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Study: Community College Housing Program Produced Better Life Outcomes

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The authors of a study produced a diagram of student needs that must be met to achieve whole student success, which includes nine vital ingredients: safe and affordable housing, food security, time, childcare, transportation, health supports, quick and streamlined access to programs, respect and empathy, and safety.

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Students face a challenge accessing these basic needs, per research

University Business

Part-time students, Pell Grant recipients and former foster youth are among some of the other demographics to struggle at higher rates. Nearly three-quarters of all students reported struggling with other basic needs, such as childcare, transportation, internet/technology access and mental health.

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Research in Action: Dr. Jerlando F. L. Jackson

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Bowman (left), Michigan State University’s associate dean for academic and student affairs, and other leaders from the university’s college of education. Perhaps the band transported Jackson back to the days when he was a music major at the University of Southern Mississippi and played in the drum and bugle corps. Jerlando F.

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Community colleges are banding resources together to secure their at-risk students’ education

University Business

. “So many of our students are what we might consider one minor emergency away from walking away from this campus and never coming back,” says Susan Burleson, executive vice president of academic and student affairs at Davidson-Davie Community College.

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Career-readiness initiatives are missing the mark (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

More troubling is our own research at CCWT , which shows that of the non-interning students, 67 percent actually wanted to pursue one but could not due to various factors including a lack of information, insufficient (or no) pay, too few positions, a lack of transportation, widespread pandemic-caused cancellations or an overly heavy course load.

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SCOTUS, Affirmative Action, and the Future of University Diversity: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 174 with Host Drumm McNaughton and Guests Thomas Parham and Dilcie Perez

The Change Leader, Inc.

Drumm McNaughton speaks with two leaders from CSU who have led successful systemwide programs to help its Black community, President Dr. Thomas Parham of CSU Dominguez Hills and Deputy Vice Chancellor of Academic and Student Affairs Dr. Dilcie Perez, who serves the CSU System. CSU works to move beyond a desegregating mindset.

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Team Growth: Get to Know Maddy and Louis

Campus Groups

Based out of Jersey City, New Jersey he holds a Master of Higher Education and Student Affairs from the University of Connecticut. Louis is passionate about higher-ed and student affairs. Not just for students, but also for campuses, and community partners. What is it in this new adventure that drives/excites you?