Strategic planning can be wonderful, it can be disastrous, it can be a waste of time or it can be ignored. Setting an intention, being true to the course and not getting distracted can set an organization up for meaningful growth and nimbleness. Reality is often, well reality. City College of San Francisco undertook anContinue reading
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Are We Listening?
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What do we really, really want?
Big data can benefit higher education. Community colleges need to use big data but, step one is to determine what is valued. Big data does not bring magic, but it can bring information together in a cohesive, interpretable format such as Perdue’s Signals, a predictive analytic model (2013). Community colleges should develop systems to suchContinue reading
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Toy Poodles and Bull Mastiffs
Peer analysis is a valuable tool for self-evaluation, comparison evaluation and creating standard benchmarks. So what is it? Why should I care? Peer analysis is a process of comparing one thing to a similar thing. Most industries can, and do, use some form of peer analysis. To be useful, the information utilized in peer analysisContinue reading
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Information literacy – Students need it, Faculty want it
Students come to higher education from a K-12 system that does not fully fund or support their libraries and librarians. A critical deficiency of skills occurs when funding to school libraries is cut, librarians are working in numerous schools and students do not have easy access to scholarly materials, and certified librarians to guide theirContinue reading
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Curiosity, Inquiry and Leaders
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Schutz, Drake and Lesser Question Grade Inflation and the Adjuncts’ Role
Schutz, Drake & Lessner (2013) explore a question that few others have attempted to answer in previous studies. The researchers focused their research on academic rigor and grade inflation as they relate to the differences between full-time and adjunct faculty. A handful of studies have shown that full-time faculty assign lower grades than adjunct facultyContinue reading
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Libraries, the forgotten element to success
On the first days of class students are confused; librarians are here to help. Librarians are often forgotten as an essential ingredient in student success initiatives. This is not okay but librarians are more than an initiative. We are the mortar that keeps the bricks in place. No one department is independently responsible for studentContinue reading