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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

The findings spurred the creation of a basic needs support program on campus, including the IVC Kitchen, which provides emergency food and groceries to hungry students. While visiting the kitchen, then Dean of Student Services Dr. Lennor Johnson met a married couple who were both enrolled at IVC, earning above 3.0

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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.

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Trans student housing gains popularity and demand

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Creating Community. Colleges have been working for years to make transgender and nonbinary students feel comfortable living on campus. Many institutions have established a process for such students to make specific roommate requests; others offer gender-neutral halls, where students of any gender may live together.

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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

Meanwhile, expenditures on administration, even excluding student services and student life, have increased markedly. Bowen demonstrated, a declining share of institutional revenue at the wealthiest institutions has been spent on instruction.

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SCOTUS, Affirmative Action, and the Future of University Diversity: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 174 with Host Drumm McNaughton and Guests Thomas Parham and Dilcie Perez

The Change Leader, Inc.

She joined the Chancellor’s Office in June 2022 with more than 20 years of experience in many facets of student affairs. I also had a wonderful opportunity to serve in the California Community Colleges. I left to go to community college and came back. Drumm McNaughton 03:21 Thank you! And now Dr. P, please.