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Community College Leader Dr. Walter Bumphus to Step Down After Transformative Era

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

After steering America's community colleges through unprecedented challenges and opportunities, Dr. Walter G. Bumphus CEO of the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) at the end of 2025, capping a remarkable 15-year tenure that helped reshape higher education access nationwide.

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How Being a Mother and Academic Helped Me Fix Higher Education’s Transfer Crisis

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A 2023 report by the Community College Research Center found that only 16% of community college students earned a bachelors program within six years and just 10% of low-income students did. There are also many individual articulation agreements between colleges. Government Accountability Office.

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A State of Affairs, the Underrepresentation of Minority Community College Trustees

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Yet there is little research on the underrepresentation of African American community college trustees. However, research has demonstrated a clear underrepresentation of minority community college trustees (Moltz, 2009) with no progress being made in hiring African American administrators (Levin, Walker et al.,

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Community College Incarcerated Reentry Programs: Looking Forward

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

But so has justice consciousness, bolstered by data showing the interplay of education, economic mobility, and justice system involvement, with particular salience for communities of color, since more than a third of the people in prison are Black and almost one-fourth are Latinx. The Roueche Center Forum is co-edited by Drs.

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Community College Leader Recognized as 2023 Diverse Champion

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Gonzales’ passion for education has culminated in a swift rise to being named chancellor of the Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD) last September. The district comprises 10 independently accredited colleges in Arizona serving over 94,000 students. He became president of GateWay Community College in MCCCD in 2013.

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Charity Asks CUNY to Return $25M Donation

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The City University of New York (CUNY) is responding to allegations it failed to honor an agreement to build a new community college facility with monies donated by The Stella and Charles Guttman Foundation. The foundation is a not-for-profit corporation established in 1959 by New York businessman Charles Guttman.

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Report Shows Increases in Retention and Persistence

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The largest gain in retention rates over the last decade was in community colleges — increasing 3.7 for incoming students who began fall 2013 to 55% for those who began fall 2022. It’s really important to find benchmarks that can help inform efforts to improve at individual colleges,” Shapiro said.