Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 15, 2023
In Stephanie Land’s brave and important new book CLASS ( a follow-up to her memoir MAID , the basis for an award-winning Netflix series) she explains that even though she knew a college degree was the best chance she and her 6-year-old daughter had of escaping poverty, being deprived of food made it nearly impossible. The U.S.D.A.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 1, 2023
Starting in 2011, Rueda-Acedo has incorporated innovative experiential learning activities and forged community partnerships with organizations such as the Arlington Public Library, Human Rights Initiative of North Texas and DFW Toys for Tots. “In But we hope that if they’re interested, we have provided them at least some pathway or gateway.”
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Confessions of a Community College Dean
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
Vann Woodward stopping me in Yale’s Sterling Library and asking what I thought about Clement Eaton’s Freedom of Thought in the Old South , which I awkwardly likened to Woodward’s Strange Career of Jim Crow. Do you know, somewhere around 40 percent of our students at UCI are food insecure? I still vividly recall C.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
FEBRUARY 27, 2023
For decades, colleges have consolidated many of their admissions and enrollment services functions under a single umbrella office—including, but not limited to, the bursar, the registrar, the cashier’s office and financial aid.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 5, 2023
But they also neglect the fact that millions of college students are dealing with food insecurity and/or experiencing homelessness, and as a result most will never reach the finish line. We can now see clearly: food insecurity and homelessness are affecting students everywhere, at all types of colleges and universities.
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