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By Alisha Azevedo in the Wired Campus section of The Chronicle of Higher Education November 16 2012. This article describes a class (on cellphone culture) where the discussion was conducted entirely over Twitter.

By Eric Hoover and Sara Lipka, in the Students section of the Chronicle of Higher Education, March 11 2013. An in-depth look at a semester of developmental writing at Montgomery College.

In the Students section of The Chronicle of Higher Education by Katherine Mangan, Jan 23 2013. The article summarizes a report by the National Commission on Higher Education Attainment. The commission just completed a year-long review of completion issues.

By Rob Jenkins in the On Hiring [blog], The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 30 2012. A brief post in which Jenkins talks about how community colleges' requirement of college-level teaching experience scares off (or at least causes concern) among some recent PhD seekers, who were under the impression that community colleges did not have stringent teaching experience requirements.

By Josh Fischman, and part of The Chronicle (of Higher Education's) 2011 Special Report on Online Learning, published Nov 6 2011. Central Piedmont Community College developed an Online Student Portal learning system to improve retention among its students. They have had success with the system (in use 2004-2008). Now, with a Next Gen grant, they will roll the system out to 6 additional local schools to see if they can match the retention improvements. The system is based both on learning styles and on frequent intervention by students and counselors.

By Jennifer Gonzalez, Students section, The Chronicle of Higher Education, February2 2012. The new project is being led by the Center for Community College Student Engagement and will analyze data from four different surveys: Community College Survey of Student Engagement, the Survey of Entering Student Engagement, the Community College Faculty Survey of Student Engagement, and the newly created Community College Institutional Survey. Reports will be produced annually for the next three years. See CCCSE tag for first year's report.

By Nadine Dolby, Commentary column, The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 9 2012. In this commentary piece, Dolby describes a panel in which she invited her undergraduate education students to meet with a panel of "real" parents in the hopes of getting some new perspectives on K-12 education. As a matter of course, she required them to refrain from using cell phones, texting or tweeting. And she observed that these students then had a great deal of trouble just listening. She argues that, in a democracy, it's not enough just to share your own opinions, you must also listen to those of others. She concludes, "Teaching our students how to truly listen may be the most important multicultural lesson of all."

By Richard Kahlenberg, Innovations column, The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 26 2012. Kahlenberg looks at the recent New York Times article about CUNY's New Community College (see tag ncc) with a critical eye, identifying both some positives and some potential negatives.

By Jennifer Gonzalez, the Chronicle of Higher Education, August 9 2010. Before an audience at the University of Texas at Austin, Obama called for "the United States to produce and additional eight million college graduates by 2020."

By Sara Lipka in the Students section of the Chronicle of Higher Education, Nov 11 2010. Reporting on the latest report from the Center for Community College Student Engagement, which states that "Increasing college completion is meaningless unless certificates and degrees represent real learning, which community colleges must work harder to ensure."

By Deb Aronson. In Council Chronicle, published by the National Council of Teachers of English, Vol 19(#2), Nov 2009. pp. 18-21. Click to page 18 of this PDF for the start of the article.

NH says, "In this article Scott Warnock and others describe the high level of detail that is needed in an online syllabus and writing assignments."

By CC (Community College) Times, published April 21 2010. This article reports on Bill Gates's visit to Foothill College to observe the Math My Way program. From the article, "Math My Way groups cohorts of students who have similar math skill levels." Students then work in small groups, and one-on-one with instructors, as well as using both computer and paper drills and games.

GSCC's own Kathy Perino is an instructor in this program, and is quoted in the article.

A press release published by Creative Commons, January 20 2011. As part of the Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training Grant Program (TAACCCT), over $2 billion will be invested over the next four years, part of the program to support President Obama's goal of increasing college graduates by 2020. This program is of interest to Creative Commons because all such projects must be released using a Creative Commons attribution (CC BY) license.

By Jennifer Gonzalez in the Students section of the Chronicle of Higher Education, February 9 2011. Article announces the findings of a just-published early report, "Turning the Tide: Five Years of Achieving the Dream in Community Colleges," looking at five years of progress of the Achieving the Dream program in the 26 schools that joined in 2004. While the article cites that the changes are slow and small, there are bright spots, including the spread of a "culture of evidence" with more sophisticated data collection and analysis.

By Jeffrey R. Young, in Technology (College 2.0), The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 27 2011. A variety of ways that college students are seeking "relevant" education outside of the classroom, some of which are more technology-reliant than others. The article cites the National Survey of Student Engagement (Indiana University) and states that "four of the eight 'high-impact' learning activities identified required no classroom time at all...."

Looks closely at learning outside of the classroom.

By Jack Stripling in Leadership & Governance column, The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 23, 2011. All sitting presidents (except recently hired Donald J. Laackman) of the City Colleges of Chicago "will be forced to reapply for their jobs if they want to keep them,and they must commit to achieving higher student-success rates if they are reappointed...." According to the article, "just 7 percent of City College students who require remediation go on to earn a degree...."

By Melissa E. Lee, from the Do Your Job Better column of The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 13 2011. Lee, an adjunct English instructor at the State University of New York at Canton, offers suggestions to support students who she describes as "at-risk." Her three over-arching ideas are: provide structure in the classroom, show the connection between classroom learning and the real world, and make your students accountable.

Lee's ideas call to mind such GSCC themes as scaffolding, contextualization, caring, college transition, structure, self-efficacy. There are interesting comments, as well.

By Isaac Sweeney for On Hiring column in The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 10 2011. Sweeney outlines the challenges that adjunct instructors face in the community college system.

By Susan Coleman Goldstein from the Do Your Job Better column, The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 5 2011. While on sabbatical, Goldstein, an English professor, takes a computer class at her school and finds herself distracted by the Facebook activity going on at her fellow student's computer terminal. In this piece, she thinks and re-thinks her own in-class policy regarding social media.

By Kevin Carey in the Commentary section of The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 15 2011. Carey cites a recent negotiation between the US Departments of Education and Labor in which community colleges can compete for federal funds "to serve students online" but, in exchange, will also provide those online tools, free, via Creative Commons license.