Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2025

By modernizing the Fifty Percent Law, we can ensure that California's community colleges are empowered to meet the needs of today's learners and equip them for future success." Nearly half are Pell Grant-eligible, and 68% experience at least one basic needs insecurity, with 24% self-identifying as homeless. For California's 2.2

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. As in-person and hybrid learning resume, enrollment numbers have not returned to pre-COVID levels.

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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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Believe in Students

OCTOBER 10, 2024

My job when I arrived was to figure out how to utilize incredibly generous philanthropic support to provide emergency grants to students. Second, I had spent about fifteen years working to improve college success for first-gen, low-income students. No faculty member needs to become a social worker; they do need (and most want!)

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Scholarship America

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Online learning can help minimize some of those logistical problems, but it brings its own difficulties. And part-time students who are eligible for Pell Grants receive proportionally less than full-time students. The post Supporting Non-Traditional Paths to Student Success appeared first on Scholarship America.

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EAB

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

EAB experts Caylie Privitere and Matthew McAloon examine the benefits to students and institutions from the restoration of Pell Grant funding for incarcerated persons who want to pursue a college education. Our guest today discuss the restoration of Pell Grant funding for incarcerated students. Transcript [music] 0:00:11.6 Do we know?

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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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