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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As of fall 2023, 69% of the student population at CSUSB identified as Hispanic or Latino. In addition to support services that include financial aid and academic advising, an example of supporting Latinx student success is the CSUSB Impact Internship, developed by the university’s Undocumented Student Success Center.

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Practical Pedagogy Tips for Educators at Minority-Serving Institutions

The Scholarly Teacher

Many HSI students at my institution are first-generation, which follows broader patterns of HSIs (and other MSIs) across the United States. For these students, university life is potentially shocking. Learning to file for financial aid, apply to internal scholarships, or declare a major are opaque bureaucratic processes.

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6 trends impacting community college enrollment in 2023

EAB

Increased unmet basic needs & mental health concerns According to a recent 2022 CCSSE report community college student mental health is worsening, and significant numbers of students are struggling with basic needs like housing and food. rate for students starting in fall 2009, and a 52.4% rate in 2020.

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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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Accreditor emerging for intellectual disabilities programs

Confessions of a Community College Dean

” The Think College National Coordinating Center, based at the University of Massachusetts at Boston’s Institute for Community Inclusion, in 2020 announced it would receive a five-year, $10 million Education Department grant to continue assisting postsecondary programs.

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How Gross Inequalities in Institutional Wealth Distort the Higher Education Ecosystem and Shortchange the Vast Majority of Middle- and Lower-Income Undergraduates

Confessions of a Community College Dean

By way of contrast, consider the University of Pennsylvania’s 2020 pledge to contribute $100 million over 10 years to the Philadelphia School District to renovate decrepit schools. At least that might assist a more diverse student body. The result was to anger middle-class parents while failing to increase net revenue.

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CPL for Incremental & Non-Credit Credentials

Parchment

So there’s different financial aid implications around what it will cover and what it won’t. But over on Title IV funding streams for Pell and other forms of student financial aid, I think there’s a growing recognition across the board Matthew Sterenberg (10:25.919) So.