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Community College: The Right Path and the Right Foot

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Community colleges have the ability to not only put students on the right path, but most importantly, ensure that students begin on the right foot. That right foot has so many implications, the first of which is the financial impact of attending a community college as the first step toward a bachelor ’ s degree.

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Dr. Dara N. Byrne: Leveraging Public Higher Education for the Common Good

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“Macaulay can provide an elite education — or a model that exemplifies the best of what higher ed has to offer — but without elitist recruitment or admissions processes,” says Byrne, who has been a faculty member at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (part of CUNY) since 2003. The racial gap in graduation rates is minimal.

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Survey: Students and parents stress cost and career prep when picking a college

University Business

Additionally, almost half of the respondents believed the biggest benefit of a college degree is the potential for a better job and income while only 23% chose its educational value. 27% worried that they “Will get into first-choice college but won’t be able to afford to attend.” .”

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Coronavirus COVID-19 Webinar: What higher education leaders need to know right now

Higher Ed Connects: News

But then, he continued, in 2003 the SARS virus hit. There has been a lot of really bad information coming out from colleges, such as Harvard, which say ‘Hey we’re closing, get out by Friday’.”. On the opposite end of the spectrum, a community college with far fewer resources is much different than a wealthy Ivy League school.

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2023 Year in Review

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Supreme Court dismantled decades of legal precedent in June, ruling against race-conscious college admissions and bringing an end to affirmative action practices in higher education. On June 30, the Supreme Court struck down the measure, which was based on the Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students (HEROES) Act of 2003.