Editor’s note: This article comes from the current issue of the Community College Journal, which has been published by the American Association of Community Colleges since 1930. As a president, you bear the responsibility for…
Communications and marketing professionals in community colleges are responsible for all kinds of communications: internal and external, digital and traditional, curriculum and continuing education, and more. They must be both creative and strategic, integrating the…
Two phenomena have kept development education front and center in higher education: expanded access to college and a new focus on student success. Expanded access to college has spurred more people to go to college,…
Editor’s note: This is an except from the AACC 21st-Century Center. It’s hard to believe that the American Association of Community Colleges’ Pathways Project has been underway for just over a year now. It has…
Many of us have been working on developmental education reform for years with frustrating results, achieving incremental improvements, but not truly “turning the dial” in significant ways — until recently. Improving developmental outcomes remains one…
Pundits continue to speculate as to the influences that led to the presidential election outcome. Theories abound and there seems to be a consensus that the prognosticators got it very wrong. Lack of faith in…
Shoreline Community College opened 52 years ago on an 83-acre campus 10 miles north of Seattle. In 2015–2016, we served 10,003 students studying more than 100 transfer and professional degree programs and hosted international students…