Episodes
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.
Tuesday Dec 03, 2019
Open Educational Resources
Tuesday Dec 03, 2019
Tuesday Dec 03, 2019
For this episode of In The Know, we pulled together a panel of trustees and faculty from across the country to discuss the advantages of open educational resources, commonly referred to as O.E.R. Each of the three institutions represented, Pima Community College, Harper College, and South Florida State College, are at different stages in their adoption of OER, and everyone had valuable knowledge and experience to share.
Towards the end of the episode, our panelists shared a few resources they thought would be helpful. They are linked below.
Thursday Oct 03, 2019
Need to Know: The College-Work Balancing Act
Thursday Oct 03, 2019
Thursday Oct 03, 2019
In this episode, ACCT's Allison Beer and Jacob Bray discuss ACCT's new report, The College-Work Balancing Act. Nearly 70% of community college students work while enrolled. Listen to learn how this complicates their students' lives and ways colleges can help.
Tuesday Sep 17, 2019
Campus Public Safety with NCCPS Director Kim Richmond
Tuesday Sep 17, 2019
Tuesday Sep 17, 2019
In this episode, National Center for Campus Public Safety Director Kim Richmond discusses what trustees and other community college leaders need to know about issues ranging from sexual assault to firearms on campus, the Clery Act, Title IX, emergency management and other issues. Richmond walks us through these concerns, explains how to prioritize public safety concerns, how to prepare for on-campus crises, and she directs listeners to additional free resources, including webinars and publications.
The National Center for Campus Public Safety was created by Congress and funded through the United States Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Assistance to serve as a national clearinghouse for campus safety and security-related best practices and other resources on issues that include:
- Active shooters
- Active thread
- Alcohol and substance abuse
- Behavioral threat assessment
- Bicycle and pedestrian safety
- Binge drinking
- Bullying and cyberbullying
- Campus carry
- Campus violence
- Clery Act
- Community policing
- Dating & domestic violence
- Ethics
- Fire safety
- Food insecurity
- Grants and funding
- Hate crimes
- Hazing
- Homelessness
- Laws and regulations
- Legal assistance
- LGBTQ concerns
- Media and public relations
- Mental health
- Missing persons
- Officer safety
- Policy and plan development
- Risk assessment
- Sexual assault
- Social media
- Stalking
- Suicide
- Terrorism
- Title IX
- Underage drinking
- Victim services
- Violence prevention
- And others
For more information, visit nccpsafety.org/library.