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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. Students navigate housing and food insecurity, transportation issues, and other limitations to access.

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Five ways to help students take smart sustainability actions (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

One of the surest ways to build a sense of self-efficacy among students is to incorporate community engagement experiences in the curriculum. In practice, these experiences require a level of administrative and logistical effort that is difficult for faculty to manage. Smaller cities (where most people in the U.S.

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Is a merger a closure by another name? (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

We are recognized by the federal government as both a predominantly Black institution and as a Hispanic-serving institution. Unfortunately, like many small private colleges in recent years, Bloomfield has struggled financially. Yet, neither administration has recognized the value of Bloomfield faculty in a tangible way.

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Overcoming Barriers in Higher Ed: Strategies for Student Success and Employability: Changing Higher Education Podcast 157 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guests Kathryn Campbell and Dr. Zack Mabel

The Change Leader, Inc.

Wraparound support programs and comprehensive student support programs like the CUNY ASAP program for the community colleges in New York City is a holistic program that works. Build stronger and more effective college partnerships between institutions. There’s also the Dell Scholars Program at four-year institutions.

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How can America Encourage College Dropouts to Complete their Degrees

Edu Alliance Journal

American higher education overall has 39 million people with Some College, No Credential (SCNC) as of July 2020 according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. The most recent study dated 2017 shows the following: 30% of first-year students drop out before their second year of college. Conclusion.

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Teachers as Transformers

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Meanwhile, admissions to the more selective institutions became much more competitive and the market for students became less local, but students from lower-income backgrounds were increasingly concentrated in the colleges with the fewest resources. Also, campuses became, increasingly, political and ideological battlegrounds.