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OCTOBER 24, 2023

Austin Community College (ACC) will offer free food, housing services, and family support as part of an effort to strengthen student services, KXAN reported.

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OCTOBER 20, 2022

The Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT) has received a three-year, $1.56 Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service (FNS). The association will select two cohorts each of state systems and rural community colleges. “In million grant from the U.S. Jee Hang Lee.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2024

PQC is the only minority-serving, federally recognized Work College in the nation. This is so much more than a traditional real estate project or campus housing development—it’s a statement about what higher education can be for all of us – those who attend our schools and those who do not,” said Dr. Michael J.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Higher education has entered a new era, one unlike previous eras of growth and expansion driven primarily by demographic growth and industrial expansion. Last year, the National Library of Medicine released a study on the impact of human consumption of ultra-processed foods. You deserve to live a quality life.

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APRIL 5, 2024

It’s not an everyday occurrence when a community college leader gets a phone call telling them their institution will receive an influx of funding in the millions. when MacKenzie Scott, one of the richest women in the world, decided to make a major investment in community colleges.

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APRIL 2, 2023

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. Students navigate housing and food insecurity, transportation issues, and other limitations to access.

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MARCH 15, 2024

Community colleges were able to persevere through the pandemic thanks to the emergency relief funding passed through Congress. That’s the conclusion of the latest research from the Accelerating Recovery in Community Colleges Network at the Community College Research Center (CCRC) at Columbia University.

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JANUARY 21, 2025

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. Sara Goldrick-Rab students is too often marginalized, even overlooked, in campus programs addressing issues like food and housing insecurity.

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OCTOBER 14, 2023

Significant portions of the college student population have faced food insecurity, according to an analysis of data from the National Postsecondary Student Aid Study: 2020 (NPSAS:20). We can also see that that rate is so much higher for students who identify as Black or African American. Dr. Tammeil Y. They have to advocate."

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APRIL 30, 2024

Education Northwest, an Oregon-based nonprofit organization promoting education for all, unveiled the results on Tuesday of a first-of-its kind, nine-year study of the partnership between Tacoma Community College (TCC) and the Tacoma Housing Authority (THA), called the College Housing Assistance Program (CHAP).

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JUNE 24, 2024

As her days as president of Mott Community College (MCC) in Flint, Michigan, wind down, Dr. Beverly Walker-Griffea is pleased with the impact she and the college have made on the community. After building her reputation in student services, Walker-Griffea found a perfect fit in community colleges.

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APRIL 8, 2024

The profile of the average community college student is changing. While two-year institutions still have significant populations of adult students and people desirous of enhancing their career options, there is a growing number of first-time college students, age 18 to 22, that are seeking a traditional college experience.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2024

A widespread health crisis is undermining American community colleges, with many current and potential students exhibit high rates of anxiety, depression, substance abuse, suicidal ideation, food insecurity, and more. The first is a project that promises to bring more sustainable revenue for community college health programs.

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JANUARY 5, 2023

4 by proposing free community college for all state residents, WPRI reported. Spikla said she wanted to see legislators figure out how to dedicate more funds to public higher education, including making a two-year program free. “A Massachusetts Senate President Karen Spilka began the new state legislative session Jan.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2023

When Imperial Valley College (IVC) conducted a student survey seven years ago, they discovered over 200 students experiencing food and housing insecurity. The findings spurred the creation of a basic needs support program on campus, including the IVC Kitchen, which provides emergency food and groceries to hungry students.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Persistent heating problems at Bronx Community College (BCC) have prompted the school to move most classes online as temperatures outside fall to 30-40 degrees, the Gothamist reported. 16 through Thanksgiving holiday, said a spokesperson for the CUNY community college. BCC staff are also allowed to work remotely. “We

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MAY 12, 2023

Roxbury Community College is celebrating its 50th anniversary over three days this weekend, GBH News reported. RCC’s goals for the next 50 years include building a Center for Economic and Social Justice and Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s free community college tuition program, McDonald-Brown said. and Red Shaydez.

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OCTOBER 16, 2024

Early prison education programs were led by religious reformers like the Quakers who brought literacy and moral education to the Walnut Street Prison in post-revolutionary Philadelphia. Holmes regularly visits Durango Detention Center to connect with youth and advocates for the unhoused and food insecure. Mathis of the John E.

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MAY 17, 2023

A rare partnership between a group of community colleges and a private, for-profit institution is aiming to fix that. The Alamo Colleges District, made up of five community colleges, is the largest provider of higher education in South Texas with over 100,000 students, 81% of whom are students of color.

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OCTOBER 15, 2024

The first college in the U.S, Harvard University, founded in 1646, existed to educate white male landowners (and their progeny) in a classical curriculum focusing heavily on ethics, politics, and religion. American higher education remained the purview of men until the 1830s, when women’s colleges were established.

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OCTOBER 5, 2023

If you read the national news about higher education, you might think everyone is angling for admission to the Ivy League or trying to pay off debt for degrees earned. To be sure, this summer’s Supreme Court rulings are clear signs of a badly broken higher education system.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The path to higher education success has many obstacles and barriers for Latinos across the U.S. The mission of Excelencia in Education, founded in 2004 by Dr. Deborah A. Cerritos College A public, two-year community college, Cerritos College is located in Norwalk, California (Southeastern Los Angeles).

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Torres (D-Calif), reintroduce the Basic Assistance for Students in College (BASIC) Act on Wednesday, a bicameral legislation to help ensure college students can meet their basic needs while pursuing their education.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Ipsen The global 2023 Progress, Accomplishment, Thriving, Hope (PATH) Scholarship consists of $10,000-$25,000 grants to higher ed institutions to help students with expenses such as housing, tuition, and food. Two-year public colleges are at the heart of the U.S.

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DECEMBER 8, 2022

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. Public health concerns increased responsibilities to care for and educate school-aged children and disrupted jobs and industries. But we need to look closer at the data.

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DECEMBER 12, 2023

Ten years ago, most college students short of money for food would have difficulty finding a food pantry on campus. Food insecurity wasn’t a widely recognized problem in higher education and “student basic needs” wasn’t a field of practice. Students require and deserve far more than band-aids.

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AUGUST 5, 2024

Across higher education, the desire for diversity among student populations is usually the responsibility of recruitment efforts but falls short in retention strategies. Colleges typically use a variety of assessments such as standardized tests, essays, and GPA to determine a student's readiness for life in academia.

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MARCH 28, 2024

The school ultimately became a satellite campus of the El Camino Community College District in 2006 but has since regained its accreditation and its independence. In collaboration with the Los Angeles County Food Bank, Compton College offers a mobile food pantry.

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MARCH 28, 2024

And while I am always trying to find ways to support community college students, I believe this work can be applied to all higher education institutions. Institutions of higher education budgets should be value statements and represent the needs of our students.

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APRIL 25, 2024

Two new reports and an online dashboard from the Community College Research Center (CCRC) at Teacher’s College, Columbia University, are part of an ambitious effort to tell the story of transfer students. One report was designed for community college leaders to read — the other was for four-year institutional leaders.

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AUGUST 1, 2024

Social drivers of health ” (SDOH) assessments are used to identify people who could use help with food or housing, figure out who might be in a domestic violence, abuse or trafficking situation, and connect them with support. Department of Education confirmed that 8% of students experiences homelessness.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Established 53 years ago and built on principles of social justice, AAP’s mission is to create and administer innovative academic programs for students historically underrepresented in higher education. Salcedo is the director of the Center for Community College Partnerships at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

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OCTOBER 11, 2023

Community colleges have taken great pride over many decades as an open-door institution welcoming students who had no other place to go. It is not known how many of these students are enrolled in community colleges, but it is likely these students are represented equally to those in universities.

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JANUARY 8, 2024

Complete College America makes a case for a shift in higher education funding formulas. Anyone, especially in the community college sector, would agree that funding is a gathering storm,” said Dr. Larry Hlavenka Jr., There’s a referendum that needs to occur on funding."

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

Approximately 300,000 undergraduate student parents are currently enrolled at institutions of higher education in the state of California. While pursuing their education, they grapple with a number of challenges in a higher education system that has historically overlooked their needs and experiences, according to the report.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The City University of New York (CUNY) has announced the launch of CUNY CARES , a three-year pilot program designed to boost academic success by using an integrated approach to help students access health care, mental health treatment, food and housing assistance.

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AUGUST 8, 2024

Nearly 60 percent of college students in New Mexico experienced food insecurity in the 2022–23 academic year, while 62 percent were housing insecure, according to a statewide study that included nearly all of the state’s institutions of higher education.

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