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Community Colleges Test New Model Linking Student Success to Community Impact

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Fifteen community colleges across the United States are testing an innovative approach that could revolutionize how these institutions serve their communities and Dr. Karen A. Rather than focusing solely on graduation rates, the new model emphasizes economic mobility, community impact, and long-term societal gains.

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Report: Outdated Funding Law Hampers Community College Student Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Larry Galizio, President & CEO of the Community College League of California. California's community colleges find themselves caught in a 60-year-old funding constraint that increasingly hampers their ability to serve todays students, according to a new report from the Community College League of California.

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Promoting Higher Education for Native Americans in Minnesota

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

While there are FAFSA webinars available, I believe community and family focused FAFSA and financial aid workshops in tribal communities might be an effective way to promote college going overall among indigenous students.” FDLTCC is both a tribal college and a community college part of the state system.

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Engage New Students Early Or Lose Them: Here’s How to Do It

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Jean Petty started her community college education right out of high school and had no idea how to “do college.” She walked into the first college she attended not knowing where to start, and no one was very helpful in getting her enrolled and on a pathway. Many community college students have Petty’s experience.

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Native Son Propels Opportunities for Kentucky Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

CPE is a coordinating board that oversees Kentucky’s public universities, community colleges, and technical colleges. We recently set an attainment goal to increase the number of high school students that graduate with college credits—not just more, but more representative of our student body in the state.

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Examples of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Five crucial things that these four are doing: increasing affordability, addressing academic barriers, creating a sense of belonging, experiential learning and wraparound services. Also, that year the program’s retention rate of Latino students was 18% higher than the college’s general retention rate.

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How two-way texting aids in student support and retention

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The communications and marketing office began working with institutional research to launch a series of two-way text messaging pilot programs this past fall. “We ended up partnering with a two-way texting vendor who caters to the higher education sector and works with several other community colleges in our state,” she says.