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Report: Outdated Funding Law Hampers Community College Student Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Meanwhile, research increasingly shows that comprehensive support services like counseling, basic needs assistance, and mental health care directly impact student achievement, especially for historically underserved populations.

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Community Colleges Test New Model Linking Student Success to Community Impact

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The program provides $10,000 living stipends to participants and organizes them into cohorts with comprehensive support services. The framework represents a significant evolution in the community college mission, expanding the definition of student success to encompass not just individual achievement but community transformation.

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Promoting Higher Education for Native Americans in Minnesota

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Essential Supports for Success According to the National Center for Education Statistics, in 2022 the college enrollment rate for 18-to-24-year-olds who identified as Native American or Alaska Native was 26%. A vital component is developing culturally reflective support services. “In

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The Importance of Listening to Student Needs Emphasized at Department of Education Summit

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Using data in a disaggregated manner where you’re looking at all dimensions of how you are delivering your advisement or your support services so that you see who is benefiting and who is not… [and see] where the gaps are,” she said. Linderman said data is used for both program management and evaluation.

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Engage New Students Early Or Lose Them: Here’s How to Do It

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To address this problem, CCRC drew on research on effective supports for entering students and developed the ACIP framework for redesigning the new student experience to help them not just orient to the college but onboard into a program. They should also support students to complete all of the necessary paperwork before the term begins.

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Native Son Propels Opportunities for Kentucky Students

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We are seeing steady gains with all of our different student populations, but we need to definitely increase our low-income, underrepresented minority students and students with disabilities in their participation in dual credit.” Campuses are investing resources into financial aid and emergency support services.

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New Briefing Lays Out Strategies and Challenges for HSIs in Getting Title V Funds

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Dr. Stephanie Aguilar-Smith, an assistant professor at the University of North Texas Santiago and Aguilar-Smith agreed that the issue stems from the definition of an HSI. “I am confident that there are students that are at these institutions that don’t know they’re at an HSI,” said Santiago. Aguilar-Smith was less certain.

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