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California's Community Colleges See the Benefits of Student Housing

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

So that’s when he and other leadership at IVC began exploring the idea of student housing. Through a pilot program that offered 12 housing insecure students homes in RVs, Johnson said IVC learned a lot of lessons about the difficulties and triumphs of residential management, how to support students, and how to build community.

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Student Housing at Sea

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Higher ed has a student housing crisis, Ryan Craig writes. David Foster Wallace was my generation’s answer to Hemingway but—on brand for Gen X—without any of the fun.

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Legislative fix would save student housing at some California community colleges - MIKHAIL ZINSHTEYN, Cal Matters

Ray Schroeder

Cerritos College in Los Angeles County was about to cancel plans to build affordable dorms for 396 students at rents of just above $700 a month. Another community college, Sierra College in Rocklin, was planning to abandon construction of homes for 354 students at rents of $450 a month.

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Appeals Court Rules Against Berkeley Plan for Student Housing

Confessions of a Community College Dean

A California appeals court has ruled against a plan put forward by the University of California, Berkeley, to develop student housing in People’s Park, the Los Angeles Times reported. Two nonprofit groups sued to block the plan. Berkeley said it would appeal to the California Supreme Court.

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Making Equity a Priority

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In 2005 — long before Curry took the helm — the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges revoked the school’s accreditation because of financial instability. It was a devastating blow to the college. The market regularly draws more than 700 students and plans are underway to build student housing on campus.

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Unapologetic Leadership for Black Learner Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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Rising to the Challenge on Student Basic Needs Work

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

They deserve to be the focus of public attention and philanthropic giving and the priority for governments, instead of the tiny number of already highly-resourced gated colleges always dominating the news. On the one hand it’s wonderful to see skilled professionals take to heart the lesson that students are humans first.

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