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Empowering Community Colleges Through AI: A New Era of Access and Economic Mobility

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Combined with the Apple App Store, which first debuted in 2008 with 500 phone applications, in less than 20 years, technology has revolutionized how the average consumer communicates, entertains themselves, and obtains information. These historical progressions made the relationship between college access and inclusiveness symbiotic.

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From College to Careers: The Pell Institute Receives $748,000 Ascendium Grant to Explore Career Development within TRIO Programs

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By partnering with the Pell Institute, Ascendium is working to reduce institutional barriers to accessing and completing college and to help more learners from low-income backgrounds achieve their educational and career goals.

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Data and Student Success in Higher Ed

The University Innovation Alliance

We connected each section with supplemental instruction, so a near-peer tutor was embedded. Tim Renick, who has led Georgia State University’s student success efforts since 2008, is the founding executive director of Georgia State’s National Institute for Student Success, and Professor of Religious Studies at Georgia State.

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Health at Every Size: A concept to reduce weight-centric thinking and to promote body positivity

John Hopkins University Student Well-Being Blog

A survey from 2008 found that 65% of women aged 25-45 had some variation of disordered eating and of them, 10% met criteria for eating disorders. It promotes health policies that give better access to care and reduces weight stigma. 89% of teen girls have been on a diet by age 17, and 81% of 10-year-old girls are afraid of being fat.

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Out With the Old, In With the New: Decolonizing the School Counseling Profession to Support Black Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Furthermore, school counselors can help students access resources needed to achieve a well-rounded pre-K-12 school experience to be prepared for college, careers, and adulthood. There is a good volume of work on multicultural counseling, which ends any excuse to be ill-informed, culture blind, or culturally assaultive.