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Access Must be Front Burner for Community Colleges

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Students navigate housing and food insecurity, transportation issues, and other limitations to access. Individuals committed to community colleges and the vital role they play in American higher education continue to advocate for the students and the institutions that serve them. Dr. Everrett A.

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Five ways to help students take smart sustainability actions (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Higher education professionals have long been concerned with how to raise public awareness about climate change. In practice, these experiences require a level of administrative and logistical effort that is difficult for faculty to manage. Yet today we face a different problem. Smaller cities (where most people in the U.S.

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Is a merger a closure by another name? (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Some in higher education believe that a merged institution will preserve much of what is good of the smaller institution, while closure is merely oblivion. We are recognized by the federal government as both a predominantly Black institution and as a Hispanic-serving institution.

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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. Regardless of the reasons for the high cost of higher education, the fact is that many, if not most, American parents are in denial about how they will pay these extraordinary costs.

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Q&A with Clark Nexsen’s Sustainability Leaders

Clark Nesxen

For our higher education, military, and municipal clients, decarbonization isn’t just building a single high-performance building, it’s also converting their vehicle fleet and developing a strategy to measure their progress toward net zero goals. B: That’s right. S: I’d say electric vehicles. But it’s not.

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Teachers as Transformers

Confessions of a Community College Dean

To better understand how higher education got to where it is today, you might read Harvey J. Graff’s “ Lessons from the 1960s ,” a brief essay that looks back to that fateful and contentious decade for ideas about how we might reinvent higher education for the 21 st century.