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Harrisburg Area Community College Faculty Rally to Unionize

A few dozen Harrisburg Area Community College faculty members gathered near campus to rally for a union on Saturday, PennLive reported. The institution has 700 faculty members in total, including full-time and adjunct professors. Faculty voted in December 2020 on behalf of unionization and are now represented by the Pennsylvania State Education Association. Professors involved […]

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Ozarks Technical Community College Appoints First Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Daniel Ogunyemi has been appointed Ozarks Technical Community College’s (OTC) first director of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). According to census data, 8% of residents in OTC’s 12-county service region are non-white. Yet, non-White enrollment in the school system is 18%. One of Ogunyemi’s first goals is to listen. “I want to listen to anybody willing […]

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Legislative Summit Analyzes Policies to Support Community Colleges

The pandemic’s impact on rural community colleges was discussed during the three-day virtual 2021 National Legislative Summit hosted this week by the Association of Community College Trustees and the American Association of Community Colleges.

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Declines in Community College Enrollment Among Blacks Will Have Long-Term Consequences

Community colleges throughout the U.S. have experienced dramatic decreases in enrollment among students of color since the pandemic began.

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Virtual Panel Explores Findings from Community College Student Engagement Report

Sixty-nine percent of entering students work for pay, while almost one-third work more than 40 hours a week, found a Center for Community College Student Engagement (CCCSE) report, titled “The Intersection of Work and Learning: Findings From Entering Students in Community Colleges,” last October. Just how to provide support to those student-workers was the topic of a CCCSE virtual panel discussion on Feb. 3.

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Dr. Adrienne Grayson Transitions Her Equity Work Into the Community College Sphere

Dr. Adrienne Grayson entered the field of higher education with a goal of helping students have a positive college experience. Her interest in student affairs stemmed from being an Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) tutor and holding several related jobs during her undergraduate years at the University of California, Irvine (UCI).

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Dr. DeAnna R. Burt-Nanna Selected as President of Monroe Community College

Dr. DeAnna R. Burt-Nanna, who was recently appointed president of Monroe Community College (MCC), has always found education to be “inherit” in her genes.

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Flat is the New Up: How the Year of Covid-19 Continues to Reinvent Higher Ed

Along with its persisting global presence and its surging number of victims, COVID-19 has conjured numerous challenges due to its unprecedented nature. Whether we see the vast changes around us as positive or not, we need to adapt to stay in the performance race. Higher education is facing some critical demands, and it might be useful to summarize some gripping ones, along with the ways we’re collectively addressing them.

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Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Carbon Community College Receives $1M From Late Professor Emeritus

A beloved Lehigh Carbon Community College (LCCC) professor who died this year has left nearly $1 million for the college to use as scholarships for students in technology. Clifford F. Miller, who joined LCCC to teach mechanical technology in 1968, was among the first professors at the Pennsylvania college founded just two years prior. Miller […]

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What a Biden Administration Could Mean for Community Colleges

With President-elect Joe Biden preparing to take office in January, this might be community colleges’ big moment. The institutions’ advocates are already celebrating what a Joe Biden presidency could mean for the community college sector.

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Community Colleges Must Move Beyond Opportunity, Focus on Success

While we know that hard work and persistence are essential to success, we also know that opportunity and access are the true keys to student persistence and achievement. The modern community college was established in all states following passage of the GI Bill, which resulted in hundreds of thousands of vets entering American higher education […]

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Op-ed Urging Jill Biden to Drop ‘Dr.’ Honorific Sparks Heated Critiques of Sexism and Elitism

A Friday Wall Street Journal op-ed asking soon-to-be First Lady Dr. Jill Biden to drop the honorific denoting her Ed.D. has inspired heated criticism from many academics who are calling it sexist, classist and elitist.

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