Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 1, 2025

Stout, recipient of the 2025 Diverse Champions Award, has focused her career on helping community colleges achieve outstanding student success. Moono, president of SUNY Schenectady County Community College. Felder, president of Harford Community College in Maryland, where Stout began her community college career in 1984.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2024

Keith Curry likes to walk the campus of Compton College, the two-year school that he has led for the last 13 years — two as interim president and chief executive officer (CEO) and 11 as its permanent leader. It was a devastating blow to the college. There is much to celebrate. This is it.” The trio call themselves the Equity Avengers.

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Civitas Learning

AUGUST 22, 2024

For many community colleges, identifying the right support for their increasingly diverse population isn’t easy. Students balance work, personal commitments, and school and come to school with backgrounds ranging from first-generation college students to adult learners seeking career advancement through additional certifications.

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Civitas Learning

AUGUST 22, 2024

For many community colleges, identifying the right support for their increasingly diverse population isn’t easy. Students balance work, personal commitments, and school and come to school with backgrounds ranging from first-generation college students to adult learners seeking career advancement through additional certifications.

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Civitas Learning

JUNE 13, 2024

As part of the State University of New York (SUNY), the country’s largest integrated public higher education system, SUNY Broome Community College is committed to giving everyone a chance at success. However, departmental silos and limited communication between faculty and staff hindered student support efforts.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

For community college students, the path towards a degree has been compared to a shapeless river: unending, with no current pushing them forward. One of the most popular attempts to give this shapeless river some form has been a set of shifts for schools called Guided Pathways. The data infrastructure has to be in place.

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EAB

JULY 28, 2023

Fortunately, one of the great advances of the Guided Pathways movement has been the conclusive research done on the negative impact of college algebra courses and the advancement of a far more effective alternative. Build out co-curricular supplemental instruction to support increased demand for developmental education.

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