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Are you meeting students’ basic needs?

EAB

Like many of our students, I was a first gen, low-income college student who had periods of housing, food, and transportation insecurity. I remember working food service jobs so it would be easier to eat, needing to move constantly as rent got too high, and scrounging to afford my bus pass.

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Drive Enrollment Growth with First-Gen Pathways to Success: Changing Higher Education Podcast 167 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Marielena DeSanctis

The Change Leader, Inc.

Colleges must also help communicate the ROI for getting a post-secondary degree. With concurrent or dual enrollment courses, sometimes a publicly funded university, even in the same state, will not accept the community college course credit as equivalent. Marie DeSanctis 01:51 Sure. As Drumm said, I’m Marielena DeSanctis.

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12 Community Action Project Ideas to Wrap Up the School Year

Experiential Learning Depot

So what better way to cruise through the rest of the year than with a community action project (CAP)? Community action projects are self-directed project-based service-learning experiences. The product should be usable or sellable to raise money for the chosen cause. Spring is bonkers in the world of education.

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How can America Encourage College Dropouts to Complete their Degrees

Edu Alliance Journal

I thought in early 1969 when I left the university, I didn’t have the academic ability to get a degree and my university advisor certainly was not supportive and suggested I should go sign up for military service that day. US Labor Market. In the United States, for instance, customer service and food service jobs could fall by 4.3

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Sustainability actions students take and want their colleges to take

Confessions of a Community College Dean

“I’ve had people tell me you could order hamburgers and the order would come in and it was chicken breast,” says Robert Nelson, chief executive officer at NACUFS, the National Association of College & University Food Services. “They should celebrate it and market that they’re engaging in it.

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