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MAY 23, 2023

After large pandemic-related declines the past several years, community college enrollment grew this spring by 0.5%, or 22,000 students, compared to spring 2022. The gains in the community college sector were driven by an 8% increase in dual-enrolled high schoolers (49,000 students). at public schools and 0.2%

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MARCH 20, 2024

million to LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City, Queens, to create the Cohen Career Collective, a state-of-the-art workforce training center. Kenneth Adams "We are profoundly grateful for this incredible gift from the Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation," said Kenneth Adams, president of LaGuardia Community College.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2024

This gap widens at an institution like Trine , where many students graduate with degrees in high-paying fields like healthcare and engineering, and many of our graduates earn above the national average in their field. This, in turn, helps attract more business investment to these communities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2023

Onondaga Community College will spend $32 million to strengthen and expand its school of health, Syracuse.com reported. The school aims to train more nurses, surgical technicians, and other health workers amid a severe labor shortage currently hindering Central New York hospitals, nursing homes, and other healthcare providers.

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MAY 1, 2023

billion to in Maryland’s K-12 public schools; a record $393 million for Maryland’s 15 local community colleges; and over $420 million in state support for Maryland’s historically black colleges and universities. The bill will also invest significantly in sectors including public safety, law enforcement, and healthcare.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2023

This fall semester, Massasoit Community College achieved a new first. Massasoit Community College is officially offering a Black Studies curriculum. Ten years in the making The story of Black Studies at the Massachusetts public community college goes back a decade. It’s not just for Black students, she says.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

As chief executive officers in the California community college system, we embarked upon the topic of STEM out of an acute awareness of the lack of Dr. Lennor Johnson opportunities available to disproportionately impacted communities, and a shared commitment to forging increased pathways for those with the least access.

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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. Across the country, the Rising Scholars Network in the California Community College system includes 83 campus programs and 24 prison programs.

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JULY 28, 2023

Massasoit Community College in Brockton, Massachusetts, will begin offering a Black Studies degree. Massasoit will begin offering the two-year program this fall – the goal being to enroll at least 15 students – with courses about Black history, literature, music, education, healthcare, and criminal justice.

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JANUARY 5, 2023

Onondaga Community College will receive $2 million to renovate and expand a hospital simulation center to train nurses and technicians amid staffing shortages at Central New York hospitals, Syracuse.com reported. The federal funding – announced by Sen.

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OCTOBER 27, 2022

Roueche Center for Community College Leadership. Today, some of our country’s communities are engaged in conversations about talent pipeline shortages, challenges, and opportunities. Why healthcare? Many of these careers are associated with a degree or other credential (or pathway) at the College.

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MARCH 27, 2023

This spring, these community college students from inland Southern California will receive academic support as they pursue medical education. The UC Riverside (UCR) School of Medicine has accepted its first class of California Medicine Scholars.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JUNE 17, 2024

The college’s leaders are hopeful their advocacy can stave off the cut. New Jersey community college leaders are pushing back against a possible 12 percent state funding cut in Governor Phil Murphy’s proposed budget.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Assuming the position when the previous president resigned, she knew everyone was looking to her to bring stability to the community college. In California, we have great workforce needs across the board, and that’s a huge role for community colleges.” Also, the college’s nursing program is experiencing exciting growth.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

There is a broad range of middle-skills occupations, from blue collar positions, such as electrician and carpenter, to vital healthcare professions like registered nurse to police officers and firefighters. Healthcare is the occupational group that the report predicts to have an oversupply.

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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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SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

Morris Morris’s expertise involves work at several higher ed institutions and medical facilities, where she has held leadership roles including serving as the inaugural department chair for Elon University’s nursing program, dean of health and public safety at Rockingham Community College, and nursing director at Morehead Memorial Hospital.

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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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MARCH 22, 2023

The state awarded $18 million each to six regional collaboratives consisting of at least one K-12 school district, University of California campus, California State University campus, and community college district. Zarate believes that this will particularly benefit students who are the first in their families to attend college.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2024

Students at LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City, NY. Kenneth Adams, president of LaGuardia Community College. As an example, community healthcare training, a workforce training program for entry-level frontline workers, earns its students nine credits toward a public health degree at LaGuardia.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The University of California, Irvine, will launch an interdisciplinary, pre-health professional development program, which aims to support students from underserved communities interested in healthcare careers. UCPPP will expand the pool of talented and motivated students who will go on to practice healthcare where it’s needed most.”

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Ray Schroeder

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Cox College, a private nonprofit in Missouri focused on healthcare, is closing sometime after the spring 2025 term, with plans to move its associate programs to Ozarks Technical Community College and its bachelor’s and graduate programs to Missouri State University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

During the pandemic, faculty at Dominican University, a private Catholic institution near Chicago and another AACN honoree, put together two virtual symposiums about the lack of diversity in healthcare as well as health disparities and inequities that existed prior to COVID-19 and how the pandemic made them more evident.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Alana Stevenson Alana Stevenson has been named department chair for general studies at Simmons College of Kentucky. She served as the program director for healthcare management and a business instructor at Bossier Parish Community College. in urban higher education from Jackson State University.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Mantella also wants to improve the pathways for students attending community colleges. “We Many of the students in Davis’ program currently work in hospitals or other healthcare settings. “We I was already doing work on implicit bias, microaggressions and racism in healthcare.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2023

With those funds, she was able to enroll at Blue Ridge Community College as a human services technology student, on track to graduate this May. Community college may be more affordable, but it can be out of reach for some people,” said Allen. For a lot of people, having a scholarship can be a make or break.

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MARCH 14, 2024

Professions that require relatively high education, healthcare and technical work, make up a higher percentage of good jobs held than their presence in the rural workforce. People with bachelor's or graduate degrees had lower odds of having a good job in rural America than in urban America. The report’s authors suggested that the U.S.

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MARCH 6, 2024

This year, Excelencia also examined three specific areas of industry projected to grow by roughly 10% by 2031: STEM (statistics, technology, engineering and mathematics), healthcare, and educational professions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

CPE is a coordinating board that oversees Kentucky’s public universities, community colleges, and technical colleges. We did an external evaluation for a couple of our cohorts to find that the greatest retention and success is actually with our students entering into community college,” Ellis says.

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APRIL 16, 2024

Christopher Roth’s primary job at Guttman Community College, part of the City University of New York, is associate director of academic technology. In 2018, he wanted to get more involved with student programming, so he joined the college’s LGBTQ+ History Month committee.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Drawing from her rich experience in socially interactive educational methodologies, Dr. Smith discusses the pivotal role of active learning seminars in the SLICC (Student-Led Individually Created Course) in Critical Care, particularly tailored for healthcare professionals.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

This gap widens at an institution like Trine University, where many students graduate with degrees in high-paying fields such as healthcare and engineering and many of our graduates earn above the national average in their field. This, in turn, helps attract more business investment to these communities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Long Beach College Promise is another Latino-serving program in which students are tracked from the K-12 system (the Long Beach Unified School District), through community college, and into CSULB to make sure students are fully supported through all the educational pathways. Morishita, interim president at CSULA. Dr. Janine E.

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University Business

AUGUST 30, 2023

Leading up to the new academic year, colleges and universities have signed numerous partnership agreements of different shapes and sizes to meet the country’s workforce needs, particularly in healthcare. Healthcare is among the most significant industries struggling to fill jobs. Chamber of Commerce estimates that 1.9

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University Business

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Most organizations work with four-year colleges or universities (49%) and community colleges (45%) to provide training or learning opportunities to their employees, so while collaborating on micro-credentials may be unfamiliar territory, the connection is well established.

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University Business

APRIL 4, 2024

We have recently invested in expanding our longstanding programs into a newly created division, FDU Health , which offers a comprehensive education across the healthcare spectrum. This option is often chosen by those who see a four-year college as cost-prohibitive.

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eLiterate

JANUARY 17, 2023

Canada is facing an acute healthcare crisis because of a shortage of skilled workers. In this post, I will argue that now is the time for CBE and PLA at scale, using the Canadian healthcare labor market as the primary example. There are, of course, many reasons for Canada’s healthcare crisis. But the story buries the lede.

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