Community Colleges in the News

This week, we offer you a few recent articles of interest that pertain to community colleges:

“College Students Bypassing Degrees on Purpose” by Eddie Small, Hechinger Report (3/25/14)
From Community College Daily:
http://www.ccdaily.com/Pages/Academic-Programs/College-students-bypassing-degrees-on-purpose.aspx

“Starting All Over Again” by Paul Fain (3/19/14)
From Inside Higher Ed:
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/03/19/lost-credits-hold-back-transfer-students-study-finds

“Governor Hickenlooper Signs Legislation Authorizing Community Colleges to Offer Four Year Degrees in Career and Technical Fields” by Joe Marquez (2/27/14)
From Colorado Community College Newswire:
http://newswire.coloradocommunitycolleges.com/2014/02/governor-hickenlooper-signs-legislation-authorizing-community-colleges-to-offer-four-year-degrees-in-career-and-technical-fields/

“Community Colleges Nourish Both Students and Society, Report Says” by Katherine Mangan (2/18/14)
From The Chronicle:
http://chronicle.com/article/Community-Colleges-Nourish/144799/

“Three States Look at Free Community College Tuition” by Jonathan J. Cooper (2/17/14)
From Community College Week:
http://www.ccweek.com/news/templates/template.aspx?articleid=3886&zoneid=3

“Free Community College? Tennessee Proposal Draws Praise and Concerns” by Eric Kelderman (2/6/14)
From The Chronicle:
http://chronicle.com/article/Free-Community-College-/144553/?cid=cc

Views on Formality Levels & Classroom Policies

This week, we offer a couple of interesting point/counter-point articles for your perusal: they concern policies and level of formality in the classroom.  (Thanks to Math Associate Dean Erica Hastert for offering the second pair!)

“Too Much Informality” by Katrina Gulliver (3/6/14)
From Inside Higher Ed:
http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2014/03/06/essay-problems-created-students-who-are-too-informal-professors

“Professionalism and Formality” by Will Miller (3/10/14)
From Inside Higher Ed:
http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2014/03/10/essay-professionalism-and-formality-teaching

“Don’t Be Hard to Get Along With” by Anthony Aycock (9/24/13)
From The Chronicle:
http://chronicle.com/article/Dont-Be-Hard-to-Get-Along/141841

“Be Hard to Get Along With” by Scott Hippensteel (10/23/13)
From The Chronicle:
http://chronicle.com/article/Be-Hard-to-Get-Along-With/142531

Articles on Teaching Students

Below please find a few recent, relevant articles on teaching and working with students. Enjoy.

“Creating a Sense of Instructor Presence in the Online Classroom” by Rob Kelly (1/7/14)
From Faculty Focus:
http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/online-education/creating-a-sense-of-instructor-presence-in-the-online-classroom/

“Three Strategies for Creating Meaningful Learning Experiences” by Steven A. Meyers (2/24/14)
From Faculty Focus:
http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/effective-teaching-strategies/three-strategies-creating-meaningful-learning-experiences/

“Father Guido Was Right” by Rob Weir (2/28/14)
From Inside Higher Ed:
http://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2014/02/28/essay-making-midcourse-changes-teaching-plans

“Top 10 Rules for Developing Your First Online Course” by John Orlando (3/3/14)
From Faculty Focus:
http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/online-education/top-10-rules-developing-first-online-course/

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To Assist Productivity

This week, we’ve included a couple of links featuring apps helpful to one’s personal and professional productivity -- enjoy:

“Educational Productivity Apps: January 2014” by Robbie Melton
From WCET’s website:
http://wcet.wiche.edu/learn/educational-productivity-apps

“7 Productivity Apps for the New Year” by Liz Homan and Emily VanBuren (1/23/14)
From Inside Higher Ed’s “GradHacker” blog:
http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/gradhacker/7-productivity-apps-new-year