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Partnership aims to bring Head Start to community colleges

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Community colleges serve high numbers of parenting students, but too few institutions have campus childcare centers, or sufficient spots to meet demand, to help these students persist and graduate. Leaders of the two organizations plan to lay the groundwork to bring more Head Start centers to community college campuses.

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Community college resource center takes on male retention

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: To increase enrollment and retention of male students, Queensborough Community College in New York is investing in a Male Resource Center, aimed at its smallest populations of Black and Latino men to create equity, President Christine Mangino says. At community colleges, the ratio grows, with nearly three women to every two men.

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Comfort dogs provide full-time stress relief on campus

Confessions of a Community College Dean

But some colleges and universities are adding comfort or therapy dogs to their workforce, providing a regular campus resource to aid in stress relief for community members and improve relationships with campus security and police. Comfort and safety: Not every student holds a positive view of its campus police force.

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Student journalists sue district over record requests

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Student journalists at Laney College in Oakland, Calif., are suing the Peralta Community College District for failing to adequately respond to public records requests. She later also requested the names of committee members responsible for reviewing the security applicants. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Political tensions erupt at Bakersfield College

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The students raised their concerns about the group to the Kern Community College District Board of Trustees in a meeting last month. Davis told the Kern Community College District Board of Trustees at their December meeting that the students got a frosty reception. They were invited by Parks, who was presenting the idea.

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Michigan State prepares for students to return to class

Confessions of a Community College Dean

After the egregious events that happened this week, student’s and faculty’s safety should not be treated lightly.” MSU must extend the pause they’ve given us so we can decide how we need to proceed to feel safe and secure.” Editorial Tags: Public Safety Campus Safety and Security Image Caption: Teresa K.

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In downtime alone, ransomware attacks have cost the education sector more than $50 billion since 2018

University Business

Several colleges and universities have already witnessed their fair share of attacks during the second quarter of 2023, including Georgia’s Mercer University, West Virginia’s Bluefield University and Tennessee’s Chattanooga State Community College, Campus Safety Magazine reports.