Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
When Imperial Valley College (IVC) conducted a student survey seven years ago, they discovered over 200 students experiencing food and housing insecurity. While visiting the kitchen, then Dean of Student Services Dr. In the summertime, it can be well over 125 degrees—[living out of your car] is not sustainable.”
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 28, 2024
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.”
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 12, 2023
Ten years ago, most college students short of money for food would have difficulty finding a food pantry on campus. Food insecurity wasn’t a widely recognized problem in higher education and “student basic needs” wasn’t a field of practice. Students require and deserve far more than band-aids.
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
The Change Leader, Inc.
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
These partnerships also facilitate research opportunities, enabling students and faculty to contribute to technological advancements. They take us with our community college partners, as well as business enterprises. So those are some public private partnerships that take us into the school districts.
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