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California Sets Ambitious 70% College Attainment Goal Amid Persistent Equity Gaps

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The College Futures Foundation has released a comprehensive report highlighting California's push to achieve 70% postsecondary attainment by 2035, while revealing significant racial and socioeconomic disparities in college completion rates across the state.

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Compton College Addresses Student Homelessness and Basic Needs

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Under Currys leadership, their efforts grew into a larger task force committed to addressing housing, food, and basic needs for the student body. Our roles also gave us the conviction that we should. Rallying The Community After their conversation with Curry, the student leaders called on their community at Compton College for support.

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Report: Latinos Essential to Growing STEM Workforce

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Projections say that Latino students will reach parity in engineering enrollment by 2035, Martínez said. Among these suggestions were calls for corporations to implement inclusive hiring practices and diversity in leadership; and a need for higher ed to recruit Latino faculty in engineering and tech. in 2003 – and 7.5%

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North Dakota Joins National Coalition of States Working to Raise College Completion Rates

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

North Dakota’s Envision 2035 plan is boldly preparing the state’s workforce for an economy that can not only deliver better jobs, but also increase earning potential and career opportunity through an increasingly diverse set of industries and employers,” said Dr.

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EAB Strategic Advisory Services Extends Breadth and Depth of Coverage

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To support our partners in navigating both longstanding and emergent challenges, we pair rigorous research and deep knowledge of higher education with expert advisory services to holistically support each cabinet member as a functional leader and to serve the institutional leadership as a whole—we call this Strategic Advisory Services.

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How to uncover hidden threats in past enrollment trends

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And while many know generally that competition between institutions plays a role in enrollment outcomes, it’s rarer still to find a leadership team aware of how their share of all enrolled students, and the shares of other institutions, are shifting over time— market share.