Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

At a time when the Latino population in the United States is growing and students are still facing daunting obstacles, Excelencia in Education is recognizing nine institutions for their clear and decisive commitment to Latino student success with the Seal of Excelencia. It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Courtney Adkins The beginning of the fall academic term brings to mind images of freshly graduated high school students arriving on college campuses across the country. When the fall 2023 term begins, close to 20% of community college students will also be high school students who are dually enrolled.

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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? Although these actions are helpful, they have not moved the needle toward closing access and success gaps.

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Timely MD

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Community colleges are vital in providing accessible higher education opportunities to diverse student populations in rural, suburban, and urban communities alike. What is a community college?

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Timely MD

MAY 9, 2023

The 1,038 community colleges in the U.S. play an important role for students and communities, providing a quality education that prepares students for jobs or to transfer to four-year colleges and universities. Given that over 40% of undergraduate students in the U.S. citizens, and 5% are veterans.

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EAB

OCTOBER 24, 2022

5 Tips to Recruit and Enroll Latine/x Students in Your Community College. Prospective Latine/x college students in the U.S. are the most likely to choose community college as their first step when pursuing a higher education. Spotlight: Holyoke Community College.

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EAB

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Leverage Faculty Partnerships and Technology to Address the Community College Enrollment Crisis. Pueblo Community College's Two-Pronged Approach to Combatting Summer Melt. Pueblo Community College (Pueblo) is a Hispanic-Serving Institution with over 5,000 students across three campuses. Quick Facts.

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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. The Roueche Center Forum is co-edited by Drs.

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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 Not knowing where to find guidance is a common challenge faced by many of today’s college students.

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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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EAB

APRIL 24, 2023

How Northampton Community College Simplified Compliance Reporting with Automated Data Preparation Northampton’s New Process with Edify Saves Valuable Staff Time About Northampton Community College is a public two-year college serving 20,000+ students across three campuses in Pennsylvania. Browning, Ph.D.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2024

Some of the topics include literacy and math, advising Black male engineering majors, socio-emotional development, leadership, community college experiences, Black male veterans, athletes in P-12 and higher education, and the recruitment and retention of Black males in educator preparation programs. Hines & E.C. Fletcher (Eds.)

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 17, 2023

City Colleges of Chicago’s (CCC) partnership with One Million Degrees (OMD) will begin at Malcolm X College this fall, providing students at the college dedicated support towards academic and career success. At the same time, we're also really thinking through where is the right place to go.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2024

Elizabeth Béjar, provost at Florida International University (FIU), a public four-year HSI in Miami, that’s also Seal certified, said FIU began thinking seriously about how to help Latinx students “break through their own career glass ceiling” years ago. Dr. Elizabeth Béjar, provost at Florida International University.

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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

MAY 24, 2023

I'm a former foster child, and I'm a student who struggled with food insecurities and housing insecurities, and I'm a first-generation college student, but I went to Sac State and it was an environment where I had mentors and people who supported me, and programs and services that I benefited from,” Wood said in an interview with Diverse.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 26, 2023

Supreme Court’s decision to strike affirmative action, there are still ways to get diverse student populations into higher ed, experts and scholars said at a webinar hosted this week by California student success organization The Campaign for College Opportunity.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

million more people joined the some college but no credential (SCNC) population, deepening existing inequities in educational outcomes and socio-economic mobility for first-generation students, adult students, students from low-income backgrounds and students of color.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

million more people joined the some college but no credential (SCNC) population, deepening existing inequities in educational outcomes and socio-economic mobility for first-generation students, adult students, students from low-income backgrounds and students of color.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 20, 2023

HISPA fellows with New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy The main program is the HISPA Role Model Program in which role models speak to students at predominantly low-income, public middle schools with majority Hispanic student populations, sharing their stories and encouraging student success.

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EAB

MAY 30, 2023

Since 2020, enrollment at community colleges has declined 5.4 percent, 1 which has prompted institutions to reflect on practices that impact student success and on barriers students face in their pursuit of higher education. As of fall 2022, enrollment declines at community colleges had slowed to 0.4

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COE

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Louisiana The Louisiana Association of Students Assistance Programs (LASAP) annually hosts TRIO Day with the Pelicans. Blog Revised FAFSA Release Date Pushed Back – What You Need to Know! Increase for TRIO for FY 2023 Advocacy Update Congress Announces Bipartisan Funding Deal, Includes 4.7%

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COE

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

the President of the Republic of Palau , and his wife, First Lady Valerie Ngereblungt Remengesau Whipps. Both participated in the Upward Bound program at Palau Community College. He explained that he was in the second Upward Bound class at Palau Community College , which was then called Micronesian Occupational College.

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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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MAY 1, 2023

“By thoughtfully adopting a framework that promotes positive physical and mental health, we are prioritizing the whole-student experience and emphasizing an environment of emotional balance, creating community and purpose, and supporting financial, physical, and social well-being,” said Elon’s Vice President for Student Life Jon Dooley. “We

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COE

OCTOBER 31, 2023

From there, I started visiting local high schools and community colleges, passionately advocating for STEM education. My journey of reaching out to kids began when I was an engineer at Lawrence Livermore National Lab, and as a GEM scholar, I got a fellowship for my graduate degree at UC Santa Barbara.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

And the largest priority in our strategic plan is student success. So what were we doing to be able to make dollar decisions that were following that goal of student success? We know that a lot of our students, well, a lot of them are first generation, a lot of them are Pell eligible.

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EAB

DECEMBER 2, 2022

How to Address The 2 Biggest Hurdles in Community College Virtual Onboarding. To help identify chief pain points in community college online enrollment, my colleagues and I went undercover as prospective students, applied to community colleges, and attempted to complete as many onboarding steps as possible within a 5- to 7-day window.

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EAB

MAY 23, 2023

EAB’s Tara Zirkel is joined by Center for Community College Student Engagement Executive Director Dr. Linda Garcia, as well as Associate Director of Publications, Dr. Courtney Adkins, to discuss new research on student engagement. EAB · New Student Engagement Data Reveal Surprises Transcript [music] 0:00:13.0

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The University Innovation Alliance

MARCH 7, 2024

Alan Sugg was an incredibly effective leader, very kind, very engaging, and everything came back to student success. He gave me my first opportunity when I probably didn't deserve it, but he believed in what was possible. Throughout my career, I've tried to take some of those lessons about relationships.

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