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Making Equity a Priority

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

All the while, Curry has kept his focus on expanding equity for his students, with his sights specifically on food and housing insecurity, an issue that impacts many of his students. It launched a popular Farmer’s Market on campus last year, providing each student with $20 a week to access fresh foods and vegetables.

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How will we measure student success in the 2020s?

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Lineage B: Degree planning Even as first-year experience programs grew in popularity from 2000 to 2010, leaders at open-access and two-year institutions began advocating for expanding focus beyond the first year. As the name implies, Guided Pathways endeavors to guide students on structured pathways matched their individual education goals.

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Attack of the “Math Shark”: Why Unfinished Learning Is a Lurking Threat to Student Success in the Late 2020s

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Closing equity gaps may become even harder. Equitable college access and completion has been a major point of focus for the student success community for at least a decade , with good reason. The underlying social inequities that drove pre-pandemic equity gaps have not gone away and are now being compounded by a political backlash.

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Attack of the “Math Shark”: Why Unfinished Learning Is a Lurking Threat to Student Success in the Late 2020s

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Closing equity gaps may become even harder. Equitable college access and completion has been a major point of focus for the student success community for at least a decade , with good reason. The underlying social inequities that drove pre-pandemic equity gaps have not gone away and are now being compounded by a political backlash.

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Grounding Our Inquiry and Change Work in Equitable Post-Graduation Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Johnstone NCII has spent the past decade supporting the guided pathways movement alongside a great group of national partners, while integrating a focus on student financial stability, connection to living wage employment, and the nuances of this work at urban, suburban, and rural colleges. Dr. Robert.

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Community Colleges’ Essential Role in Workforce Development

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These educational institutions and technical colleges offer affordable and accessible education, which is often tailored to meet the needs of the local job market. Community college leaders must navigate a complex landscape to fulfill their mission of providing accessible and quality education.

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The 4 stages of an integrated lifecycle approach for community college student success

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One way to keep applicants engaged is by providing proactive, consistent, customized guidance about each onboarding task in a format that is responsive and accessible. Navigate’s Milestone Guidance (right) helps create interactive checklists that students can access anytime from a mobile app, to meet them on their terms.