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Paul Quinn College to Create an Innovative Housing Model and a Mixed-Use Community

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We believe this project will have a profound impact on student success and well-being, empowering them to focus on their education and future.” In 2010, In 2010, the college converted its football field into a farm.

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College Completion Rates Edging Upward

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Jorge Silva-Puras, the Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Student Success at Lehman College, which is part of the City University of New York (CUNY), noted that the six-year completion rate at Lehman is around 51%. It was a 30-percentage point gap in the 2010 cohort between the highest income students and the lowest.

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Morgan State University Launches Task Force to Combat Declining Black Male Enrollment

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Recent data from the American Institute for Boys and Men reveals a stark reality: HBCUs have experienced a 25% decrease in Black male enrollment since 2010, surpassing the 22% decline observed across all U.S. higher education institutions.

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Report: Housing Crisis Threatens Student Parents' College Dreams

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For many student parents, the burden of finding and maintaining stable housing threatens their academic success and their children's well-being. Generation Hope, founded in 2010, has served 435 teen parents in college and celebrated nearly 200 degrees. per dollar invested.

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Southwest Wisconsin Technical College Wins 2025 Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence

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College leaders are working to raise their graduation rate to an ambitious 70% through multiple strategies, including ensuring every student develops a career-aligned success plan with appropriate support to complete their program. The college isn't resting on its laurels.

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Marcus Freeman, Rudy Hubbard, and Black Labor

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Columbus was also where both men began their coaching careers, Freeman as a graduate assistant under Jim Tressel in 2010 and Hubbard as an assistant, and the first-ever Black member of Ohio States coaching staff, under Woody Hayes in 1968.

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Fostering Success

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The tutoring and academic counseling were crucial to her success. Then, you see the successes.” Students help us run this operation, and as a result, we get a lot of success stories coming out of the program,” Alexander says. Alexander is studying the success and impact of various programs within AAP.

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