Episodes
Tuesday Dec 15, 2020
David Mathis: Evolution of Community College Trusteeship PART 1
Tuesday Dec 15, 2020
Tuesday Dec 15, 2020
Season 4, Episode 1: ACCT Chair David Mathis has been a member of the Mohawk Valley Community College board of trustees since 1977. In this episode, Mathis reflects on how community college and how public higher education governance have evolved over the past four decades, including challenges, opportunities, and changes that have taken place. As he takes the helm of the association during one of the most tumultuous years of American history, and when ACCT is undergoing its own major changes, Mathis discusses his many goals, including pandemic recovery; making meaningful progress in diversity, equity and inclusion at community colleges; finding the best person to lead ACCT into the future, and more.
Tuesday Mar 24, 2020
Make It Count: Recognizing Prior Learning for Workforce Development
Tuesday Mar 24, 2020
Tuesday Mar 24, 2020
On this episode of In The Know, ACCT’s Director of Strategic Communications David Conner talks with me and Allison Beer, ACCT’s Senior Policy Analyst about the paper we just published about Prior Learning Assessment. We dive into why we chose to profile Dallas County Community College District and Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College, and the benefits of Prior Learning Assessments.
The full report is available here.
Tuesday Mar 17, 2020
Strengthening Rural Community Colleges: Part 2 (Audience Questions)
Tuesday Mar 17, 2020
Tuesday Mar 17, 2020
This is the question-and-answer component of a two-part episode on strengthening rural community colleges.
In this episode, Jee Hang Lee, ACCT’s Senior Vice President, and Casey Sacks, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Community Colleges at the Department of Education, talk about ACCT’s Strengthening Rural Community Colleges Initiative, supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The project will focus on California, Iowa, Kentucky, North Carolina, and Texas, but will take into account information from rural community colleges nationwide. This episode was recorded at our annual Congress in San Francisco.
For more information, please visit rural.acct.org.
Tuesday Mar 17, 2020
Strengthening Rural Community Colleges: Part 1
Tuesday Mar 17, 2020
Tuesday Mar 17, 2020
On this episode, Jee Hang Lee, ACCT’s Senior Vice President, and Casey Sacks, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Community Colleges at the Department of Education, talk about ACCT’s Strengthening Rural Community Colleges Initiative, supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The project will focus on California, Iowa, Kentucky, North Carolina, and Texas, but also will take into account information from rural community colleges nationwide. This episode was recorded at our annual Congress in San Francisco. This is a two part episode with part two being the question and answer section.
For more information, please visit rural.acct.org.
Tuesday Mar 10, 2020
Students' Perception of Higher Education with Dave Clayton
Tuesday Mar 10, 2020
Tuesday Mar 10, 2020
In this episode of In The Know, ACCT’s Senior Policy Analyst Allison Beer talks with Dave Clayton, Strada Education Network’s Senior Vice President for Consumer Insights.
Allison and Dave dive into what students actually think about higher education, guided by a recent Strada consumer insights survey.
Visit StradaEducation.org for more information.
This episode was recorded during the 50th Annual ACCT Leadership Congress in San Francisco, California.