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Compton College Addresses Student Homelessness and Basic Needs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This allowed students to share their current feelings and experiences. During one of these meetings, two students spoke up and shared that they were homeless. Im a former student activist, so seeing student activists seeing what we need was good. We took it upon ourselves, says Louden.

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

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North Dakota University System has joined the Complete College America (CCA) Alliance, a national coalition of 53 states, systems, institutions of higher education, and other organizations committed to increasing the number of students who successfully complete college and attain degrees or other postsecondary credentials.

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Report: Latinos Essential to Growing STEM Workforce

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For comparison, Black students and white students saw decreases of 8.5% During the same time frame, Hispanic students have increasingly comprised more and more of the recipients of undergraduate engineering degrees, with a 94.3% On the graduate level, Latino students were 9.4% and 19.7%, respectively. in 2003 – and 7.5%

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EAB Strategic Advisory Services Extends Breadth and Depth of Coverage

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However, many leadership teams struggle to define what makes their institution unique, let alone communicate a clear message that helps a prospective student choose their institution over another. EAB has developed a series of workshops to help embed Dynamic Strategy within your institution and develop a unique student value proposition.

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How to uncover hidden threats in past enrollment trends

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Instead, we should think of enrollment and how it changes as a combination of three key questions: How many potential students are there? Campus leaders already have good answers to the first question about the potential number of students, particularly for the ~18-year-old undergraduate population. Simply put, EAB U.