CCA On the Air

CCA President Dr. Yolanda Watson Spiva is joined by Dr. F. DuBois Bowman, Dean of the University of Michigan School of Public Health, to discuss navigating the COVID-19 pandemic, lessons learned, and the equity implications that face students amidst this health crisis.

CCA President Dr. Yolanda Watson Spiva is joined by Dr. F. DuBois Bowman, Dean of the University of Michigan School of Public Health, to discuss navigating the COVID-19 pandemic, lessons learned, and the equity implications that face students amidst this health crisis.

CCA Strategy Director, Nikolas Huot, is joined by Dr. Jasmine Haywood, Strategy Director from the Lumina Foundation, and Dr. Lilly Massa-McKinley, Executive Director of the Kentucky Student Success Collaborative, to discuss the Kentucky Purpose First initiative.  The Kentucky Purpose First initiative:

To learn more about the Kentucky Purpose First project, visit https://completecollege.org/kentucky-purpose-first/.

Dr. Nia Haydel, Vice President of Alliance Engagement and Institutional Transformation at CCA, is joined by three guests: Dr. Richard Moss, Director of STEM Success at the University of Arkansas, Pulaski Technical College; Dr. Brandon Nichols, Vice President of Academic Affairs at Olive-Harvey College, and Dr. Amber Garrison Duncan, formerly Strategy Director at the Lumina Foundation, and currently the Executive Vice President at the Competency-Based Education Network. Please join us for this exciting conversation about Complete College America’s work to improve student success outcomes at Predominantly Black Community Colleges and Historically Black Community Colleges, in this two-year project, funded by the Lumina Foundation.

CCA Strategy Director, Brandon Protas, Ed.D., is joined by Dr. Monica Martinez, Director of Strategic Initiatives at the Learning Policy Institute, to discuss the transformative nature of performance assessment implementation in college advising and placement processes. To learn more about the Learning Policy Institute and the Reimagining College Access initaitive that Dr. Martinez leads, please visit: https://learningpolicyinstitute.org/project/reimagining-college-access

Strategy Director Nikolas Huot is joined by Kurt Lazaroff, Ph.D., BIS Academic Services Director and Professor, and Janet Ha Poirot, Term Assistant Professor and Associate Director of Academic Services in BIS. They discuss George Mason University’s exemplar program for adult learner engagement, the Bachelor of Individualized Study (or BIS) program. This unique program allows students to individualize their course selection, and craft their academic maps to fit their interests and career goals. Join them for their conversation about this exciting program.

CCA Strategy Director Brandon Protas,  Ed. D, is joined by Daniel Douglas, Visiting Assistant Professor of Education Studies and Sociology at Trinity College; Alexandra Logue, Research Professor at The Center for Advanced Study in Education at the Graduate Center at the City University of New York; and Mari Watanabe-Rose, Director of Undergraduate Education Initiatives and Research in Office of Academic Affairs at The City University of New York. In this two-part podcast, our guests discuss their most recent work, "Community College Students Assessed as Needing Mathematics Remediation: Seven-Year Impacts of Corequisite Remediation with Statistics". Don't forget to catch Part I and Part II of this exciting and informative conversation.

CCA Strategy Director Brandon Protas, Ed. D, is joined by Daniel Douglas, Visiting Assistant Professor of Education Studies and Sociology at Trinity College; Alexandra Logue, Research Professor at The Center for Advanced Study in Education at the Graduate Center at the City University of New York; and Mari Watanabe-Rose, Director of Undergraduate Education Initiatives and Research in Office of Academic Affairs at The City University of New York. In this two-part podcast, our guests discuss their most recent work, "Community College Students Assessed as Needing Mathematics Remediation: Seven-Year Impacts of Corequisite Remediation with Statistics". Don't forget to catch Part I and Part II of this exciting and informative conversation.

CCA Strategy Director Brandon Protas, Ed.D., is joined by Dr. Angie Paccione, the Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Higher Education. Tune in as they discuss Pathway to Affordability: Annual Report on Dual and Concurrent Enrollment in Colorado.

CCA Vice President of Policy, Research and Advocacy is joined by Davis Jenkins, Senior Research Scholar, Community College Research Center (CCRC) to discuss data and the future of student success in community colleges.