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Rising to the Challenge on Student Basic Needs Work

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The growth in on-campus support for studentshousing, food, transportation, mental health, childcare, and related needs is both heartening and depressing. On the one hand it’s wonderful to see skilled professionals take to heart the lesson that students are humans first. Students require and deserve far more than band-aids.

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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. Hiring practices have been implemented to help attract and retain Hispanic faculty.

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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. He says he also wants to build a 24-hour urgent care facility on campus.

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Unapologetic Leadership for Black Learner Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Being Black-serving means we don't boast of programs that serve a finite number of Black students. It means the institution changes how we develop faculty and advise students – where all 6,662 Compton college students benefit. All employees see themselves as student success advocates.

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President’s corner: How Carrie Hauser spearheads the region’s workforce at Colorado Mountain College

University Business

Topping Hauser’s to-do list right now is expanding affordable housing for its students and students and equipping the region’s workforce with the right skills to contribute to the economy, no matter their age or the region’s needs. Everyone, from students to faculty, face housing challenges.

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10 higher ed podcasts to stream in 2023

EAB

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. Recent episodes include conversations about the student housing crisis and redefining the value of the college degree.

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Planning to Meet Your School’s Student and Operational Needs

Higher Ed Connects: Student Success Blogs

The Office of the Vice Chancellor is charged with “p artnering with community members to make improvements for our students in areas such as advising, professional development, diversity and inclusion, and well-being.” . is also expanding on-campus graduate student housing due to the demand. Case Study Two: Hampshire College.