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Access Must be Front Burner for Community Colleges

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, community colleges across the country saw a decline in enrollment for myriad reasons — financial, family, illness, lack of internet or inability to adapt to online learning. The purpose of community colleges is to increase access to higher education for the most vulnerable populations.”

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Feds award Bergen Community College $4.5M to grow agriculture education

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The federal government has awarded Bergen Community College a five-year, $4.5 The 2023 Feeding the Economy report commissioned by agriculture industry leaders shows that nearly 20% of all U.S. The post Feds award Bergen Community College $4.5M economic activity ($8.6 Fifteen percent of all U.S.

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Ruth Simmons Named 2023 Jefferson Lecturer

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Simmons will deliver the 2023 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities. The National Endowment for the Humanities’ Jefferson Lecture is the highest honor the federal government bestows for distinguished intellectual achievement in the humanities.

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Unapologetic Leadership for Black Learner Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government and higher education institutions have fed the public a steady diet of bad enrollment news. Before and during COVID, most of these students vanished from our most affordable and accessible institutions – our community colleges.

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The 2023 men's NCAA tournament results, if academics ruled

Confessions of a Community College Dean

As a result, the rates on average are significantly higher than the federal graduation rate, the formula the federal government uses to track graduation rates for all students. Below is Inside Higher Ed ’s 2023 Academic Performance Tournament bracket.

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Higher Ed Officials Express Uncertainty Amid Further FAFSA Delays

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The overhaul – which comes with form simplifications, different student aid measures and calculations, and expanded Pell Grant eligibility – is expected to be beneficial and to increase federal financial aid eligibility, according to a 2023 report from the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association (SHEEO).

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More colleges will likely face closure in 2023, experts say

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The for-profit Living Arts College closed abruptly after the shutdown of the embattled Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges & Schools and blamed the federal government for its demise. Another sector analysis from S&P Global Ratings, released Wednesday, found that the 2023 outlook for the U.S.