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Dual enrollment can be costly for community colleges

Confessions of a Community College Dean

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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Dougherty Family College’s Investment in Student Success Pays Off

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Students from underrepresented backgrounds face considerable barriers when it comes to completing a community college program. But Dougherty Family College (DFC), a two-year associate degree program at the University of St. The support that DFC gives its students is not simply financial. Bank, Target, and 3M.

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Making Equity a Priority

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The school ultimately became a satellite campus of the El Camino Community College District in 2006 but has since regained its accreditation and its independence. In collaboration with the Los Angeles County Food Bank, Compton College offers a mobile food pantry. This is it.” The trio call themselves the Equity Avengers.

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My 2023 Higher Education Finance Reading List

Robert Kelchen

State investment in higher education: Effects on human capital formation, student debt, and long-term financial outcomes of students. National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 27885. Mapping community college finance systems to develop equitable and effective finance policy. The College Board. Rosinger, K.

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Rehumanizing the Research University

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Can a research-intensive university also be learning- and learner-centered, as dedicated to the quality of students’ educational experience as it is to scholarship, publication and invention? This reminds me every day why teaching, mentorship and service matter just as much as research. Why is that?

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

They focus on experiential learning in New York City, mentoring and research support for students. in rhetoric and intercultural communication, she earned a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship in the Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean at the CUNY Graduate Center.

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My 2022 Higher Education Finance Reading List

Robert Kelchen

Lumina Foundation video series on federal financial aid: [link]. Mobility report cards: The role of colleges in intergenerational mobility. State investment in higher education: Effects on human capital formation, student debt, and long-term financial outcomes of students. Research in Higher Education, 59 (4), 489-518.

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