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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. She also noted that the college should reach out to students regarding their needs rather than waiting for students to come to them.

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

Confessions of a Community College Dean

In practice, these experiences require a level of administrative and logistical effort that is difficult for faculty to manage. Given the current political atmosphere, it is not difficult to see why 74 percent of respondents in the Student Voice survey feel the federal government is doing too little to address climate change.

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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. And maybe some debt forgiveness from the Federal Government. Many things bother me about the cost of college these days. Ellen has been cancelled. Hope and dreams.

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Q&A with Clark Nexsen’s Sustainability Leaders

Clark Nesxen

The campus was interesting: not only was it where the students and faculty lived, they seldom left, so it had to be self-sustaining. We’re doing some projects right now for the federal government on electric vehicle charging infrastructure assessments. S: I’d say electric vehicles. But it’s not.

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New Student Engagement Data Reveals Surprises

EAB

Across the country, community colleges must respond to the increasing expectations for quality, performance, and accountability set by governing boards, state and federal governments, accrediting organizations, and the public. We'll put the resources in there and we work with faculty." We know if students cannot.

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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.