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Report: Community College Students Lack Information About Career Paths

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

But only about half (49%) said that their schooling at college had given them information about the skills they’ll need for the job, according to the report. But only about half (49%) said that their schooling at college had given them information about the skills they’ll need for the job, according to the report.

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New Report Highlights Hidden Costs and Privacy Risks of Digital Courseware for Higher Education Students

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The report also noted that data privacy practices in higher education lack transparency and added that students and instructors receive little information on how personal data is collected, stored, or shared, and companies often fail to clearly explain their data policies.

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Focusing on Mental Health Challenges Facing Community College Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

If we can find a way to start understanding that at the very beginning when students come to the campus for the first time…we can connect them to resources or inform them of resources…so they feel cared for, noticed and that someone believes in them.” We’ll provide psychological information. Garcia, executive director of CCCSE. “If

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Poet, Interdisciplinary Scholar Among the 2024 MacArthur "Genius" Fellows

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Fellows do not apply and are never officially informed that they’ve been nominated unless they are selected for the award. Jericho Brown The 22 fellows will each receive a grant of $800,000 over five years to spend however they want.

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Report: Communication Key to Improving Transfer Rate

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Many of those students had to find information about how to successfully prepare for transferring through their own efforts, rather than have that presented to them upon enrollment at the community college. Lehman College, a four-year CUNY school, also has a Virtual Transfer Center that community college students can go to for information.

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Dr. Winnifred R. Brown-Glaude, The College of New Jersey

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She researches race, gender, and informal economies in the Anglophone Caribbean. Brown-Glaude is the former chair of the Department of African American Studies, where she spearheaded the development of its major.

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ACCT Project Catalogs State Funding Models for Community Colleges

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This work will provide a comprehensive analysis that will inform future campus programs and services, and influence local, state, and federal funding structures to benefit the 10 million students served each year at the nation’s community colleges.” Bumphus, president and CEO of the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC).