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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

Access to resources such as food, housing, childcare, mental health care, financial assistance, and transportation is critical for ensuring strong academic performance, increasing persistence and graduation rates, and improving health and well-being among community college students. citizens, and 5% are veterans.

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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. Student mental health The post-pandemic student mental health crisis merely accelerates a trend we have observed for a decade.