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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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Community Colleges Increase Housing Options

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The profile of the average community college student is changing. While two-year institutions still have significant populations of adult students and people desirous of enhancing their career options, there is a growing number of first-time college students, age 18 to 22, that are seeking a traditional college experience.

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Access Must be Front Burner for Community Colleges

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, community colleges across the country saw a decline in enrollment for myriad reasons — financial, family, illness, lack of internet or inability to adapt to online learning. As in-person and hybrid learning resume, enrollment numbers have not returned to pre-COVID levels.

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No Magic Here: Demystifying Black Female Leadership in a California Community College HSIs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It was also in 1986 that Our Lady of the Lake University (OLLU) was designated as the first Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) in the US, and the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) was born from a meeting at OLLU. Today, the California Community College System, with more than 1.8 There is no magic involved.

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Dr. Kristina Whalen Appointed President of Foothill College

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Kristina Whalen Whalen is currently vice president of academic services at Las Positas College and vice president of the California Community Colleges Chief Instructional Officers Association. In this new role, Whalen will be part of the Foothill-De Anza Community College District leadership team.

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Dual enrollment can be costly for community colleges

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Community college leaders are largely thrilled about the rise in high school students enrolling in college classes, particularly after steep enrollment declines during the pandemic, and many are hoping the trend continues. “But community colleges can’t lose their shirt in the process.”

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New Jersey City University Continues Financial Recovery After 2022 Fiscal Crisis

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Some of those difficult decisions had to do with cutting employees – faculty and professional staff – and downsizing NJCU’s academic offerings. Some roles and departments – such as the divisions of administration and finance or student affairs and enrollment management – were consolidated. Enrollment was going down.