for students. After examining the data, the department made a bold decision to put a moratorium on online math courses for two years. This move provided time to improve the quality and success of online courses.
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Teaching Strategies, Innovations
Creating Stories From the Margins: A Cultural Anthology by and for Students
Lisa Shaw February 2015
Volume: 18 Issue: 2
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In Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1970), educator Paolo Freire criticized the traditional classroom dynamic of student-teacher as "banking education," that is, the teacher "deposits" information to the student, who passively "banks" or stores it. He offers a list of teacher behaviors that ensure the status quo of teacher as subject and student as object: "The teacher thinks and the students are thought about. The teacher teaches and the students are taught" (p. 73).
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Teaching Strategies, Innovations
A Guide to Climate Resiliency & the Community College
Sarah White, Todd Cohen January 2015
Volume: 18 Issue: 1
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Resiliency is the word of the hour, a potent but ill-defined term of art in climate and community development circles. At its most fundamental, resiliency indicates a community's ability to withstand a shock--economic, environmental, social. It encompasses a community's work to avert, prepare for, respond to, and recover from a disaster. It is invoked, most commonly, in the aftermath of droughts, storms, wildfire, or floods--the kinds of cataclysm that annually cost billions of dollars to the US economy and untold suffering to its citizens.
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Teaching Strategies, Innovations
Making the Most of Advising and Planning Technologies: A Tool for Colleges
Melinda Mechur Karp December 2014
Volume: 17 Issue: 12
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There is a growing consensus across the country that college students need more support to help them reach their academic and career goals. Integrated Planning and Advising Service technologies (IPAS)--with their capacity to leverage big data and create more coherence and coordination among services--are increasingly viewed by colleges as an efficient means to address this challenge.
Tags: Student Services, Enrollment Services, Student Retention, Innovations
Assessing Affective Factors to Improve Retention and Completion
Ross Markle, Terry O'Banion November 2014
Volume: 17 Issue: 11
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Bloom’s Taxonomy may be the most recognized framework in all of education. Categorizing learning objectives into cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains appeared to be common sense at the time the construct was created, and the domains both thrived and evolved over decades with many applications and revisions.
Tags: Student Services, Teaching and Learning, Assessment and Evaluation, Student Completion, Student Retention, Innovations
Community College Voices in the National Completion Conversation
Participants in the League's 2014 Learning Summit October 2014
Volume: 17 Issue: 10
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Last summer, some 300 community college educators convened in Chandler, Arizona, to focus on learning. As participants in the League's Learning Summit, these faculty, staff, and administrators engaged in roundtable discussions about the current national emphasis on college completion--the Completion Agenda. Facilitated by League Vice President for Learning and Research, Cynthia Wilson, the groups discussed definitions of completion, issues and challenges surrounding completion, and the promise of the Completion Agenda, and they posed questions about the current emphasis on completion.
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Learning Resources, Innovations

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