Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2025

During the 2016-2017 school year, the Brothers to Sisters Club at Compton College reserved a portion of their meetings for Real Talk. This allowed students to share their current feelings and experiences. During one of these meetings, two students spoke up and shared that they were homeless.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 8, 2024

The profile of the average community college student is changing. While two-year institutions still have significant populations of adult students and people desirous of enhancing their career options, there is a growing number of first-time college students, age 18 to 22, that are seeking a traditional college experience.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 30, 2023

Many students worry about succeeding in gateway college-level mathematics courses needed to enter most community college degree and certificate programs. At the same time, succeeding in these courses correlates with student momentum and success.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 23, 2023

Image: When Andrea Mora enrolled at University of California, Irvine, in 2012, she was a low-income, first-generation student. She’d spent seven years as a part-time student at Los Angeles Pierce Community College after graduating from high school and struggled to earn money and find financial aid to pay for a four-year education.

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EAB

MAY 30, 2023

Since 2020, enrollment at community colleges has declined 5.4 percent, 1 which has prompted institutions to reflect on practices that impact student success and on barriers students face in their pursuit of higher education. As of fall 2022, enrollment declines at community colleges had slowed to 0.4

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 3, 2023

But the university’s longtime president, Glenda Glover, alumni and other supporters of the Nashville institution have argued against a proposal that would place the institution under the oversight of the Tennessee Board of Regents, the governing board for 37 technical and community colleges in the state.

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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

JANUARY 29, 2024

Concurrent with this research is that of developing equitable assessment practices and imbedding practices into assessment that support and account for the experiences of an increasingly diverse and global student population (Montenegro & Jankowski, 2017; Henning & Lundquist, 2022; Dyer-Barr et al., link] Dyer-Barr, R.,

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