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Top Innovators Recognized at Annual Community College Futures Assembly

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

With downtown San Antonio as a beautiful backdrop, representatives from 24 community colleges in 13 states convened for the 29th Annual Community College Futures Assembly in February. Hudson County Community College (N.J.) Hudson County Community College (N.J.) Roueche and Margaretta B.

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Higher Ed Officials Express Uncertainty Amid Further FAFSA Delays

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Department of Education (ED) is delaying the sending out of student information relevant for financial aid calculations to institutions, higher ed scholars and officials have voiced concern and uncertainty over how this change will affect low-income and first-generation students in particular.

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Higher Ed Groups Have a Plan to Improve Financial Aid Offers

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Higher Ed Groups Have a Plan to Improve Financial Aid Offers Katherine Knott Tue, 09/26/2023 - 03:00 AM Nearly a year after the Government Accountability Office said that colleges are failing to tell students how much their education will actually cost, a new initiative aims to provide students with more clarity.

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Beyond the Campus Food Pantry

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Take the Basic Needs Hubs at Portland Community College, which show the power of embracing a mutual aid framework. The strongest evidence to date comes from a study at Bunker Hill Community College in Boston , where leaders have also capped meal prices to maximize affordability.

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Unapologetic Leadership for Black Learner Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government and higher education institutions have fed the public a steady diet of bad enrollment news. Before and during COVID, most of these students vanished from our most affordable and accessible institutions – our community colleges.

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Former U.S. Secretary of Education Appointed Chancellor of SUNY

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

During his tenure, he worked to simplify financial aid, oversaw federal investments in efforts to increase college completion, and advocated for the president’s America’s College Promise proposal. "As Earlier this year, he also launched an unsuccessful bid to become governor of Maryland. But it was his work as U.S.

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Rising to the Challenge on Student Basic Needs Work

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

They deserve to be the focus of public attention and philanthropic giving and the priority for governments, instead of the tiny number of already highly-resourced gated colleges always dominating the news. Students require and deserve far more than band-aids. I call a place that does this a #RealCollege.

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