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How Data Drives Student Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Students at LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City, NY. Kenneth Adams, president of LaGuardia Community College. offers 28 data dashboards with insights on enrollment, grades, financial aid, retention, completion, and student demographics. The current iteration of the program, Insights 2.0,

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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Created in 2005 by Excelencia in Education, Examples of Excelencia is a national initiative that recognizes institutions and nonprofit organizations that identify, aggregate, and promote evidence-based practices that improve Latinx student access in higher education. I care more than just graduation at community college.

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Former education secretary under Barack Obama is named SUNY chancellor

University Business

.” Since 2017, King has served as President of The Education Trust, a nonprofit organization that encourages high academic achievement for every student. Prior to taking that role, he led the Education Department under Obama, who said he was “an exceptionally talented educator.”

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Amid pushback, U.S. delays guidance on outsourcing

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Education Department’s recent guidance expanding the definition of what it means to be a “third-party servicer” for institutions that receive federal financial aid funds put online program management companies, or OPMs, squarely in the center of the bull’s-eye. So no one was remotely surprised that the U.S.

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Statehouses support foster youth with college

Confessions of a Community College Dean

“I’ve observed the level of bipartisan support for these issues increasing over the last couple of years, which is really promising,” said Rodd Monts, director of state policy for SchoolHouse Connection, a national nonprofit organization that works to help young people overcome homelessness through education.