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Compton College Addresses Student Homelessness and Basic Needs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This moment inspired Joshua Jackson and Dayshawn Louden, then student leaders at Compton College, to begin campaigning and advocating for student housing and increased basic needs on campus. Im a former student activist, so seeing student activists seeing what we need was good.

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Oakland University, Oakland Community College Pilot Student Housing Initiative

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“The opportunity for OCC students to live on campus at Oakland University is another example of the great partnerships we have that benefits our students,” said Dr. Kimberly Hurns, OCC’s vice chancellor for student services.

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California's Community Colleges See the Benefits of Student Housing

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

So that’s when he and other leadership at IVC began exploring the idea of student housing. Through a pilot program that offered 12 housing insecure students homes in RVs, Johnson said IVC learned a lot of lessons about the difficulties and triumphs of residential management, how to support students, and how to build community.

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Paul Quinn College to Create an Innovative Housing Model and a Mixed-Use Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“This is so much more than a traditional real estate project or campus housing development—it’s a statement about what higher education can be for all of us – those who attend our schools and those who do not,” said Dr. Michael J. College officials added that the development project will expand student housing capacity by 300 percent. “We

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Student housing used to be affordable. Why has it become an ‘asset class’ to enrich the already wealthy? | Leilani Farha

The Guardian Higher Education

It’s something more fundamental: for an increasing number of students the question troubling them is “Where am I going to live?” Student housing – a residence room, a shared house, a small flat – was once a given. In the UK, average student housing prices now outstrip the maximum government-offered student loans.

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New Guidebook Offers Best Practices in Suicide Response

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A new emergency preparedness guidebook released by the Jed Foundation provides best practices to off-campus student housing managers on how to handle the sudden and tragic loss of a resident in a community.

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Spelman College Receives $100M Gift

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Officials said about $75 million of the $100 million will go to endowed scholarships for future students, leaving $25 million to help the college develop its academic focus on public policy and democracy, improve student housing, and provide flexible funding to meet critical strategic needs. “We