Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 22, 2025

She had been waiting outside the door before the office opened, anxiously checking her phone for updates on whether her son was going to be granted a hearing date to commute his sentence. Incarceration is not an individual experienceits a collective trauma that extends into our classrooms, campuses, and student services.

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Mental health Higher education Financial aid Student affairs 280

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2025

Curry, who previously served as the Dean of Student Services at Compton College and has been instrumental in the colleges growth, success, and rebuilding, says that his role in this process was to also be courageous. I think the most important piece to this was we didnt ask for the planning grant, remembers Curry.

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Students Community college Grant Humanities 328

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The needs of freshmen are also carefully considered, with INSPIRE (Incoming Student Program for Inclusion, Retention and Excellence) as well as student support programs like EOP (Educational Opportunity Program) and EXCEL, which create strong networks of support. By example, initially funded in 2007 by a grant from the U.S.

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Retention Mentoring Financial aid Grant 325

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

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

Community college 246

Community college Students Grant Higher education 246

EAB

JANUARY 26, 2023

Some states, like Washington, California, and Illinois, have implemented policies that require public colleges to assist students with access to basic needs. Pell Grant availability for incarcerated adults Starting in July 2023, over 700,000 incarcerated adults will become Pell eligible. rate in 2020.

Community college 105

Community college Retention Mental health Communication 105

Scholarship America

OCTOBER 27, 2022

If you don’t fill it out, you might be leaving money on the table – like more than 661,000 students did in 2018. If your school isn’t one of them, there are still plenty of options out there; check this roundup , Google “food pantries” in your town or connect with your student services office. The good news?

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Financial aid Scholarship Students FAFSA 52

Timely MD

MAY 1, 2023

5 Address student health and well-being as an entire system State systems of higher education have accelerated their investments in student health and well-being to ensure students at each institution within their system have equitable access to mental health resources.

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Mental health Therapist Students Counseling 98