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Fostering Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Salcedo is the director of the Center for Community College Partnerships at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He describes his current work as “being a thought leader, resource person and a fundraiser, a person looking at innovative ways to implement some of our programs and activities that we provide for students at UCLA.”

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How Gross Inequalities in Institutional Wealth Distort the Higher Education Ecosystem and Shortchange the Vast Majority of Middle- and Lower-Income Undergraduates

Confessions of a Community College Dean

I’m not referring here to faculty salaries or reduced teaching loads or class size or breadth of programs or extensive support services—all of which are good things (within limits). Many major urban school systems require schools to split revenue raised by fundraising campaigns or grants. The 35 most prestigious U.S.

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The Forces That Are Shaping the Future of Higher Education

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Students are completing college on time at higher rates nationally at two- and four-year institutions. Multimillion-dollar donations and multibillion-dollar fundraising campaigns proliferate. ” Community colleges and for-profits have borne well over 90 percent of the drop. Free community college?

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Wealth and Want Part 3: Dispossession, Inequality, Underfunding, and Debt

Higher Education Inquirer

Tribal Colleges and Universities (49) , Historically Black Colleges and Universities (107 ), Minority-Serving Institutions (about 700) , and community colleges (about 1100) – all serving diverse student populations – face a constant uphill battle. This can lead to lower graduation rates and hinder their academic success.

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Wealth and Want

Higher Education Inquirer

This report examines the chasm between the wealthiest university endowments and underfunded tribal colleges, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), and community colleges and how this leads to unnecessary human suffering. For some of these schools, it began with land theft and forced labor.