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OCTOBER 20, 2022

The Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT) has received a three-year, $1.56 million grant from the U.S. The association will select two cohorts each of state systems and rural community colleges. “In Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service (FNS).

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APRIL 2, 2023

At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, community colleges across the country saw a decline in enrollment for myriad reasons — financial, family, illness, lack of internet or inability to adapt to online learning. The purpose of community colleges is to increase access to higher education for the most vulnerable populations.”

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NOVEMBER 19, 2023

The Ellucian Foundation will award grants to 25 two-year colleges to help support students facing economic challenges. Ipsen The global 2023 Progress, Accomplishment, Thriving, Hope (PATH) Scholarship consists of $10,000-$25,000 grants to higher ed institutions to help students with expenses such as housing, tuition, and food.

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MARCH 26, 2024

Legislators are looking to enshrine the Postsecondary Student Success Grant (PSSG) program, a student outcomes-centered federal effort, into law through new legislation this March. Although the effort has received support generally, some higher ed scholars and advocates have levied some criticisms and concerns about it.

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APRIL 30, 2024

Education Northwest, an Oregon-based nonprofit organization promoting education for all, unveiled the results on Tuesday of a first-of-its kind, nine-year study of the partnership between Tacoma Community College (TCC) and the Tacoma Housing Authority (THA), called the College Housing Assistance Program (CHAP).

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NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Department of Agriculture has announced $5 million in grants to support Tribal students at land-grant colleges and universities through the New Beginning for Tribal Students (NBTS) Program.

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JUNE 17, 2024

New Jersey Council of County Colleges members fear Gov. Phil Murphy is planning to cut about $20 million in state funding to community colleges. Aaron Fichtner, president of the New Jersey Council of County Colleges, noted in an interview with NJ.com that the state has been generous in expanding student financial aid programs.

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MAY 23, 2023

After large pandemic-related declines the past several years, community college enrollment grew this spring by 0.5%, or 22,000 students, compared to spring 2022. The gains in the community college sector were driven by an 8% increase in dual-enrolled high schoolers (49,000 students). at public schools and 0.2%

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MAY 31, 2024

A new project by the Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT) explores how states fund community colleges based on the enrollment for their students. Bumphus “There is no national data set that reflects the true scope of community college enrollments and curriculum,” said Dr. Walter G. Dr. Walter G.

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MARCH 22, 2024

Community colleges have the ability to not only put students on the right path, but most importantly, ensure that students begin on the right foot. That right foot has so many implications, the first of which is the financial impact of attending a community college as the first step toward a bachelor ’ s degree.

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JANUARY 16, 2024

Austin Community College District (ACC) is proposing to make college tuition free for all high school seniors in Central Texas. The Austin Community College District plans to present a formal plan for a free tuition pilot program to its Board of Trustees in February.

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JUNE 1, 2023

Pamela Haney will become president of Moraine Valley Community College, effective Jul. Previously, she has served as program administrator and assistant professor of communication arts at Defiance College; and assistant professor of speech communication at Norfolk State University. 1, Patch reported. Dr. Pamela J.

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JANUARY 4, 2023

29, the new federal spending plan is set to increase the Pell Grant in 2023, allowing low-income students a chance to access up to $7,395 each year. Coupled with the $400 increase in the 2022 fiscal year, this is the largest two-year increase ever in the history of the grant. Linda Oubré, president of Whittier College in California.

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AUGUST 7, 2023

Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC) has received $75,000 to increase retention, completion, and transfer success for male students of color. This grant will allow us to create academic courses, establish standard research experiences and reimagine Honors spaces keeping diversity and inclusion top of mind. Dr. Sunni L.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Lennor Johnson, president and superintendent of Imperial Valley College in El Centro, California. Student housing is extremely rare at community colleges in California, although affordable housing is increasingly hard to find. The Harbour, where 800 Orange Coast College students live on campus. Out of the system’s 1.8

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OCTOBER 16, 2024

College-in-prison programs flourished in the 1970’s and 1980’s after the 1965 Higher Education Act made people who were incarcerated eligible for Pell Grants. Within a decade of the bill’s passage, in-prison college programs dwindled from over 700 to 12. The Roueche Center Forum is co-edited by Drs. Roueche and Margaretta B.

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DECEMBER 20, 2022

Facing a national shortage of early childhood educators , the Community College of Vermont (CCV) and the Southwestern Vermont Medical Center (SVMC) have teamed up for an innovative solution: paying students to reduce their hours at their jobs in favor of taking more classes. So why aren’t programs like this one more common?

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MAY 2, 2023

San Diego Community College District (SDCCD) Chancellor Dr. Carlos Cortez has resigned from his post, citing that he will be caring for his parents, who are experiencing health issues. Dr. Carlos O. Greg Smith, SDCCD vice chancellor of people, culture, and technology services, will become acting chancellor.

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MAY 17, 2023

A rare partnership between a group of community colleges and a private, for-profit institution is aiming to fix that. The Alamo Colleges District, made up of five community colleges, is the largest provider of higher education in South Texas with over 100,000 students, 81% of whom are students of color.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Day three of the 2023 Dream Conference in Chicago kicked off with a heightened focus on building partnerships that strengthen students and fortify the community workforce. The Dream conference is hosted annually by Achieving the Dream (ATD), a reform network of over 300 community colleges working to equitize higher education.

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JANUARY 27, 2023

MassBay Community College will be offering free education and training in the areas of computers and technology to unemployed and underemployed workers. We are extremely grateful for this grant and for the support from the Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development,” said MassBay President Dr. David Podell.

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OCTOBER 9, 2023

Mott Community College (MCC) has received $156,000 to implement an initiative aimed at better supporting immigrant, refugee, and first-generation students, The County Press reported. Mott Community College MCC’s initiative is called Pathways to Success: Empowering Immigrant Futures (EIF).

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OCTOBER 25, 2022

Franklin County public schools in Massachusetts have been given a $200,000 grant, which they will use to partner with Greenfield Community College (GCC) to create an early college pilot program, the Greenfield Recorder reported. said Peggy Fallon, GCC’s dual enrollment coordinator.

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AUGUST 30, 2024

AB 2093 would allow low-income students pursuing a bachelor's degrees at any California community college tuition free. Rodriguez Los Angeles Community College District Chancellor Dr. Francisco C. Two-year degree seekers are already eligible for such fee waivers through the California Promise Program. Francisco C.

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FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Susan Gaulden is vice president for strategic initiatives at Passaic County Community College, where she is establishing new partnerships to enhance the support and services for students. She has led initiatives including the Hispanics Inspiring Students’ Performance and Achievement Leaders in College Program.

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DECEMBER 4, 2022

The Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT) has launched a partnership pilot program to increase effectiveness of skills-based hiring with the help of a $350,000 grant from the Lumina Foundation.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

New America has launched the Accelerator for Community Colleges in the Innovation Economy (Accelerator) using a $3 million grant from Ascendium Education Group.

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JANUARY 16, 2024

Department of Education (ED) has awarded a $1 million grant to Pitt Community College to help boost college enrollment and completion rates among students in rural areas. Pitt Community College ED has presented a total of $44.5

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OCTOBER 15, 2024

In 1856, Martin Henry Freeman became the first Black college president (Avery College). This was decades prior to the passage of the Second Morrill Act of 1890, which created separate land grant institutions for Black Americans. Today, the California Community College System, with more than 1.8 Dr. Kimberly R.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2024

million grant from T.D. Jakes Foundation (TDJF), in partnership with Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC), Paul Quinn College (PQC) is looking to create an innovative housing model, accompanied by a mixed-use community on their Dallas campus. PQC is the only minority-serving, federally recognized Work College in the nation.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Borough of Manhattan Community College and the Institute for Justice and Opportunity at John Jay College of Criminal Justice have teamed up to create a new degree-granting Prison-to-College Pathways (P2CP) program for incarcerated students at Otisville Correctional Facility in upstate New York.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2024

While this is not a program specific to Native Americans, the state’s four tribal colleges are eligible institutions along with Minnesota State Colleges and Universities and all University of Minnesota campuses. The grant is provided after all other forms of financial assistance is put towards tuition, like a Pell Grant.”

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APRIL 23, 2024

The lab will provide implementation grants of up to $50,000, funded by Ascendium Education Group. Through our partnership with the Education Design Lab, we're not just envisioning a better future for rural learners – we're actively building it," said Dr. Jenni Martin, acting president of Spokane Community College.

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OCTOBER 14, 2023

Sara Goldrick-Rab Education leaders called for continued advocacy and support for students’ basic needs, in addition to the expansion of programs such as the Pell Grant and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) food benefits program. They have to advocate."

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OCTOBER 31, 2022

She’s been with the Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC) since 1980 and became its vice president for student affairs in 2008. It’s very exciting for us, as a community college, especially in New York City, where housing is an issue,” said Craig. “It Craig, vice president for student affairs at BMCC. Dr. Marva M.

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APRIL 4, 2024

Strategies to be considered include developing or expanding dual enrollment, apprenticeships, credit for prior learning, transfer, and community college baccalaureates. Dual enrollment allows high school students to enroll in college courses and earn credits. Hoang, H., & Rios-Aguilar, C.,

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MARCH 27, 2024

While some, including community colleges, are building more housing on campus, it’s just as important that colleges and universities partner with nonprofits and private developers to create affordable housing for their students off campus. and at the Community College of Philadelphia it is $7,500.

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