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The Time to Talk with Students About Transfer is Now

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Courtney Adkins One of the great benefits of attending a community college is the low-cost accrual of college credit that can be applied to a bachelor’s degree upon transfer to a four-year college or university. Therefore, the students who stand to gain the most from transferring are the least likely to do so.

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Fill Graduation Gaps, Transform Higher Ed

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Yet less than 12% of resident 18-to-24-year-old students enrolled in our public universities are Hispanic. We see similar enrollment gaps for African American students, rural students, and low-income students. About 60% of our state university students graduate within six years.

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Guiding Community Colleges Toward Mission Fulfillment

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Her focus is student success initiatives, which include a lot of different focus areas, including guided pathways and holistic advising, developmental education reform, and a number of things that lead to increased student success, particularly with underserved populations, says Felder. These reforms can be broad-based.

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Community Colleges’ Essential Role in Workforce Development

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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. The 1,038 community colleges in the U.S. million for bachelor’s degree holders and $1.6

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New Student Engagement Data Reveals Surprises

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Key among those expectations is that colleges should emphasize assessment and improvement of student retention and student learning. And we've done many publications on that, like student basic needs, COVID, the working learner guided pathways mindset. But Guided Pathways just doesn't happen overnight.