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As I take my leave.

Dr. Missy Alexander

We’ve invested in Public Health, Addiction Studies, and expanded our portfolio of nursing programs to create pathways from community college to the doctorate in nursing practice. However, when the world attacks “liberal arts” they tend to point to specific disciplines as no longer relevant or meaningful.

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How colleges measure and prove their value: Key podcast

Inside Higher Ed

If you’re a college administrator, you know about this data, or you should be aware now. If I’m a community college president or college president, I have data on all 50 of my programs. People often worry about liberal arts majors in these conversations. Oftentimes you think STEM means tech.

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If You Were Designing Cal State Today: A Proposal Out of MIT

eLiterate

This was back in the 1990s, so it was early for a professor outside of an education or computer science department to be thinking about such things. So we reject solutions that involve replacing teachers by robots, taking all lessons online, or demoting the humanities. On the bottom was the California Community College System.

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ELEVATE program: Achievement Strategies from Illinois Tech: Changing Higher Education Podcast 166 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Raj Echambadi

The Change Leader, Inc.

They include boosting inclusion through experiential learning opportunities, providing more pathways for students, and embracing digital education. Podcast Highlights Illinois Tech pairs technology education with human-centered education by mandating experiential learning opportunities. Drumm McNaughton I would agree.

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Which Path Forward?

Inside Higher Ed

The result, according to Feldstein: these institutions “make the same research demands on faculty and incur expenses for building out facilities that are not focused on creating well-educated citizens, successful professionals and thoughtful human beings. ” So what should these broad-access institutions do instead?