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Community Colleges
Roueche Center Forum: Leaving a Leadership Legacy
For nearly three decades, I have had the privilege of serving community college students. Regardless of my roles over the years, I can attest that true leadership is embedded in advocating, advancing and holding sacred the philosophy and mission of our community colleges through a personal commitment to serve our students and our communities.
June 24, 2021
Community Colleges
Love Students to Success and Close Equity Gaps Through a Culture of Caring
In 2015, Amarillo College (AC) focused on its key student success progress and completion points. The data told a disappointing and even devastating story. Using “secret shoppers,” data summits, focus group and survey data, AC identified key reasons our students were not successful — poverty, bureaucracy and lack of relational connection and support.
November 12, 2020
Community Colleges
Roueche Center Forum: Diversifying the Undergraduate Engineering Education Pathway – An Opportunity for the Community College
Vision 2030, a recently released report from the National Science Board (NSB), is the latest in a plethora of warnings that the American way of life is threatened because we are in danger of falling behind in STEM, the disciplines that have powered American prosperity for decades. The current COVID-19 pandemic demonstrates the power and […]
July 29, 2020
Latinx
Roueche Center Forum: Helping Hispanic-Latino Students Make a Good Living and Live a Good Life
The Coachella Valley in Southern California is a series of 12-plus small cities linked by a commitment to big ideas. College of the Desert (COD), the local community college, is one of the biggest and best organizations in the Valley that serves the various communities as the epicenter of social and economic justice through a […]
July 15, 2020
Opinion
Roueche Center Forum: Are We Really Serious About Diversity, Equity and Inclusion?
While I believe that most faculty members and leaders, no matter their race or ethnicity, value diversity and are committed to the concepts of equity and inclusion — and may even have specific goals to improve diversity — progress is stalled. Actions do not seem to match rhetoric. The question is, are we in higher education truly sincere in what we say about the value of diversity, equity and inclusion?
June 19, 2020
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