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Bonus: In Your Element with Eric Stoller and Guest Mordecai Brownlee - President of Community College of Aurora | In Your Element
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September 13, 2021
Bonus: In Your Element with Eric Stoller and Guest Mordecai Brownlee - President of Community College of Aurora | In Your Element

In Your Element with Eric Stoller and Guest Mordecai Brownlee - President of Community College of Aurora

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About the Episode

This fast-paced show drops listeners into a compelling conversation about higher education. In Your Element asks innovative leaders about the challenges, wins, and future of everything from meeting enrollment numbers to equity in education.

On this episode of In Your Element, Eric Stoller has a deep-dive conversation with Mordecai Brownlee, President of Community College of Aurora. Tune into this episode to learn the following:

  • How does someone with a student affairs background become a community college president?
  • What’s the 6-month plan for a new higher ed president?
  • How do community colleges rebound from the damage done by the pandemic?
  • How does student engagement happen with community college students?

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Host

Daniella Nordin

Daniella Nordin is the Director of Customer Success and Engagement at Element451 and the host of In Your Element.

Brendan Henkel

Brendan Henkel is the Manager of Solutions Engineering at Element451 and host of In Your Element.

Interviewee

Mordecai Brownlee

On July 15, 2021, Dr. Mordecai Ian Brownlee became the sixth president of the Community College of Aurora in Colorado. With campuses in Aurora and Denver, CCA is a Hispanic-Serving institution providing instruction to nearly 12,000 students throughout its 350- square mile service area. Prior to his presidential appointment, President Brownlee served as the vice president for student success at St. Philip's College, the only college in the nation federally designated as both a historically Black college (HBCU) and a Hispanic-serving institution (HSI), located in San Antonio, Texas.

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