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Community Colleges Increase Housing Options

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Central Oregon Community College (COCC) opened its current housing facility, Wickiup Hall, in 2016. The students don’t just get the housing, they get individualized counseling, transportation, and other supports that are comprehensive,” says CCC Chancellor Juan Salgado. The building is in proximity to classes and campus resources.

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Interdisciplinary Gamified Teaching of Critical Metals

The Scholarly Teacher

APPLICATION Critical metals form the basis of electrification goals to reduce greenhouse gases, as well as economic, environmental, and socioeconomic concerns tied to consumption of modern electronics and transportation. Chemical education has already embraced gamification through such diverse tools as board games (Montejo Bernardo et al.,

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Is a merger a closure by another name? (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Montclair State is a large public institution that has been focused on building its research activities , moving from R-3 to R-2 status in the Carnegie classifications between 2016 and 2019, and serving students whose median family income is over $92,000.

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New Spotlight Series: Voices of Movers and Shakers

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

Since 2016 and in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation, the Scholars Program at Edinburgh has been offering full undergraduate and postgraduate scholarships to students from Africa with great potential but few educational opportunities. Johanna Holtan Johanna Holtan is the Program Director for the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program.

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A Beginner’s Guide to the Paris Climate Agreement

AIFS Abroad

The treaty was drafted in December 2015 and has been adopted by 197 Parties since 2016. Your community may be creating more bike lanes, converting its public transportation system to all-electric vehicles or redesigning public parks with native drought-resistant plants. This means that nearly every country on Earth is participating.

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Top 12 Challenges Facing Higher Ed in 2025—and the Exemplars Solving Them: An overview of the most urgent issues impacting higher education, with examples of how some institutions are beginning to respond.

The Change Leader, Inc.

Higher Ed Challenge 1: Declining Enrollment and Demographic Shifts Challenge: Enrollment numbers have decreased significantly, dropping from 18 million students in 2016 to 16.5 Institutions are significant contributors to carbon emissions through energy use, transportation, and waste. million in 2022.

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Why chronic absenteeism is so high—and how district leaders can start fixing it

EAB

Department of Education released its first national measurement of chronic absenteeism in 2016. counseling, health services, operations/transportation, etc.). This is the highest rate since the U.S. How to Get Started: Source options for service ideas from staff with a stake in absenteeism (e.g.,

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