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The Missing Link to Scaled Excellence and Equity in Community College Student Outcomes: A National Leadership Development Strategy

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. Dr. Janine E.

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Laying the Foundation for Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“Attending these workshops and interacting with professionals were invaluable to me as a student because they taught me real life skills that would help me start my career — skills that, frankly, I did not learn through my college,” says Vera. that work with them, including in-kind support.