Author: glscott

How can we help our students engage in their learning, persist through the semester and into the next semester, and move along their chosen pathway?  I hope that one part of the answer to that question is embedded in the recent work of our faculty, work that was supported by a grant from Achieving the…

Do you read “Confessions of a Community College Dean” in Inside Higher Ed?  If not, I would encourage you to do so.  He’s no longer a dean (he’s a VP now), but his insights are always useful and – dare I say – insightful! Here’s a particularly good column on dual enrollment.  While he is…

Ever wondered what ACC’s administrators at HBC do all day?  Well, like you, we swirl and spin and move from running a meeting to responding to a student complaint to dealing with a personnel issue to gathering information for an update to signing what needs to be signed to checking email to offering advice to…

It’s easy to settle into routines, isn’t it?  It’s easy to teach largely the way we were taught. It’s easy to go with the tried and true. But students change, and technology improves, and the art and craft and science of teaching and learning shifts.  This little article in Faculty Focus reminds us that we…

I was reading The Chronicle of Higher Education and found this article fascinating.  Someone on Twitter asked professors to answer this question:  “What’s something that seems obvious within your profession, but the general public seems to misunderstand?” Scroll through all the answers in the article, and you’ll find some jewels that apply to us as…

You know how folks are always offering advice?  In a recent edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education, the advice from David D. Perlmutter includes “listen as well as you speak”. I tend to believe I’m a pretty good speaker. But that advice in The Chronicle caused me to think about whether I’m a good…

Communicate, communicate, communicate One of the things we hear too often at ACC is that we don’t communicate well.  In my own small way, I’m hoping to make a dent in our tangled lines of communication by establishing this blog page.  My goal is to use this blog as a way to highlight the things…