Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Elliott Researchers identified leaders at 22 MSI institutions representing five MSI designations to examine how Congress and the U.S. Andrea Fabrizio, dean of academic affairs and principal investigator for the Title V project at Hostos Community College, an HSI in New York City, said she would like to see flexibility.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. That effort and others like it are essential services for basic needs in college. One of those, the Rising Scholars Program at Mt.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

These are last-dollar funds, which means it covers a student’s remaining costs for tuition and fees after all other aid—scholarships, grants, stipends and tuition waivers—has been awarded, and it does not cover the cost of housing, food, transportation, books or supplies.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Necessary support is provided through GANAS (Gaining Access ’AND Academic Success), an innovative access and retention program that serves community college transfer students. Cerritos College A public, two-year community college, Cerritos College is located in Norwalk, California (Southeastern Los Angeles).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 10, 2023

Now, a new study from the Community College Research Center at Columbia University has shown that summer Pell has had meaningful benefits, improving retention, attainment, and even earnings up to nine years after college entry for students who received it.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 5, 2023

But they also neglect the fact that millions of college students are dealing with food insecurity and/or experiencing homelessness, and as a result most will never reach the finish line. We can now see clearly: food insecurity and homelessness are affecting students everywhere, at all types of colleges and universities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. What makes a college truly “hunger-free?” What else can and should we do?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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University Business

JANUARY 31, 2025

Food insecurity on college campuses is a growing national problem. Research has found similar percentages at Virginia colleges like Virginia Commonwealth University , Virginia Tech , and Virginias Community Colleges , where patchwork systems of on-campus food pantries are often ill-equipped to help students deal with this issue.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. This is it.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Salcedo is the director of the Center for Community College Partnerships at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). There are food closets and snack carts on campus as well as food vouchers, to which AAP participants have access. Alexander says the food closets are accessible on campus and frequently replenished.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Data released by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center (NSCRC) shows a 3% increase in enrollment in undergraduate programs this fall compared to similar early data from fall 2023.This This is the second consecutive year of undergraduate growth and third straight year of growth for community colleges. Dr. Brian R.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 8, 2024

Charles Ansell, vice president for research, policy and advocacy at CCA, said that different states have different funding models, many of which are not working. Anyone, especially in the community college sector, would agree that funding is a gathering storm,” said Dr. Larry Hlavenka Jr.,

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 4, 2023

Image: Community colleges across the country are struggling to recruit and hire new people after losing faculty and staff members in droves during the pandemic. College leaders report staffing losses at all levels, including IT workers, student success professionals, dining hall workers and executive leaders, she said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

The reports analyze the available data and call for more research to be gathered so that this population can be served more effectively. The California Student Aid Commission, which administers the state’s financial aid program, has found that student parents face housing and food insecurity at a higher rate than non-parenting peers.

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University Business

APRIL 2, 2024

A working paper from the Community College Research Center (CCRC) at Columbia University studying two-year students’ habits has linked mental health-related issues, such as anxiety and depression, to worse persistence rates and credit accumulation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 28, 2023

Timothy Alvarez From earning an associate degree to serving as president of a community college, Alvarez understands the value of higher education and the need to create pathways and support systems. As a result, the college received a Title V grant, $3.5 He has a deep connection to community colleges.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Jane Close Conoley In terms of data, administration analyzes persistence rates, graduate rates, enrollment yield rates, GPA levels, the average number of credits taken per semester, financial aid needs, technology needs, and housing and food insecurity needs. These include a food pantry and the basic needs food services and meal programs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

million research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). We’re changing the landscape of how community colleges serve underserved students,” says Espiritu. “We There is a dual admission program with the Armour College of Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), which provides scholarships.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 24, 2024

Baston, president of Cuyahoga Community College pointed to the “opportunity deserts” that exist within higher education that stretch beyond race and ethnicity. Aronis said that her research reveals that many Jewish students feel unsafe on their campus and also feel that they have been abandoned by DEI offices throughout the nation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 15, 2023

The report is based on data from a survey of nearly 900 US colleges and institutions, who provided information on more than 370,000 full-time and 90,000 part-time faculty members. Finances are more difficult for those lower on the food chain. But skyrocketing inflation caused a 2.4%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 4, 2023

Toldson, professor of the counseling psychology program at Howard University and national director of education innovation and research at the NAACP, agreed. Dr. Ivory Toldson, professor of the counseling psychology program at Howard University and national director of education innovation and research at the NAACP. Dr. Ivory A.

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Higher Education Today

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Read more » The post New Report Outlines How Community Colleges Can Help Reduce Students’ Food and Housing Insecurity appeared first on Higher Education Today. In CCCSE’s.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 23, 2023

She’d spent seven years as a part-time student at Los Angeles Pierce Community College after graduating from high school and struggled to earn money and find financial aid to pay for a four-year education. Some were going without enough food to eat; others were sleeping in their cars.

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University Business

MAY 9, 2023

The University of New Mexico discovered yesterday that across the state’s college and university system, 60% or more of its students suffered basic needs insecurity, such as food and housing. In January, 49% of students at 39 Washington higher education institutions experienced food or housing insecurity.

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University Business

JUNE 23, 2023

The federal government has awarded Bergen Community College a five-year, $4.5 million grant to help contribute to the growth of future food, agriculture, natural resources and human sciences (FANH) professionals. trillion) comes from the food and agriculture sector. The post Feds award Bergen Community College $4.5M

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Dr. Al Solano

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The disconnect between policy, research, and practice is extraordinarily real for college practitioners. The intersection of policy, research, and practice at the center of this Venn diagram is often an illusion. A recent research paper analyzed community college institutional research office mission statements.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 4, 2023

Researchers long wanted a federal data set to back up their own work and make it known that college students suffer from hunger and homelessness. Over the past decade, universities and community organizations alike have increased their efforts to support students struggling to access basic needs like housing and food.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 6, 2023

As a clinical psychologist, research scientist and educator specializing in self-criticism and self-compassion, as well as an adjunct faculty member at Seattle University and at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, I recently attended the Depression on College Campuses conference for the first time.

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University Business

DECEMBER 12, 2022

For some students, however, those resources aren’t available.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 22, 2025

Fewer than half of low-income students retain their state food benefits in the transition from high school to college or the workforce, even though they might still be eligible, according to a new report from the California Policy Lab, a nonpartisan research group affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley, and UCLA.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 8, 2023

But midway through the semester, the university’s dining services removed those signs, though calorie and nutritional information for food served in the dining halls can still be found online and ingredient lists are still available at the point of service. It became a situation where they couldn’t opt out of that information.”

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

APRIL 23, 2019

The objective of the mobility was to strengthen links via teaching, discussing research projects and reciprocal visits. We have discussed their research and potential for collaboration going forward. We have identified four themes where our research aims overlap. Apr 23, 2019

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 5, 2023

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean A very upsetting article from the Hechinger Report was the talk of the office on Tuesday. The article is an intermittently hopeful and damning portrayal of community colleges failing to do the sorts of things that would help students graduate. Online options have improved.

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