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Community college resource center takes on male retention

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: To increase enrollment and retention of male students, Queensborough Community College in New York is investing in a Male Resource Center, aimed at its smallest populations of Black and Latino men to create equity, President Christine Mangino says. At community colleges, the ratio grows, with nearly three women to every two men.

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Student journalists sue district over record requests

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Student journalists at Laney College in Oakland, Calif., are suing the Peralta Community College District for failing to adequately respond to public records requests. ” He said the district started using a ticketing system in late 2020 to better keep track of and answer public records requests.

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Top 10 states for data breaches warn of constant cyber threat to higher ed

University Business

The 2020 Blackbaud ransomware attack also had a wide-ranging impact on educational institutions, Comparitech found. A few of the biggest data breaches Here’s Comparietch’s list of a few of the biggest attacks that have occurred over the past few years: 2013—Maricopa County Community College District (Arizona) : 2.49

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How to Credential Durable Skills

Parchment

In this episode, we speak with Rob Buelow of Vector Solutions to discuss how universities can better engage students and employers by focusing on “durable skills” that better describe the value of the college experience. In 2023, more colleges than ever before in the history of higher education shuttered their doors.

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Why Worry?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Community colleges failing to fulfill their mission. Community Colleges The Hechinger Report, a higher ed news source not given to hyperbole or scare headlines, recently posted an alarming article entitled : “‘The reckoning is here’: More than a third of community college students have vanished.

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The Hidden Enrollment Market in Workforce Education: Changing Higher Ed podcast 249 with host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and guest Alana Rose

The Change Leader, Inc.

And then they’re getting a job, they want to make sure that they’re secure in where they’re at, and then maybe they’ll go back and finish their degree, dependent on what their employer is offering, or dependent on how that will help them go further in their career. That’s a number Alana Rose: Wow.

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2022: Year in Review

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Enrollment remained down at every level from community colleges to graduate schools, but much of academia showed its persistence and resilience. With the COVID-19 pandemic subsiding, colleges and universities have tried to bring students back to campus and provide fresh inspiration. Diverse Champions Award Dr. Eboni M.

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