Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Dr. Shiang-Kwei Wang, vice president for academic affairs and provost at Hostos Community College in New York City, said the CCA report provides a comprehensive guide for institutions like Hostos, where the mission is serving underrepresented populations and preparing students for civic and professional roles.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 5, 2024

Scholarships without question assist with financial barriers, but they cannot unilaterally sustain a student's journey through higher education. The decision to attend college is a transformative journey for a student's life. is senior executive of advisory services at Ferrilli. Dr. Merrill L Irving Jr.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 20, 2023

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). Meanwhile, expenditures on administration, even excluding student services and student life, have increased markedly.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 13, 2023

For all their talk about caring for individual student’s well-being, most institutions failed to do much to accommodate differences in students’ interests or talents or to offer personalized or customized support services. Their student life initiatives support and reinforce their academic offerings.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 2, 2023

And yet, I worry that a relationship-rich college experience is a pipedream, what with teaching delivered, in large part, by adjuncts, post-docs, and graduate students, faculty torn between their teaching, research, and family obligations, support services severely understaffed, and mentoring largely unrecognized and unrewarded.

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