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29, the new federal spending plan is set to increase the Pell Grant in 2023, allowing low-incomestudents a chance to access up to $7,395 each year. I think it’s fantastic that students will get $500 more. With President Biden’s signature on Dec. Of course, they need more, but it’s better than not getting it.”
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Stout, recipient of the 2025 Diverse Champions Award, has focused her career on helping communitycolleges achieve outstanding student success. Moono, president of SUNY Schenectady County CommunityCollege. Shes helping colleges implement evidence-based reforms.
After the COVID-19 pandemic forced an emergency switch to online learning, students have embraced the modality for its flexibility and convenience. This is particularly true of communitycollegestudents, who are more likely than others to have jobs and family commitments that make coming to a campus tough.
The Aspen Institute College Excellence Program and Columbia University’s CommunityCollege Research Center will be collaborating to produce two publications in support of ultimately improving transfer student outcomes, particularly for students of color and low-incomestudents.
CPE’s 2024 Higher Education Matters Progress Report shows the graduation rate for URM in the Kentucky Community & Technical College System (KCTCS) increased 15 percentage points from the 2016-17 academic year to the 2022-23 academic year. He became executive vice president in 2013 and assumed the presidency in 2018.
Education experts spoke about the study, its findings, and what higher education can do to reduce college enrollment gaps created by socio-economic status at a webinar on Monday. We’re giving lots of support to top students, it’s a self-fulfilling prophecy that they end up going on and doing well,” said Bonilla.
Through deliberate, intentional efforts to bring in students from traditionally underserved populations, WVC’s dual enrollment programs are not only building opportunity and access but impacting enrollment as well. That boost helped recover some of the losses experienced by communitycolleges during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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These students are provided academic supports that include counseling, scholarships, and opportunities to participate in innovative science programs. “Dr. Alexander is very accessible, very approachable for students,” says Dr. Claudia Salcedo, who adds that administrators can sometimes be perceived as separate from the students they serve.
The late “soft launch” took place but several technical issues and limited windows of accessibility – the latter issue was addressed by Jan. students from college educated, wealthier families will likely have an advantage in access due to the ability to place multiple deposits down.” 30 instead of the usual Oct.
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Created in 2005 by Excelencia in Education, Examples of Excelencia is a national initiative that recognizes institutions and nonprofit organizations that identify, aggregate, and promote evidence-based practices that improve Latinx studentaccess in higher education. I care more than just graduation at communitycollege.
Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas, partners with over 62 high schools across the state, facilitating collegeaccess for Latino, rural, and other marginalized communities. It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students. There is also a family resource center that supports undocumented students.
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brought innovation, excellence, and inclusion to communitycolleges. De los Santos, a posthumous recipient of a 2023 Diverse Champions Award, is remembered by colleagues as a great friend, an outstanding mind, and a determined educator who placed access and equity at the center of his work. Alfredo de los Santos Jr.
Williams They continue to be essential beacons of higher education for the talented students who attend them. Not only do HBCUs enroll twice as many first-generation, low-incomestudents, but they also outperform peer institutions in improving the economic standing of their students.
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They are stressed, low energy, some are afraid, and they are less hopeful.” We offer access social mobility. Other norms of institutional guidance, including Title IX, are all likely to change, and the ability of institutions to pivot and respond will likely depend on their overall access to funding, says Fernandez.
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