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Resource Center
Discover resources that will help colleges and universities understand the most impactful ways to adjust academic programming to keep pace with technological advancements in the Digital Revolution.
Working Session
Faculty diversity has been slow to change despite decades of calls from student activists. Recently, the Black Lives Matter movement has called particular attention to the low numbers of BIPOC faculty. Not only do faculty demographics lag behind the diversity of our campuses and communities, students also miss the benefits of learning from faculty with a diverse range of backgrounds.
Toolkit
Despite a diversifying student population, the racial demographics of the faculty at colleges and universities has remained largely unchanged. These tools will help search committee chairs and members implement DEIJ tactics at each step of the faculty hiring process.
Expert Insight
As activists continue to call attention to the racial disparities in faculty demographics, institutional DEIJ plans increasingly include goals to recruit and retain BIPOC faculty. Most higher education institutions do not have standardized DEIJ hiring practices embedded into their processes—but that can change.
Roundtable
The pandemic has undoubtedly brought unprecedented challenges for community colleges; yet at the same time, many of our worst fears from March 2020 have not come to fruition across the board. The question now is: How prepared are we to meet the new opportunities and challenges of the current moment?
Blogs
As we turn our eyes towards 2021, here are four things community college leaders must keep top-of-mind to serve students.
On-Demand Webinar
Attendees will gain critical insight into how the pandemic has affected current and future student populations as well as best practice recommendations.
Resource
Use this resource to learn the fundamentals of how to create a campus survey during COVID-19 and use our question bank to get started.
Blogs
For colleges that find their headcount up while overall enrollment is down, here are three strategies that could generate a last-minute enrollment boost.
Expert Insight
Facing an economic downturn and fierce competition for undergraduate enrollments, colleges and universities are looking for a silver lining: countercyclical enrollments. This tendency for enrollments to increase as the economy declines is well documented. But leadership at four-year institutions shouldn’t get their hopes up. Not every institution benefits equally from these additional students. The Great Recession had a far smaller impact on baccalaureate and graduate enrollments than it did on community colleges and vocational programs.
