Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2023

David Doré will become chancellor of the Virginia Community College System (VCCS), effective Apr. Dr. David Doré Doré is currently president of campuses and executive vice chancellor for student experience and workforce development at Pima Community College.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 14, 2023

Community colleges play a critical role, providing affordable and accessible education for diverse populations. According to the American Association of Community Colleges, our nation had over 1,000 public, tribal, and independent community colleges enrolling 10.2

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 4, 2023

Although the pandemic has negatively impacted enrollment across the world of higher education, the drops for minoritized men at community colleges have been especially precipitous. They discussed their ideas Thursday at a panel co-sponsored by CCEAL and the Association of Community College Trustees.

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

MARCH 12, 2024

In fact, some schools have experienced record growth over the last five years, and no higher education institutions are better positioned for continued growth in the next decade than community colleges. Community colleges play a crucial role in providing an accessible and affordable education to diverse student populations.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 27, 2023

MassBay Community College will be offering free education and training in the areas of computers and technology to unemployed and underemployed workers. Collaborating with area workforce partners to fill the needs in MetroWest is a winning combination for the local economy.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Facing a national shortage of early childhood educators , the Community College of Vermont (CCV) and the Southwestern Vermont Medical Center (SVMC) have teamed up for an innovative solution: paying students to reduce their hours at their jobs in favor of taking more classes. So why aren’t programs like this one more common?

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University Business

AUGUST 9, 2023

The state’s community colleges need to use new narratives to attract and retain these adult students, said David Doré, chancellor of Virginia’s community college system. And it means quickly launching courses of study that reflect the needs of the business community. Read more from Cardinal News.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2024

The fastest-growing industries require workers with disproportionately higher education levels compared to industries with slower growth (Carnevale et al, 2023). Strategies to be considered include developing or expanding dual enrollment, apprenticeships, credit for prior learning, transfer, and community college baccalaureates.

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University Business

APRIL 24, 2024

A large majority of community college students have a career in mind, but they also say that they don’t have enough information about the paths that will get them to those jobs. Some 90% of 83,000-plus students who responded to the 2023 Community College Survey of Student Engagement said they had zeroed in on a career path.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 4, 2023

Image: Community colleges across the country are struggling to recruit and hire new people after losing faculty and staff members in droves during the pandemic. College leaders report staffing losses at all levels, including IT workers, student success professionals, dining hall workers and executive leaders, she said.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Image: Against the backdrop of headlines blaring news about declining community college enrollments, one bright spot has emerged: community college students, faculty and administrators are broadly aligned in their enthusiasm for the digital transformation that has occurred at their institutions since the start of the pandemic.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The Connect Team at Hamilton College in New York serves as a bridge between students and graduates working in various industries. Students of all grades work as part of their teams, connecting to alumni from that specific industry through student-facing events and blog posts.

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University Business

JUNE 23, 2023

The federal government has awarded Bergen Community College a five-year, $4.5 The 2023 Feeding the Economy report commissioned by agriculture industry leaders shows that nearly 20% of all U.S. The 2023 Feeding the Economy report commissioned by agriculture industry leaders shows that nearly 20% of all U.S.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Health-Care Students Concerned About State of the Industry jessica.blake@… Wed, 11/01/2023 - 03:00 AM Byline(s) Jessica Blake

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 22, 2023

The outcome is bad for students and industries alike: a lack of social mobility and a lack of qualified workers. The state awarded $18 million each to six regional collaboratives consisting of at least one K-12 school district, University of California campus, California State University campus, and community college district.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

James Lancaster James Lancaster has been appointed vice chancellor of workforce development at Los Angeles Community College District. in educational leadership from Cal State, Fullerton.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Roueche Center for Community College Leadership. Today, some of our country’s communities are engaged in conversations about talent pipeline shortages, challenges, and opportunities. Our region has a large healthcare industry with a significantly unmet employment demand exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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EAB

JANUARY 13, 2023

Modern Student Experience Diagnostic for Community Colleges. Modern student expectations are everchanging—can your community college keep up? Community college student demographics are shifting, nontraditional is the new norm, mental health is in crisis, and learning flexibility is a growing demand.

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AIFS Abroad

MARCH 24, 2021

For more than 35 years, AIFS and numerous California community colleges have partnered to teach young people from diverse backgrounds to understand the qualities, values and differences of other cultures. Homeboy Industries was founded in 1986 by Father Greg Boyle, and is based in East Los Angeles. Their self-esteem soared.”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 5, 2023

The Virginia State Board for Community Colleges hired a new chancellor to head the 23-college system, according to a press release Wednesday. He currently serves as president of campuses and executive vice chancellor for student experience and workforce development at Pima Community College in Arizona.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Institutions selected for the project are Clark University, Dallas College, Gallaudet University, Lorain Community College, Loyola University Maryland, Michigan State University, Scott College, St. Mary's College of California. Edward’s University, and St.

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University Business

JANUARY 10, 2023

Community colleges, which serve the majority of higher education’s low-income students and students of color, must be included in the conversation, experts say. The law has spurred private investments for semiconductor production since the bill was introduced in spring of 2020, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 6, 2023

Seven hundred million dollars “is probably an absolute bare minimum,” Grace Adcox, polling analyst for Data for Progress, told The Guardian.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

He also serves on the board of multiple organizations, including the American Academic Leadership Institute, of which he is board vice chair; the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems; and Goodwill Industries of Arkansas.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 5, 2024

It’s not an everyday occurrence when a community college leader gets a phone call telling them their institution will receive an influx of funding in the millions. when MacKenzie Scott, one of the richest women in the world, decided to make a major investment in community colleges.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2024

This year, Excelencia also examined three specific areas of industry projected to grow by roughly 10% by 2031: STEM (statistics, technology, engineering and mathematics), healthcare, and educational professions. DC also consciously connects with regional employers, with each president at their seven campuses becoming industry sector leads.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Public health concerns increased responsibilities to care for and educate school-aged children and disrupted jobs and industries. Before and during COVID, most of these students vanished from our most affordable and accessible institutions – our community colleges. But we need to look closer at the data.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 31, 2022

“I am excited about making a difference in the education field through leveraging my extensive leadership skills and experience across various industries to help Achieving the Dream build its organizational capacity for serving the nation’s most reform-minded community colleges.

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University Business

APRIL 7, 2023

However, a new guide by The Aspen Institute suggests a different approach: Rural community colleges have the potential to revitalize the surrounding area by unlocking economic mobility and technological advances. Still, skepticism about higher education threatens to upend rural community colleges.

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University Business

APRIL 4, 2024

Those benefits also extend to the communities where college graduates live and the industries in which they work. But when a myriad of obstacles prevent a majority of college-aged Americans from attaining that goal, there is something very wrong with our current higher education model.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 11, 2023

The trucking industry is modernizing rapidly, but is it for the better? In today’s Academic Minute, Cornell University’s Karen Levy explains. Levy is an associate professor in the department of information science at Cornell and author of Data Driven: Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace Surveillance (Princeton University Press).

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University Business

JANUARY 22, 2024

Tackling workforce needs with financial assistance Maine Free College, a free college scholarship initiative introduced by the Maine Community College System (MCCS) in the 2022-23 academic year, has helped contribute to a mass resurgence in enrollment compared to the rest of the country. “We are scrappy operations.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

She possesses an associate degree earned in her early 20’s from her local community college. The plight of the place-bound student and the existence of education deserts offer another compelling equity-based argument for expansion of the community college baccalaureate degree. Lawrence A. Roughly 6% to 12% of the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 27, 2023

Community colleges and both public and private four-year institutions experienced increases in persistence and retention, but private for-profit four-year schools and primarily associate degree-granting baccalaureate institutions saw declines. That’s what worries me and many community college leaders the most.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 7, 2024

1,363 are Certificate institutions (mostly beauty “colleges”) and 867 are community colleges. Of the remaining 1,657 true four-year colleges, only 84 had graduates earning less than the typical high school graduate 10 years after graduation – 5% rather than the 26% cited in the study.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

With how strongly Chancellor Frank has forwarded the mission of UW-Stout to strengthen career pathways to industry, technology and the like, one would imagine her professional background to be embedded in business, STEM or even a blue-collar background.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MAY 14, 2024

‘Pulling Back the Veil’ on Enrollment Management Liam Knox Tue, 05/14/2024 - 03:00 AM Stephen Burd’s new book blames much of higher ed’s current woes on the multi-million dollar industry. He spoke with IHE about how admissions became a numbers game and why poor students are worse off for it. Byline(s) Liam Knox

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