Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 7, 2023

In fact, most studies concerning African Americans have focused on the retention of students or faculty (Wolfe & Dilworth, 2015). Yet there is little research on the underrepresentation of African American community college trustees. Dr. Terry Calaway is president emeritus, Johnson County Community College (KS).

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Civitas Learning

MARCH 7, 2024

Following the institute’s collaborative sessions, leaders gained fresh perspectives on addressing issues hindering student retention and success. These coaches bridge success and retention efforts, aiding students in accessing campus resources and conducting exit interviews. With a fair playing field, they identified a 7.9%

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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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EAB

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Podcast Top Priorities for Community Colleges in 2024 Episode 175. EAB experts Dr. Christina Hubbard, and Allison Peeler discuss the major shifts and trends impacting community colleges over the past year. EAB · Top Priorities for Community Colleges in 2024 Transcript Coming soon. December 5, 2023.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Kirkwood Community College will be closing or modifying three programs and is laying off faculty and staff, citing low enrollment, Corridor Business Journal reported. The greater the number of our graduates, the greater the impact they will have on our region.”

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EAB

JANUARY 26, 2023

Blogs 6 trends impacting community college enrollment in 2023 For the past two years, it’s been difficult to focus on anything beyond the immediate consequences of the pandemic. But now as we find ourselves stabilizing, it’s time to pause and take stock of the full landscape facing community colleges. get your copy 2.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

How Pueblo College Supercharged Yield and Retention Efforts. EAB’s Tara Zirkel is joined by Pueblo Community College VP of Student Success, Dr. Heather Speed, to examine changes Pueblo made to boost enrollment heading into the fall semester. EAB · How Pueblo College Supercharged Yield and Retention Efforts.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Financial aid, retention, and faculty/staff representation are part of the Seal,” says Dr. Deborah Santiago, co-founder and CEO of Excelencia in Education, who says she is delighted to see institutions with intentional practices actively working toward increasing Latino representation in key positions. Hawkins Jr. Hawkins, Jr.

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EAB

AUGUST 2, 2023

EAB's new insight paper details perceptions from 160+ community college practitioners of student customer service practices and how they impact enrollment and retention. Log In Register The post Student Customer Service Perceptions Among Community College Practitioners appeared first on EAB.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 8, 2024

In the new report, “Ending Unfunded Mandates in Higher Education: Using Completion-Goals Funding to Improve Accountability and Outcomes,” Complete College America (CCA) calls on states to evolve beyond performance-based funding to what they call completion-goals funding. There’s a referendum that needs to occur on funding."

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Military friendly is a common phrase used by organizations to communicate an appreciation of military service members (Kirchner, et al., If your community college is struggling to have those conversations, outside facilitators can support you. Dr. Susan M. 2) Who are your military-connected learners and how do you know?

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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? Community colleges are often the educational hub and significant workforce development driver in the regions they serve.

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EAB

JUNE 27, 2023

Ninety-nine percent of respondents agree better customer service is essential to student retention, which creates an urgent need for institutions to become more service-oriented and responsive to students’ concerns and questions. 62 percent recognize that students must take time away from their families and jobs to resolve college issues.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Boxing legend Sugar Ray Leonard is set to speak during the 17th Annual National Black, Brown and College Bound (BBCB) Summit, according to organizers. College students and professionals engage in dialogue about critical issues, successful strategies, and solutions. The summit also includes a series of workshops based on themed tracks.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 31, 2024

DREAM — the signature annual event of Achieving the Dream — a nonprofit organization that works to close achievement gaps, has become the go-to convening for community college educators and policymakers interested in institutional change. Community College of Aurora President Dr. Mordecai Brownlee with ATD President Dr. Karen A.

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Civitas Learning

AUGUST 8, 2023

Retention leaders at Lakeland Community College , a mid-sized, two-year institution in Kirtland, Ohio, wanted to understand how their mandatory First Year Experience course influenced student success. What they learned from their analysis was surprising.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 13, 2023

There are 116 community colleges in California. The college recognized that the campus needed a safe space for males to get together, interact and learn from each other as well as to access resources,” says Jamal Biggs, director of the QCC MRC.

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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. It creates real community around a student. That is the power of what we do.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2024

It could be the result of the gradual decline in postsecondary enrollment seen in the nation since around 2010, or a result from the severe enrollment drops during the COVID-19 pandemic, seen particularly at community colleges. These drops “erase the gains made between 2015 and 2020,” said Dr. Pietro A.

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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. of attending your community college?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 8, 2024

The profile of the average community college student is changing. While two-year institutions still have significant populations of adult students and people desirous of enhancing their career options, there is a growing number of first-time college students, age 18 to 22, that are seeking a traditional college experience.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2024

Students at LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City, NY. Kenneth Adams, president of LaGuardia Community College. offers 28 data dashboards with insights on enrollment, grades, financial aid, retention, completion, and student demographics. The current iteration of the program, Insights 2.0,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 27, 2023

Community colleges and both public and private four-year institutions experienced increases in persistence and retention, but private for-profit four-year schools and primarily associate degree-granting baccalaureate institutions saw declines. That’s what worries me and many community college leaders the most.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 2, 2024

By assessing these environmental impacts on your students, your institution is better prepared to develop a plan to fund long-term resources to address these barriers impacting enrollment, persistence, retention, and program completion. Dr. Mordecai Ian Brownlee is president of the Community College of Aurora in Colorado.

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EAB

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Blogs 5 areas for community college leaders to take stock in 2023 And resources to help sustain your post-pandemic momentum Now that community colleges have weathered the storm of the pandemic, it’s time to take a moment to recognize all you have accomplished, and then to begin to steer the transition from a “crisis” mindset to a sustainability one.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2023

Scott Schirmeier The new Recruitment Management module improves Navigate’s customer relationship management capabilities and simplifies recruitment/retention for schools into one platform, allowing schools to implement coordinated communications strategies for prospective students.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Likewise, students from lower-income backgrounds who start at a community college are less likely to transfer than students from higher-income ones (25 perent vs 41 percent). TransferBOOST informed a three-part series of insights. Learn how to maximize the impact of the tool and download it here.

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Blackboard Blog

JANUARY 24, 2022

Director, Community College Enrollment & Retention.  In the fall of 2020, community colleges saw double digit enrollment declines. While institutions were  While institutions were hopeful for a recovery in 2021, these declines continue to plague community colleges.  By Tara Zirkel, Ed.D. points, to 51.6%. 

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Nicholas Cochrane, associate professor of business and economics at Mount Wachusett Community College. “To Now, Cochrane is an associate professor of business and economics at Mount Wachusett Community College (MWCC) in rural Gardner, Mass., To say I didn’t fit in was an understatement,” said Cochrane. “I

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

APRIL 23, 2024

In Massachusetts , the state-funded Supporting Urgent Community College Equity Through Student Services (SUCCESS) program provides community college students with wraparound services including tutoring, academic advising, financial aid counseling, and career guidance.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 26, 2024

The PSSG – it was first funded in 2022 via the Consolidated Appropriations Act – recognizes and awards funds to institutions that propose to use the grant for evidence-based reforms and practices in pursuit of bolstering student participation, retention, transfer, and completion rates.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 24, 2024

Baston, president of Cuyahoga Community College pointed to the “opportunity deserts” that exist within higher education that stretch beyond race and ethnicity. In the opening keynote to the conference, Dr. Michael A. Dr. Michael A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 4, 2023

Those dollars, coupled with a $12 million donation in December 2020 from billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott, were allocated into need-based scholarships, which Oubré said “resulted in some of the best retention rates we’ve ever had, particularly in demographic groups that are the most vulnerable, like African American men.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 19, 2024

Robinson said the retention and graduation rates of students of color from NYC at Gettysburg is “essentially 95% plus,” adding that colleges need to make the investment in their future students. There’s a return on that investment into our communities and back to the Gettysburg campus as well,” said Robinson.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2023

The participating colleges and universities include HBCUs, state-funded, small private schools and community colleges that do the heavy lifting, but don’t often have the financial resources to support their students.” French, Jr., president of UNCF-member Clark Atlanta University.

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EAB

JANUARY 13, 2023

Modern Student Experience Diagnostic for Community Colleges. Modern student expectations are everchanging—can your community college keep up? Community college student demographics are shifting, nontraditional is the new norm, mental health is in crisis, and learning flexibility is a growing demand.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Jean Petty started her community college education right out of high school and had no idea how to “do college.” She walked into the first college she attended not knowing where to start, and no one was very helpful in getting her enrolled and on a pathway. Many community college students have Petty’s experience.

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