Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

A widespread health crisis is undermining American community colleges, with many current and potential students exhibit high rates of anxiety, depression, substance abuse, suicidal ideation, food insecurity, and more. The challenges predate the pandemic but were exacerbated by it.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Can a research-intensive university also be learning- and learner-centered, as dedicated to the quality of students’ educational experience as it is to scholarship, publication and invention? This reminds me every day why teaching, mentorship and service matter just as much as research. Why is that?

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Higher Education Today

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Read more » The post New Report Outlines How Community Colleges Can Help Reduce Students’ Food and Housing Insecurity appeared first on Higher Education Today. In CCCSE’s.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Financial aid, retention, and faculty/staff representation are part of the Seal,” says Dr. Deborah Santiago, co-founder and CEO of Excelencia in Education, who says she is delighted to see institutions with intentional practices actively working toward increasing Latino representation in key positions.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 23, 2023

She’d spent seven years as a part-time student at Los Angeles Pierce Community College after graduating from high school and struggled to earn money and find financial aid to pay for a four-year education. Some were going without enough food to eat; others were sleeping in their cars.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

million research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Through partnerships with organizations such as the aerospace and defense technology company Northrop Grumman, EPW is able to offer internships and research opportunities. They can work on their mentor’s already established research project or develop their own.

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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.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 24, 2023

Similarly, it offers tutoring and assistance with choosing courses, applying for financial aid, building financial literacy and applying to graduate programs. But an innovative first-year experience program is central to USD’s TRIO approach.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 4, 2023

These data points are part of an ongoing research effort to study attrition at community colleges and were shared late last month in a webinar hosted by EAB and the League for Innovation in the Community College, an organization dedicated to helping community colleges innovate to improve student success outcomes.

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Great College Advice

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

William Fitzsimmons, Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid at Harvard College weighs in favor of taking time off between high school and the first year of college to pursue a special project or activity, work, or spend time in another meaningful way. Many actually encourage gap years, including the Ivy League.

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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

MAY 25, 2023

Here are some ways universities can assess students using Maslow's hierarchy: Assess physiological needs : At the bottom of the pyramid are physiological needs like food, shelter, and sleep. Additionally, universities can offer financial aid and scholarships to students who may struggle to afford the cost of tuition or living expenses.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean You know how sometimes you forget about food that has been in the freezer for a while? ” Excellent idea, but this should already be done routinely by a given college’s IR (institutional research) office. It takes conscious effort, but it prevents rebuying things we already have.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

“There are a number of material things that can be done to make college success more achievable for Black students—financial aid, tuition reductions, support for childcare—but that’s not the only answer,” she said. “It’s cultural, too. The survey really shows that discrimination is a big issue.

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College Forward

MARCH 14, 2022

For one, it’s a fraction of the cost to attend a four-year college or university if you’re not able to get enough financial aid to cover your costs. : Two-year college to take care of your gen-eds: there are several benefits of attending a two-year college to earn freshman- and sophomore-level credits.

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Great College Advice

APRIL 15, 2024

You should be the one deciding what factors are the most important and doing research to give each college a grade in each area. They may also be able to point out gaps or assumptions in your research or reasoning. Luckily, if you’ve already been accepted to a school, you should also have been provided your financial aid award letter.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MAY 31, 2023

In his latest podcast episode, Dr. Drumm McNaughton talks with two CEW professors who worked on the study, Research Professor of Education and Economics Dr. Zack Mabel and Associate Director of Editorial Policy and Senior Editor/Writer Kathryn Campbell. More outreach and advising can demystify college for students.

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Higher Ed Connects: Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2019

When it determines that students could use specific help, it connects them to corresponding on-campus resources, like the financial aid office or the career center. Each department—whether it is academic, registrar, advising, career counseling, student services, student success, food service, housing—are separate fiefdoms.

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Great College Advice

AUGUST 25, 2022

They don’t make a financial plan. They research colleges without any understanding of how financial aid works, or how rare those scholarships really are. You need to learn about how financial aid works. Student Loan Debt: A Burden Too Big to Ignore. Many parents, sadly, are in denial. They don’t save enough.

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EAB

MAY 9, 2023

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EAB

JULY 28, 2023

And a related report from the Institute for Women's Policy Research found that parenting students who accessed the FRC services were more successful academically than those who did not. Fifty-four percent of student-parents surveyed agreed that Los Angeles Valley College's program helped them stay in school.

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EAB

JULY 28, 2023

And a related report from the Institute for Women's Policy Research found that parenting students who accessed the FRC services were more successful academically than those who did not. Fifty-four percent of student-parents surveyed agreed that Los Angeles Valley College's program helped them stay in school.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 5, 2023

College food pantries were largely unknown. Food pantries have proliferated, and the phrase “student basic needs” has entered the vernacular. And research on concrete reforms that can improve student success has flourished. The concierge model of financial aid was pioneered there, too.

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EAB

AUGUST 8, 2023

We pay for food, we pay for their transportation from the airport to the airport, so we make sure that they have the really all encompassed, "red carpet experience", if you say so to speak, of what the Ross School of Business and the University of Michigan has to offer. We have our financial aid partners that come and talk to parents as well.

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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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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 8, 2023

Families can come for 15 minutes, receive the diploma, and leave, or they can stay for four or five hours and enjoy DJs, food trucks, and all that. She had been an adult student in a community college and then transferred to a bachelor’s degree where I was in a very traditional R1 research university. We do it outside.

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EAB

OCTOBER 27, 2023

I wanted to better understand how EAB partners were thinking about and preparing for these challenges, so I conducted a round of research interviews to hear their thoughts. Financial This grouping refers to how students pay for college and its associated cost. The 30 Priorities This feels like a tough road ahead, and it is.

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EAB

OCTOBER 27, 2023

I wanted to better understand how EAB partners were thinking about and preparing for these challenges, so I conducted a round of research interviews to hear their thoughts. Financial This grouping refers to how students pay for college and its associated cost. The 30 Priorities This feels like a tough road ahead, and it is.

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Study and Go Abroad

MAY 21, 2023

Tuition and the cost of living varies across the country, so it’s important to do some research before committing to a single school. Humphrey Fellowship The Humphrey fellowship program is a Fulbright initiative to encourage academic research in the United States. Looking for awards? The USA has plenty of each!

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Across the country, students at both four-year and two-year institutions are facing basic needs insecurity, struggling for consistent access to food and housing. At the bottom of that pyramid are physiological needs like food, clothing, and shelter. “If We don’t want our students to even have to think about that. “I

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 17, 2023

Such a plan must address costs beyond tuition and fees, such as housing, food, transportation and childcare, which can be a significant barrier for students from low-income and low-wealth families. Sameer Gadkaree is the president and CEO of the Institute for College Access & Success. Disable left side advertisement?:

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The report estimated that nine out of 10 colleges either don’t include or underestimate the net price of attending in financial aid letters. According to the GAO report, students who pick a college that is unaffordable for them are more likely to have to cut back on essentials like food while attending and are more likely to drop out.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 13, 2023

A 2013 study by academic researchers at the University of Chicago and Rutgers University found that between 31 percent and 46 percent of youth aging out of foster care had experienced homelessness at least once by age 26. Participating private institutions in the state have agreed to provide aid to cover gaps from the grant.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JUNE 20, 2023

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