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Community Colleges Are Well Positioned Historically, equity and inclusion in higher education have been shaped by various legislation and milestones that improved learner access in America. These historical progressions made the relationship between college access and inclusiveness symbiotic.

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JANUARY 15, 2025

Hyun says she specifically incorporates students in her work because theyre going to be future teachers, so I want them to also learn about our issues, engineering problems. Our students are going to be the decision makers, theyre going to work at the city or the consulting company, build the roads and improve infrastructure.

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JANUARY 30, 2024

College Possible is renewing its collaboration with the NBA Foundation to help remove barriers to college access and entry for young people of color and students from low-income communities. The mission of the nonprofit is to boost college access and success by connecting high school and college students with near-peer coaches.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Board of Education decision, many Black students across the nation still do not have access to equitable educational opportunities in early childhood, K-12, or higher education compared with other students. In many states, school funding systems do not meet the needs of today’s students. of college students are Black.

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JANUARY 7, 2025

A groundbreaking report released by Generation Hope reveals the devastating impact of housing insecurity on student parents pursuing higher education. The findings paint a stark picture: one in five undergraduate students nationwide is parenting while attending college, and housing costs often exceed tuition expenses.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Michigan State University (MSU) will offer in-state tuition to out-of-state Native American students through their Native American Tuition Advantage Program (NATAP), beginning in Fall 2025. After looking into and providing a solution to assist the student, Weatherspoon wanted to know what more the institution could do.

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APRIL 4, 2024

Students at LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City, NY. IHEP identified these two institutions by using the Equitable Value Explorer , a free, publicly accessible site that analyzes data from colleges and universities across the country. Kenneth Adams, president of LaGuardia Community College.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2024

According to Boren, to attract the younger generation to teach, the pathways should be designed so that students are not wasting credits, money or time. Teaching should be exposed to students earlier on, preferably in high school where they're allowed to start taking courses early,” says Boren. They want to be able to advance.”

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JULY 23, 2024

After months of delay, an independent access agreement between North Carolina State University and law firms representing sick clients will allow independent testing to be conducted within Poe Hall to determine the levels and kinds of PCBs present in building materials that may have caused former workers and students to become ill.

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DECEMBER 1, 2024

College students are paying twice for their education: once in tuition and again with their privacy. The report uncovers “troubling gaps in data privacy for students using digital learning tools in higher education.” That’s the findings from a new Privacy Rights Clearinghouse report, funded by a Michelson 20MM grant.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2024

As mental health becomes a growing key issue for many, college students are stepping up, not only as advocates for their own well-being but also as catalysts for change within their own communities. However, while students may view mental health advocacy as crucial, few are ready to commit to long term action. "We

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MAY 14, 2024

Pacheco is an advocate for equity in access to education and arts, working with organizations like The Healing Centered Schools Task Force. The award recognizes young poets whose work centers on social impact and advocacy such as former National Youth Poet Laureate, Amanda Gorman. She was named the 2023 New York City Youth Poet Laureate.

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OCTOBER 18, 2024

In an effort to provide support for its student parents at all 23 of its campuses, the California State University (CSU) launched its first university-wide initiative focused on this demographic. Given that 19 percent of all college students, or 3.7

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JANUARY 31, 2025

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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JANUARY 21, 2025

Yet the humanity of formerly incarcerated Dr. Sara Goldrick-Rab students is too often marginalized, even overlooked, in campus programs addressing issues like food and housing insecurity. That is largely because these justice-impacted students are often invisible to educators, their identities simply erased.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

Two new reports from The California Alliance for Student Parent Success (The Alliance) detail the challenges that student parents face at California institutions. Approximately 300,000 undergraduate student parents are currently enrolled at institutions of higher education in the state of California.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2024

A widespread health crisis is undermining American community colleges, with many current and potential students exhibit high rates of anxiety, depression, substance abuse, suicidal ideation, food insecurity, and more. The challenges predate the pandemic but were exacerbated by it.

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JUNE 6, 2024

Johnson, an associate professor and director at the University of Southern California (USC) Rossier School of Education, shines a light on an often-forgotten subset of students. Institutions should be making efforts to meet these students where they are and provide them with basic needs like housing, food, and financial support.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

In addition to being a college student, she was a wife, mother of three, executive assistant, and an involved auntie. Throughout September, National Student Parent Month , we celebrated the accomplishments of student parents and the efforts of those colleges, universities, and organizations that faithfully serve.

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JANUARY 26, 2025

Student Affairs and Higher Education, Indiana State University; Ph.D., Briscoe was called in as an expert on the safety of Black students on college campuses and the increasing number of hate crimes committed on campuses. Early on, Briscoe saw herself as a student leader. Business Marketing, Albany State University; MBA.,

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DECEMBER 3, 2024

“When I first met with my advisor, I was excited to dive into my program,” says Maria, a first-generation community college student. Since the enactment of AB 705 in California, community colleges in the state have seen an undeniable increase in the number of students enrolled in transfer-level courses.

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OCTOBER 29, 2024

A new report from the Center for Community College Student Engagement (CCCSE) details mental health challenges that students face and how they can be better supported. These included questions related to anxiety and depression as well as access to mental health resources. Garcia, executive director of CCCSE. “If

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APRIL 24, 2024

Excelencia in Education, an organization working for increased access and completion of Latinx students in postsecondary education, has released its latest report on programs that have qualitatively and quantitatively shown to improve and increase the success of Latinx students in higher education.

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JANUARY 13, 2025

Yet at a moment of high anxiety for many immigrants and families across America, we are joined in our shared commitment to immigrant-origin students and in recognition of their importance to our nations future. As a second-generation immigrant myself, I often tell our incoming students that my family is like theirs.

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DECEMBER 14, 2023

High school students are divided on whether they should use generative AI tools for school, and most of those who did found errors in what these tools produced, according to a new report from ACT. A little less than half of the students surveyed responded that they had used AI tools (46%), the majority having used chatbot ChatGPT (83%).

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APRIL 18, 2024

Ohio Wesleyan University and Columbus State Community College are collaborating to address societal challenges and help Columbus State students more quickly, easily, and affordably earn bachelor’s degrees at Ohio Wesleyan. The program is available to up to 25 full-time students each year for up to four consecutive Ohio Wesleyan semesters.

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MARCH 13, 2024

When you have students applying to early action or early decision trying to finalize where they’re gonna go—for a lot of our students, that financial need is really important.” Traditionally, the FAFSA form opens on October 1, leaving students and their parents plenty of time to fill out the form. The student’s nerves are real.

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JULY 9, 2024

Colclough hatched an idea — what if they could develop professional learning environments easily accessible for all faculty in North Carolina’s community colleges, and what if that development could move the needle on student success? That trend is experienced across all student groups, not just in certain demographics. “No

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OCTOBER 5, 2023

Gavin Newsom has signed a bill that gives community college students transferring to HBCUs a one-time grant of up to $5,000. Fallon/AFP/Getty Images Given that the state of California itself does not have any HBCUs, students who want to attend and experience one have to pursue it out-of-state but may miss out on state aid in the process.

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JULY 11, 2024

Earlier this year, a report from the National Student Clearinghouse brought some welcome news following years of declines in college transfer. million undergraduate students enrolled in college last fall, 1.2 The data showed that, of the 11.7 The transfer process is fraught with financial and bureaucratic hurdles.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2024

The 2024 Survey found that 35 states now require students to take a course in personal finance to graduate, up by 12 since 2022. The new regulations in those dozen states will lead to over 10 million additional K–12 students – 21 percent of current students – gaining guaranteed access to this knowledge, the Survey notes.

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DECEMBER 12, 2023

Ten years ago, most college students short of money for food would have difficulty finding a food pantry on campus. Food insecurity wasn’t a widely recognized problem in higher education and “student basic needs” wasn’t a field of practice. There are more than four million students who need help, yet most programs only serve hundreds.

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MARCH 15, 2024

Without Higher Education Emergency Relief (HEER) funding, experts say many community college programs would have closed, faculty and staff laid off, and more students forced to stop out on their pathways towards accreditation. They tried to keep open for and cater to as many students as possible, so they did need this money.”

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MAY 13, 2024

Student newsrooms at select historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) can expect thousands in additional monetary support soon thanks to an initiative at Howard University. The Center for Journalism & Democracy plans to award some $200,000 to 10 such newsrooms at through its inaugural Newsroom Innovation Challenge.

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JUNE 14, 2024

Six individuals have been recognized in The California State University’s (CSU) first-ever Black Student Success Scholarship Program.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Michigan State University (MSU) will offer in-state tuition to out-of-state Native American students through their Native American Tuition Advantage Program (NATAP), beginning in Fall 2025. After looking into and providing a solution to assist the student, Weatherspoon wanted to know what more the institution could do.

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OCTOBER 26, 2024

Dr. Sara Goldrick-Rab To help mitigate this, Believe in Students developed The #RealCollege Curriculum masterclass, a four-course curriculum sponsored by the ECMC Foundation, Gates Foundation, Imaginable Futures, and Michelson 20MM. In 2025, three additional courses, including one focused on supporting parenting students, will be added.

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