2015 Community college Equity 
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 3, 2024
“When I first met with my advisor, I was excited to dive into my program,” says Maria, a first-generation community college student. But when I realized there was no pre-college math course to take, I panicked. As Black community college presidents leading this work in California, these challenges are personal to us.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 24, 2023
Over the last two decades, our nation’s community colleges have received increasing recognition, and for good reason. Community college students are more likely to be Black, Hispanic, and from lower-income backgrounds than four-year students. Why should new reform efforts focus on leadership?
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
Prior to 2015 it was difficult to find much formal acknowledgement of student food insecurity, let alone services to help. When a couple of student affairs practitioners created the College and University Food Bank Alliance in 2012, it had just 10 members. Over the last decade the food pantry became a higher education trend.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JULY 7, 2023
In fact, most studies concerning African Americans have focused on the retention of students or faculty (Wolfe & Dilworth, 2015). Yet there is little research on the underrepresentation of African American community college trustees. Equity is a clear part of the vision and mission of the college.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 31, 2024
Back in February, more than 1,000 practitioners from hundreds of colleges across the nation gathered in Orlando, Florida, to exchange evidence-based approaches to accelerating student success and equity. Stout, who has led the organization since 2015. There was also a robust focus on the humanities.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 9, 2023
Long Beach College Promise is another Latino-serving program in which students are tracked from the K-12 system (the Long Beach Unified School District), through community college, and into CSULB to make sure students are fully supported through all the educational pathways. Morishita, interim president at CSULA.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 30, 2023
Miami Dade College (MDC), located in Miami, Florida and one of the nation’s largest Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) received the classification in 2015 and is one of a handful of community colleges across the nation to hold the designation.
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