Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 20, 2023

What is the best approach to embracing the increased diversity of our communities and ensuring opportunity? Is it developing boutique programs on each campus for diverse, first-generation students? Community colleges have historically served as an entry point into higher education for underserved populations.

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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.” One secret of our program’s exponential growth is retention,” says Espiritu.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 17, 2023

City Colleges of Chicago’s (CCC) partnership with One Million Degrees (OMD) will begin at Malcolm X College this fall, providing students at the college dedicated support towards academic and career success. It creates real community around a student. That is the power of what we do.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 31, 2024

DREAM — the signature annual event of Achieving the Dream — a nonprofit organization that works to close achievement gaps, has become the go-to convening for community college educators and policymakers interested in institutional change. Community College of Aurora President Dr. Mordecai Brownlee with ATD President Dr. Karen A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Alexander oversees the legacy of the Academic Advancement Program (AAP) at UCLA, one of the longest running academic support programs for first-generation, low-income, and underrepresented students. Salcedo is the director of the Center for Community College Partnerships at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 26, 2024

The PSSG – it was first funded in 2022 via the Consolidated Appropriations Act – recognizes and awards funds to institutions that propose to use the grant for evidence-based reforms and practices in pursuit of bolstering student participation, retention, transfer, and completion rates.

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Timely MD

MAY 9, 2023

The 1,038 community colleges in the U.S. play an important role for students and communities, providing a quality education that prepares students for jobs or to transfer to four-year colleges and universities. The average age of a community college student is 27, and 35% of students are between the ages of 22 and 39.

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Civitas Learning

AUGUST 22, 2024

The Challenge: Delivering timely support to a diverse and sizeable student population to foster improved retention and completion rates. For many community colleges, identifying the right support for their increasingly diverse population isn’t easy.

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EAB

OCTOBER 24, 2022

5 Tips to Recruit and Enroll Latine/x Students in Your Community College. Prospective Latine/x college students in the U.S. are the most likely to choose community college as their first step when pursuing a higher education. Spotlight: Holyoke Community College. Tip #1: Build belonging.

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Timely MD

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Community colleges are vital in providing accessible higher education opportunities to diverse student populations in rural, suburban, and urban communities alike. What is a community college? Community colleges are often the educational hub and significant workforce development driver in the regions they serve.

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EAB

MAY 9, 2023

Podcast Do Community Colleges Need an “Intervention”? Reporter Jon Marcus joins EAB’s Tara Zirkel to explore the root causes behind steep enrollment declines and poor student outcomes at community colleges. EAB · Do Community Colleges Need an “Intervention?” Episode 150. May 9, 2023. million people.

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Civitas Learning

MAY 28, 2024

Subscribe: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Youtube Music | Full Transcript Community colleges are seeing increased enrollment as more students pursue short-term degrees and vocational programs.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

MAY 1, 2024

As a first-generation student, U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona didn’t always know where to turn for help in college. “It Collaboration is Key Collaboration between faculty, advisors, support services, community-based organizations, employers, and students is also key to holistic support.

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EAB

DECEMBER 2, 2022

How to Address The 2 Biggest Hurdles in Community College Virtual Onboarding. To help identify chief pain points in community college online enrollment, my colleagues and I went undercover as prospective students, applied to community colleges, and attempted to complete as many onboarding steps as possible within a 5- to 7-day window.

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Civitas Learning

AUGUST 22, 2024

The Challenge: Delivering timely support to a diverse and sizeable student population to foster improved retention and completion rates. For many community colleges, identifying the right support for their increasingly diverse population isn’t easy.

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EAB

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

These researchers pioneered and popularized the idea that retention is driven by “ student engagement.” In this model, attrition results from a lack of attachment to a college, while students who feel engaged and part of the community are more likely to return. Here’s what we learned.

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Timely MD

MAY 1, 2023

” 3 Recognize that mental health is a basic need Surveys from 2021 by The Hope Center at Temple University and TimelyCare found that nearly 60% of community college students experienced basic needs insecurity, and more than 70% experienced emotional stress as a result.

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EAB

MAY 30, 2023

Since 2020, enrollment at community colleges has declined 5.4 Most of the enrollment that has been recovered at community colleges is through an uptick in dual enrollment. As of fall 2022, enrollment declines at community colleges had slowed to 0.4 percent since 2010, college-going rates declined by 5.4

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EAB

MAY 23, 2023

EAB’s Tara Zirkel is joined by Center for Community College Student Engagement Executive Director Dr. Linda Garcia, as well as Associate Director of Publications, Dr. Courtney Adkins, to discuss new research on student engagement. Today, community colleges are being asked to rise to new challenges.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

What it's gonna change is really those retention rates. We feel like the real gains are gonna come from retention of students through their graduation. And as we've modeled this in the past years, we see that for every one student that we might gain that's a new student, we think we're gonna gain two students to retention.

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College Planners of America

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Moreover, they do this cost effectively by paying an exam fee of $90 instead of the cost of college tuition for a three-credit course, which can range from about $300 at a community college to almost $5,000 at the top colleges in the country.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2024

Some of the topics include literacy and math, advising Black male engineering majors, socio-emotional development, leadership, community college experiences, Black male veterans, athletes in P-12 and higher education, and the recruitment and retention of Black males in educator preparation programs. Hines & E.C. Frazier, R.-M.

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EAB

JULY 11, 2023

EAB · How Racial and Ethnic Identity Influence the College Journey LEARN ABOUT COLLEGE GREENLIGHT College Greenlight is the nation's largest community of professionals supporting and recruiting first-generation, lower-income, and historically underserved students. Why do you need that? What do you do?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 29, 2023

Flores said when he first took the helm, the organization had about 110 members “and now we represent 572 Hispanic-serving institutions. HACU provides student scholarships, internships, retention and advancement programs, as well as career development opportunities for educators. Our renewal rate for membership is 96%.”

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