California is supporting the research-backed practice of emergency financial support, which is good. But they don’t appear to be approaching it in a research-minded way, which is bad.
California Community Colleges System
Insight into Community College Students and Challenges of Online Education
New survey on community colleges and perceived barriers provides insights into the nature of some pushback of online education
Toward Operational Excellence at Student Success: Double-Loop Learning
Before I move on to my next case study in academic institutions moving toward operational excellence at supporting student success, I want to revisit a section toward the end of my last post on the California Community Colleges Online Education Initiative (OEI). I was looking at the alignment that has to be achieved at various levels […]
Toward Operational Excellence at Student Success: California Community Colleges
How would you foster a culture of collaborative operational excellence in supporting student success across a radically decentralized collection of 114 community colleges?
California Should Watch Arkansas Process for Creating New Online Institution
eVersity’s experience highlights a major challenge that states like Arkansas and California face when trying to create a new fully-online institution – the accreditation process is incredibly slow.
Enrollment Implications Regarding Directive for Online Community College in California
Governor Brown has directed that the California Community College System create a new, online college. What do the enrollment numbers indicate?
Scaling Educational Access
There’s an interesting piece in EdSurge about the potential access to education challenge that CUNY will face if Governor Cuomo makes good on his proposal to make college tuition free: According to the CUNY 2016 Student Experience Survey, 21 percent of the system’s community college students were not able to take required courses, most citing “lack […]