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Empowering Community Colleges Through AI: A New Era of Access and Economic Mobility

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It is this quality experience that learners courting and attending our community colleges expect to receive, and failure to provide will lead to continuous declines in enrollment and confidence in higher education. Interestingly, at the Community College of Aurora, over 40% of our learners identify as adult learners.

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Community Colleges Increase Housing Options

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The profile of the average community college student is changing. While two-year institutions still have significant populations of adult students and people desirous of enhancing their career options, there is a growing number of first-time college students, age 18 to 22, that are seeking a traditional college experience.

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California's Community Colleges See the Benefits of Student Housing

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Lennor Johnson, president and superintendent of Imperial Valley College in El Centro, California. Student housing is extremely rare at community colleges in California, although affordable housing is increasingly hard to find. million attendees, current housing capacity exists for only 2,369 students.

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Our Advice for Making College Campuses Ready for Diverse Student Populations

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The decision to attend college is a transformative journey for a student's life. Dr. Patricia Benson is chief executive officer at CT State Community College Housatonic. What is the experience in the classroom? Are they comfortable asking questions? These are critical questions that must be addressed.

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Success Coaching and Online Platform Shown to Improve Retention

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The road to completing a credential can be particularly challenging for minority male students, who may face systemic biases, a lack of financial resources, racism and microaggressions, and an absence of academic role models. In an MMSI report, Jamal Pitt, a success coach at Nash Community College, compared himself to a backpack. “My

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Minority males benefit from consistent academic coaching

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Findings from a recent study on the role of technology-enabled academic success coaching to close equity gaps at community colleges validate the benefits of both providing such coaching and ensuring that coaches stay with their assigned students. Evans, associate director of student life for N.C.

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City College of San Francisco struggles to heat classrooms

Confessions of a Community College Dean

“I had a student last week literally ask me why nobody cares,” Finkelstein said. Being a community college student is challenging … You’re juggling work schedules and childcare schedules and arranging your life so that you can be in school. “That was heartbreaking.