Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Necessary support is provided through GANAS (Gaining Access ’AND Academic Success), an innovative access and retention program that serves community college transfer students. Cerritos College A public, two-year community college, Cerritos College is located in Norwalk, California (Southeastern Los Angeles).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Like mosquitoes, community colleges have the power to create a ripple of meaningful change. Community colleges, often under-appreciated yet mighty in their mission, are essential agents of transformationparticularly for students from historically marginalized communities. The numbers tell a powerful story.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 19, 2023

Community colleges serve the most diverse students in all of higher education. The KSU-CCLP is a unique program that prioritizes recruiting women and minorities as future leaders that reflect the demographics of community colleges. A fully designed doctoral curriculum in which all courses focus on the community college.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2024

The school ultimately became a satellite campus of the El Camino Community College District in 2006 but has since regained its accreditation and its independence. In collaboration with the Los Angeles County Food Bank, Compton College offers a mobile food pantry. This is it.” The trio call themselves the Equity Avengers.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Associate Level English for Academic Purposes Reading Area Community College (Reading, PA) The English for Academic Purposes (EAP) at Reading Area Community College (RACC) began in 2012 to strategically reduce credit requirements and accelerate student progression with the goal of boosting enrollment and success rates.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 28, 2023

Timothy Alvarez From earning an associate degree to serving as president of a community college, Alvarez understands the value of higher education and the need to create pathways and support systems. Otero is a residential college in La Junta, Colorado. He has a deep connection to community colleges.

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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.” We design the curriculum individually to students’ needs.

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Civitas Learning

APRIL 17, 2025

This approach empowers institutions to uncover hidden gaps and drive outcomes like improving retention, scaling advising, and strengthening cross-campus collaboration. But too often, campus politics or complexity creates silos that block collaboration and coordinated support. Are You Enabling for Impactor Just Implementing Tools ?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 7, 2023

Tesman, professor and department chair for the theater department at Brooklyn College, which is part of the City University of New York (CUNY). “We We learn to listen to other people, communicate, collaborate, engage with multiple perspectives and…invest in understanding the experiences outside of our own.” Dr. Gregory A.

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Civitas Learning

MAY 7, 2025

At Lakeland Community College , leaders used Course Insights to investigate performance in their First Year Experience (FYE) course. Collaborative tools allow students to engage with advisors on their own time, providing timely answers and personalized guidance that supports informed decision-making without unnecessary delays.

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Believe in Students

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Recognizing today’s college students for the highly motivated and talented people they are, the #RealCollege movement is about investing in America’s future by re-investing in students. This curriculum is a tool for them to add to their ranks, and build this powerful coalition into an unstoppable force for change.

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Civitas Learning

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Austin Community College (ACC) models this approach by involving faculty from the beginning in designing their early alert system. This collaborative approach made it simpler for faculty to integrate the system in their day-to-day practices and share its value to peers. You are the experts.’”

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Civitas Learning

MARCH 7, 2024

With a network of nearly 400 colleges and universities, this resource is invaluable for enhancing outcomes. Following the institute’s collaborative sessions, leaders gained fresh perspectives on addressing issues hindering student retention and success. With a fair playing field, they identified a 7.9%

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Civitas Learning

MAY 23, 2024

Surprising Impact of First-Year Experience Course Revealed at Lakeland Community College A preliminary analysis of early alert trends revealed that students were not performing well in Lakeland Community College’s mandatory First Year Experience (FYE) course.

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Civitas Learning

JULY 11, 2024

Northwest’s student success model relies on collaboration between faculty, advisors, and student support units, such as diversity and inclusion, the registrar’s office, and the athletics department. For University of Texas San Antonio (UTSA), they implemented a “hub and spoke” model to break down silos and promote collaboration.

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The University Innovation Alliance

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The Rewards of High-Level Collaboration Our conversation with Dr. Michael Rao on February 7, 2022, served as our official reveal that Virginia Commonwealth University had just joined the UIA. Willis in 2020, she was leading Everett Community College through the crisis of COVID lockdown. Click here for full audio.

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The University Innovation Alliance

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The Rewards of High-Level Collaboration Our conversation with Dr. Michael Rao on February 7, 2022, served as our official reveal that Virginia Commonwealth University had just joined the UIA. Willis in 2020, she was leading Everett Community College through the crisis of COVID lockdown. Click here for full audio.

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The University Innovation Alliance

APRIL 1, 2024

However, in this episode of the Weekly Wisdom Series , we spoke with President Casey Sacks , who began working at West Virginia’s BridgeValley Community and Technical College after serving two years as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Community Colleges at the U.S. So often, we're really practical in community colleges.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Terry O’Banion Community college students who are from lower socio-economic backgrounds, are first generation, and who have not been successful in high school are starving to death trying to find educational sustenance at the cafeteria curriculum.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

Director for Transfer & Pathways, Central New Mexico Community College University Research Optimizing institutional resources for research growth Nick Hagemeier, Interim Vice Provost for Research, East Tennessee State University Want to learn more about the Rising Higher Education Leaders Fellowship?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2024

To this end, we provide P-12 educators; college/university faculty, administrators, and staff; and other education stakeholders a blueprint to collaboratively work with Black males through a culturally responsive lens. The overlooked conversation: Black male success in community colleges. Hines & E.C. Fletcher (Eds.)

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 29, 2023

Flores, president and chief executive officer of the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU), agrees with Crazy Bull about the importance of what he calls “creating a culture of teamwork and collaboration.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 27, 2023

Twenty-four years later, stakeholders are still seeing evidence of community colleges expanding their role in school reform, especially in the State of Missouri. These agencies consist of high schools, a state technical college, community colleges, four-year institutions, two state agencies and career centers.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

“All of our divisions and our colleges are now appointing DEI leads and liaisons who are going to work with their vice president or deans around some part of our commitment to inclusion and equity and also convene with each other to set the university strategy moving forward.” We have good transfer agreements,” says Mantella. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2024

The topics, he added, should be embedded into the curriculum. In this day and age, HBCUs are increasingly having to compete for students with other institutions, including community colleges, Ward said. Most high schools now don't teach civics anymore,” said Ward, who is one of the HBCU Center’s senior fellows.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2025

W Dr. Carolyn Carter omen have made remarkable strides in leadership across various fields, forging pathways for mentorship, collaboration, and opportunity. Dr. Monica Parrish Trent, CEO, Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA) Foundation (Formerly with Achieving the Dream).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 14, 2025

I identify as a gay Black man, a practicing Catholic, and a multilingual leader with a doctorate in education and an emphasis in curriculum and teaching. I actively seek out opportunities on my own and in collaborative relationships with stakeholders. Sokenu is the president of Moorpark College. Dr. Julius O. King, Jamal A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Thats why, when one of us (Sara) received a panicked message from a student in her community college classroom last term, she urged the parent to come to class even though her babysitter hadnt shown up.The student had already had to miss a day due to illness, and another due to a booted car.

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