Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Dr. Edward Bush, president of Cosumnes River College, which is part of the Los Rios Community College District, said that the bill does not just address a need but will force institutions to critically assess how they serve Black students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Necessary support is provided through GANAS (Gaining Access ’AND Academic Success), an innovative access and retention program that serves community college transfer students. CSUSM’s inclusive hiring practices have increased Latino representation among faculty, administrators and staff. in the last two years.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2023

This fall semester, Massasoit Community College achieved a new first. Massasoit Community College is officially offering a Black Studies curriculum. Ten years in the making The story of Black Studies at the Massachusetts public community college goes back a decade. Census Bureau.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Frederick Shegog, former Delaware County Community College student, now motivational speaker. At the closing plenary of the 2023 Dream Conference in Chicago, Achieving the Dream (ATD), a reform network of over 300 community colleges, handed the microphone to students who either currently attend or graduated from a community college.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 31, 2023

Robeson Community College (RCC) in Lumberton, N.C., Curriculum and continuing education students whose classes meet on a regular basis throughout the semester and both full-time and part-time employees will be eligible.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 25, 2023

Marta Yera Cronin will become president of Delaware County Community College (DCCC), making her the second woman and the first Latina to lead the school. Dr. Marta Cronin Cronin – a first-generation college student born of immigrant parents – is currently president of Columbia Gorge Community College.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

This is particularly true of community college students, who are more likely than others to have jobs and family commitments that make coming to a campus tough. In a recent report by Bay View Analytics , 94% of community college students gave their online courses a passing grade, and 58% expressed a desire for more.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The first college in the U.S, Harvard University, founded in 1646, existed to educate white male landowners (and their progeny) in a classical curriculum focusing heavily on ethics, politics, and religion. Today, the California Community College System, with more than 1.8 Rogers is president of Contra Costa College.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 21, 2024

Lance Holbert Few community colleges offer courses that are specifically designated as “civic learning,” according to a report examining the current state of civics education in primary and secondary schools. Dr. Lynn Pasquerella The report is based on a 2023 survey of institutional leaders at 145 community colleges in 42 states.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Like mosquitoes, community colleges have the power to create a ripple of meaningful change. Community colleges, often under-appreciated yet mighty in their mission, are essential agents of transformationparticularly for students from historically marginalized communities. The numbers tell a powerful story.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The active marginalization of specific identities from education or the curriculum thwarts these objectives and the promises of higher education for all. The academic commitment to democracy is especially true of our nation’s community colleges, where many of our coalition members are proud to lead and serve.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 22, 2024

I suspect they apply whether you are faculty, staff, or student, and perhaps well beyond the academy as well. I hope these starting points help decipher the hidden curriculum of scholar activism. It also made me admire the incredible scholar activists who lit the way. Don’t let them say you weren’t doing your job. (10)

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 20, 2023

The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) has released a statement, criticizing the decision of the presidents of Florida’s 28 state and community colleges to eliminate courses dealing with critical race theory or related concepts such as intersectionality.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Associate Level English for Academic Purposes Reading Area Community College (Reading, PA) The English for Academic Purposes (EAP) at Reading Area Community College (RACC) began in 2012 to strategically reduce credit requirements and accelerate student progression with the goal of boosting enrollment and success rates.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 3, 2023

A recent article published in Diverse: Issues In Higher Education mentioned faculty concern about the impact of artificial intelligence on higher education. Institutions must examine the bowels of their infrastructures to advance student, staff, and faculty development from “artificial” to “authentic.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 28, 2023

Timothy Alvarez From earning an associate degree to serving as president of a community college, Alvarez understands the value of higher education and the need to create pathways and support systems. As a result, the college received a Title V grant, $3.5 He has a deep connection to community colleges.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2024

In 2005 — long before Curry took the helm — the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges revoked the school’s accreditation because of financial instability. It was a devastating blow to the college. If I have students living on campus in housing and they get sick, what are we going to do, say ‘go in the morning?’”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The college will have its own dean of students, director, counselors, academic advisors, and outreach and support staff, and it will draw from existing faculty who have “a demonstrated record of success in teaching Black students,” said Wood. It’s a specialized, accelerated, elite experience,” he said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Miami Dade College (MDC), located in Miami, Florida and one of the nation’s largest Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) received the classification in 2015 and is one of a handful of community colleges across the nation to hold the designation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

“Macaulay can provide an elite education — or a model that exemplifies the best of what higher ed has to offer — but without elitist recruitment or admissions processes,” says Byrne, who has been a faculty member at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (part of CUNY) since 2003. Upon completion of her Ph.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

He has previously been co-director of the Community College Equity Assessment Lab (CCEAL); director of the joint Ph.D. Program in Community College Leadership. program in education between SDSU and Claremont Graduate University; and director of the Ed.D. Joining Wood is Candis Bowles, a Southern California attorney.

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Civitas Learning

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Faculty play a central role in building connections with students. Their regular interaction and academic and career guidance, especially within their areas of expertise, can significantly help students in their college experience. You are the experts.’”

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Civitas Learning

AUGUST 8, 2023

The Outcomes: Results of the study sparked cross-functional strategic conversations aligning institutional policy and course curriculum to improve success throughout the student experience. But many faculty-raised alerts indicated something wasn’t working as intended.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

We’re changing the landscape of how community colleges serve underserved students,” says Espiritu. “We Having cohorts here is really important, especially for engineering and computer science because it’s a community that supports each other.” The faculty and staff overseeing EPW know each student personally. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 30, 2024

Arriving as a freshman at a predominantly white college, I was in for a culture shock. I did not see myself reflected in the curriculum, my professors, or the administration. Austin Community College District (ACC), for instance, was first recognized as an HSI in 2011, The designation is not, however, all that notable in and of itself.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2024

Dallas College (DC), a system of community colleges serving greater Dallas area of Texas, “is in the barrier-busting business,” said Chancellor Dr. Justin H.

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NACAC's Admitted

APRIL 16, 2023

Here are some factors to consider: Your competition: Who are the education competitors for your community college? Dual-enrollment options for high school students to complete college credit are growing in popularity. It is not uncommon for students to start college with between three and 12 credit hours already completed.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2023

UMGC has agreements with all 16 community colleges in Maryland, says Dr. Pam Carter, vice president and dean of the School of Business, which offers seven undergraduate degree programs and 10 stand-alone certificates. In terms of retention, Carter says hiring supportive faculty is a huge component. “We Online, 18.1%

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Civitas Learning

MAY 7, 2025

At Lakeland Community College , leaders used Course Insights to investigate performance in their First Year Experience (FYE) course. Advisors, faculty, and staff need a holistic view of a students experienceacademic progress, goals, challenges, and engagementso they can intervene early and offer proactive support.

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Believe in Students

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Second, I had spent about fifteen years working to improve college success for first-gen, low-income students. And in all the hundreds of hours of conversations I’d had about student success, I had never once talked to or about faculty members as part of the solution.

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Civitas Learning

APRIL 17, 2025

Here are two examples from our partner community: Building Buy-In Through Cross-Campus Collaboration with Austin Community College Serving more than 70,000 students, Austin Community College needed a better way to reach students who werent actively asking for help.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 7, 2023

Akbar, who teaches in the department of arts and communication, sees it as a vital means of communicating. Students and faculty find a way to produce creatively, even if it’s not formal,” said Akbar. There are also the technical and aesthetic sides of art. The creative impulse and the tradition are born out of a need.

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NACAC's Admitted

APRIL 16, 2023

Here are some factors to consider: Your competition: Who are the education competitors for your community college? Dual-enrollment options for high school students to complete college credit are growing in popularity. It is not uncommon for students to start college with between three and 12 credit hours already completed.

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Civitas Learning

MAY 23, 2024

Identifying Bottleneck Courses to Deliver Precise Academic Support Visibility into the impact individual courses have on persistence and graduation empowers provosts, academic deans, advising teams, and faculty members to identify and address barriers to student success in a clear, purposeful way.

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EAB

JANUARY 5, 2023

In recent years, institutions have confronted historical legacies of oppression , invested in faculty diversity , and developed retention programs for Black and Latino men , among many other initiatives. Just 10% of provosts selected any activity within "enhancing the faculty experience" as most critical. Activities. Activities.

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Believe in Students

APRIL 1, 2024

Questions about the motivations of faculty and students. Our faculty partners feel it. Yet, that same leader pointed to the antidote she has experienced: working in solidarity with other faculty, staff, and students on her campus and across the Believe in Students network to focus on building institutions that better serve students.

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Civitas Learning

JULY 11, 2024

Northwest’s student success model relies on collaboration between faculty, advisors, and student support units, such as diversity and inclusion, the registrar’s office, and the athletics department. Often, advisors, faculty, and student success team members only see a portion of a student’s profile. Read the Blog 3. Read the Blog 4.

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