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Community Colleges Increase Housing Options

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Community colleges around the country are exploring residential options, developing housing for the first time, or partnering with organizations such as Educational Housing Services (EHS), a New York City nonprofit group that houses students from colleges throughout the city. “As This is a growing interest, it seems, every year.”

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California's Community Colleges See the Benefits of Student Housing

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The findings spurred the creation of a basic needs support program on campus, including the IVC Kitchen, which provides emergency food and groceries to hungry students. While visiting the kitchen, then Dean of Student Services Dr. Lennor Johnson met a married couple who were both enrolled at IVC, earning above 3.0

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Tailoring Student Services to Create Career-Ready Graduates: Changing Higher Education Podcast 153 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Kevin Grubb

The Change Leader, Inc.

16 May · Episode 155 Tailoring Student Services to Create Career-Ready Graduates 36 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton Hear how Villanova University is creating career-ready graduates with approximately 94% of students being accepted into internships. So we provide some education on how to write a resume and what it is.

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The increasing pressure on students after Covid-19

SRHE

Further focussed research is needed into post-pandemic institutional support systems and pedagogical strategies to recognise the support that has been implemented to improve students’ mental health and wellbeing. Currently employed as a Tutor based within the Health and Education Faculty at Manchester Metropolitan University.

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How Gross Inequalities in Institutional Wealth Distort the Higher Education Ecosystem and Shortchange the Vast Majority of Middle- and Lower-Income Undergraduates

Confessions of a Community College Dean

What inspires these grim thoughts is Kimball and Iler’s richly researched, provocative and pivotally important history of college endowments, campus fundraising campaigns, university finances, institutional spending and student debt. There are other important points that grow out of Kimball and Iler’s research.

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How Does U.S. News Rank Colleges?

HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

Part of the outlet’s methodology includes using only thoroughly vetted academic data, which is why it does not give weight to aspects of student life such as athletics and social life.

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City College of San Francisco struggles to heat classrooms

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Lisa Berglund, director of research administration and management at EAB, an education consulting firm, said crises like these are common at colleges and universities, in part because a “huge percentage” of campus buildings were built in the 1960s and ’70s and are now starting to show signs of age.