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AB 705: Bold Policy, Implications for Equitable Student Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

For example, the percentage of first-time students enrolling in transfer-level math and English courses within their first year of college rose dramatically between the fall 2015 and fall 2020 cohorts. Collaboration becomes a lifeline in leading the implementation of AB 705.

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Wayne State to Collaborate on $75M Department of Energy Award

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He said the plan will lead to a six-week summer internship program for high school students and leverage the “Mobile Energy Lab” program he founded in 2015 at Wayne State to engage Detroit middle schoolers. “By

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Lilly Endowment Awards $100M Grant to United Negro College Fund

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It follows a $50 million grant from Lilly Endowment in 2015 that enabled UNCF to launch the Career Pathways Initiative to help enhance career outcomes for students. It plans to collaborate with the institutions to match the contribution through their fundraising efforts.

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Marquette University Receives $1.25 Million to Bolster Prison Education Program

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The prison education program as a whole has had more than 400 students since 2022, composing a mix of both incarcerated or formerly incarcerated people and Marquette undergrads, though the program’s origins stretch back to 2015, Wheelock said. It is collaborating with UW-Madison’s own prison education program towards that aim.

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Parnell Named President of NASPA — Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education

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“As institutions across the United States strive to support and sustain their workforce and provide high-quality resources to students, this is a pivotal time for collaboration”, she continued. “As Parnell has been with the organization since 2015 and will bring deep industry and organizational knowledge to her new role.

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Guiding Community Colleges Toward Mission Fulfillment

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Since 2015, Stout has served as president and CEO of Achieving the Dream (ATD), a network of over 300 community colleges, with the goal of being accessible hubs of learning, credentialing and economic mobility that eliminate inequities in educational and workforce outcomes. Moono, president of SUNY Schenectady County Community College.

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Trouble at Saint Augustine's University

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Montgomery, is there a way that we could collaborate so when we go back into the rest of the meeting [and] Ms. Montgomery previously served as chairman of the Florida A&M University's (FAMU) board of trustees but resigned from the board in 2015. I said, 'Mr. she said “And he became postal acting, just very outrageously loud. “One