University Business

JANUARY 10, 2024

Community colleges are in dire need of support as more reports convey just how few of their students are succeeding. Some colleges have succeeded in employing mentorship opportunities and finding innovative ways to support their students financially to help boost retention rates.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 16, 2024

Department of Education (ED) has awarded a $1 million grant to Pitt Community College to help boost college enrollment and completion rates among students in rural areas. Pitt Community College ED has presented a total of $44.5

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 23, 2023

An academic enrichment program at Tallahassee Community College that primarily serves African American men won't have to change its name under a new state higher education law, reported WUSF. Tallahassee Community College.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2024

Gina Garcia, professor of policy, politics, and leadership at Berkeley School of Education, University of California, Berkeley, to serve as our fall professional development day opening speaker — to provide insight for our campus as we continue our journey, serving as an Hispanic Serving Institution.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Johnny Smith Johnny Smith has been appointed vice president of instruction and student support services at Robeson Community College in Lumberton, North Carolina. Smith holds a bachelor’s degree in human services from Carson Newman University in Jefferson City, Tennessee, as well as a master’s in education, an Ed.S.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Courtney Adkins The beginning of the fall academic term brings to mind images of freshly graduated high school students arriving on college campuses across the country. When the fall 2023 term begins, close to 20% of community college students will also be high school students who are dually enrolled. Dr. Linda L.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

African American males and collegiate sports continue to be a topic of debate in higher education. Former collegiate athlete Yusuf Sabree was a standout student-athlete who currently holds the position of district dean of student services at Wayne County (Mich.) Community College. Seek out support services.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

A new report from the Center for Community College Student Engagement (CCCSE) indicates that while 8,836 entering students at 40 community colleges around the country indicate that they intend to transfer to a four-year institution, the number that actually do is remarkably low. Dr. Linda L. Dr. Larry Hlavenka Jr.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 8, 2024

Complete College America makes a case for a shift in higher education funding formulas. CCA’s completion-goals funding advocates for the funding to be allocated up front, thus giving public institutions the funds to provide adequate support services which will lead to improving outcomes and meeting state completion goals.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 24, 2024

higher education institutions is finally seeing growth again, according to a new report from the National Student Clearinghouse (NSC). colleges and universities rose by 1.2%, a minor change where the number of enrollees went from 15,072,249 to 15,248,077. After years of declining numbers, undergraduate enrollment at U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

Kristina Whalen Whalen is currently vice president of academic services at Las Positas College and vice president of the California Community Colleges Chief Instructional Officers Association. In this new role, Whalen will be part of the Foothill-De Anza Community College District leadership team.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2023

Pamela Everhart The money – from Fidelity Investments – will go towards launching the Fidelity Scholars Program, which will have renewable, need-based scholarships and wrap-around support services. French, Jr., president of UNCF-member Clark Atlanta University.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

A comprehensive report from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce (CEW) illustrates the resilience of America’s blue-collar region and describes how increased collaboration with higher education can ensure its survival. Rural towns in the U.S. Census Bureau data from 2015 to 2019.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Jean Petty started her community college education right out of high school and had no idea how to “do college.” She walked into the first college she attended not knowing where to start, and no one was very helpful in getting her enrolled and on a pathway. Many community college students have Petty’s experience.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Success for all students in higher education cannot simply be achieved with a “one-size-fits-all approach,” according to a new equity toolkit from Achieving the Dream (ATD). They can also help notify students of services provided by their school, such as food pantries.

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EAB

JUNE 1, 2023

Blogs 3 considerations for prison education programs What you need to know ahead of July’s restoration of Second Chance Pell grants Given the restoration of Pell Grant funding for incarcerated students expected in July 2023 , many institutions are beginning to develop plans for Prison Education Programs (PEPs).

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EAB

AUGUST 21, 2023

Blogs How to empower student-parents in higher education A conversation with Generation Hope My mom had me at 17, and like many teen parents, had to put her education on hold to care for our family. Generation Hope strives to make college graduation a more common achievement for young parents.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 6, 2023

Online-only students were also less likely to use support services like tutoring or skill labs and were less likely to have engaged in service-learning activities or field experiences. Linda García, executive director of the Center for Community College Student Engagement In other areas, engagement was better than expected.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

At a time when the Latino population in the United States is growing and students are still facing daunting obstacles, Excelencia in Education is recognizing nine institutions for their clear and decisive commitment to Latino student success with the Seal of Excelencia. It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2024

Hines Our co-edited book, Black Males in Secondary and Postsecondary Education: Teaching, Mentoring, Advising and Counseling, is one of the most comprehensive textbooks on Black males. Black Males in Secondary and Postsecondary Education ( Advances in Race and Ethnicity in Education, Vol. Emerald Publishing Limited.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

A pair of non-profit organizations are creating battle-tested blueprints to raise the bar of achievement for untraditional student populations by gathering insight from a diverse range of higher education stakeholders or curating the collaboration of different state education systems. spike in stop-outs in July 2021.

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University Business

DECEMBER 15, 2023

However, on top of how little the American public today seems to trust higher education, skepticism among adults who have already stopped out has already been confirmed. It’s not about students convincing colleges to give them another chance, but institutions trying to persuade students to provide higher education another chance.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 8, 2023

As higher ed nears the looming enrollment cliff , colleges and universities looking to drive enrollment growth must identify more pathways for students to obtain a college degree, especially in the case of first-generation students. She started her education career in K-12 and moved to community college leadership.

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University Business

APRIL 9, 2024

There is nothing novel about the current approaches to improving access, quality and equity in higher education. Yet, this developing flexibility is underdeveloped in many community colleges where technical and in-person training is staunchly preserved.

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Creatrix Campus

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Top Strategies for Improving Student Retention in Higher Education admin Fri, 12/23/2022 - 05:27 It is the rule of Gen Z now. Google is what they breathe through, mobile apps for higher education , and advanced gaming technologies to beat their boredom, what naught? But alas, they show less interest in the concept of learning.

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University Business

APRIL 26, 2023

Ned Lamont could be remembered as the “education destroyer” for this move. “We’re about to fall off that cliff,” said Higher Education Co-Chairman Gregg Haddad to CT Insider referring to the reliance the state system placed on those one-time federal aid investments.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 24, 2023

And yet, faith has played and continues to play a large part in higher education. the historical origins of many colleges and universities have been closely tied to faith, in particular Christianity. Article 13, item 1 states, “The States Parties to the present Covenant recognize the right of everyone to education.

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EAB

AUGUST 23, 2023

Review these 7 aspects of your basic needs strategy before the semester begins Community colleges play a vital role in higher education, offering affordable and accessible pathways to academic and professional success. Childcare Services: More than two million community college students are parents of children under 18.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 17, 2023

Hector Balderas , attorney general of New Mexico, has been chosen as president of Northern New Mexico College. Patrena Benton Elliott , vice president of instruction and student support services at Robeson Community College, in North Carolina, has been appointed president of Halifax Community College, also in North Carolina.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 24, 2023

Image: The University of South Dakota’s TRIO Student Support Services is like all other federally funded TRIO SSS programs in that it serves low-income, first-generation or disabled students. Ahead of that legislation, Mitchem says, TRIO educators were asked to put together recommendations, including TRIO eligibility criteria.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 20, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Ask yourself: Would the $20 million gift that Bloomberg Philanthropies gave to Princeton in 2021 to support the university’s first-generation and low-income students have a greater impact at Tougaloo College, an HBCU with a $10 million endowment? Kimball and Sarah M. The top 3 percent holds 80 percent.

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EAB

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Awardees are chosen from among the colleges, universities, and individuals that use Navigate , EAB’s student success management system, or Starfish , the student success platform EAB acquired in 2021. Congratulations to our 2022 winners: Technology Pioneer Award: Bakersfield College. Sierra College. Trident Technical College.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 25, 2023

Image: Factors ranging from financial stress to participation in extracurriculars can influence whether a student receiving services at their university’s counseling center will voluntarily withdraw from the institution, according to new research from Pennsylvania State University’s Center for Collegiate Mental Health.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 16, 2023

The communications and marketing office began working with institutional research to launch a series of two-way text messaging pilot programs this past fall. “We ended up partnering with a two-way texting vendor who caters to the higher education sector and works with several other community colleges in our state,” she says.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 30, 2023

The move was part of an executive transition plan that also involved promoting Lau to executive vice president of the two-year college and informally making her “president designee.” ” While it’s common for colleges and universities to have detailed executive transition plans, Parkland’s process is unusual.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 23, 2023

She’d spent seven years as a part-time student at Los Angeles Pierce Community College after graduating from high school and struggled to earn money and find financial aid to pay for a four-year education. “All of those intersectionalities opened my eyes to a lot of inequity in higher education,” Mora said.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Image: Rochester Institute of Technology shifted its tutoring and support resources from a private space into two study centers, increasing visibility of the services and removing the negative social stigma around receiving help. Click here to submit.

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