Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2025

California's community colleges find themselves caught in a 60-year-old funding constraint that increasingly hampers their ability to serve todays students, according to a new report from the Community College League of California. Today, they're far more diverse77% non-whiteand face challenges unknown to previous generations.

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EAB

JUNE 1, 2023

Blogs 3 considerations for prison education programs What you need to know ahead of July’s restoration of Second Chance Pell grants Given the restoration of Pell Grant funding for incarcerated students expected in July 2023 , many institutions are beginning to develop plans for Prison Education Programs (PEPs).

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Scholarship America

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

While all college students have to perform a high-wire balancing act between school, life, work and family, that struggle is often more difficult for adult and part-time students. For older students, that balance gets even more complicated as you figure in childcare, commuting and increased likelihood of schedule conflicts.

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Believe in Students

OCTOBER 10, 2024

I arrived at Believe in Students in April 2020, just as the pandemic was rocking the world and changing college campuses, in some ways permanently. My job when I arrived was to figure out how to utilize incredibly generous philanthropic support to provide emergency grants to students.

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EAB

MAY 22, 2023

The Success and Retention Opportunities Accelerator empowers users with student success analytics to improve student success outcomes through interventions, policy changes, and other initiatives. The data can also be used to support funding and grant requests.

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Believe in Students

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

So, as we venture into our new reality, today’s college presidents must have a sharp focus not just on student success but on how we are helping students succeed. Some students at Compton College find it challenging to obtain the reliable technology needed to participate in online learning.

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