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California's Community Colleges See the Benefits of Student Housing

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Lennor Johnson, president and superintendent of Imperial Valley College in El Centro, California. Student housing is extremely rare at community colleges in California, although affordable housing is increasingly hard to find. The Harbour, where 800 Orange Coast College students live on campus. Out of the system’s 1.8

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Report: Undergraduate Enrollment Finally Rising

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

colleges and universities rose by 1.2%, a minor change where the number of enrollees went from 15,072,249 to 15,248,077. Among the years captured in the report, 2019 to 2022 all faced varying rates of decline, with Fall 2021 being the worst (-3.4%). "We However, numbers are still below what they used to be in 2019, 14.2%

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For Hispanic-Serving Institutions, the Designation is Not the Destination

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Colleges and universities that are eligible and federally designated as HSIs must enhance the racial-ethnic identity of Latinxs while striving to provide equitable experiences and outcomes for these students.” In 2019, however, the system was awarded the National Seal of Excelencia by the nonprofit Excelencia in Education.

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Report Finds Guided Pathways Adoption Slow

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

For community college students, the path towards a degree has been compared to a shapeless river: unending, with no current pushing them forward. It’s incredibly influential,” said Dr. Frank Harris III, co-director of the Community College Equity Assessment Lab at San Diego State University.

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A Life of Ministry

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

That journey first began at Piedmont Technical College (PTC), a two-year school in Greenwood, South Carolina. There, McManus served as the coordinator of disability support services and worked as a minority retention counselor. “I The year 2019 was special for McManus.

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Advising, Counseling, Mentoring and Teaching Black Males in Secondary and Postsecondary Settings

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Some of the topics include literacy and math, advising Black male engineering majors, socio-emotional development, leadership, community college experiences, Black male veterans, athletes in P-12 and higher education, and the recruitment and retention of Black males in educator preparation programs. Emerald Publishing Limited.

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Alamo Colleges District Launches Pilot Near-Peer Coaching Program to Help More Underserved Texans Access and Complete College

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Through a collaboration with national nonprofit College Possible , the community college district will bring evidence-based near-peer coaching to 700 AlamoPROMISE students on two of its campuses, the majority of whom are from under-resourced backgrounds or are first-generation students. SAN ANTONIO , Nov.