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New Research Shows Benefits of Summer Pell

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

For most of its 50-year history, the Pell Grant has not covered summer classes, with two brief exceptions: 2009-2011 and 2017 to the present. Part-time students can use leftover traditional Pell Grant money to take summer classes, so they don’t qualify for summer Pell.)

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Community Colleges Increase Housing Options

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It has been at or near capacity since 2017. Their fall-to-fall retention rate between fall 2022 and fall 2023 was actually 11% higher than commuters.” Campus housing could have a discernable impact on retention and graduation. By example, fall 2023 students with housing had a retention rate of 89.6% versus 83.8%

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Puerto Rican Resilience Is a Lesson for the Mainland

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Being an HSI gives institutions access to grants and funding that must be used to better support and serve Latinx students. UAGM - Gurabo’s retention rate between 2016 and 2020 remained at or above 75%. UAGM - Gurabo’s retention rate between 2016 and 2020 remained at or above 75%. 6 and 7, 2020 at a 5.8 magnitude and 6.4

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

for students who entered in 2017. After undergraduate programming demonstrated improved retention and graduation rates, Watford was able to recruit students to Virginia Tech. Grant proposals are written to support additional CEED projects. The four-year graduation rate for students who entered in 2012 was 52.8%.

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How institutions can invest in supporting Spanish-speaking students and families

Blackboard Blog

Institutions should be prepared to see even more students, and their families, who speak Spanish, especially as the Hispanic population grows, the possibility of Pell grants for DACA students continues to be a topic of conversation, and states expand their financial aid resources to include broader communities.

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Community Colleges’ Essential Role in Workforce Development

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are pursuing an Associate’s Degree and the percentage of job openings that require a four-year degree declined from 51% in 2017 to 44% in 2021, the significance of community colleges in shaping the next generation of workers can’t be overstated. Given that over 40% of undergraduate students in the U.S. citizens, and 5% are veterans.

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Dr. Dara N. Byrne: Leveraging Public Higher Education for the Common Good

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

From December 2016 to July 2022, when she left to begin her new position, she served as associate provost for undergraduate retention and dean of undergraduate studies. Byrne is intent on increasing Macaulay’s already high graduation rate of approximately 80%, which continues to rise even as the number of Pell Grant recipients has risen.