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Guiding Community Colleges Toward Mission Fulfillment

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Stout, recipient of the 2025 Diverse Champions Award, has focused her career on helping community colleges achieve outstanding student success. Moono, president of SUNY Schenectady County Community College. Felder, president of Harford Community College in Maryland, where Stout began her community college career in 1984.

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Report Shows Small Changes in Post-High School College Enrollment

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

At the country day school, in addition to school resources students’ parents would utilize private tutors and other outside support services. When it came to six-year college graduation rates, 2017 high school graduates from high minority schools graduated college at 31.5%

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Study analyzes why college students in counseling withdraw

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Factors ranging from financial stress to participation in extracurriculars can influence whether a student receiving services at their university’s counseling center will voluntarily withdraw from the institution, according to new research from Pennsylvania State University’s Center for Collegiate Mental Health.

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Colleges hire directors to tackle student basic needs

Confessions of a Community College Dean

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. She was also 25 years old and an undocumented immigrant from Peru.

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From president "designee" to president in three years

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The move was part of an executive transition plan that also involved promoting Lau to executive vice president of the two-year college and informally making her “president designee.” ” While it’s common for colleges and universities to have detailed executive transition plans, Parkland’s process is unusual.

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Universities are ousting their mental health directors

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Rando had worked at Wright State for 24 years; in 2017 he received a lifetime achievement award from the Association for University and College Counseling Center Directors (AUCCCD). Wright State dean of students Chris Taylor announced Rando’s termination in a one-paragraph email to the Division of Student Affairs staff on Feb.

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Ridgewater announces new DEI director and social justice speaker series open to the public

Ridgewater College

“I will work hard to ensure that each student, employee and community member has a genuine opportunity for participation and success,” Schwandt said. She’ll also advise international students and manage services for military and veteran students. January 25, 11 a.m.-12 The Holocaust,” with survivor Peter Gorog.