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Dougherty Family College’s Investment in Student Success Pays Off

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

They have access to financial aid counselors, college persistence counselors, and a life coach, and are placed into paid internships after they finish a professional development course. Bank, Target, and 3M. But he raised some concerns. DFC students receive a free laptop, textbooks, a bus pass, and 10 meals a week.

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College endowments dropped in fiscal year 2022

Confessions of a Community College Dean

A news release from NACUBO notes that the dramatic reversal reflects the fact that the second half of fiscal 2022 “included robust tightening efforts by central banks to combat surging inflation, along with significant geopolitical disruptions” that drove financial markets down. Study respondents reported spending $25.8

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Are you meeting students’ basic needs?

EAB

Collaborations with local food banks, grocery stores, and community organizations can help sustain these programs. If a student needs help, CLC staff members can raise an alert in EAB’s Navigate CRM that instantly connects a student with the CRA.

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12 Steps to Encourage & Support Student Entrepreneurship

Study Aborad Association

He established an entrepreneurial program that supports students throughout the entire lifecycle of a company; from the origination and identification of an idea all the way up to the development of the product, intellectual property protection, and commercialisation of the product and financing. Get Funding. Personal Funding.

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Armbrister Hangs Hat on Indelible Career at Johnson C. Smith University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Smith University (JCSU) in January 2018, he brought his experience in law and investment banking as well as his experience in education that encompassed both K–12 and higher education. That was part of the strategic plan developed during his presidency. When Clarence D. Armbrister became the 14th president of Johnson C.

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Rural-Serving Institutions: Innovative Lessons for Higher Ed Success: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 147 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Andrew Koricich

The Change Leader, Inc.

Public RSIs are more dependent on state appropriations but receive fewer appropriations per student because state funding metrics focus on enrollment growth, which is more constrained. Dr. Koricich and his team have received generous funding from The Joyce Foundation, Lumina Foundation, and Ascendium Education Group.

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Rehumanizing the Research University

Confessions of a Community College Dean

To be clear, I have nothing against business or science—we need them both, especially in this brave new world of global pandemics and dramatically diminished state funding for higher education—nor am I afraid of hard work or the need to “produce” as a research scholar.