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Transfer Enrollments Increased Fall 2023

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Eighty-two percent of liberal arts and sciences, humanities and general studies majors changed their majors upon transfer. For students who started community college in 2016, which means a portion of their six years overlapped with COVID, 35% obtained a credential. respectively.

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Native Son Propels Opportunities for Kentucky Students

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CPE’s 2024 Higher Education Matters Progress Report shows the graduation rate for URM in the Kentucky Community & Technical College System (KCTCS) increased 15 percentage points from the 2016-17 academic year to the 2022-23 academic year. The 2024 Higher Education Matters Progress Report shows a 16.1 Offutt has been with CPE since 2018.

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New HBCU Medical College in NOLA Will Confront Medical Inequities

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Xavier and Ochsner, who first collaborated in the 1980s at Xavier’s College of Pharmacy, began serious planning for the creation of a medical school as early as 2016, but the COVID-19 pandemic put those plans on pause. This work will inspire bold efforts to expand inclusiveness, in terms of access to careers and healthcare in the U.S.

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Puerto Rican Resilience Is a Lesson for the Mainland

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Being an HSI gives institutions access to grants and funding that must be used to better support and serve Latinx students. Even though UAGM - Gurabo enrollment dropped from 17,167 in 2016 to 13,553 in 2020, Méndez Méndez and other leaders made conscious decisions that would keep the cost of tuition level. 6 and 7, 2020 at a 5.8

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Panel Spotlights Registered Apprenticeships at MSIs

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In recent years, Alabama has been the #1 state in terms of opioid prescriptions written, with 121 per 100 people in 2016. The ravages of the opioid crisis meant that Alabama was in desperate need of social workers.

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Petitioning for the Right to Work

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Fuentes, who is set to begin her senior year as a scholarship student at the University of California, Riverside, this fall, is majoring in education, society, and human development with a minor in political science. But then in 2016 came President Donald J. Priscila Fuentes is one of those students.

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North Carolina Behind in Goal for Educational Attainment; Calls for Greater Student Support

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But by 2016, Allen decided to return to school and complete her education. With those funds, she was able to enroll at Blue Ridge Community College as a human services technology student, on track to graduate this May. After his passing, I couldn’t cope properly. As a result, I chose to drop out of school.”

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