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How Community Colleges Fuel Students' Dreams

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Frederick Shegog, former Delaware County Community College student, now motivational speaker. At the closing plenary of the 2023 Dream Conference in Chicago, Achieving the Dream (ATD), a reform network of over 300 community colleges, handed the microphone to students who either currently attend or graduated from a community college.

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Professor polls students for mental health check-in

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Addressing students’ mental health remains a top concern for higher education professionals. “I just looked at my job as trying to normalize [mental health discussions] for them, to try to get them used to somebody actually saying, ‘How are you today? Tell us about it. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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3 ways cooperative purchasing agreements support student success

University Business

As the Director of the Virginia Higher Education Procurement Consortium (VHEPC) , I manage $350 million in cooperative contract spending, leveraging collective buying power to create efficiency and value for our 36 member institutions.

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How schools are expanding student mental health support without hiring more counselors

EAB

Blogs How schools are expanding student mental health support without hiring more counselors Colleges and universities face a slew of “ pandemic ripple effects ” that pose long-term threats to student success. Stepped Care organizes mental health services in a continuum based on their intensity.

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What the mental health crisis means for student success leaders

EAB

When was your overall mental health the best? College Pulse Survey, Spring 2022. A Gallup survey in fall 2021 revealed that two-thirds of community college students and an eye-popping three-fourths of bachelor’s degree students had considered leaving school in the previous six months due to emotional stress.

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Professors at University of Illinois at Chicago begin strike

Confessions of a Community College Dean

“We passed proposals back and forth with the management team from 10 a.m. In response to the union’s request for expanded student mental health resources, the university’s website said it “announced an approved $4.47 Williams, however, said, “The management team has been stalling from the beginning.”

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How NAU Streamlined Student Access to Mental Health Resources

EAB

EAB’s Katie Herrmann is joined by Dr. Carl Dindo, the Director of Campus Health Services for Northern Arizona University, to discuss innovative approaches to meeting student mental health needs. That's one too.