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Rising to the Challenge on Student Basic Needs Work

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Ten years ago, most college students short of money for food would have difficulty finding a food pantry on campus. Food insecurity wasn’t a widely recognized problem in higher education and “student basic needs” wasn’t a field of practice. Students require and deserve far more than band-aids.

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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. Public health concerns increased responsibilities to care for and educate school-aged children and disrupted jobs and industries. But we need to look closer at the data.

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Making Equity a Priority

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It launched a popular Farmer’s Market on campus last year, providing each student with $20 a week to access fresh foods and vegetables. The market regularly draws more than 700 students and plans are underway to build student housing on campus. Curry isn’t just talking about career and technical education (CTE) programs.

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How to Achieve HSI Status: Intentionality

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Department of Education (DOE), at least 25% of full-time equivalent students enrolled must be Hispanic. These two-year and four-year institutions must also enroll a significant number of students who require needs-based financial aid. The college also has two bilingual peer mentors.

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10 higher ed podcasts to stream in 2023

EAB

The Best Higher Ed Podcasts For 2023. Office Hours : EAB’s in-house podcast features compelling conversations with higher ed leaders in enrollment, institutional research, and financial aid, as well as discussions with EAB’s deep bench of experts.

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Planning to Meet Your School’s Student and Operational Needs

Higher Ed Connects: Student Success Blogs

Especially with today’s demographic changes, like the decreasing birth rate and increasing numbers of nontraditional students , colleges need to find out what’s going on in the student marketplace so they can give the students what they want within their operational objectives. Case Study Two: Hampshire College.

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Tennessee State cites past underfunding as cause of problems

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: An enrollment surge at Tennessee State University combined with a lack of student housing led to a scathing comptroller’s report calling for a change in the historically Black university’s leadership. million in institutional plant fund reserves and the rest from student housing fees, according to the report.