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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. Transportation is a significant issue, and Trent suggested increasing transportation vouchers. Lee said funding needs to be cultivated from hospital systems desirous of building their nursing workforce.

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

Confessions of a Community College Dean

These findings , from a survey conducted by Inside Higher Ed and College Pulse and sponsored by Kaplan, are consistent with research literature on climate anxiety , which is especially prominent among younger adults. More generally, research shows that fear has only limited power in inspiring action.

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

Confessions of a Community College Dean

But, as a longtime faculty member at an institution that is currently in the process of a merger with a much larger institution, I find myself asking, “Are the outcomes of closure and merger actually different? 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. They research colleges without any understanding of how financial aid works, or how rare those scholarships really are. Excessive debt is not an opportunity. It is anything but.

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New Student Engagement Data Reveals Surprises

EAB

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. I'm Tara Zirkel, a Director of Strategic Research at EAB. That goes to research and tools.

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Teachers as Transformers

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Accompanying revisionism was an altered relationship between faculty and students. Contributing to higher education’s democratization was the federal government’s mounting role, funding university research and subsidizing attendance through federally-financed grants and loans.