Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 26, 2024

Baker More than 170,000 residents enrolled in academic courses or registered for adult education and workforce training during the 2023-24 school year, according to the Alabama Community College System (ACCS). Baker, chancellor of the Alabama Community College System.

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JULY 11, 2023

Pima Community College (PCC) received $1.7 Hobbs also stressed how crucial community colleges are to education and economy in the state. PCC has not received state funding since 2015, she added. million in state funding for its STEM workforce development programs, AZ Central reported.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The program, launched in 2015, is a last-dollar free tuition scholarship for the state’s community college students. The Tennessee Higher Education Commission announced Monday that the Tennessee Promise program saw a record number of applicants—more than 670,000—from the Class of 2025.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 25, 2024

Two new reports and an online dashboard from the Community College Research Center (CCRC) at Teacher’s College, Columbia University, are part of an ambitious effort to tell the story of transfer students. One report was designed for community college leaders to read — the other was for four-year institutional leaders.

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APRIL 10, 2024

More students earned certificates than any year in the past decade, while associate degrees awarded fell to its lowest point in a decade and bachelor's degrees awarded fell to its lowest since 2015–16 academic year. These drops “erase the gains made between 2015 and 2020,” said Dr. Pietro A.

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JULY 29, 2024

Wheelan, who was honored by Diverse in 2015 with its Dr. John Hope Franklin award , was the first woman and first African American to lead SACSCOC. For 28 years prior, she served in community colleges in Texas and Virginia and as Secretary of Education for the Commonwealth of Virginia.

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MARCH 31, 2024

DREAM — the signature annual event of Achieving the Dream — a nonprofit organization that works to close achievement gaps, has become the go-to convening for community college educators and policymakers interested in institutional change. Stout, who has led the organization since 2015.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2024

First-time undergraduate enrollment exploded across the state’s community colleges by at least 40% when the initiative was implemented in 2015. Community colleges, however, have fared better than their counterparts. In the last two years, enrollment has grown by 6.8%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Most community college students intend to transfer. Sixty-seven percent of 2024 Community College Survey of Student Engagement ( CCSSE ) respondents across 164 institutions indicated that they were planning to transfer to a four-year college or university. What causes the disconnect between intention and reality?

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APRIL 6, 2023

Image: Community college baccalaureate programs in California can help more Black and Latino students earn bachelor’s degrees in a state that badly needs a more educated workforce, according to a new report. ” There are currently no community college baccalaureate programs in nursing in the state.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 9, 2023

Researchers also found that of the students who transferred to a four-year school from a community college, liberal arts majors were significantly more likely than non-liberal arts majors to change their major (82.0% Other ethnic groups, such as Latino and Asian students also saw rises in returning transfer enrollment, 9.7%

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Parchment

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

We are joined by Tatiana Velaso, Senior Research Associate at the Community College Research Center to discuss the latest research into the postsecondary outcomes of dual enrollment students. Transcript Matthew Sterenberg (00:01.337) All right, I’m here with Tatiana from the Community College Research Center.

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EAB

JANUARY 26, 2023

Blogs 6 trends impacting community college enrollment in 2023 For the past two years, it’s been difficult to focus on anything beyond the immediate consequences of the pandemic. But now as we find ourselves stabilizing, it’s time to pause and take stock of the full landscape facing community colleges. get your copy 2.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 19, 2023

Community college students assigned to corequisite mathematic courses instead of remedial courses not only graduate faster, but earn higher wages. That’s the findings of a study that has been tracking 900 community college students since 2013.

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University Business

APRIL 12, 2024

Larry Johnson first encountered Stella and Charles Guttman Community College in 2015 as a dean at Broward College (Fla.) when he read the seminal book “Redesigning America’s Community Colleges: A Clearer Path to Student Success.” Johnson is no longer a distant admirer.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 24, 2024

Fall 2023 saw enrolment growth at public two-year schools and community colleges rose significantly (2.6%) while public and private nonprofit four-year schools saw increases to a lesser degree (0.6% Community colleges saw similarly high growth for freshmen age 25+ (12.8%) and age 21-24 (13.9%). lower than in Fall 2019.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Long Beach College Promise is another Latino-serving program in which students are tracked from the K-12 system (the Long Beach Unified School District), through community college, and into CSULB to make sure students are fully supported through all the educational pathways. Morishita, interim president at CSULA. Dr. Janine E.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2022

IPEDS classifies any institution that offers a bachelor’s degree as a four-year institution, even if the school identifies as a community college. Community colleges often serve lower-resourced populations, said Shapiro, which can make achieving completion more complicated.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Elston is currently the longest serving staff member at CCA, and he says that the organization’s increased focus on minority serving institutions (MSIs), marginalized populations, and first-generation, low-income, and rural community college students began under Watson Spiva’s leadership. Dr. Dhanfu E.

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JULY 3, 2024

The Tennessee Higher Education Commission recently reported the largest year-over-year increase in the state’s college-going rate since the 2015 launch of Tennessee Promise, a last-dollar free tuition scholarship for community college students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Doris Espiritu, Senior Advisor to the Provost, dean of the Center of Excellence for Engineering & Computer Science, City Colleges of Chicago. It began as a pilot program in 2015 and started in earnest in 2018 with 25 students after receiving a $1.68 I care more than just graduation at community college.

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OCTOBER 31, 2024

Following 24% growth over the past four years, first-year enrollment reached 2,985 this fall, beating its previous high of 2,931 set in 2015, Herald Magazine reports. Growth across several of its community colleges has skyrocketed as well, according to AL.com: Ingram State Technical College: 33.3%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 23, 2024

population will be 355 million in 2040, which is 25 million fewer than projected in 2015. Dr. Mordecai Brownlee is the president of Community College of Aurora. The number of Americans 65 and older is projected to more than double by 2040. Furthermore, the U.S. Census Bureau projects that the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 3, 2023

Among the latest efforts are HB 715 in North Carolina, which would remove tenure for future faculty in the University of North Carolina (UNC) system and at public community colleges, and SB 266 in Florida, which would give the state more control over the content of core classes and limit funding for DEI efforts.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

R1, community college) and size, finding like-minded peers and resources to develop, enact, and reflect upon evidence-based instructional practices may be difficult. CoPs can function within departments or within and across colleges, institutions, and regions. Communities of practice: A brief introduction.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 31, 2024

Facing pressure from conservative lawmakers, Missouri’s flagship university is disbanding its inclusion, diversity and equity division, undoing a keystone achievement of the 2015 campus protests over racial equity.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 25, 2024

In the latest iteration of the Harvard Youth Poll, conducted by the Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School, one-third of students between 18 and 29 said they feel uncomfortable sharing their political views on campus for fear of negative repercussions—a share that has climbed since 2015, when 13 percent responded that way.

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OCTOBER 20, 2023

It’s six to eight sessions spread out over the academic year in which topics like navigating college and getting an internship are explored. It is currently based at Rider University and New Jersey Institute of Technology and is being introduced at Passaic County Community College in New Jersey this year.

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JULY 1, 2024

In 2015, the North Dakota State Board of Higher Education hired Mark Hagerott to lead the state’s system of 11 public colleges and universities. The North Dakota State Board of Higher Education met behind closed doors before voting unanimously to end Mark Hagerott’s time as chancellor. But he’s getting an extended, well-paid exit.

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Year R1 R2 R3 Total 2021 146 134 189 469 2018 131 132 161 423 2015 115 107 112 334 2010 108 98 89 295 2005 96 102 81 279. At the two-year level, there are competing trends of institutional consolidations in the for-profit sector and more community colleges offering bachelor’s degree programs.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Fifteen years ago, the Obama administration and philanthropic foundations encouraged more Americans to get a college degree. In recent years, more than 20 states, from California to Florida, have either replaced remedial classes at their public colleges with corequisites or given students a choice between the two.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Out-of-state enrollment at the University of Wisconsin at Madison increased by 29 percent in the three years after the state government removed a cap on nonresidents in 2015, according to a new working paper from researchers published by Brown University’s school of education. Tuition revenue also rose significantly, by 47 percent.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 9, 2023

Image: Transfers between community colleges and four-year institutions continued to drop last fall, an ongoing trend since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. percent among students who previously stopped out of college. percent and 1.4

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EAB

APRIL 14, 2023

Blogs The 4 stages of an integrated lifecycle approach for community college student success How EAB’s Navigate helps community colleges at every stage There is encouraging data showing that six-year completion rates have been rising across all community colleges, with a.9%

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MARCH 28, 2023

Barnes eventually reset her goals and reached a new professional peak last August when she was named chancellor of the South Orange County Community College District. years on average, according to the Community College League of California’s CEO tenure and retention dashboard.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Here is what it looks like: Full+Part-Time 2020 38,510 2019 40,884 2018 41,479 2017 41,490 2016 41,993 2015 42,782 2014 43,610 2013 44,677 2012 67,074 Not sure why there was such a significant drop between 2013 and 2012. The data available spans from 2012 to 2020. Probably some change in how library staff are counted.

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University Business

OCTOBER 25, 2024

High school juniors and seniors who pursue dual enrollment opportunities enjoy higher percentages of postsecondary enrollment and completion compared to those who don’t, according to a new report from the Community College Research Center. However, student success largely depends on their state.

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