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After a Successful Tenure, Hauser Prepares to Pass the Torch

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

She connected the dots and realized that CMC was losing students by not recruiting more of its regional K-12 students and their families, many of whom are Latinx, first-generation, and immigrants. That’s why she set about the process of focusing CMC into becoming a Hispanic-Serving Institution.

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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Department of Education, the Upward Bound program works with students from six area high schools that are identified as potential first-generation college students. This program paired faculty members with developmental education freshmen. By example, initially funded in 2007 by a grant from the U.S.

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Community Colleges’ Essential Role in Workforce Development

Timely MD

They offer resources to implement evidence-based reforms, with a focus on topics such as student success, developmental education, and guided pathways. citizens, and 5% are veterans. The average age of a community college student is 27, and 35% of students are between the ages of 22 and 39.

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How will we measure student success in the 2020s?

EAB

Reformers concentrated their efforts on structures and policies known to have a disproportionate impact on minoritized students, such as developmental education. Developmental education K-12 learning also took a big hit during the pandemic, and we will be processing the aftereffects for years.