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Access Must be Front Burner for Community Colleges

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Students navigate housing and food insecurity, transportation issues, and other limitations to access. Transportation is a significant issue, and Trent suggested increasing transportation vouchers. She also noted that the college should reach out to students regarding their needs rather than waiting for students to come to them.

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American Indian College Fund Receives Near $39 Million for TCUs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Most receive no money from their home states, and relatively little from the federal government. The money might also be used for projects that are not specifically grounded in Native culture, but which address the needs of Native students, such as funding for laptops and Wi-Fi, transportation, and childcare.

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New Volpe Center opens to support the country’s most innovative transportation projects

CAPD

Zach Winn | MIT News; September 20, 2023 MIT community members gathered with local, state, and federal leaders in Kendall Square for a ceremony marking a milestone in the area’s transformation. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center in Kendall Square.

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Five ways to help students take smart sustainability actions (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Given the current political atmosphere, it is not difficult to see why 74 percent of respondents in the Student Voice survey feel the federal government is doing too little to address climate change. 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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Is a merger a closure by another name? (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

We are recognized by the federal government as both a predominantly Black institution and as a Hispanic-serving institution. I am particularly concerned about my own institution, Bloomfield College, in New Jersey. Bloomfield was founded 155 years ago and has a mission to serve students who have been excluded or marginalized.

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Q&A with Clark Nexsen’s Sustainability Leaders

Clark Nesxen

We’re doing some projects right now for the federal government on electric vehicle charging infrastructure assessments. These are a few ways we’re trying implement timber in our projects and something we’re seeing the industry trend toward. S: I’d say electric vehicles. But it’s not.

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Overcoming Barriers in Higher Ed: Strategies for Student Success and Employability: Changing Higher Education Podcast 157 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guests Kathryn Campbell and Dr. Zack Mabel

The Change Leader, Inc.

There can be a transportation, childcare, or food insecurity barrier. It can involve demystifying what the college-going experience is. Someone may have lost their housing or is experiencing a mental health issue. The challenges that can prevent students from earning a credential can take many, many different forms.