Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 11, 2023

When equipped with information about the availability of support services and how to access them, faculty can refer students to needed supports before a crisis point is reached.” They can also help notify students of services provided by their school, such as food pantries.

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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 9, 2023

Based on data gathered, we increased support services such as Ram Pantry, counseling, technology availability, and academic advising,” he continues. CSULA combines those agreements with culturally affirming engagements, focusing on multiple support services and resources. Morishita, interim president at CSULA.

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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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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 24, 2023

Image: The University of South Dakota’s TRIO Student Support Services is like all other federally funded TRIO SSS programs in that it serves low-income, first-generation or disabled students. This continues the cohort-based learning from the fall, Doane says. Tell us about it. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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College Forward

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Through a collaboration with national nonprofit College Possible , the community college district will bring evidence-based near-peer coaching to 700 AlamoPROMISE students on two of its campuses, the majority of whom are from under-resourced backgrounds or are first-generation students. SAN ANTONIO , Nov.

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EAB

AUGUST 23, 2023

Review these 7 aspects of your basic needs strategy before the semester begins Community colleges play a vital role in higher education, offering affordable and accessible pathways to academic and professional success. At the time, I was unaware of any support offered by my college that could have made a difference.

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EAB

JUNE 1, 2023

For example, the Calvin Prison initiative created an online map for employment opportunities, food pantries, and other re-entry services. Mary Cusack keeps her own records of re-entry support services as well as employers willing to work with students who are going home.

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EAB

MAY 23, 2023

EAB’s Tara Zirkel is joined by Center for Community College Student Engagement Executive Director Dr. Linda Garcia, as well as Associate Director of Publications, Dr. Courtney Adkins, to discuss new research on student engagement. Today, community colleges are being asked to rise to new challenges.

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EAB

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Basic needs support: Expanding food pantries and related programs to support students who have minimal financial resources. Work-schedule flexibility: Making support services such as advising available to working students taking classes outside of normal business hours.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 2, 2023

To address mental health issues, Arrupe College’s implementation plan involved hiring social workers who make their services accessible to students and normalizing their resources to combat potential feelings of inadequacy and disconnectedness more effectively.

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EAB

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Basic needs support: Expanding food pantries and related programs to support students who have minimal financial resources. Work-schedule flexibility: Making support services such as advising available to working students taking classes outside of normal business hours.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JUNE 20, 2023

They don’t have the luxury of not working because they have to pay their bills, get food on the table, maintain childcare, etc. Drumm McNaughton 22:11 Like that famous quote says, “Nobody should have to decide between paying rent, food, gasoline, groceries, and paying for education.” Courtney Brown 22:20 Right.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 8, 2023

Drumm McNaughton speaks with Dr. Marielena DeSanctis, president of the Community College of Denver, who shares some of the solutions she was able to identify based on her unique understanding of higher ed. She started her education career in K-12 and moved to community college leadership. Dr. DeSanctis is unique.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 4, 2023

The functions that colleges and universities are supposed to fulfill and the responsibilities they are expected to meet are constantly expanding, and only the wealthiest institutions can meet those expectations. Faculty should initiate campuswide conversations about best practices in advising, support services and student success.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 4, 2025

Lower Barriers to Access for Non-Traditional Learners Institutions must design programs that cater to the needs of adult learners by offering flexible scheduling, transfer credit options, and tailored student support services. Ensure Institutional Resources Support Growth Workforce education initiatives require dedicated resources.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 14, 2023

Kellogg Professor of Community College Leadership at the University of Texas at Austin. Similarly, an institution could consider an applicant’s discussion of how learning to cook traditional Hmong dishes from her grandmother sparked her passion for food and nurtured her sense of self by connecting her to past generations of her family.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 17, 2025

According to the research, public 4-year institutions support less than half (42%) of Black students to complete degrees within six years, and only 21% of Black students at public community colleges complete degrees within three years. The City University of New York's Black Male Initiative is another featured success story.

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