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CUNY orders deeper spending cuts, putting course options and student services at risk - CAYLA BAMBERGER, New York Daily News

Ray Schroeder

The City University of New York is slashing tens of millions of dollars from college budgets across eight of its 25 campuses, potentially gutting course offerings and student services from counseling to recordkeeping, the Daily News has learned.

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Report Examines Fragmented Reentry Services for Formerly Incarcerated Individuals Attending College

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

When the revised Pell Grant regulations went into effect in July 2023, they contained a provision that college in prison programs must now document how they and/or organizations with which they partner provide reentry services.

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Visual Documentation of the College Meltdown Needed

Higher Education Inquirer

The Higher Education Inquirer is looking for images to document the College Meltdown which began in 2010. Images of these closed schools can be used to document an important part of US higher education history. But as a historical document, the list is telling. Since 1986, approximately 18,000 campus closings have been reported.

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Investing in Community Colleges

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Yoshiko Harden While Scott’s investment in historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) is well-documented, her contributions to community colleges have not received as much attention. So far, the program has served 111 students, says Amanda Nipp, Northeast’s vice president of student services.

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How Universities Can Support Undocumented Students as Federal Policies Continue to Threaten Them

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In 2019, Oglethorpe partnered with TheDream.US , a national scholarship program that helps provide access to a college education for immigrant youth who came to the country at a young age without documentation. Undocumented students make up nearly 10% of Oglethorpe’s degree-seeking student body.

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How two-way texting aids in student support and retention

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Next steps: The team scheduled meetings with departments on campus that provide high-touch support to students, including academic counseling, financial aid, student services, outreach, special population support services and the tutoring center. Students who received the text were 6.3

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These schools are working smarter, not harder, to boost international student enrollment

University Business

agency websites and collecting vital academic and student biographic documents, applicants were moving on to different universities that could process their I-20s more quickly. To combat this tidal wave of international student applications and a limited DSO office.