Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 8, 2024

The profile of the average community college student is changing. While two-year institutions still have significant populations of adult students and people desirous of enhancing their career options, there is a growing number of first-time college students, age 18 to 22, that are seeking a traditional college experience.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Image: State funding for Texas community colleges, long distributed based mostly on student credit hours, would reward institutions for helping students transfer, graduate and move into high-demand fields under a new model proposed by a state commission.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The San Diego Community College District Board of Trustees has named Gregory Smith to be the district’s next chancellor. Chancellor-Designate Smith has extensive executive-level experience as well as strong familiarity with the challenges facing California’s community colleges,” said SDCCD Board President Bernie Rhinerson.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

billion allocated by Higher Education Emergency Relief Funds, about half went toward students directly and 80% of Pell Grant recipients received aid, averaging $2,000 apiece. Education will help them.” Emergency federal aid during the pandemic helped keep millions of students enrolled. Of the $76.2

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

California’s community colleges are lacking in full-time faculty, according to a recent report from California’s state auditor. The state-ordered audit looked at hiring and state funds spending practices for full-time faculty at four community college districts: Foothill-De Anza, Kern, Los Rios and San Diego.

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Liaison International

AUGUST 15, 2024

Key Takeaways: Predictive analytics in higher education leverages data to identify at-risk students early, allowing for timely and tailored interventions that improve retention and success rates. In the landscape of higher education, community colleges face unique challenges in ensuring student retention and success.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 7, 2023

A new bill has been introduced in the Texas legislature that would revamp how the state gives its community colleges money, KXAN reported. Gary VanDeaver, would alter the funding formula for money that the state gives its 50 community college districts, effective Sept.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The first college in the U.S, Harvard University, founded in 1646, existed to educate white male landowners (and their progeny) in a classical curriculum focusing heavily on ethics, politics, and religion. American higher education remained the purview of men until the 1830s, when women’s colleges were established.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Image: Campus and faculty leaders in the California Community College system are eagerly anticipating the selection of a new chancellor this week. Meanwhile, the system, like community colleges across the country, experienced significant enrollment declines during the pandemic.

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The PIE News

MAY 9, 2024

The provincial attestation letter allocation for Ontario leans heavily towards colleges over larger universities, according to preliminary data obtained from the province’s education body. The institution that took in those students, Centennial College, has had better luck , receiving the fourth largest allocation, with 15,344.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2025

April 22, 2025 · Episode 256 Capital Funding Strategies in Higher Education: How Universities Are Solving Infrastructure and Student Housing Challenges 33 Min · By The Change Leader, Inc. How higher ed leaders are using capital funding strategieslike P3s, bonds, and donor partnershipsto fix infrastructure and housing gaps.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 11, 2023

Pima Community College (PCC) received $1.7 This year’s state budget also allocated $2 million for school operations. Hobbs also stressed how crucial community colleges are to education and economy in the state. million in state funding for its STEM workforce development programs, AZ Central reported.

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EAB

AUGUST 21, 2023

Blogs How to empower student-parents in higher education A conversation with Generation Hope My mom had me at 17, and like many teen parents, had to put her education on hold to care for our family. Student-parents bring unique strengths and motivations to school communities, enhancing diversity and enriching practices.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 8, 2024

Complete College America makes a case for a shift in higher education funding formulas. The goal of virtually all colleges and universities is to increase retention and completion. Anyone, especially in the community college sector, would agree that funding is a gathering storm,” said Dr. Larry Hlavenka Jr.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 8, 2024

The National Association of College and University Business Officers is launching its NACUBO Student Success Hub to advance strategic financing for equitable student outcomes.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 12, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation Tyler Cowen drove a lot of traffic to my piece critiquing his thinking on higher education. All it took was Cowen posting a two-sentence comment on Marginal Revolution : Joshua Kim comment on my higher education worries. The trend of state-level disinvestment from higher education is well-known.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Torres (D-Calif), reintroduce the Basic Assistance for Students in College (BASIC) Act on Wednesday, a bicameral legislation to help ensure college students can meet their basic needs while pursuing their education.

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University Business

APRIL 1, 2024

It includes billions for child care, preschool, special education and higher education programs, as well as money for bolstering the workforce and health care projects. The post Oregon to get portion of $21 billion for early and postsecondary education allocated by Congress appeared first on University Business.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 5, 2024

Across higher education, the desire for diversity among student populations is usually the responsibility of recruitment efforts but falls short in retention strategies. Colleges typically use a variety of assessments such as standardized tests, essays, and GPA to determine a student's readiness for life in academia.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 14, 2024

“I would not be here if I didn’t find an arts organization like Urban Word that supplemented the creative programs that I did not have access to in school,” said Pacheco who is a student at Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC/CUNY), where she is a writing and literature major. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Several New Jersey public colleges and research universities can apply for mental health services funding from the state, NorthJersey.com reported. The funds will come from the $15 million allocated for mental health services by the state. Experts have called for more transparency and public input into state relief money allocations.

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Insight Into Diversity

MAY 13, 2024

The library data, which has been collected as part of IPEDS since 1988 and annually since 2014, is seen as vital for understanding the role of libraries in supporting higher education institutions. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona, supporting the retention of the library data in IPEDS.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Of particular concern to the report’s authors are community colleges and minority-serving institutions, which made up about 55 percent and 38 percent of the sample, respectively. Our new data spotlights some of the key issues that need attention, if higher education hopes to really move the needle on student success.”

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EAB

MAY 2, 2023

Blogs 3 Tips to Streamline Community College Compliance Reporting How to save time and move your data strategy from disparate to deliberate Community College IR and IE offices spend weeks (if not months) each year on IPEDS and other compliance reports.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

A group of students from the Community College of Baltimore County set out to answer such questions and pull back the curtain on higher education for students through their podcast. ” But, maybe more importantly, it’s a demonstration of the talents and efforts of community college students.

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The PIE News

APRIL 4, 2024

British Columbia has allocated 53% of its 83,000 PALs to public post-secondary institutions, with the remaining 47% to private institutions. Of Nova Scotia’s 12,900 study permit allocation, 10 universities and the Nova Scotia Community College will receive 11,565 applications.

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University Business

JULY 18, 2023

Most student affairs professionals would do just about anything to support students in the increasingly dynamic and resource-strapped landscape of higher education. Technology support Information technology is the #1 area where entities access cooperative buying agreements.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2023

The Borough of Manhattan Community College signed up the most students. million budget allocation. Queens had the biggest gains – 29% of the new enrollees living there – and of re-enrolled students, 34% were Hispanic and 32% were Black. The program was proposed by New York City Council Speaker Adrienne E.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 4, 2023

Linda Oubré, president of Whittier College in California. But while higher education experts celebrate the new value of the Pell Grant and how much it can help students in need, many agreed the amount is not enough to combat the rising cost of living and tuition. “We Dr. Karen A.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Image: Arizona voters will decide next month whether to allow undocumented students in the state to receive in-state tuition—one of three statewide measures on the ballot this November related to higher education. Harnisch said Arizona’s Proposition 308 is “the marquee higher education ballot measure this year.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 28, 2024

Dr. Sara Goldrick-Rab The fact is that the egregious underfunding of American public higher education and its minority-serving institutions is primarily a political problem. Rather than a question of available resources, optimal resource allocation, or insufficient evidence, it’s a problem of leadership best addressed by voting.

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University Business

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Food insecurity among college students is a more significant issue than one might imagine. Seeing a lack of easily accessible food in its own state, The Tennessee Higher Education Commission and the Tennessee Student Assistance Corporation outlined several measures institutions can take to curb hunger on campus.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean. Last week, in asking folks what they would do if they were anointed Grand Poohbah of Higher Education for a day, I explained my preference for the term Grand Poohbah over the term Big Kahuna on the grounds that the latter smacks of cultural appropriation, whereas the former is just silly.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 17, 2018

Part 3: Improving Higher Education Governance Improve your Higher Education Governance to lift your university or college up to higher levels of success. Higher education continues to be in the hot seat. New regulations are creating new opportunities.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

It exemplifies the powerful impact of collaboration between higher education institutions and organizations to support underserved students. As you can see, this program doesn’t really differentiate between public and private [schools],” says Mark French, director of financial aid for the Connecticut Office of Higher Education. “As

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 26, 2023

Research indicated that many schools prioritized predominantly white and affluent high schools and communities when recruiting, said Mamie Voight, president of the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP), which authored the first of the three briefs.

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