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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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The Missing Link to Scaled Excellence and Equity in Community College Student Outcomes: A National Leadership Development Strategy

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Over the last two decades, our nation’s community colleges have received increasing recognition, and for good reason. Community college students are more likely to be Black, Hispanic, and from lower-income backgrounds than four-year students. Why should new reform efforts focus on leadership?

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College Students Are Hungry to Learn Everywhere

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The surveys I and many other researchers fielded to try and put numbers to the challenge could only shed partial light, since most colleges and universities refused to participate. But finally, in spring 2020, the federal government asked undergraduates if they had enough to eat or a safe place to sleep.

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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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How to keep moving when higher ed data dries up

University Business

This shift has seismic implications for all higher education institutions but the disruption will likely be greatest on those below the emerging research institution level. The federal data scaffolding may be crumbling but the need to tell the full story of higher educationclearly, credibly and comparablyremains intact.