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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. The purpose of community colleges is to increase access to higher education for the most vulnerable populations.”

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Impacting Policy and Creating Greater Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

is intent on utilizing research to examine poverty as a barrier to student development. in educational policy and planning, Reid hopes to make an impact on federal and state policies related to education. During that time, he did research on income segregation, which motivated him toward his current focus.

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Let’s Partner with Agriculture to Address Food Insecurity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

These schools and their leaders have an extraordinary opportunity to work with the federal government to support those students—and it doesn’t require new institutional spending or a new Higher Education Act. Yet there is an enormous SNAP gap in program utilization.

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Research Halted at Columbia-Linked NY Psychiatric Institute

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The federal government halted human research at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, the Columbia University psychiatry department’s flagship site, following a study participant’s suicide, The New York Times revealed Thursday.

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Impacting Policy and Creating Greater Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

is intent on utilizing research to examine poverty as a barrier to student development. in educational policy and planning, Reid hopes to make an impact on federal and state policies related to education. During that time, he did research on income segregation, which motivated him toward his current focus.

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Feds award Bergen Community College $4.5M to grow agriculture education

University Business

The federal government has awarded Bergen Community College a five-year, $4.5 jobs reside within the affiliated industries – including at farms, research laboratories, manufacturers, engineering firms and logistics companies. The post Feds award Bergen Community College $4.5M economic activity ($8.6

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Purdue Will Pay $737K Over False Grant Application Allegations

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Purdue University will pay the federal government $737,400 to settle allegations that a researcher falsified data, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Indiana.