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Report: Outdated Funding Law Hampers Community College Student Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The sixty-four-year-old law remains literally unchanged while everything around it has transformedfrom technology to teaching methods to the students themselves. "If If we are truly committed to equity and student success," Goldsmith added, "we must modernize this law to align with the mission of today's community colleges."

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Number of HBCU Registered Apprenticeships Surging

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Marybeth Gasman and Alice Ginsberg, provides a comprehensive guide for HBCUs looking to launch federally recognized apprenticeship programs that combine classroom instruction with paid work experience. For HBCUs, these programs are more than just practical.

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Championing Student Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Undergraduate LAs operate as part of an instructional team, supporting both students and faculty to create more inclusive, learner-centered classrooms that improve student and faculty success. The concept is quite simple. At FSU, the program has also worked to increase access to STEM majors. I am still doing my research.

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Five Questions That College Leaders Should Be Asking to Improve Student Success in 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

To better serve these learners, institutions must build programs for the busy adults and first-generation students who make up significant and growing shares of today’s college population. Institutions must respect this reality by maximizing flexibility for learners and structure their programs to promote student success.

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Outdoor Equity and Mental Health: A Pathway to Healing for Underrepresented Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A key example of this transformation was seen in a group of students from historically underrepresented communities who participated in a whitewater rafting experience. Most had never been in a river before, and some had deep fears of water, yet through guided instruction and a supportive group dynamic, they faced their fears head-on.

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Legislation Would Introduce Grant Program for California Black-Serving Institutions

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Through his advocacy for Black students in California, he has observed several key barriers that impact their enrollment and success, including Black faculty representation, culturally reflective curriculum, pedagogy and instructional methodology.

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Community Colleges Build Workforce Through Partnership and Student Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Educators from a variety of community colleges shared how student success and sense of belonging is vital to meeting their local workforce needs, and how their unique geographic locations, demographic growth, and regional needs have influenced how they connect with big industry and small to mid-sized businesses.