What’s on your course menu?
Think about your online course shell like a website for your class. When you go to a website, what are you looking for in terms of navigation or design? Think about the last website you…
Commentary
Black History Month: A time for reflection, assessment
When I was younger, Black History Month meant reading the biographies of famous African Americans and writing papers about Civil Rights leaders. Now that I am president and CEO of Phi Theta Kappa (PTK), I…
A look back at a special college in Texas
This is a special year for St. Philip’s College. It is kicking off its 125th anniversary on March 1. St. Philip’s started in 1898 as a church school where a small group of African American girls…
Workforce Pell is a House committee priority
Expanding Pell Grant eligibility to qualifying short-term workforce education programs is a priority this Congress for the House Education and the Workforce Committee. That statement by committee member Rep. Lloyd Smucker (R-Pennsylvania) on Tuesday at…
Trustee support is critical for equity-focused reforms
Higher education will play a key role in strengthening communities as we recover from the pandemic, and community college students are key to our economic prosperity. To ensure that students become the skilled workers and…
Teaching while Black: My story
When I was young, we often drove from Ohio to Louisiana to visit family. I recall my parents needing to plan strategically so that we would not have to stop in certain unsafe states, and…
Bringing the three Rs to higher ed marketing
Purple squirrels … blue diamonds … unicorns. No matter what terms we use, we all have those special customers that Psychology Today coins “pseudo-exceptionals.” These pseudo-exceptionals are those who believe they’re completely different from others…
A commitment to count all learning
Community colleges offer many ways for people to develop new skills that prepare them for good jobs that pay a living wage or better. More and more, these learners are looking for ways to get…
Recruitment, support and then completion
With the pandemic years almost completely behind us, community colleges across the country now have several new challenges to work on. The large drop in student enrollment is the first. This began before the pandemic…
Washington Watch: ED seeks info on determining ‘low financial value’ programs
In an action that echoes the Obama administration’s wildly unpopular college ratings system, the U.S. Education Department is formally soliciting public input on the creation of a list of higher education programs that provide “low…