Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 13, 2023

Coconino Community College (CCC) has partnered with the Women’s Foundation of the State of Arizona to launch the Pathways for Single Moms Program , potentially giving women free tuition for certificates in 11 career tracks and free childcare, 3TV reported.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 27, 2023

MassBay Community College will be offering free education and training in the areas of computers and technology to unemployed and underemployed workers.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

These are last-dollar funds, which means it covers a student’s remaining costs for tuition and fees after all other aid—scholarships, grants, stipends and tuition waivers—has been awarded, and it does not cover the cost of housing, food, transportation, books or supplies.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Day three of the 2023 Dream Conference in Chicago kicked off with a heightened focus on building partnerships that strengthen students and fortify the community workforce. The Dream conference is hosted annually by Achieving the Dream (ATD), a reform network of over 300 community colleges working to equitize higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 17, 2023

A rare partnership between a group of community colleges and a private, for-profit institution is aiming to fix that. The Alamo Colleges District, made up of five community colleges, is the largest provider of higher education in South Texas with over 100,000 students, 81% of whom are students of color.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Art Pimentel will become president of Folsom Lake College, effective Jan. Dr. Art Pimentel Most recently, Pimentel was president of Woodland Community College.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2024

And while I am always trying to find ways to support community college students, I believe this work can be applied to all higher education institutions. Community college is free, and student aid covers the total cost of attendance. Every vendor on a community college campus would be required to accept SNAP.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 16, 2024

The wife of Harvard Medical School’s disgraced former morgue manager pleaded guilty Friday to interstate transport of stolen goods, which included hands, feet and other body parts stolen from the institution’s morgue, the Associated Press reported.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 8, 2024

“Anyone, especially in the community college sector, would agree that funding is a gathering storm,” said Dr. Larry Hlavenka Jr., executive director of public relations, community and cultural affairs at Bergen Community College in New Jersey. There’s a referendum that needs to occur on funding."

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The legislators said that the legislation would combat the basic needs crisis by allocating funding to help students access nutritious food, safe and secure housing, mental and physical health care, high-quality and affordable childcare, technology, transportation, personal hygiene, and other necessities. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), Edward J.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 14, 2023

Those seeking Pell Grant expansion can’t wait around and hope for change, said panelist Dr. Keith Curry, president of Compton College and CEO of the Compton Community College District. They have to advocate."

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 11, 2023

Students from underrepresented backgrounds face considerable barriers when it comes to completing a community college program. But Dougherty Family College (DFC), a two-year associate degree program at the University of St. Unlike many community colleges, DFC has a selective admissions process.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 2, 2024

In addition to food and housing insecurity, in 2021, data showed that 51% of students cited transportation as an area where they struggle. Dr. Mordecai Ian Brownlee is president of the Community College of Aurora in Colorado. million students.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

But with the well of federal relief aid expired, community colleges that have historically served the nation’s most underresourced populations have been forced to cull together various resources to keep their at-risk students from stopping out and regain those lost due to finances. Of the $76.2 Education will help them.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2023

They deserve to be the focus of public attention and philanthropic giving and the priority for governments, instead of the tiny number of already highly-resourced gated colleges always dominating the news. Let’s say I run a community college in Colorado and want to effectively support my students’ basic needs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 26, 2024

Efforts implemented by awarded institutions in prior years have included services such as counseling, tutoring, childcare, community-building activities, targeted outreach, financial assistance, technology provision, and transportation. “By Scholars also expressed some dissatisfaction with what the bill leaves out.

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

To ensure that doesn’t happen, avoid these common pitfalls in the community college enrollment journey: Complex Enrollment Processes Lengthy admissions procedures: Complicated and time-consuming application processes can frustrate new students, especially those unfamiliar with higher education procedures.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

However, the Minority Male Success Initiative (MMSI), a three-year project from the North Carolina Community College System (NCCCS) and Watermark, an ed tech company, has offered a glimmer of hope: students who received success coaching using an online platform were 22.4% The COVID-19 pandemic has only exacerbated the trend.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2024

Dallas College (DC), a system of community colleges serving greater Dallas area of Texas, “is in the barrier-busting business,” said Chancellor Dr. Justin H. Every student is assigned a success coach that helps on their academic journey and life issues like transportation, child care, or mental health,” said Lonon.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 4, 2023

Stout, president and CEO of Achieving the Dream, a membership network of community colleges working to achieve equity in higher education, said this increase will very likely keep current Pell Grant recipients on the path toward completion. “I think it’s fantastic that students will get $500 more. Dr. Karen A.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Before community colleges can jump into offering dual enrollment, they must first build a well-intentioned partnership and assess which pathways are conducive to employment in high-wage, high-need industries, asserts a new report from the Career Ladders Project. Modality : In-person, online asynchronous, online synchronous or hybrid?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 12, 2023

When asked what was most important in deciding what to do after high school, the most common answer was, “I need to understand different careers available,” followed by “I need to be able to feed myself,” and “I need to have reliable transportation.”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 9, 2024

College is ‘Wake-Up Call’ for Others kathryn.palmer… Fri, 08/09/2024 - 03:00 AM After eight years of litigation, a federal judge has ordered West Los Angeles College to provide on-campus transportation for two students by the start of the fall semester. The ruling may have broader implications. Byline(s) Kathryn Palmer

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

JUNE 12, 2023

The New Student Experience at a Community College The enrollment data for community colleges is positive for the first time in a long time, with an overall enrollment increase of 2.1% Despite this recent trend reversal, community colleges can’t ignore the 37% decline (nearly 2.6

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Weeks and Months After Natural Disaster, Colleges Stand By Their Students Johanna Alonso Mon, 02/24/2025 - 03:00 AM Students say they are still being impacted by wildfires and floods that cost them their housing, jobs and transportation weeks or months ago. Byline(s) Johanna Alonso

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University Business

JULY 31, 2024

They are starting to look at the state community colleges in the more rural areas as a way to help. She has been quoted saying: “I will continue my efforts to ensure that, just like Florida, California can have its community colleges offer bachelor’s degrees without limitation.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 10, 2023

I had students attend class while on public transportation or in a car, while at appointments, or while otherwise doing tasks that required their attention. Students with fewer financial resources are more likely to miss class due to transportation or paid-work conflicts.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 6, 2023

food , transportation, childcare, housing and digital access). Community colleges are often underserved when it comes to mental health, with only 70 percent of community colleges offering some type of mental health services and larger student-to-counselor ratios than other institutions of higher education.

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University Business

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Davidson-Davie Community College (N.C.) Davidson-Davie Community College (N.C.) Build awareness Among faculty and staff: College staff aware of student food insecurity can help spread awareness and destigmatize the issue by communicating with their students via syllabi and organizing campus food drives.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

But local governments have significant influence over policies affecting climate change—from bicycle transportation planning to housing density, tree planting, energy use and nature conservation. These are decision-making processes that students can witness firsthand and even influence. Smaller cities (where most people in the U.S.

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EAB

AUGUST 23, 2023

Review these 7 aspects of your basic needs strategy before the semester begins Community colleges play a vital role in higher education, offering affordable and accessible pathways to academic and professional success. At the time, I was unaware of any support offered by my college that could have made a difference.

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University Business

JUNE 6, 2024

The most popular form of federal financial aid, the Pell grant, provides low-income students with around $7,000 a year—money that can go towards all kinds of expenses, such as tuition, rent or transportation. California’s community colleges rarely use it.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

An August 2022 Student Voice survey conducted by Inside Higher Ed and College Pulse found that first-generation students were likely to lack any internship experience or experiential learning within a course: half of all first-gen students and two-thirds of first-gen community college students had not had these experiences.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

students unionized to “address myriad issues” and are “demanding a living wage, guaranteed on-time payment, an effective grievance procedure, more support for international students, safe and reliable transportation and facilities and a commitment to the city of Baltimore.”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 4, 2023

Image: Students who enroll in William Altman’s psychology classes at the State University of New York’s Broome Community College sometimes find themselves hooked up to an electroencephalograph—a device that measures electrical activity of the brain—while driving simulated cars either with or without texting.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 21, 2023

An investigation by the system’s internal auditors found that Danielson had used college-owned cars for trips between campuses and her home. The system said she shouldn’t have used the cars because she received an $833 per month transportation and communication allowance as part of her contract.

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Clark Nesxen

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Effective career and technical education (CTE) spaces play a critical part in enabling community colleges to meet one of their most important objectives: supporting local economic growth through workforce development and readiness. Biotechnology Center of Excellence, Alamance Community College. Apex High School.

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