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Robeson Community College Partners with TimelyCare to Offer Free Mental Health Support to Students and Employees

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Robeson Community College (RCC) in Lumberton, N.C., We are excited to offer this program to our students, as well as our faculty and staff,” said RCC President Melissa Singler “We felt we needed to fill in this gap for our students who may not have access to health insurance.

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Community College Teams Up with For-Profit for Medical Assistant Program

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

They do everything from handling patient records and insurance forms to obtaining vital signs, drawing blood, and administering electrocardiograms. A rare partnership between a group of community colleges and a private, for-profit institution is aiming to fix that. Eight were first-generation, and eight were students of color.

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Strategies for Speaking Out

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I suspect they apply whether you are faculty, staff, or student, and perhaps well beyond the academy as well. This will help you obtain important supports, such as disability insurance, down the road. It also made me admire the incredible scholar activists who lit the way. 7) Take walks.

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Onondaga Community College Offers $75,000 Retirement Incentive

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The Onondaga Community College Board of Trustees approved a $75,000 early-retirement incentive for senior faculty members on Tuesday in response to enrollment losses. Faculty members over the age of 55 are eligible for the new early-retirement package, which includes postretirement health insurance. million and $1.7

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New IT strategies for solving higher ed’s biggest challenges

University Business

Spread across three campuses in Northern California, The University of the Pacific recently faced a familiar dilemma for higher education: How to provide secure network access to an increasingly dynamic, diverse and distributed community of students and faculty while meeting regulatory requirements.

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Temple Restores Health Coverage to Striking Grad Students

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Temple University announced Tuesday that it has restored the health insurance benefit it cut for striking members of the graduate student workers’ union. Ad keywords: administrators faculty Is this diversity newsletter?: Temple’s cutting of their health and tuition benefits drew national media attention. Hide by line?:

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State legislation and college partnerships aim to bridge the nation’s nursing shortage

University Business

Students are beginning to voice their frustration with the “faceless bureaucracies” of community colleges as they navigate their supposed potential for a viable career prospect. Tallahassee Community College (Fla.): In January, Gov. Accelerated Nursing Programs Kirtland Community College (Mich.):

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