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Coppin State University: A Renaissance of Purpose and Progress

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Central to this national transformation is the innovative Eagle Achievement Center, a comprehensive student success hub located in the schools library that provides integrated academic support, career guidance, and personal development resources.

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Number of HBCU Registered Apprenticeships Surging

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The programs also offer wraparound services including transportation, childcare, and career counseling. For students, registered apprenticeships provide paid employment from day one, structured mentorship, progressive wage increases, and portable national credentials upon completion.

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Report: Childcare Program Underserves Black Student Parents at Community Colleges

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The CCAMPIS program allows colleges to use grant funding to subsidize child care costs for Pell Grant-eligible students, support campus-based or community-based child care programs, provide before or after-school services, or offer student support like financial and career counseling.

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Why HBCUs Are Ideal Partners for Advancing Early Childhood Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

We know that many early childhood educators face a host of layered challenges: economic insecurity, family obligations, language barriers, and more.

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MassBay Community College to Offer Free Tech Education and Training to Unemployed and Underemployed Workers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Participants will be able to get individual career service assistance, career counseling, resume-building and interview skill workshops, and wrap-around services such as childcare and transportation stipends. Collaborating with area workforce partners to fill the needs in MetroWest is a winning combination for the local economy.”

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A Note to Your Principal About National School Counseling Week

Counselors' Corner

That was my first thought for next week, which is National School Counseling Week. It’s about counseling , the work done here in the office. To meet that need, we’d like to focus on one facet of our service each day next week: Monday—What Is Counseling? That way, all students are exposed to it, but exposed only once.

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Report Highlights Shortages of Credentials Aligned with Middle-Skills Occupations

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Second, offering better career counseling. The report states that middle-skills providers, such as two-year institutions, must adjust their production of middle-skills credentials—certificates and associate’s degrees — to address the impending shortages.