COE

MAY 2, 2025

Further, the Administrations proposal ignores the harsh reality that many institutions of higher education particularly community colleges, regional colleges, and smaller private institutions do not have the infrastructure or funding to take on TRIOs responsibilities alone.

Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 13, 2025

The National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) is no stranger to cultivating a positive environment for student-athletes. This informs the concept of athletic equity. Though major progress has been made since the enactment of this law, questions remain as to what equity looks like in athletics (Jensen, 2022).

Equity

COE

JULY 8, 2025

Collins says she helped secure Upward Bound funding for Maine Massachusetts: Trump cuts would devastate community colleges, undermining lower-income students striving to better their lives Massachusetts: Programs to support N.H.s Blog Veterans Upward Bound Programs Commemorate Memorial Day with Activities and Ceremonies Across the U.S.

First generation

COE

JULY 15, 2025

Hamm COE is inviting community colleges—with or without a current SSS program—to apply for the inaugural COE Award for Institutional Effectiveness, which will bestow $10,000 each on three campuses that have successfully embedded TRIO Student Support Services practices into their wider student success strategies. .

First generation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2023

Oakton Community College has changed its name to Oakton College. The school also presented a new logo and visual identity focused on diversity, inclusion, and equity (DEI). Oakton’s Board of Trustees approved the transition in August 2021.

Community college

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 5, 2024

It’s not an everyday occurrence when a community college leader gets a phone call telling them their institution will receive an influx of funding in the millions. when MacKenzie Scott, one of the richest women in the world, decided to make a major investment in community colleges.

Community college

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

She possesses an associate degree earned in her early 20’s from her local community college. The plight of the place-bound student and the existence of education deserts offer another compelling equity-based argument for expansion of the community college baccalaureate degree. Lawrence A.

Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 2, 2023

Asperin Barnes was named chancellor of the South Orange County Community College District in 2022. She previously served as president of Cuyamaca College when the college received the John W. Rice Diversity and Equity Award and was recognized by Excelencia in Education.

Community college

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 2, 2023

In 2022, student leaders launched a campaign to challenge the long-standing stigma associated with attending community colleges. To overcome negative stereotypes, the CCSmart advocacy campaign tells the stories of students’ educational journeys and the positive impact community colleges had on their lives.

Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 14, 2023

Community colleges play a critical role, providing affordable and accessible education for diverse populations. According to the American Association of Community Colleges, our nation had over 1,000 public, tribal, and independent community colleges enrolling 10.2

Community college

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Day three of the 2023 Dream Conference in Chicago kicked off with a heightened focus on building partnerships that strengthen students and fortify the community workforce. The Dream conference is hosted annually by Achieving the Dream (ATD), a reform network of over 300 community colleges working to equitize higher education.

Student success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2024

Accompanying the skills gap is a serious employment equity issue. Strategies to be considered include developing or expanding dual enrollment, apprenticeships, credit for prior learning, transfer, and community college baccalaureates. Dual enrollment allows high school students to enroll in college courses and earn credits.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

Smith, who earned tenure in 2022, is an associate professor of higher education and program coordinator of educational leadership in the College of Education, Criminal Justice, Human Services, and Information Technology at the University of Cincinnati. They should benefit from continued investment from policy and political leaders.”

Community college

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 27, 2024

The rate of college freshmen returning for a second year is at a decade high. A new report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center noted that more than 76% of students who started college in the fall of 2022 returned for their second year. for the 2022 cohort , and for Hispanic males , it increased from 50.6%

Retention

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2024

Zamani-Gallaher’s scholarly work focuses on equitable participation in higher education; transfer, access, and retention policies; minoritized student populations in marginalized institutional contexts; and racial equity and campus climate in postsecondary education pathways. In 2022, Diverse recognized her with the Diverse Champions Award.

Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Ivery In my recent book, Detroit and the New Political Economy of Public Education (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2022), I use Detroit as a national template to explore the new dynamics of public education segregation and, therefore, of the racial, social, economic, political, and educational dynamics of the related urban and metropolitan region.

Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

As of Fall 2022, Latino students comprise 50.64% of all full-time undergraduates and 49.68% of all part-time undergraduates. We have a wonderful program called Pathways, where we do outreach to middle schools, high schools and community colleges, providing application clinics and parent academies,” says Dr. Leroy M.

Retention

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

Aaron Thompson, president of the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE), participated in the Attaining College Excellence and Equity Summit put together by the U.S. CPE is a coordinating board that oversees Kentucky’s public universities, community colleges, and technical colleges.

Low income student

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 4, 2023

Coupled with the $400 increase in the 2022 fiscal year, this is the largest two-year increase ever in the history of the grant. Dr. Linda Oubré, president of Whittier College in California. trillion by the end of 2022, according to the U.S. By January 2022, Black male retention jumped to 79%. Federal Reserve. “On

Low income student

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 15, 2023

That’s the main takeaway from the Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession, 2022-23 , recently released by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). Full-time faculty saw a 4% bump for the year ending fall 2022, the largest single-year gain since 1991. But skyrocketing inflation caused a 2.4%

Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Byrne PHOTO COURTESY OF CUNY Becoming Dean of Macaulay Honors College, part of the City University of New York (CUNY), enables Dr. Dara N. Byrne to bring her commitment to access and equity to a new area of public higher education. Justice and equity are driving forces in most everything I do.”

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 2, 2022

After nearly 50 years of funding community colleges based on enrollment and outreach, the state of Texas is considering making the switch to outcome-based funding, rooted in metrics like retention, completion, and the successful transfer to four-year programs. Like the majority of community colleges in the U.S.,

Financial aid

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

We’re changing the landscape of how community colleges serve underserved students,” says Espiritu. “We Having cohorts here is really important, especially for engineering and computer science because it’s a community that supports each other.” I care more than just graduation at community college.

Mentoring

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

Morris Morris’s expertise involves work at several higher ed institutions and medical facilities, where she has held leadership roles including serving as the inaugural department chair for Elon University’s nursing program, dean of health and public safety at Rockingham Community College, and nursing director at Morehead Memorial Hospital.

Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 12, 2023

In a 2022 poll by Morning Consult, only 41% of adults from Generation Z—those born between the mid-90s and the late aughts, —said that they tended to trust U.S. colleges, 14 points lower than the rate of Baby Boomers. This is an increase of 20 percentage points from an ECMC survey done in January 2021, at the height of the pandemic.

Higher education

EAB

OCTOBER 24, 2022

5 Tips to Recruit and Enroll Latine/x Students in Your Community College. Prospective Latine/x college students in the U.S. are the most likely to choose community college as their first step when pursuing a higher education. Spotlight: Holyoke Community College.

Community college

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

The joy has now turned to sadness as a new law in Texas has dismantled diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) offices and programs at publicly funded universities. A 2022 report from the UCLA School of Law Williams Institute and the Point Foundation, an LGBTQ scholarship fund, noted that 32.6% of non-LGBTQ people.

Mathematics

COE

MAY 23, 2023

The commission has worked with state legislators to secure special funds for community-based organizations providing mental health, legal services, and prevention programs in Asian American communities and has also won line-item appropriations for culturally relevant student support services in the California community colleges and the CSU system.

Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2023

UMGC has agreements with all 16 community colleges in Maryland, says Dr. Pam Carter, vice president and dean of the School of Business, which offers seven undergraduate degree programs and 10 stand-alone certificates. Because of the range of programs we have, there are many career paths,” Carter says.

Retention

EAB

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Community College Outreach Campaign Ideas. A targeted outreach campaign is an effort of focused, proactive communication to a population of students in need of a specific intervention or action. 3 ways to combat the community college enrollment decline. July 21, 2022. Student Success Priorities 2022.

Community college

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The federal government projects that more than 203,000 new registered nurse (RN) positions will be created each year from 2021 to 2031, according to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN). But a November 2022 article in U.S. Smith, associate professor and chair of Claflin University’s Department of Nursing.

Faculty

EAB

JANUARY 13, 2023

Modern Student Experience Diagnostic for Community Colleges. Modern student expectations are everchanging—can your community college keep up? Community college student demographics are shifting, nontraditional is the new norm, mental health is in crisis, and learning flexibility is a growing demand.

Community college

EAB

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Learning from my colleagues who are helping schools transform through EAB’s Moon Shot for Equity work , I know that universities don’t exist in a vacuum, and our students don’t just live within campus boundaries. November 21, 2022. 72 Community College Outreach Campaign Ideas. October 25, 2022. ?Everyone

Mental health

EAB

DECEMBER 20, 2022

How to Build a Sustainable Model for Student Equity and Increase Student Success. With this in mind, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte decided to evaluate its institutional policies through an equity lens using EAB’s 360-Degree Student Equity Audit. Were there any other reasons that pushed you to complete this audit?

Student success

Civitas Learning

DECEMBER 13, 2022

With the year’s final weeks approaching, we looked back at the stories, practices, and trends that resonated most with the Civitas Learning community in 2022. Below, explore popular topics like using student success analytics to manage capacity constraints and advance equity or building coordinated student success networks.

Advising

EAB

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Blogs 5 areas for community college leaders to take stock in 2023 And resources to help sustain your post-pandemic momentum Now that community colleges have weathered the storm of the pandemic, it’s time to take a moment to recognize all you have accomplished, and then to begin to steer the transition from a “crisis” mindset to a sustainability one.

Community college

EAB

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Even for students who do not complete their education while in prison, incarcerated individuals who take academic or vocational college courses are several times more likely to enroll in a state community college upon release than incarcerated people not utilizing available educational resources. November 15, 2022.

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