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Unapologetic Leadership for Black Learner Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government and higher education institutions have fed the public a steady diet of bad enrollment news. It means the institution changes how we develop faculty and advise students – where all 6,662 Compton college students benefit.

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Let’s Partner with Agriculture to Address Food Insecurity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In Stephanie Land’s brave and important new book CLASS ( a follow-up to her memoir MAID , the basis for an award-winning Netflix series) she explains that even though she knew a college degree was the best chance she and her 6-year-old daughter had of escaping poverty, being deprived of food made it nearly impossible. The U.S.D.A.

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Student Loans, College Costs, and Parental Self-Denial

Great College Advice

A report by Yale faculty points to the possibility that university administrators have proliferated, while faculty salaries and budgets have stagnated. They don’t make a financial plan. They research colleges without any understanding of how financial aid works, or how rare those scholarships really are.

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College Students Are Hungry to Learn Everywhere

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

But they also neglect the fact that millions of college students are dealing with food insecurity and/or experiencing homelessness, and as a result most will never reach the finish line. But finally, in spring 2020, the federal government asked undergraduates if they had enough to eat or a safe place to sleep.