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24 mai 2016

The Summer Shift

By Matt Reed. Summer teaching is one of the best-kept secrets at community colleges. Many faculty swear that their summer classes are the best classes they teach all year. Every class is different, of course, but for the most part the reasons given are the same. More...

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24 mai 2016

With Friends Like These…

By Matt Reed. North Carolina is considering a bill to require five public universities there, four of which are HBCU’s, to reduce in-state tuition to $500 per semester. The reason offered is to make education more affordable for low-income students, though the bill does not provide any increases in state aid to offset the substantial loss of tuition revenue. More...

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24 mai 2016

Easily Overlooked, But Important

By Matt Reed. The Aspen Institute just issued a “playbook” for community colleges looking to do “transfer” well. More...

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24 mai 2016

The Other Legacy of the For-Profit College Boom

By Matt Reed. The New Yorker has a pretty good piece on the students stranded by the abrupt closures of for-profit colleges. It mentions the students who are withholding loan payments for programs taken at the Corinthian Colleges, which both closed and showed evidence of fraud. More...

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24 mai 2016

Graduations

By Matt Reed. It’s graduation season, which means that college graduations, program graduations, pinning ceremonies, and the like are upon us. More...

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24 mai 2016

Friday Fragments - May 12, 2016

By Matt Reed. Thursday was “Scholars’ Day” on campus. That’s a day for faculty and staff to do presentations for their peers on things they care about. For me, it’s a rare chance to see faculty in their natural habitat, doing what they do really well. More...

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24 mai 2016

Tips for Graduation Speakers

By Matt Reed. I’ve attended my fair share of graduation ceremonies over the years. In fact, arguably more than my fair share, since DeVry did three ceremonies per year. I’ve seen some good ones, and some regrettable ones. More...

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24 mai 2016

In Which I Consider Resorting to a T-Shirt Cannon

By Matt Reed. Last year I wrote at some length about a report showing that the “death of the humanities” narrative is exactly wrong when applied to community colleges; recent statistics showed that humanities majors are the fastest-growing majors in the two-year sector. More...

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24 mai 2016

Basic Truths, but Worth Repeating

By Matt Reed. The report looks at community college students in Virginia, and tracks their educational and financial outcomes relative to other students several years out. More...

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24 mai 2016

How Can High School Teachers Become College Professors?

By Matt Reed. High school faculty sometimes cross over. It can be done. I’ve seen it done. One of my best hires many years ago was a former high school math teacher who loved teaching algebra but hated the politics of his school district; he picked up a bunch of developmental math classes and quickly became a student favorite. More...

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