EAB

JANUARY 26, 2023

Blogs 6 trends impacting community college enrollment in 2023 For the past two years, it’s been difficult to focus on anything beyond the immediate consequences of the pandemic. But now as we find ourselves stabilizing, it’s time to pause and take stock of the full landscape facing community colleges. get your copy 2.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Before and during COVID, most of these students vanished from our most affordable and accessible institutions – our community colleges. Enrollment for Black learners in community colleges is not down because of COVID or because the Black population is shrinking (in fact, it has increased by 2.5

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 25, 2023

The Education Department settles with five law schools over financial aid; a new report explores the role of California's Hispanic-serving community colleges; New College of Florida aims to lure students to a new Odyssey course with free books and food trucks.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Financial aid, retention, and faculty/staff representation are part of the Seal,” says Dr. Deborah Santiago, co-founder and CEO of Excelencia in Education, who says she is delighted to see institutions with intentional practices actively working toward increasing Latino representation in key positions.

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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. Some were going without enough food to eat; others were sleeping in their cars.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 10, 2023

A new report released by the Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice at Temple University offers guidance to state lawmakers and college leaders seeking to close the “college SNAP gap,” the number of students eligible to receive federal food benefits under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program who do not receive them.

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Great College Advice

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

William Fitzsimmons, Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid at Harvard College weighs in favor of taking time off between high school and the first year of college to pursue a special project or activity, work, or spend time in another meaningful way. Many actually encourage gap years, including the Ivy League.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In Stephanie Land’s brave and important new book CLASS ( a follow-up to her memoir MAID , the basis for an award-winning Netflix series) she explains that even though she knew a college degree was the best chance she and her 6-year-old daughter had of escaping poverty, being deprived of food made it nearly impossible. The U.S.D.A.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 30, 2023

The community college also is partnering with the developers to serve as a workforce training hub. For example, students may be susceptible to gambling away their financial aid funds, she said. ” Nassau Community College enrolls about 12,500 students, according to federal data.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

We’re changing the landscape of how community colleges serve underserved students,” says Espiritu. “We Having cohorts here is really important, especially for engineering and computer science because it’s a community that supports each other.” I care more than just graduation at community college.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean You know how sometimes you forget about food that has been in the freezer for a while? I was surprised at how many responses amounted to shopping in the freezer; they were requests for data that most colleges already, and routinely, collect. It can be revealing in useful ways.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 24, 2023

Similarly, it offers tutoring and assistance with choosing courses, applying for financial aid, building financial literacy and applying to graduate programs. Fundamentals of communication course: In the spring semester, the communication studies department offers a TRIO-specific section of a required speech course.

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EAB

MAY 9, 2023

Podcast Do Community Colleges Need an “Intervention”? Reporter Jon Marcus joins EAB’s Tara Zirkel to explore the root causes behind steep enrollment declines and poor student outcomes at community colleges. EAB · Do Community Colleges Need an “Intervention?” Episode 150. May 9, 2023. million people.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 9, 2023

In addition to the grant and scholarship awards, I was able to pay for rent, food and other necessities by working at least 20 hours a week while I was in school. I started my career in higher ed in a financial aid office overseeing loans—distribution and collection. Tuition was $41 a credit.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 2, 2023

Assisting Students with Maximizing Financial Aid, Transferring, and Post-graduation Support Since Arrupe’s model depends on students receiving the maximum amount of Pell grants and state aid possible. And unlike most community colleges, all courses are credit-bearing, including remedial classes.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 8, 2023

Drumm McNaughton speaks with Dr. Marielena DeSanctis, president of the Community College of Denver, who shares some of the solutions she was able to identify based on her unique understanding of higher ed. She started her education career in K-12 and moved to community college leadership. Dr. DeSanctis is unique.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

“There are a number of material things that can be done to make college success more achievable for Black students—financial aid, tuition reductions, support for childcare—but that’s not the only answer,” she said. “It’s cultural, too.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Anita: As someone who spent her early childhood in a female-headed, welfare-dependent and food- and housing-insecure household, and as the first woman in my family to finish high school, I know what education meant to me—and what it means to many of our structurally disadvantaged students. That made me typical among my colleagues.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MAY 31, 2023

In his latest podcast episode, Dr. Drumm McNaughton talks with two CEW professors who worked on the study, Research Professor of Education and Economics Dr. Examples include expanding recruitment efforts and creating stronger partnerships between high schools and colleges. More outreach and advising can demystify college for students.

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College Forward

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Through a collaboration with national nonprofit College Possible , the community college district will bring evidence-based near-peer coaching to 700 AlamoPROMISE students on two of its campuses, the majority of whom are from under-resourced backgrounds or are first-generation students. SAN ANTONIO , Nov.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Community college students and HBCUs were significantly assisted by the funding. Almost every other community college student received a grant, amassing a total of 3.5 More than 90% of these colleges kept certain students enrolled due to financial aid.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 5, 2023

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean A very upsetting article from the Hechinger Report was the talk of the office on Tuesday. The article is an intermittently hopeful and damning portrayal of community colleges failing to do the sorts of things that would help students graduate. Online options have improved.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

For decades, colleges have consolidated many of their admissions and enrollment services functions under a single umbrella office—including, but not limited to, the bursar, the registrar, the cashier’s office and financial aid.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 5, 2023

But they also neglect the fact that millions of college students are dealing with food insecurity and/or experiencing homelessness, and as a result most will never reach the finish line. We can now see clearly: food insecurity and homelessness are affecting students everywhere, at all types of colleges and universities.

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EAB

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Financial This grouping refers to how students pay for college and its associated cost. As might be expected, these conversations centered on longstanding concerns around tuition and financial aid, but often expanded into conversations around supporting the holistic needs of students, especially working students.

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EAB

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Financial This grouping refers to how students pay for college and its associated cost. As might be expected, these conversations centered on longstanding concerns around tuition and financial aid, but often expanded into conversations around supporting the holistic needs of students, especially working students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 14, 2023

Kellogg Professor of Community College Leadership at the University of Texas at Austin. Similarly, an institution could consider an applicant’s discussion of how learning to cook traditional Hmong dishes from her grandmother sparked her passion for food and nurtured her sense of self by connecting her to past generations of her family.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Cuyahoga Community College has fourteen separate centers and campuses near and in Cleveland, Ohio. Locally known as Tri-C, the institution provides affordable access to a college degree from the urban downtown to the sprawling suburbs. At the bottom of that pyramid are physiological needs like food, clothing, and shelter. “If

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 31, 2023

Congress changed requirements in December 2020 as part of a pandemic-relief bill to make it easier for students to access the food assistance program. About 34 percent of college students over all were food insecure, according to the center’s 2020 basic needs survey. “It’s just going to continue to spike.”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 17, 2023

Congress should pass legislation to make college more affordable, with the goal of giving economically disadvantaged students a path to a debt-free degree, and the affordability guarantee should stabilize tuition as part of delivering on its promise. Sameer Gadkaree is the president and CEO of the Institute for College Access & Success.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 13, 2023

” Tata said this includes community colleges and trade schools. The grant, provided to students for the first time this past fall, assists foster youth at public colleges and universities after other financial aid and any family contributions are exhausted. Things happen incrementally,” Raucher said.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JUNE 20, 2023

Drumm McNaughton 09:45 Well, that makes perfect sense, given that there is less financial aid coming from the States. The interesting thing is, though, when we ask currently enrolled students what keeps or helps them stay enrolled, besides seeing the value, the other number-one reason is their financial aid package.

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