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Empowering Community Colleges Through AI: A New Era of Access and Economic Mobility

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Combined with the Apple App Store, which first debuted in 2008 with 500 phone applications, in less than 20 years, technology has revolutionized how the average consumer communicates, entertains themselves, and obtains information. Interestingly, at the Community College of Aurora, over 40% of our learners identify as adult learners.

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Formerly Incarcerated Students Are Humans First

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

On an unseasonably warm November weekend, people gathered on campus for a record clearing and expungement clinic organized by the Community College of Philadelphia Foundation. There was free pizza from an award-winning shop , music, and even entertainment for kids. One of those, the Rising Scholars Program at Mt.

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10th Minority Male Initiative Set to Shape the Future

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The Minority Male Initiative, an annual conference aimed at helping shape the futures of high school juniors, seniors, and current Brookdale Community College students will take place next week at the New Jersey institution. mainframe computing communications media; 3.) show business and entertainment.

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A new push to get community college students to the polls

University Business

ajor companies and voter registration groups have formed a new coalition to increase voting among community college students, whose voting rates historically have lagged behind their four-year college< and university peers. It is spearheaded by Levi Strauss & Co. Read more from Inside Higher Ed.

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2 Factors Challenging Faculty’s Sense of Inclusion

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Teaching classes on Zoom while entertaining a toddler who loudly asks for a snack. Pandemic-related caregiving burdens and health concerns have played a particularly large role, write Shuyin Liu, Dessie Clark, Laurel Smith-Doerr and Joya Misra.

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Casino project opposed By Hofstra, supported by others

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: A push by the deep-pocketed Las Vegas Sands Corporation to build a casino and entertainment complex in Long Island, N.Y., has riled leaders of a nearby college who say the development would harm their students and the region. The community college also is partnering with the developers to serve as a workforce training hub.

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Too Heavy to Go It Alone

Confessions of a Community College Dean

One of the best parts about working in higher education is having the opportunity to be a part of college life—the athletic events, the student performances, the lectures. You have developed your own list, I am sure.