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Beyond the Numbers: Maximizing the Impact of Student Evaluations of Teaching in Community Colleges
Jill Channing October 2024
Volume: 37 Issue: 10
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Imagine a dedicated community college instructor who has spent countless hours preparing engaging lessons, only to receive a series of lukewarm student evaluations. Despite their best efforts, the feedback highlights issues unrelated to their teaching effectiveness, such as the difficulty of the course material or the timing of classes. This scenario underscores a critical challenge in higher education: the use and interpretation of student evaluations of teaching (SETs). While SETs are a common tool for assessing educational quality, they are not without their pitfalls.
Tags: Learning and Organization, Assessment and Evaluation, Innovations
Leading the Charge in AI Implementation
Feng Hou September 2024
Volume: 37 Issue: 9
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St. Louis Community College (STLCC) began using artificial intelligence (AI) to help students, faculty, and staff shortly after the release of ChatGPT in November 2022. The college created a dedicated AI governance team to lead AI implementation, transforming how we deliver and experience education. The team has developed strategic partnerships with AI industry leaders and embarked on numerous innovative projects.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Access, Learning Resources, Technology Systems, Innovations
Transforming Academic Support: Kirkwood Community College's New Learning Commons Vision
Matthew Gilchrist August 2024
Volume: 37 Issue: 8
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Kirkwood Community College is transforming its approach to academic support. The process is anchored by a newly established learning commons embedded within the larger strategic priorities of the Academic Affairs division.
Tags: Student Services, Access, Learning Environments, Learning Resources, Student Retention, Innovations
Teaming to Drive Organizational Change
Teresa Ong July 2024
Volume: 37 Issue: 7
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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.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Organizational Culture, Innovations
Training and Retaining Emerging Community College Leaders
Katherine Gonzalez June 2024
Volume: 37 Issue: 6
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Developing the next generation of community college leaders may be a matter of survival (Asera, 2019). In 2001, the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) sounded the alarm on a community college leadership crisis (Eddy & Garza Mitchell, 2017). Soon after, AACC conducted a leadership survey of community college CEOs which found that half of presidents expected to retire within six years. AACC’s follow-up study 15 years later found that the situation had gotten worse (Eddy & Garza Mitchell, 2017).
Tags: Leadership Development, Leadership Development, Innovations
Third Edition of The Shaping of American Higher Education Highlights the Centrality of Community Colleges in our Contemporary System
Carrie B. Kisker May 2024
Volume: 37 Issue: 5
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As a community college scholar and consultant, I have long been distressed by the lack of any significant discussion about the origins and historic and contemporary contributions of Democracy’s Colleges in major texts on the history of American higher education. Historians, it seems, have preferred to focus their gaze on the most prestigious institutions in our country—the Ivys, flagship research universities, some liberal arts standouts—while the workhorses of the system have been grossly underrepresented in the texts.
Tags: Innovations
Centers for Inclusive Democracy: An Integrated Approach to Fundamental Values for Higher Education
Deanna Villanueva-Saucedo and Eddie Genna April 2024
Volume: 37 Issue: 4
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The Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD) enrolls nearly 140,000 students annually at 10 independently accredited colleges and 31 satellite locations. MCCCD is the top provider of undergraduate education to students of color in the state of Arizona, and 48 percent of its students are first-generation college matriculants (Maricopa Community Colleges, 2024). The district offers degrees and certificates across more than 600 programs, including new bachelor’s degrees in certain fields.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Organizational Culture, Innovations
Leading Through Large-Scale Institutional Change
Karen Miller March 2024
Volume: 37 Issue: 3
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Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C) began offering associate degrees as Ohio’s first community college in 1963 and now serves more than 41,000 credit and noncredit students annually. The college encompasses four traditional campuses—Eastern, Western, Metropolitan, and Westshore—and numerous on-campus and off-campus innovative learning facilities and sites.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Organizational Culture, Innovations
Anti-Racism Transformation at South Seattle College
Sayumi Irey February 2024
Volume: 37 Issue: 2
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South Seattle College (South), established in 1969, offers short-term certificates and two- and four-year degree programs in a variety of disciplines within apprenticeship, workforce, pre-college, and college transfer divisions. At South, a diverse learning community is represented by the 34 first languages spoken among students and staff and 42 percent of first-generation students (South Seattle College, 2023).
Tags: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Organizational Culture, Innovations
Wraparound Services Key to Latina/o/x Student Success at Moraine Valley Community College
Jessica Crotty January 2024
Volume: 37 Issue: 1
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Community college leaders must grapple with the expectation of being everything for everyone—an almost impossible task considering the increasing numbers of diverse student groups, each with their own customs, beliefs, and challenges. Finding the right balance to assist and make all students feel welcome is necessary, not only for students’ well-being, but also for their success at the college.
Tags: Student Services, Diversity, Inclusion, Mentoring, Organizational Culture, Student Retention, Innovations
Building a Quality Culture
Vera Beletzan, Dawn Macaulay, and Nichole Molinaro December 2023
Volume: 36 Issue: 12
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Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning is a publicly funded college serving over 30,000 full-time students in the Greater Toronto area. We support over 200 full-time programs that range from one-year certificates and Ontario diplomas to honours bachelor degrees and Ontario post-graduate certificates. One quarter of all students in college degree programs in Ontario study at Humber (Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning, n.d.).
Tags: Innovations
Gender Inclusivity in Male-Dominated Trades and Technology Classrooms: What Leaders Need to Know
Lisa Weatherby November 2023
Volume: 36 Issue: 11
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In our work with industry partners in trades and technology sectors, educators are often asked how we can help these companies to engage and hire more women. Regardless of efforts to increase diversity in trades and technology roles, retention of women will remain a challenge until more transformative action is taken to address the noninclusive culture within which many women are working and learning. This transformation begins in our classrooms.
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Classroom Research, Inclusion, Learning Environments, Innovations
Jackson College Men of Merit and Sisters of Strength
Kelly Crum and Antoine Breedlove October 2023
Volume: 36 Issue: 10
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In the heart of Jackson College's vibrant educational landscape, where leaders of tomorrow are born, two exceptional groups standout: Men of Merit and Si
Tags: Leadership Development, Diversity, Leadership Development, Innovations
Revolutionizing Community College Education: Exploring the Power of Artificial Intelligence
Nicholas Vick September 2023
Volume: 36 Issue: 9
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The emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to revolutionize the work of every community college professional and usher in an era of change, uncertainty, and innovation. Over the next five years, recruiting, advising, teaching, counseling, and tutoring may all be drastically different compared to today’s traditional approaches.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Technology Systems, Innovations
Reaching Rural Populations With Dual Enrollment Opportunities
Jonathan D. Garn and Daniel Allen August 2023
Volume: 36 Issue: 8
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Delta College serves the Great Lakes Bay region of mid-Michigan, with its primary district including Bay (24 percent), Midland (16 percent), and Saginaw (42 percent) counties (Delta College, 2023). These counties, in addition to the surrounding ones for which Delta is the community college of choice, combine to form a markedly diverse service area.
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Access, College Readiness, Enrollment Management, Learning Environments, Innovations

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