This partnership between Wichita Area Technical College (WATC) and Wichita State University (WSU) creates a new program called the Shocker Pathway that allows students to complete their Associate of Arts degree by beginning coursework at WATC and transferring credits to WSU to finish the degree. The program allows students to transfer up to 50 credit hours from WATC to WSU and take 15 additional credits at WSU. WATC will offer $50,000 in scholarships for the first 100 students enrolled in the program for the fall semester.
Kingsborough Community College is a comprehensive community college in Brooklyn New York campus overlooks Coney Island, Sheepshead Bay, Jamaica Bay, and the Atlantic Ocean emphasizing both liberal arts career education and continuing education.Kingsborough offeres programs in business, the marine industry, public and human services, health and related sciences, industrial and health technologies, visual art, liberal arts and sciences, and continuing education.Visit us :http://www.kbcc.cuny.edu/
Graham & McKay: Strength and Support: Updates from SUNY System on Student Eng...Alexandra M. Pickett
SUNY Online Summit 2021 Day 3 Presentation
Presentation: Strength and Support: Updates from SUNY System on Student Engagement
Speakers: Dr. John Graham, SUNY Associate Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs.
Lisa L. McKay, Senior Assistant Provost & Director, SUNY University Center for Academic and Workforce Development (UCAWD).
https://sunyonlinesummit2021.edublogs.org/2021/02/05/student-engagement/
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Annual conference for the SUNY online teaching and learning community of practice.
https://sunyonlinesummit2021.edublogs.org/
February 22-26, 2021 Virtual Event
Conference website: https://sunyonlinesummit2021.edublogs.org/
Program: https://sunyonlinesummit2021.edublogs.org/program/
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Jessica Medearis, MSCSA Associate Director
This session will build a foundation of knowledge about the state of Minnesota’s higher education system. Topics will include the structure of higher education systems, especially MnSCU, student involvement in decision-making, and the role of the state legislature.
Kingsborough Community College is a comprehensive community college in Brooklyn New York campus overlooks Coney Island, Sheepshead Bay, Jamaica Bay, and the Atlantic Ocean emphasizing both liberal arts career education and continuing education.Kingsborough offeres programs in business, the marine industry, public and human services, health and related sciences, industrial and health technologies, visual art, liberal arts and sciences, and continuing education.Visit us :http://www.kbcc.cuny.edu/
Graham & McKay: Strength and Support: Updates from SUNY System on Student Eng...Alexandra M. Pickett
SUNY Online Summit 2021 Day 3 Presentation
Presentation: Strength and Support: Updates from SUNY System on Student Engagement
Speakers: Dr. John Graham, SUNY Associate Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs.
Lisa L. McKay, Senior Assistant Provost & Director, SUNY University Center for Academic and Workforce Development (UCAWD).
https://sunyonlinesummit2021.edublogs.org/2021/02/05/student-engagement/
https://sunyonlinesummit2021.edublogs.org/tag/day-3/
Annual conference for the SUNY online teaching and learning community of practice.
https://sunyonlinesummit2021.edublogs.org/
February 22-26, 2021 Virtual Event
Conference website: https://sunyonlinesummit2021.edublogs.org/
Program: https://sunyonlinesummit2021.edublogs.org/program/
Speakers: https://sunyonlinesummit2021.edublogs.org/speakers/
Recordings/ Materials: https://sunyonlinesummit2021.edublogs.org/live-recordings/
Program Tracks: https://sunyonlinesummit2021.edublogs.org/program-tracks/
Jessica Medearis, MSCSA Associate Director
This session will build a foundation of knowledge about the state of Minnesota’s higher education system. Topics will include the structure of higher education systems, especially MnSCU, student involvement in decision-making, and the role of the state legislature.
Sustainability as Imperative: The Unavoidable Future for OCWGary Matkin
Online education has clearly become a permanent feature of higher education world-wide. However, as dramatic as the technology-induced changes have been, the pace and impact of technology will intensify over the next fifteen years. Based on currently observable, documented, and quantifiable trends in higher and distance education, this paper will make predictions about the transformations in higher education that are on the horizon, with specific reference to the inexorable expansion of Open Educational Resources (OER), Open CourseWare(OCW), and continuous improvement processes.
The main prediction of this presentation is that, notwithstanding the current confusion over the use of OER and OCW and the present struggles to find resources to sustain the considerable efforts that have been undertaken in the OER movement, OER and OCW are here to stay and will grow rapidly, soon to be a part of every major higher educational institution in the world. The strongest and most obvious trends in higher education all intersect with OER and OCW creating in their addition an “imperative” for these movements.
Sustainability as Imperative: The Unavoidable Future for OCWGary Matkin
Online education has clearly become a permanent feature of higher education world-wide. However, as dramatic as the technology-induced changes have been, the pace and impact of technology will intensify over the next fifteen years. Based on currently observable, documented, and quantifiable trends in higher and distance education, this paper will make predictions about the transformations in higher education that are on the horizon, with specific reference to the inexorable expansion of Open Educational Resources (OER), Open CourseWare(OCW), and continuous improvement processes.
The main prediction of this presentation is that, notwithstanding the current confusion over the use of OER and OCW and the present struggles to find resources to sustain the considerable efforts that have been undertaken in the OER movement, OER and OCW are here to stay and will grow rapidly, soon to be a part of every major higher educational institution in the world. The strongest and most obvious trends in higher education all intersect with OER and OCW creating in their addition an “imperative” for these movements.
The Performance Incentive Fund was allocated $7.5 million for FY2014. This included $4.4 million in continuation funding for FY2012 and FY2013 projects, and $1.3 million for new projects at nine campuses.
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Education for All? 2-Year Colleges Struggle to Preserve Their Mission. (Cover story)
The open-door policy at community colleges is unique in American highereducation. It allows all comers--a retired grandmother, an Army veteran, a laid-off machinist--to learn a skill or get a credential. That broad access--the bedrock of the community-college system--has prepared hundreds of millions of people for transfer to four-year colleges or entry into the work force.
But these days, the sector finds itself in a fight to save that signature trademark. As budgets dwindle and the pressure to graduate more students grows, community-college educators from instructors to presidents worry about the future. Less state and local money is making its way to college coffers, prompting painful choices. And the clarion call for the sector to produce more graduates, part of a nationwide effort to boost education levels, has forced colleges to use scarce resources for degree programs rather than for remedial courses.
The focus now is on the best-prepared students, and not on those who may never graduate. Community colleges foresee a day when access to all is no longer the norm but the exception.
"Community colleges are being hammered to increase graduation rates," says Gary D. Rhoades, a professor of highereducation at the University of Arizona, who also works with the Center for the Future of HigherEducation, a research group. "One way to do that is to change the sort of student you serve." Such a shift would profoundly affect the millions of low-income and minority students who look to attend community colleges every year, many of whom need remedial education first.
In a report in February, the American Association of Community Colleges sounded the alarm on how the national completion agenda is starting to affect community colleges. "In policy conversations," it said, "there is a silent movement to redirect educational opportunity to those students deemed 'deserving.' "
That is an uncomfortable thought for a sector that prides itself on being all things to all people all the time: offering English-language classes for immigrants and enrichment programs for senior citizens. But early evidence suggests that some community colleges are already making judgment calls about whom they educate, and how.
Many of those decisions center on remedial education, long an obstacle to improving graduation rates. Academically unprepared students are usually required to enroll in a sequence of remedial courses to get ready for college-level work. More than 60 percent of students at two-year colleges are steered into developmentaleducation, according to the Community College Research Center at Columbia University's Teachers College. Because a considerable number of students place into the bottom rung of those courses, it tends to take them a year or more to complete the sequence. Many fail, or do not progress, and just drop out.
Labeling low-level remedial courses a "dead en.
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1. WATC Partners With Wichita State
for Associate’s Degree
The Shocker Pathway is a new approach for students to complete their degrees,
providing a simple path for any type of student. This partnership between Wichita
Area Technical College and Wichita State University is the first of its kind in Kan-
sas, and possibly the whole country, between a two-year technical college and a
four-year university.
“This agreement between WSU and WATC is the first of its kind, and it demon-
strates how we, as a university, can use an innovative partnership to encourage
degree completion and meet the needs of our community and students,” said
Tony Vizzini, Wichita State University’s senior vice president.
The program is specifically designed to create a clear route to completing an Associ-
ate of Arts degree by beginning course work at WATC and finishing at Wichita State.
Technical colleges in Kansas cannot issue AA degrees, but the Kansas Board of
Regents has allowed them to teach individual general education courses that are
easily transferrable.
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Shocker Pathway allows students to transfer up to
50 credit hours from WATC to WSU. Then students
can choose to take 15 additional credit hours
at WSU for more specific course requirements.
WATC is also giving away $50,000 in scholarships
for the first 100 students who enroll for fall classes
starting August 17. This means the recipients’
first two general education classes will be free.
Newman Adds Licensure
Program for School
District Leaders
In January, the Kansas Board of Education
approved a new master’s degree level school
district leadership licensure program at Newman
University. This program is being offered for the
first time Fall of 2015 and was developed by John
Burke, assistant professor of education.
“I wanted to give students across the state of
Kansas the opportunity to access a high-quality,
five-course program that would lead to them get-
ting district-level licensure,” Burke said. “There are
similar programs around, but this being a program
that would take a year or less, and it would be
fairly economical.”
This new district leadership program is 15 credit
hours and leads to district-level licensure. The
program provides students with qualifications
for positions such as superintendent, assistant
superintendent, special education director and
other district-wide positions.
Some of the classes for this program include Leader-
ship for Learning, Leadership for Special Programs,
Leadership for Business Management, the District
Leader and the District Leadership Practicum.
In addition to the five eight-week courses, students
must also complete the School Superintendent
Assessment to apply for PreK-12 district leader-
ship licensure.
Butler Launches $10 Million
Campaign for Scholarships
This April, Butler Community College announced
the Forever Butler Campaign, a $10 million effort
to aid students and academic programs. This
is historic for Butler since very few community
colleges in Kansas have embarked on an endow-
ment and deferred giving campaign.
“Thanks to the generosity of many and the work
of the National Campaign Leadership Committee,
we have already raised $7.2 million in current and
deferred gifts for this exceptional institution,”
said Kim Krull, president of Butler Community
College. “Butler’s alumni and friends are chart-
ing new opportunities for our students through
scholarships and funds which directly support
academic programs.”
The National Campaign Leadership Committee
is composed of donors across the country. They
have committee members in 28 communities
across 14 states, and more are continuing to join.
The Forever Butler campaign is also allowing the
college to have endowed chairs for nursing and
the Early College IT Academy that is located in
Andover. This is something that is unique for a
community college.
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