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Compton College Addresses Student Homelessness and Basic Needs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Under Currys leadership, their efforts grew into a larger task force committed to addressing housing, food, and basic needs for the student body. Curry also became one of the founding chairpersons of the Chief Executive Officers of the California Community Colleges Affordability, Food & Housing Access Taskforce in spring 2018.

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Making Equity a Priority

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The school ultimately became a satellite campus of the El Camino Community College District in 2006 but has since regained its accreditation and its independence. In collaboration with the Los Angeles County Food Bank, Compton College offers a mobile food pantry.

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Required to Study Abroad

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Goucher College Though Goucher’s study abroad requirement was implemented in 2006, the motivations behind it can be traced back to the school’s founder, the Rev. Because he received free tuition, room, and board at Goucher, he only had to pay for food and his flights, he said. “I The classes were in French.

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Fostering Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I think public institutions have a mission to make sure that those in society have access to higher education,” says Alexander, who arrived at UCLA in 2006. There are food closets and snack carts on campus as well as food vouchers, to which AAP participants have access. Coming from such a background drives him. “I

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What’s love got to do with neurodiversity and HE art and design?

SRHE

As US author Octavia E Butler (1947–2006) warns , unless we build ‘different leadership’ by ‘people with more courage and vision’, we’ll ‘all go down the toilet’. As hatred becomes even more mainstreamed and normalised, minoritised body-minds and approaches will remain hardest hit. There will be storms ahead (image 9).

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Sustainability actions students take and want their colleges to take

Confessions of a Community College Dean

“I’ve had people tell me you could order hamburgers and the order would come in and it was chicken breast,” says Robert Nelson, chief executive officer at NACUFS, the National Association of College & University Food Services. ” Staffing and logistical issues, along with food and supply delivery, became the focus.

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Social Security Offsets and Defaulted Student Loans (CFPB)

Higher Education Inquirer

Even if the minimum protected income was adjusted for inflation, beneficiaries would likely still experience hardship, such as food insecurity and problems paying utility bills. million in 2006 to 8.8 A higher threshold could protect borrowers against hardship more effectively. million in 2017 to 2.1 million in 2019. million to $429.7

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