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SkillPointe Updates Help Community Colleges Bridge the Skills Gap

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The National Association for Community College Entrepreneurship (NACCE) and its technology platform, SkillPointe, have released an improved SkillPointe website to help students pursue in-demand skills while helping community colleges meet workforce demands. In fact, 35% of referrals from SkillPointe register in a program.

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Applying ‘Freedom Summer’ Lessons to an Overlooked Student Population

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I asked Moses what the strategy was with the voter registration in Mississippi that he was engaged in during the period, and he said that they went after the sharecroppers first because they felt if they could get them to register to vote, then from there, they could get everyone else. That was their way of not being identified.

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Annual Black, Brown, College Bound Summit Commences March 6

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The summit, convening March 6-9 at the Tampa (Florida) Convention Center was founded by Hillsborough Community College and has emerged as one of the most preeminent national voices to address issues facing Black and Latino males enrolling in and completing college. For more information and to register for the event, visit bbcbsummit.org.

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Panel Spotlights Registered Apprenticeships at MSIs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Registered A pprenticeships—programs that combine school instruction with paid on-the-job training, allowing students to “earn while they learn” — are critical on-ramps to good jobs. The needs of the community surrounding Alabama A&M University (AAMU) , an HBCU, were quite different. The first cohort gra duated in fall 2021.

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Challenges for Higher Education: An Emerging Skills Shortage and Inequity in the Workforce

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Strategies to be considered include developing or expanding dual enrollment, apprenticeships, credit for prior learning, transfer, and community college baccalaureates. The two-year graduation rate across all 15 community college programs was 67% with three-year graduation rates reaching 78%. Hoang, H., & Rios-Aguilar, C.,

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Howard University Undergoes Home Restoration of Civil Rights Activist Mary Church Terrell

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As an anchor in DC’s African American community and site of one of the nation’s leading preservers of African American history, Howard University is well positioned to spearhead the process of preserving Mary Church Terrell’s legacy and the broader legacy of the vibrant African American community that is central to LeDroit Park’s history.

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Study Reveals Civic Literacy Lacking Among Americans

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Hilary Crow The foundation’s national survey examined responses from 2,000 registered voters and revealed that Americans lack basic understanding of government. With our social fabric strained, the business community is being called upon to be a thread that can knit us back together.”