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Fill Graduation Gaps, Transform Higher Ed

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Higher education leaders face an obligation to Kansas families to remove barriers to access and success and ensure that our system lives up to the ideal of equal opportunity for all. Although these actions are helpful, they have not moved the needle toward closing access and success gaps. Structural change is needed.

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Grounding Our Inquiry and Change Work in Equitable Post-Graduation Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Johnstone NCII has spent the past decade supporting the guided pathways movement alongside a great group of national partners, while integrating a focus on student financial stability, connection to living wage employment, and the nuances of this work at urban, suburban, and rural colleges. Dr. Robert. Roueche and Margaretta B.

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Making Equity a Priority

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It launched a popular Farmer’s Market on campus last year, providing each student with $20 a week to access fresh foods and vegetables. In 2005, Curry took a job at Compton College in an entry-level position within student services, ultimately working his way through the ranks of leadership to become interim president in 2011.

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Guiding Community Colleges Toward Mission Fulfillment

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Since 2015, Stout has served as president and CEO of Achieving the Dream (ATD), a network of over 300 community colleges, with the goal of being accessible hubs of learning, credentialing and economic mobility that eliminate inequities in educational and workforce outcomes. Shes helping colleges implement evidence-based reforms.