Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 17, 2023

A rare partnership between a group of community colleges and a private, for-profit institution is aiming to fix that. The Alamo Colleges District, made up of five community colleges, is the largest provider of higher education in South Texas with over 100,000 students, 81% of whom are students of color.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Department of Education (ED) is delaying the sending out of student information relevant for financial aid calculations to institutions, higher ed scholars and officials have voiced concern and uncertainty over how this change will affect low-income and first-generation students in particular.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 20, 2023

What is the best approach to embracing the increased diversity of our communities and ensuring opportunity? Is it developing boutique programs on each campus for diverse, first-generation students? Community colleges have historically served as an entry point into higher education for underserved populations.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

The California Student Aid Commission, which administers the state’s financial aid program, has found that student parents face housing and food insecurity at a higher rate than non-parenting peers. 61% are first-generation college students. 72% are Black, Latinx, Pacific Islander or Native American.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas, partners with over 62 high schools across the state, facilitating college access for Latino, rural, and other marginalized communities. It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students. Additionally, 39.93% of graduate students are Latino.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 11, 2024

This fall, students entering one of Alamo Colleges District's five community colleges in San Antonio, Texas will have the opportunity to have guaranteed transfer to Texas A&M University-San Antonio (TAMUSA) and free tuition at both institutions. Ninety-eight percent of his students receive some form of financial aid.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Before and during COVID, most of these students vanished from our most affordable and accessible institutions – our community colleges. Enrollment for Black learners in community colleges is not down because of COVID or because the Black population is shrinking (in fact, it has increased by 2.5

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 11, 2023

Students from underrepresented backgrounds face considerable barriers when it comes to completing a community college program. But Dougherty Family College (DFC), a two-year associate degree program at the University of St. Hall, a first-generation African American student at DFC. “It Staff were everywhere.

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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.” I care more than just graduation at community college.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

MAY 1, 2024

As a first-generation student, U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona didn’t always know where to turn for help in college. “It

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UofO First-Generation Student Support Blog

JANUARY 19, 2021

Not surprising either is that research shows there is a social capital gap for those of us who identify as first-generation college students, those of us who were raised in a low-income household, and those of us who are part of a minority group. The impact of such gap can be sensed at the academic level.

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IEFA

AUGUST 6, 2022

A scholarship is an award of financial aid for a student to further their education. Scholarships for international students can make a significant difference in a student’s ability to afford college, and they are an important source of financial aid. What is a scholarship? study abroad population.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

A prime example is the College Board and Education Counsel publication “The Playbook: Understanding the Role of Race Neutral Strategies in Advancing Higher Education Diversity Goals.” Since the Court’s ruling did not specifically address financial aid, some have assumed that it is exempt.

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Student Loan Hero

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Scholarship awards and financial aid can help ease the financial burden of attending college. 20 scholarships for Hispanic and Latino students Eligibility requirements vary for these scholarships, but they usually require you to be enrolled at an accredited four-year college or university and maintain a 3.0

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Scholarship America

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Community college enrollment was nearly steady year-over-year, and, despite the overall decline, some universities are even reporting record class sizes. As profiled in the Chronicle of Higher Education : Beyond the money itself, conveying to students that there’s financial support to enroll can make a big difference.

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Believe in Students

OCTOBER 31, 2023

I paid for college at my dream school (a small liberal arts college) through student loans, financial aid grants, a tiny amount from family, work-study jobs, and a scholarship or two, desperately patched together to make everything add up so I could afford to keep going to school year after year. looks like right now.

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Student Loan Hero

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Coca-Cola also has two other scholarship programs for students attending community college, issued in partnership with the Phi Theta Kappa honors society. CVS Health partnered with the Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) to offer the CVS Health Scholarship. Applications are usually due at the end of October. Amount: $10,000.

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The University Innovation Alliance

MARCH 7, 2024

He was co-chair of the Executive Council of the Arkansas Department of Higher Education; chancellor of the University of Arkansas Community College at Hope-Texarkana; vice chancellor for academic affairs at Arkansas State University -Beebe; and dean of university studies at the University of Arkansas - Pulaski Technical College.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

But this is really gonna be about retaining our students and making certain that we're bridging those real hard financial realities that all of our families deal with. We know that a lot of our students, well, a lot of them are first generation, a lot of them are Pell eligible. Many, many of them show up.

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EAB

MAY 9, 2023

Podcast Do Community Colleges Need an “Intervention”? Reporter Jon Marcus joins EAB’s Tara Zirkel to explore the root causes behind steep enrollment declines and poor student outcomes at community colleges. EAB · Do Community Colleges Need an “Intervention?” Episode 150. May 9, 2023. million people.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 6, 2023

brought innovation, excellence, and inclusion to community colleges. It subsequently led him to the University of Texas at Austin, where he was the first Latinx person to receive a Ph.D. from the Community College Leadership Program. His first challenge was to find the necessary funding, Roueche recalled.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 24, 2025

In a significant policy shift affecting higher education in Virginia, the state's 23 community colleges must now ensure all programs and practices comply with new federal regulations that effectively terminate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives across these institutions.

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