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Access Must be Front Burner for Community Colleges

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Students navigate housing and food insecurity, transportation issues, and other limitations to access. The purpose of community colleges is to increase access to higher education for the most vulnerable populations.” Achieving the Dream works with corporations, foundations, and other partners to support community colleges.

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Empowering Community Colleges Through AI: A New Era of Access and Economic Mobility

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Since Apple introduced Siri, its voice-controlled software, in October 2011, consumers have begun normalizing interactions with narrow AI. Community Colleges Are Well Positioned Historically, equity and inclusion in higher education have been shaped by various legislation and milestones that improved learner access in America.

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Johnson Appointed Edmund W. Gordon Chair for Policy Research and Evaluation at ETS

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In this new role, he is expected to guide policy research at the assessment organization with the goal of advancing equitable access to quality education and fair assessment for learners. In 2011, Diverse honored Gordon, who turned 103 earlier this year, with the Dr. John Hope Franklin award. Dr. Odis Johnson Jr.

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How Colleges Across the Nation are Honoring the Life and Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Clarence Vaughn,director of the Office of Access and Community Connections at UT and a member of the MLK commission, said that the partnership not only increases student participation at the events, but also gives residents in the surrounding community the opportunity to support the university and visit campus.

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Unapologetic Leadership for Black Learner Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Over half a million – 579,000 to be exact – Black students have left the American higher education system since 2011. Before and during COVID, most of these students vanished from our most affordable and accessible institutions – our community colleges. But we need to look closer at the data.

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Brown University Exhibit on Mumia Abu-Jamal to Highlight American Prison System

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He previously was given a death sentence, but that was overturned in 2011. The exhibit will show viewers the life of a journalist imprisoned in Pennsylvania for 41 years and serving a life sentence for a murder conviction. The entire ordeal has prompted national debates about racial injustice and the death penalty.

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Report Examines Fragmented Reentry Services for Formerly Incarcerated Individuals Attending College

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Their inclusion, their belonging, well-being and their ability to access and use campus basic needs, that for me was one of the really big takeaways.” That is a fact and we see it all the time with our own students when they return to community (P2CP began in 2011). There is not a one-size-fits-all model.”