Pathfinder

Today, we’re talking with Brent Chambers, chief of the Tyler Junior College police department, about issues related to campus safety. The topic being discussed is all over the media, including social media, as students, faculty, administrators, and parents all wonder how safe they are on campus, and what it will take to make things safer.

Resources mentioned on today's episode:

The Constitution of the United States

The Federalist Papers

Texas Got It Right!, Wyly, Wyly, Isaacson

Today we’re sitting down with Sandy Dochen, Director of Corporate Citizenship and Corporate Affairs for IBM in Texas and some of the surrounding states. He’s been working for some time on a program called P-Tech, an early college high school model IBM has pioneered with high schools across the country and overseas.

Resources mentioned on today's episode:

http://www.ptech.org/

Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West, Steven Ambrose 

The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America, Douglas Brinkley

Rightful Heritage: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Land of America, Douglas Brinkley
The Road to Character, David Brooks 

Susan Barkley is the Executive Dean of World Languages, Cultures and Communications at Richland College in Dallas. Her division enrolls more than 20,000 students each year and includes English, ESOL and 13 foreign languages, plus International Education, Global Studies, Ethnic Studies, Cultural Studies and Peace Studies.

Resources mentioned on today's episode:

Redesigning America’s Community Colleges: A Clearer Path to Student Success, Bailey, Jaggars, Jenkins

The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

West with the Night, Beryl Markham

Today, we're picking up on the conversation we began last week with Wanda Mercer, Associate Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs in the University of Texas System, and David Troutman, Associate Vice Chancellor for Institutional Research and Decision Support in the UT System. It's a live recording of a program held at this year's TCCTA annual conference and we're discussing dual credit. 

Last week, we were at the annual TCCTA convention, where we had a chance to sit down with Wanda Mercer, Associate Vice Chancellor for Student Services for the University of Texas System, and David Troutman, Associate Vice Chancellor for Institutional Research and Decision Support for the UT System. The conversation was recorded in front of a live audience at the conference, so we were able to bring faculty from across Texas into the discussion!

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Today, we’re picking up from last week’s conversation with TCCTA lobbyist, Beaman Floyd. We’re discussing a number of policy issues involving the state’s higher education policy framework, called 60x30TX, as well as recent developments around the guns-on-campus debate and how we address the presence of foreign-born students who are here, legally or not.

Resources mentioned on today's episode:

Three Soldiers, John Dos Passos

The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler

The High Window, Raymond Chandler

Beaman Floyd has spoken to legislators and policymakers on behalf of Texas community college educators since 2003. As you'll hear in our conversation, he takes his work seriously, and personally, trying to understand the perspectives of TCCTA members, and how he can best articulate them to folks at the Capitol, in Austin. 

Glenda Barron stopped by last week and we had the best conversation about her background growing up in deep east Texas-not northeast Texas, she said. It's "deep east" Texas-in the little town of Joaquin. She talked about her educational journey, her time working for the Texas legislature and the Higher Education Coordinating Board, and her current role as President of Temple College.

Resources mentioned on today’s episode:

What Excellent Community Colleges Do: Preparing All Students for Success, Joshua Wyner  

Redesigning America’s Community Colleges: A Clearer Path to Student Success, Bailey, Jaguars, Jenkins  

Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell  

To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee  

Today we’re in Lake Jackson, Texas on the campus of Brazosport College. We’re talking with Jeff Detrick and Nicole Tunmire about their work here, especially about the progress their making in developing guided pathways for students.

Carolyn Landel is the Managing Director of the Charles A. Dana Center in Austin. She oversees the Center’s day to day operations and is deeply involved in their partnerships with organizations around the country working on new models for the mathematics curriculum in higher education.

Resources mentioned on today’s episode:

The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander

What’s Worth Fighting for in the Principalship?, Michael Fullan

A Colony in a Nation, Chris Hayes