Community College
Community colleges respond to local needs by offering classes that enable students to become more valuable in the job market, or move on to a four-year school. If you teach and advise community college students, you'll want to stay abreast of all the latest academic developments in Faculty Focus.
April 3, 2009
Community Colleges Re-tooling to Serve Influx of Adult Learners
Move over 18-year-olds. There’s a new student on campus, and she might be your mom. A new survey by the Plus 50 Initiative at the American Association of Community Colleges ... Read more »
January 26, 2009
Fundraising Strategies for Community Colleges
If you were asked to describe community colleges, the word “entrepreneurial” probably wouldn’t be one of the first things to come to mind. That may be changing. As the traditional ... Read more »
December 29, 2008
Campus Safety Strategies for Community Colleges
Campus tragedies, like those at Virginia Tech and Northern Illinois University, served as a wake-up call for the need to refocus efforts and attention to campus safety issues, and the ... Read more »
November 18, 2008
Community Colleges Becoming a Gateway to Careers in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) for Underrepresented Populations
“I’ve never been outside of Chicago before,” confided a student as our van approached Hope College in Holland, Michigan. He was one of five community college students visiting the ... Read more »
September 26, 2008
Twelve Recommendations for the Community College
Defending the Community College Equity Agenda, edited by Dr. Thomas Bailey and Dr. Vanessa Smith Morest, published by Johns Hopkins University Press, is the newest resource to come from Columbia ... Read more »
August 30, 2008
Integrating Adjuncts into the Community College through Professional Development, Support
When Johnson County Community College Assistant Dean of Sciences Joseph Gadberry is hiring a part-time instructor, he seeks candidates with similar qualifications to his full-time instructors because hiring an adjunct ... Read more »
August 29, 2008
Jamestown Community College Faculty and Administrators Collaborate on Personnel Decisions
Jamestown (New York) Community College uses a joint faculty-administration committee to make all decisions related to faculty hiring, retention, promotion, salary, and tenure. The idea is that the variety of ... Read more »
July 1, 2008
The Scholarship of Teaching in the Community College
In his influential Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate, Ernest L. Boyer proposed that the definition of “scholarship” be broadened beyond the predominant emphasis on the scholarship of discovery to ... Read more »
June 30, 2008
The Baccalaureate Community College: Appropriate Teacher Preparation?
By Jeffrey Ross, Central Arizona College Jann M. Contento, Estrella Mountain Community College Community colleges are now busying themselves in the practice of K-12 teacher education. The current national teacher shortage ... Read more »
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