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Carnegie Classifications Unveils Major Redesign to Better Reflect Student Success

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Nowadays, institutions can't be reduced down to the highest degree they award because they exist to serve a wide range of students in a wide variety of ways." This recognition was awarded to 479 institutions that demonstrate exceptional performance in providing access and economic mobility.

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AB 705: Bold Policy, Implications for Equitable Student Success

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For example, the percentage of first-time students enrolling in transfer-level math and English courses within their first year of college rose dramatically between the fall 2015 and fall 2020 cohorts. Understanding the identities of students left behind is crucial to mitigating the unintended consequences of any policy.

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Community Colleges Test New Model Linking Student Success to Community Impact

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This is a new roadmap for community college sustainability, a pathway for ensuring relevance with value, and a redefining moment for what the student success movement is all about," says Dr. Karen A. Others are aligning their programs more closely with regional workforce needs and creating new support systems to ensure student success.

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New Report Highlights Critical Role of HBCUs, TCUs, and MSIs in Student Success and Economic Mobility

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The report, "Pathways to Opportunity: Examining Students' Academic and Economic Outcomes at HBCUs, TCUs, and MSIs," found that these institutions consistently outperform non-minority serving institutions in awarding degrees to their target populations and providing pathways to economic success for underrepresented students.

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Student Success in STEM

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As chief executive officers in the California community college system, we embarked upon the topic of STEM out of an acute awareness of the lack of Dr. Lennor Johnson opportunities available to disproportionately impacted communities, and a shared commitment to forging increased pathways for those with the least access.

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Proposed Regulations Looks to Increase College Access

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New proposed regulations could increase college access for high school students and provide better public data on student outcomes, according to officials at the U.S. Department of Education. Secretary of Education Dr. Miguel A.

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Report: Outdated Funding Law Hampers Community College Student Success

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California's community colleges find themselves caught in a 60-year-old funding constraint that increasingly hampers their ability to serve todays students, according to a new report from the Community College League of California. For California's 2.2