Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 2, 2023

San Diego Community College District (SDCCD) Chancellor Dr. Carlos Cortez has resigned from his post, citing that he will be caring for his parents, who are experiencing health issues. Cortez has led SDCCD for almost two years, since July 2021. Dr. Carlos O.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Two Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C) professors are suing the school, claiming that it and its top administrators retaliated against them for making critical comments about the school to the press, Cleveland.com reported. The lawsuit was filed Monday by attorney Subodh Chandra in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

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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EAB

JANUARY 26, 2023

Blogs 6 trends impacting community college enrollment in 2023 For the past two years, it’s been difficult to focus on anything beyond the immediate consequences of the pandemic. But now as we find ourselves stabilizing, it’s time to pause and take stock of the full landscape facing community colleges.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 6, 2023

Image: Community college baccalaureate programs in California can help more Black and Latino students earn bachelor’s degrees in a state that badly needs a more educated workforce, according to a new report. ” There are currently no community college baccalaureate programs in nursing in the state.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Image: Against the backdrop of headlines blaring news about declining community college enrollments, one bright spot has emerged: community college students, faculty and administrators are broadly aligned in their enthusiasm for the digital transformation that has occurred at their institutions since the start of the pandemic.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 4, 2023

Image: Community colleges across the country are struggling to recruit and hire new people after losing faculty and staff members in droves during the pandemic. College leaders report staffing losses at all levels, including IT workers, student success professionals, dining hall workers and executive leaders, she said.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Image: Community college leaders are largely thrilled about the rise in high school students enrolling in college classes, particularly after steep enrollment declines during the pandemic, and many are hoping the trend continues. The paper offers strategies for colleges to run dual-enrollment programs without breaking the bank.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Gavin Newsom has signed a bill that gives community college students transferring to HBCUs a one-time grant of up to $5,000. Assembly Majority Leader Isaac Bryan’s Assembly Bill 1400 repurposes funds from the College Access Tax Credit, which was proving less effective at its original purpose due to federal tax changes.

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University Business

JUNE 29, 2023

According to the survey, 65% of Gen Z teens say education after high school is necessary, compared to 45% in January of 2021. More from UB : Report: International graduate student enrollment booms by 100% since the pandemic Similarly, the number of students considering community college has increased from 20% in 2020 to 25% in 2023. .

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University Business

AUGUST 22, 2023

Oregon’s 17 community colleges generated more than $9 billion in annual economic impact for the state in the 2021-2022 fiscal year, according to a report released last week by the Oregon Community College Association. Read more from Jefferson Public Radio.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Image: Campus and faculty leaders in the California Community College system are eagerly anticipating the selection of a new chancellor this week. Meanwhile, the system, like community colleges across the country, experienced significant enrollment declines during the pandemic.

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University Business

MARCH 8, 2023

Student enrollment in colleges and universities took a toll after the pandemic, but a comeback may be imminent. Upward transfer students from two-year colleges to four-year institutions, however, continue to lag, with a 7.5% drop from Fall 2021 to Fall 2022, totaling a 14.5% For “highly selective schools”: 13.4%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Between July 2020 and July 2021, the U.S. In January 2021, the median rent for a one bedroom in the city was at its lowest point in years: $2,300 a month. She’s been with the Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC) since 1980 and became its vice president for student affairs in 2008. The streets were empty.

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EAB

OCTOBER 24, 2022

5 Tips to Recruit and Enroll Latine/x Students in Your Community College. Prospective Latine/x college students in the U.S. are the most likely to choose community college as their first step when pursuing a higher education. Spotlight: Holyoke Community College. of attending your community college?

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EAB

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Blogs 5 areas for community college leaders to take stock in 2023 And resources to help sustain your post-pandemic momentum Now that community colleges have weathered the storm of the pandemic, it’s time to take a moment to recognize all you have accomplished, and then to begin to steer the transition from a “crisis” mindset to a sustainability one.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 24, 2024

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 Fall 2023 saw enrolment growth at public two-year schools and community colleges rose significantly (2.6%) while public and private nonprofit four-year schools saw increases to a lesser degree (0.6%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 9, 2023

in 2021 to -2.3% in 2022) but was still dropping faster than non-transfer enrollment in comparison (-4% in 2021 to -1.4% in 2021 to now -1.5%. The report found that the declining fall transfer enrollment slowed down in 2022 (-4.7% An overall 6.9% decrease was observed for undergraduate transfer enrollment from 2020-2022.

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University Business

MAY 4, 2023

The Bucks County Community College Federation of Teachers chapter voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to prepare a no-confidence vote in the leadership of College President Felicia Ganther. The post Bucks County Community College union to hold no-confidence vote on president appeared first on University Business.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 5, 2024

It’s not an everyday occurrence when a community college leader gets a phone call telling them their institution will receive an influx of funding in the millions. when MacKenzie Scott, one of the richest women in the world, decided to make a major investment in community colleges.

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EAB

JANUARY 13, 2023

Modern Student Experience Diagnostic for Community Colleges. Modern student expectations are everchanging—can your community college keep up? Community college student demographics are shifting, nontraditional is the new norm, mental health is in crisis, and learning flexibility is a growing demand.

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Gray Associates

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Despite concerns about declining enrollment at community colleges, find out how completions have held steady and where growth is happening. From the most popular disciplines to the rise of online programs, dive deep into the data to discover the latest trends and what's driving success in the associate degree world.

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University Business

MARCH 3, 2023

California’s community colleges do not employ enough full-time faculty and in some cases districts are misspending state funds allocated for those faculty instead on too many part-time adjuncts, according to a newly released report from California’s state auditor.

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EAB

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Leverage Faculty Partnerships and Technology to Address the Community College Enrollment Crisis. Pueblo Community College's Two-Pronged Approach to Combatting Summer Melt. Pueblo Community College (Pueblo) is a Hispanic-Serving Institution with over 5,000 students across three campuses. The Challenge.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2022

How to engage more community college prospects amid the “great opt out”. As the number of traditional-aged students continues to decline, community college leaders must focus on enrollment and recruitment strategies within their control. Community members who leverage career services resources.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 5, 2023

The Virginia State Board for Community Colleges hired a new chancellor to head the 23-college system, according to a press release Wednesday. He currently serves as president of campuses and executive vice chancellor for student experience and workforce development at Pima Community College in Arizona.

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Ray Schroeder

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

“The goal was to reach out and lift up those students most impacted by the pandemic,” David Daigler, president of the Maine Community College System, told the Appropriations and Education committees. That translates to 16,791 students, up from 15,004 the previous year, according to the college system. We’ve done that.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2023

Others, alarmed by reports of the high cost of tuition, believe that going to college will require them to shoulder an oppressive debt burden. Still others, influenced by dangerous myths, are reluctant to attend an open-access institution like a community college. Despite the data, community colleges suffer from low prestige.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Cutting across political party lines, an overwhelming majority of Americans see veterans’ services as a priority (Schaeffer, 2021). Military friendly is a common phrase used by organizations to communicate an appreciation of military service members (Kirchner, et al., Dr. Susan M. Some veterans have served in combat and some have not.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

health psychology, East Carolina University Career mentors: Dr. Jeannie Golden, East Carolina University; Dr. Diane Finley, Prince George’s Community College; and Dr. Christine McDermott, Delaware State University Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty members: “Don’t stretch yourself out too thin.

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University Business

APRIL 5, 2024

In July 2021, the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office discovered that about 20% of the state’s college applications were scams. The San Diego Community College District is still reeling after discovering it was paying out over $100,000 in fraudulent claims in 2021, Faculty Focus reports.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Our first semester back on campus [fall 2021], we had a 30% increase in first-time personal counseling appointments,” said Dr. Jennifer Migliorino-Reyes, assistant vice president of student affairs at Bergen Community College. “I believe every school, hospital and private therapist out there did [see an uptick].

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Nicholas Cochrane, associate professor of business and economics at Mount Wachusett Community College. “To Now, Cochrane is an associate professor of business and economics at Mount Wachusett Community College (MWCC) in rural Gardner, Mass., Between Fall 2020 and Fall 2021, 62.1%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 31, 2022

“I am excited about making a difference in the education field through leveraging my extensive leadership skills and experience across various industries to help Achieving the Dream build its organizational capacity for serving the nation’s most reform-minded community colleges.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

It is important to note that, despite the presumed or actual shortcomings of his two-year presidential stint, Wingard was, in 2021, Temple’s first Black president since its founding in 1884. Just two days later, on September 22, in Gallatin, Tennessee, Volunteer State Community College announced that Orinthia T.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 22, 2023

Caring Campus, a program to have faculty contribute to fostering a culture of caring for students at schools, is related to observable benefits, according to a recent report by the Community College Research Center (CCRC) at Columbia University. colleges – most are community colleges.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 2, 2024

In addition to food and housing insecurity, in 2021, data showed that 51% of students cited transportation as an area where they struggle. Dr. Mordecai Ian Brownlee is president of the Community College of Aurora in Colorado. million students.

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