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Investing in Community Colleges

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It’s not an everyday occurrence when a community college leader gets a phone call telling them their institution will receive an influx of funding in the millions. when MacKenzie Scott, one of the richest women in the world, decided to make a major investment in community colleges.

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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.

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City College of San Francisco struggles to heat classrooms

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Malaika Finkelstein, who serves on the grievance team for AFT2121, the college’s faculty union, said she started hearing about ongoing heating problems in buildings at two of the campuses this past fall, while the campus where she teaches has been without working heat for years. “That was heartbreaking.

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Tennessee State cites past underfunding as cause of problems

Confessions of a Community College Dean

But the university’s longtime president, Glenda Glover, alumni and other supporters of the Nashville institution have argued against a proposal that would place the institution under the oversight of the Tennessee Board of Regents, the governing board for 37 technical and community colleges in the state.

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Unpacking History to Understand the Future of Student Affairs Assessment

Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

During this time, the Student Personnel Point of View r eleased two documents (1937, 1949) that verbalized a need for co-curricular evaluation on both student use and satisfaction of programs (Henning & Bentrim, 2022; Bresciani, 2023). Student affairs assessment: Historically Black College and University perspective.

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Edify Accelerators: Custom Dashboards for Your Campus

EAB

Email scheduling : Select the email frequency and recipients for dashboard delivery via PDF or Excel documents. Dashboard building and sharing : Create new custom dashboards by building new insights or using saved insights from the Analytic Explorer, adding filters, and editing descriptions, then name and share the dashboard.

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Top Strategies for Improving Student Retention in Higher Education

Creatrix Campus

Enrolling in a community college for a two-year degree where tuition is inexpensive could also work. Enrich campus security Campus security is becoming a threat to student retention these days. Public institutions and state universities are working towards this, aiming students to feel secure.