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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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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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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

What inspires these grim thoughts is Kimball and Iler’s richly researched, provocative and pivotally important history of college endowments, campus fundraising campaigns, university finances, institutional spending and student debt. The result was to anger middle-class parents while failing to increase net revenue.

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Accreditor emerging for intellectual disabilities programs

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Not all programs serving intellectually disabled students have such a federal designation. An earlier workgroup that developed standards for such programs listed more than 30 standards in such areas as curriculum, student achievement and student services in a 2021 report to Congress.

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Your Typical College Student Has Changed—Why Haven’t College Policies?

Higher Ed Connects: Policy

Students can also turn to additional federal loans or other federal programs (which are often contingent on work requirements) to pay for childcare, but students are rarely aware these funding options exist. There are more working students. Goldrick-Rab outlines her method of meeting student needs: . “I,

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5 Proven Student Engagement Strategies for The Fall!

Campus Groups

Raise Awareness about Campus Resources If your platform has a campus engagement platform or app, it should be the go-to resource for students. In addition to serving as a one-stop-shop for academic, co-curricular and student service information, the platform helps connect and engage students.

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How Pueblo College Supercharged Yield and Retention Efforts

EAB

And I'm thrilled to introduce Dr. Heather Speed, who serves vice president of Student Services at Pueblo Community College. We have an 11000 square mile service area, a large service area. We've got about 6000 students. We talked to our call center to see what were students saying. Across the campuses.