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Community college resource center takes on male retention

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Students often encounter barriers when completing enrollment or financial aid forms—such as needing a parent’s Social Security number or financial information. Retaining male students is key to creating a cohort or class that represents them as well. And we need to be committed to changing that,” Mangino says.

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Why Worry?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Unionization With Princeton and Stanford next on the graduate student unionization front, it’s clear that universities have become the hotbed of labor organizing. ” We ignore students’ disaffection, alienation, disengagement, and pent-up frustration and anger at our peril. percent in 2004 to 54.4