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Compton College Addresses Student Homelessness and Basic Needs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This moment inspired Joshua Jackson and Dayshawn Louden, then student leaders at Compton College, to begin campaigning and advocating for student housing and increased basic needs on campus. Louden says that their roles as campus leaders positioned them to advocate for their fellow students and the longevity of the institution.

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Movement to Ban Legacy Admissions Gains Momentum

Insight Into Diversity

Supreme Court struck down the consideration of race-conscious admissions, a growing number of lawmakers, advocates, and higher education leaders have called for banning legacy status as a potential factor in the admission process. Meanwhile, first-generation students comprised only about 16% of Harvard’s 2027 class.

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2022 INSIGHT Into Diversity HEED Award Recipients

Insight Into Diversity

It serves as an advocate and provides a safe space for members of trans, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming communities and their allies. . The college centers the histories, traditions, cultures, experiences, struggles, and accomplishments of diasporic communities of color, making connections between the local and transnational.

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Debt and doubt: a graduate’s frustrations with the current higher education loans regime

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My failure to shed the shameful label of indebtedness lay in my regrettable choice to pursue history, my (apparently?) Skills shortages even today are calculated to cost the UK economy up to £39 billion a year from 2024 through to 2027. Like the students in Claire’s and Steve’s research, I had internalised a certain logic.

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How Racial and Ethnic Identity Influence Your College Journey

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By leveraging our nationwide network of Community Based Organizations (CBOs) to reach students and their advocates earlier, you can develop a diverse pipeline of students who are more likely to apply, enroll, and succeed. Affirmative action, diversity efforts are not about fixing history. And this is a part of just modern history.

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