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California Community Colleges Launch Initiative to Expand Shortened Courses

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The shortened course initiative directly aligns with Vision 2030, the strategic plan for California Community Colleges, which emphasizes supporting students through flexible modalities. As the largest system of higher education in the nation, California Community Colleges serves 2.1 million students annually across 116 colleges.

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The Slow but Steady Rise of Women in Higher Education Leadership

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This increase, while notable, also highlights the persistent challenges that remain in achieving true gender equity at the highest levels of academia. college and university chief executives by 2030. Today, the percentage stands at nearly 33%, marking a significant but measured progress in the landscape of academic leadership.

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Common App Launches 2024-25 Direct Admissions Program

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While the program reached more than 400,000 first-generation and low-income students in 2023-24, Rickard expects the 2024-25 launch will reach and inspire even more students and move Common App closer to its goal of closing the postsecondary attainment equity gap for low- and middle-income students by 2030.

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Common App Sets Goal to Increase Reach to Low-Income Students, Publishes Findings of Pilot Programs

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The nonprofit Common Application, which offers an online tool that many students use when looking to pursue an undergraduate education, is not being used by enough students who are from lower-income backgrounds, according to the organization’s inaugural Equity Innovations Guide. million students during the 2022-23 application cycle year.

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The Human Rights Campaign Receives $5 Million Grant to Continue Fight Against HIV and Stigmas

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Kelley Robinson The grant – awarded over three years – will go towards efforts to eradicate stigmas about HIV in Black and Latino communities and end the HIV epidemic by 2030.

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Cal State Fullerton Gets $1.4M for Career Pathways Projects

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The funding comes as part of a California program to tackle issues of equity in higher ed and the workforce. It’s a burgeoning industry, expected to grow 7% between 2020 and 2030. But California State University, Fullerton’s efforts to tackle this issue got a major boost recently with the announcement of $1.4

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Boldly Future Forward

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As we are preparing our students for skills in artificial intelligence, we know that by 2030 there will be new positions that we don’t even know what they’re called at this point, but we want our students to be ready.” Smith-Jackson, provost and executive vice chancellor for academic affairs. “As

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