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Guiding Community Colleges Toward Mission Fulfillment

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Stout, recipient of the 2025 Diverse Champions Award, has focused her career on helping community colleges achieve outstanding student success. Moono, president of SUNY Schenectady County Community College. Felder, president of Harford Community College in Maryland, where Stout began her community college career in 1984.

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Black Male Achievers Program Won't Change Name Under Florida's Anti-DEI Law

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

An academic enrichment program at Tallahassee Community College that primarily serves African American men won't have to change its name under a new state higher education law, reported WUSF. Tallahassee Community College.

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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Necessary support is provided through GANAS (Gaining Access ’AND Academic Success), an innovative access and retention program that serves community college transfer students. All faculty and administrator searches must have a DEI advocate who completes specialized training. Morales, president of CSUSB.

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Fostering Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Salcedo is the director of the Center for Community College Partnerships at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Alexander observes that many high school and community college students see no connection to the university, therefore building pathways to higher education is part of AAP’s outreach.

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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. Some programs are for academic preparedness, but other programming helps students find their way — building relationships and learning about available support services.

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Ridgewater announces new DEI director and social justice speaker series open to the public

Ridgewater College

Schwandt is now taking those priorities to a new level as the newly appointed director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI). Schwandt knows Ridgewater and its communities well, having served as an academic advisor and part-time diversity officer and Multicultural Club advisor for years, as well as recent interim DEI director.

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Improving Enrollment, Retention, and Graduation Rates: Learning from the Arrupe College Strategic Enrollment Model

The Change Leader, Inc.

Most students who have not enrolled in college are first-generation, Pell-eligible, and undocumented students, particularly those who feel disconnected and whose grades are between B- and C-. And unlike most community colleges, all courses are credit-bearing, including remedial classes.