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Helping Students Explore Transfer: How Phi Theta Kappa’s Transfer Honor Roll Can Help

Laurie Arnston — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 18:52:32 +0000

By Lynn Tincher-Ladner and Dan Phelan Recently, the Joint Statement on Transfer and Award of Credit was updated for the first time since 2017, part of the work of the ACE National Task Force on the Transfer and Award of Credit. The statement, revised by ACE, the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers, and the Council for Higher Education ...

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Examining HR Hiring Practices for LGBTQ+ Professionals at Community Colleges

ACE — Mon, 03 May 2021 17:34:20 +0000

By Ángel de Jesus Gonzalez Over the past several decades, the college student population has diversified greatly across all sectors of postsecondary education. According to ACE’s Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education: A Status Report, students of color made up 45.2 percent of the undergraduate student population in 2016, a substantial increase from 29.6 percent in 1996. However, higher education leadership ...

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Innovating Transfer Through Regional Partnerships: Houston Guided Pathways to Success

ACE — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 21:25:12 +0000

By Suzanne Wilson Summers Houston, Texas is the fourth-largest city and one of the most racially and ethnically diverse in the United States, yet it ranks 19th out of the nation’s largest 20 metropolitan areas in postsecondary attainment. Moreover, on the Texas Gulf Coast, the demand for workers with bachelor’s degrees exceeds levels set by the state’s 60×30 plan, which created ...

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Regional Data-sharing Agreements: The Central Florida Education Ecosystem Database

ACE — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 21:09:41 +0000

By Suzanne Wilson Summers Higher education is increasingly embracing the use of big data to increase and assess the effectiveness of institutional policies and practices and to drive needed change. The Central Florida Education Ecosystem Database (CFEED) offers one promising model for regional data-sharing agreements that can increase educational attainment. With a shared commitment to student success and an understanding that ...

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Innovating the Transfer Pipeline Through Regional Partnerships

ACE — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 19:16:49 +0000

A majority of students entering community colleges indicate that they plan to transfer to a four-year institution. Yet, despite their aspirations, transfer rates remain low and bachelor’s degree completion rates even lower. Researchers have identified multiple barriers to transfer and degree completion for transfer students, including unclear articulation and transfer pathways between two- and four-year institutions; financial need that forces many ...

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Looking Through a New Lens

Laurie Arnston — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 18:55:40 +0000

By Walter Bumphus. Dr. Bumphus, president and CEO of the American Association of Community Colleges, is the recipient of the 2020 Reginald Wilson Diversity Leadership Award. The award is named in honor of Reginald Wilson, senior scholar emeritus at ACE and founding director of the Council’s Office of Minority Concerns, and is presented annually to an individual who has made outstanding ...

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Lessons Learned from Rural Community Colleges’ Response to COVID-19

Laurie Arnston — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 16:07:57 +0000

By Suzanne Wilson Summers Suzanne Wilson Summers is writing about her year in the ACE Fellows Program in a series of posts on how community colleges can build internal cultures that support student success. Read her first post here. Rural community colleges represent over 3.4 million students spread across 800 campuses nationwide and serve as “centers of educational opportunity,” according to ...

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Using Data to Support Organizational Change at Community Colleges

Laurie Arnston — Fri, 15 May 2020 15:40:43 +0000

By Jaime Lester In the ACE research brief Tools in a Toolbox: Leading Change in Community Colleges, I present multiple recommendations to support organizational change, specifically in community colleges. While community colleges can and do change on a regular basis, leaders can use specific tools from the bottom up and the top down to facilitate strategic change. Change does not need ...

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Attracting and Retaining International Students at Community Colleges: Creating a 5-Star Experience

Laurie Arnston — Mon, 27 Apr 2020 17:56:59 +0000

By Linda Serra Hagedorn In my recent brief for ACE, International Students in Community Colleges: An Unplanned Diversity, I pointed to the ways community colleges serve international students as well as the many benefits (beyond financial) that these students bring to campus. I also presented some considerations for attracting and retaining international students. Community colleges were never designed for students ...

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Rethinking Community College Workforce Education: Eliminating the Dead End

Laurie Arnston — Thu, 13 Feb 2020 16:25:53 +0000

By Mark M. D’Amico Community colleges have many complementary missions, and educational offerings typically fall within four main categories: credit-based education leading to university transfer, credit-based career education yielding certificates and degrees, developmental education, and noncredit education focused on job skills or community interests. Practically speaking, these distinct buckets define course and program delivery, but when it comes to transfer, mobility, ...

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Entrepreneurial Mindset as a Marketable Skill

Laurie Arnston — Fri, 07 Feb 2020 20:47:50 +0000

By Charles M. Cook This post is the fourth in a series from the Association of Chief Academic Officers. In 2015, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board adopted a new Strategic Plan for Higher Education called 60x30TX. The intent of the plan is to ensure that, by 2030, at least 60 percent of Texans aged 25–34 would have a postsecondary certificate or degree. ...

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Pathways to Community College Transformation

Laurie Arnston — Fri, 24 Jan 2020 21:33:40 +0000

By Suzanne Wilson Summers In the upcoming months, Suzanne Wilson Summers will be writing about her year in the ACE Fellows Program in a series of posts on how community colleges can build internal cultures that support student success. The hurdles for community college students who are first-generation, low-income, and members of other underrepresented groups are often formidable. One model that ...

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