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Student Success with Pascale Charlot
Listen To The Episode: Learn about the next evolution of community colleges, how to serve high academic achieving disproportionately impacted students, and the importance of kindness, dignity, and...
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Culture Often Eats Guided Pathways for Lunch
(A. Solano)I thought I'd share a brief Q&A I did for the Iowa Department of Education.Also available HERE.
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Student Success & Equity with Eloy Oakley
LISTEN TO THE EPISODE: Learn how Chancellor Eloy Oakley's community college student experience continues to inform him, why dismantling standardized tests improves equity, what baseball has to do with...
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Guided Pathways & Equity: Structural & Cultural Change Typology
(A. Solano)Where does your institution reside in the guided pathways and equity work? This video and post unpacks the Structural & Cultural Change Typology resource. The video includes Dr. Mark...
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Mental Health Crisis & Vaccine Clarity with Dr. Albert Chang
LISTEN TO THE EPISODE: Learn how campuses can prepare for the mental health crisis and learn about vaccine clarity.In this episode, I interview Albert Chang, MD/MPH, University of California, Irvine,...
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What Kind Leaders Do in the Back-To-Campus Debate
(A. Solano)July 12, 2021I've been astonished by the abundance of unkind behaviors from college educators as they roll out plans to return to campus. Let's remember that military veterans enroll at our...
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Student Success & Equity with Dr. Gina Garcia
LISTEN TO THE EPISODE: Learn to improve student success & equity by implementing and measuring "servingness."In this episode, I interview Dr. Gina Ann Garcia, associate professor of higher...
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Racial Equity & Anti-Blackness with Dr. Frank Harris III
LISTEN TO THE EPISODE: Learn strategies to address racial equity and anti-blackness in higher education.In this episode, I interview Dr. Frank Harris III, professor of postsecondary education at San...
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Student Success & Equity with Dr. Mordecai Brownlee
LISTEN TO THE EPISODE: Learn how to address student success during this historic and volatile time. In this episode, I interview Dr. Mordecai Brownlee, President of College of Aurora, Colorado. We...
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The "In Between": What’s Needed to Improve Student Outcomes
(A. Solano)[For a deeper explanation, please click on the video above.]As institutions attempt to implement a variety of priorities, they understandably focus on the end result: improved student...
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Goals, Strategies, Objectives, & Tactics
(A. Solano)Avoid confusion. Create common language and definitions for your institution's plans.Institutions of higher education tend to lack common language and definitions around their plans. For...
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Student Success & Equity with Dr. Steve Bautista
LISTEN TO THE EPISODE: Learn how community colleges can prepare and support future teachers.In this episode, I interview Dr. Steve Bautista, counselor & program coordinator, Center for Teacher...
View ArticleStudent Success Teams: Models to Consider
(A. Solano)Create greater clarity, coherence, and consensus at your campus by learning about the two emerging student success team models: Case Management and Inquiry & Action (and a combination)....
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History Rhythms & Higher Education with Dr. Kevin Kruse
LISTEN TO THE EPISODE: Lessons learned from history rhythms and the role of higher education.In this episode, I interviewDr. Kevin Kruse, Professor of History at Princeton University. He specializes in...
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Comprehensive First Year Experience Program with Dr. Cynthia Mosqueda
LISTEN TO THE EPISODE: Learn about a highly successful comprehensive First Year Experience (FYE) program.In this episode, I interviewDr. Cynthia Mosqueda, faculty coordinator, First Year Experience...
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Organizing the Guided Pathways Work
(A. Solano)Guided Pathways is a culture-changing framework. Therefore, it's extremely difficult to implement. To work smarter and not harder, I help colleges organize the work into three focus areas:...
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Student Success & Equity in Math with Michael Wangler
LISTEN TO THE EPISODE: Learn how a college significantly improved equitable outcomes in math.In this episode, I interview Michael Wangler, veteran community college educator and former dean at Citrus...
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Online Learning Equitable Practices with Maritez Apigo
LISTEN TO THE EPISODE: Learn how to create an equitable online learning environment.In this episode, I interview Maritez Apigo, English Faculty and Distance Education Coordinator at Contra Costa...
View ArticleScoping, Connecting, & Shepherding
(A. Solano)A setting is a time and place for educators to get important work done. Committees are not the ideal setting to accomplish work. They're filled with arcane, time-wasting procedures such as...
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The Policy, Research, & Practice Disconnect
(A. Solano)The disconnect between policy, research, and practice is extraordinarily real for college practitioners. The intersection of policy, research, and practice at the center of this Venn diagram...
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