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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2024

And while I am always trying to find ways to support community college students, I believe this work can be applied to all higher education institutions. Community college is free, and student aid covers the total cost of attendance. Every vendor on a community college campus would be required to accept SNAP.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Art Pimentel will become president of Folsom Lake College, effective Jan. Dr. Art Pimentel Most recently, Pimentel was president of Woodland Community College.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 8, 2024

“Anyone, especially in the community college sector, would agree that funding is a gathering storm,” said Dr. Larry Hlavenka Jr., executive director of public relations, community and cultural affairs at Bergen Community College in New Jersey. There’s a referendum that needs to occur on funding."

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 2, 2024

In addition to food and housing insecurity, in 2021, data showed that 51% of students cited transportation as an area where they struggle. Dr. Mordecai Ian Brownlee is president of the Community College of Aurora in Colorado. million students.

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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

MAY 11, 2023

Students from underrepresented backgrounds face considerable barriers when it comes to completing a community college program. But Dougherty Family College (DFC), a two-year associate degree program at the University of St. Unlike many community colleges, DFC has a selective admissions process.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 8, 2024

The profile of the average community college student is changing. While two-year institutions still have significant populations of adult students and people desirous of enhancing their career options, there is a growing number of first-time college students, age 18 to 22, that are seeking a traditional college experience.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 14, 2023

Those seeking Pell Grant expansion can’t wait around and hope for change, said panelist Dr. Keith Curry, president of Compton College and CEO of the Compton Community College District. They have to advocate."

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 26, 2024

Efforts implemented by awarded institutions in prior years have included services such as counseling, tutoring, childcare, community-building activities, targeted outreach, financial assistance, technology provision, and transportation. “By Scholars also expressed some dissatisfaction with what the bill leaves out.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2023

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. Let’s say I run a community college in Colorado and want to effectively support my students’ basic needs.

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EAB

AUGUST 23, 2023

Review these 7 aspects of your basic needs strategy before the semester begins Community colleges play a vital role in higher education, offering affordable and accessible pathways to academic and professional success. At the time, I was unaware of any support offered by my college that could have made a difference.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2024

Dallas College (DC), a system of community colleges serving greater Dallas area of Texas, “is in the barrier-busting business,” said Chancellor Dr. Justin H. Every student is assigned a success coach that helps on their academic journey and life issues like transportation, child care, or mental health,” said Lonon.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

However, the Minority Male Success Initiative (MMSI), a three-year project from the North Carolina Community College System (NCCCS) and Watermark, an ed tech company, has offered a glimmer of hope: students who received success coaching using an online platform were 22.4% The COVID-19 pandemic has only exacerbated the trend.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 4, 2023

Stout, president and CEO of Achieving the Dream, a membership network of community colleges working to achieve equity in higher education, said this increase will very likely keep current Pell Grant recipients on the path toward completion. “I think it’s fantastic that students will get $500 more. Dr. Karen A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 12, 2023

When asked what was most important in deciding what to do after high school, the most common answer was, “I need to understand different careers available,” followed by “I need to be able to feed myself,” and “I need to have reliable transportation.”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JUNE 8, 2023

student in Earth system science, examines how to cut carbon emissions from one form of transport. Today on the Academic Minute, a Student Spotlight during University of California, Irvine, Week: Candelaria Bergero, a Ph.D.

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Clark Nesxen

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Effective career and technical education (CTE) spaces play a critical part in enabling community colleges to meet one of their most important objectives: supporting local economic growth through workforce development and readiness. Biotechnology Center of Excellence, Alamance Community College. Apex High School.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Day three of the 2023 Dream Conference in Chicago kicked off with a heightened focus on building partnerships that strengthen students and fortify the community workforce. The Dream conference is hosted annually by Achieving the Dream (ATD), a reform network of over 300 community colleges working to equitize higher education.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

But local governments have significant influence over policies affecting climate change—from bicycle transportation planning to housing density, tree planting, energy use and nature conservation. These are decision-making processes that students can witness firsthand and even influence. Smaller cities (where most people in the U.S.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 21, 2023

An investigation by the system’s internal auditors found that Danielson had used college-owned cars for trips between campuses and her home. The system said she shouldn’t have used the cars because she received an $833 per month transportation and communication allowance as part of her contract.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

students unionized to “address myriad issues” and are “demanding a living wage, guaranteed on-time payment, an effective grievance procedure, more support for international students, safe and reliable transportation and facilities and a commitment to the city of Baltimore.”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

An August 2022 Student Voice survey conducted by Inside Higher Ed and College Pulse found that first-generation students were likely to lack any internship experience or experiential learning within a course: half of all first-gen students and two-thirds of first-gen community college students had not had these experiences.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 20, 2023

An investigation by the system's internal auditors found that Danielson had used college-owned cars for trips between campuses and her home. The system said shouldn't have used the cars because she received an $833 per month transportation and communication allowance as part of her contract.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 30, 2023

Many students take public transportation as well, which can be unreliable. “It begins to change how someone thinks about their academic career, how they take on leadership opportunities on campus and how they take on relationships with other students.”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Image: Supporting student success is complex goal.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

But with the well of federal relief aid expired, community colleges that have historically served the nation’s most underresourced populations have been forced to cull together various resources to keep their at-risk students from stopping out and regain those lost due to finances. Of the $76.2 Education will help them.”

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

JUNE 12, 2023

The New Student Experience at a Community College The enrollment data for community colleges is positive for the first time in a long time, with an overall enrollment increase of 2.1% Despite this recent trend reversal, community colleges can’t ignore the 37% decline (nearly 2.6

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

We send a brief survey to learn more about social determinants of their well-being, such as housing insecurity, transportation and financial distress. A: Our work begins in the summer before our first-year students arrive on campus. ” If they ask for help, they get it.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 23, 2023

rural communities face a number of hurdles when it comes to participating in higher ed, including financial literacy, transportation, food and housing insecurity, and internet access, according to the Department of Education (ED). In rural communities, only 29% of people ages 18-24 are enrolled in higher ed. Students from U.S.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Three courses per semester means faculty spend more time on each course with each student, which can include making sure students have access to textbooks and course materials, tutoring and support for other challenges like access to transportation, housing and food.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JUNE 13, 2023

We saw it clearly with the community colleges at first. Drumm McNaughton 15:10 But we are starting to see some recovery with community colleges. There’s a community college I’m aware of in Hawaii that received a significant grant about six years ago and put in childcare facilities on campus.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 6, 2023

food , transportation, childcare, housing and digital access). Community colleges are often underserved when it comes to mental health, with only 70 percent of community colleges offering some type of mental health services and larger student-to-counselor ratios than other institutions of higher education.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 10, 2023

I had students attend class while on public transportation or in a car, while at appointments, or while otherwise doing tasks that required their attention. Students with fewer financial resources are more likely to miss class due to transportation or paid-work conflicts.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The students who are struggling more socially, economically, they’re having transportation issues or they’re having to balance working more. That was a big problem, not just because those students weren’t learning as much, but also in terms of the equity issues.

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EAB

MAY 23, 2023

EAB’s Tara Zirkel is joined by Center for Community College Student Engagement Executive Director Dr. Linda Garcia, as well as Associate Director of Publications, Dr. Courtney Adkins, to discuss new research on student engagement. Today, community colleges are being asked to rise to new challenges.

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University Business

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Davidson-Davie Community College (N.C.) Davidson-Davie Community College (N.C.) Build awareness Among faculty and staff: College staff aware of student food insecurity can help spread awareness and destigmatize the issue by communicating with their students via syllabi and organizing campus food drives.

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