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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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How Incarceration Impacts the Basic Needs of Loved Ones & Families

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Their 2018 report, Because Shes Powerful , outlines the many ways women are harmed by a loved ones incarceration, from financial instability to increased state surveillance. Incarceration is not an individual experienceits a collective trauma that extends into our classrooms, campuses, and student services. Nearly 1 in 2 U.S.

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Advocating Policy, Better Than Before

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Manny Rodriguez His job entails research and collaboration with other education groups, state legislators, and education officials in accordance with TICAS’s mission to increase college access, affordability, and success through improvements in student financial aid policies.

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Making Equity a Priority

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

On this January day, Curry — who grew up just a short distance from the college — greets the groundworkers and buttonholes administrative staff about the latest developments taking place across campus. There is much to celebrate. Construction crews are sprawled out across the 83-acre campus just 15 miles south of Los Angeles.

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Consolidating touch points for retention

Confessions of a Community College Dean

For decades, colleges have consolidated many of their admissions and enrollment services functions under a single umbrella office—including, but not limited to, the bursar, the registrar, the cashier’s office and financial aid.

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How two-way texting aids in student support and retention

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Next steps: The team scheduled meetings with departments on campus that provide high-touch support to students, including academic counseling, financial aid, student services, outreach, special population support services and the tutoring center. Students who received the text were 6.3

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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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