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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
APRIL 4, 2025
While community colleges play a crucial role in providing accessible and affordable education to diverse student populations, many still struggle to fully accommodate students with disabilities, according to insights from community college students, faculty, and higher education experts.
Higher Ed Dive
JANUARY 26, 2023
In remarks at a conference for accreditors, Assistant Secretary Nasser Paydar also scolded some colleges for "chasing the rankings."
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 17, 2025
After steering America's community colleges through unprecedented challenges and opportunities, Dr. Walter G. Bumphus CEO of the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) at the end of 2025, capping a remarkable 15-year tenure that helped reshape higher education access nationwide.
Higher Ed Dive
MARCH 9, 2023
The president’s fiscal 2024 blueprint, which would also boost the maximum Pell Grant, has virtually no chance of surviving Congress as drafted.
Higher Ed Dive
MAY 17, 2024
Department of Education. The beleaguered Ohio institution faced financial challenges in recent years, spurred by a legal battle with the U.S.
Inside Higher Ed
APRIL 17, 2024
Nassau Community College Moves Ahead With ‘Mega Departments’ Sara Weissman Wed, 04/17/2024 - 03:00 AM The institution’s leaders say consolidating departments will make the college more efficient. Its faculty union says the move will do the opposite. Byline(s) Sara Weissman
University Business
MARCH 20, 2025
In a June 2024 article, Katherine Gonzalez noted, Top-level leaders in community colleges are not only aging, but also retiring in waves, with an average tenure of five to seven years. More from UB: Is this the first college closing announced in 2025? Succession planning: Advance or exit?
Higher Ed Dive
AUGUST 8, 2023
The agency argued the community college’s program unlawfully charged students who receive Pell Grants more than those who do not.
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Higher Ed Dive
AUGUST 29, 2023
Highland Community College will need to rework policies around discipline, campus security, housing and racial harassment.
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Higher Education Inquirer
FEBRUARY 7, 2025
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) has documented the decline in community college enrollment for more than a decade. The question we are asking now is, where is the floor for the community college meltdown? And community colleges would need to provide stronger returns on investment for those who attend.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
APRIL 5, 2024
It’s not an everyday occurrence when a community college leader gets a phone call telling them their institution will receive an influx of funding in the millions. when MacKenzie Scott, one of the richest women in the world, decided to make a major investment in community colleges.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MAY 28, 2024
To be identified as a bellwether among community colleges is no small feat, but that is precisely why the Community College Futures Assembly continues to draw high-performing teams annually to compete for the Bellwether and Legacy Awards. Reading Area Community College (Pennsylvania), St.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 12, 2025
Kelli Sims Butler The California Community College System consists of 116 institutions with over 1.8 In the system, there are 140 Community College Chief Executive Officers (CEO). Of the current 140 chancellors and college presidents, 63 are female, and 12 identify as Black females. million students.
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
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).
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
AUGUST 11, 2024
million gift upon Howard Community College in support of programming and scholarships in its science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) division. million gift upon Howard Community College to help support it science, technology, engineering, and mathematics division.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
APRIL 4, 2025
Alvero When my daughter transferred to Queens College in Spring 2019, I could not have been more excited. As associate provost at the college, Ill admit I was biased but even two decades of experience in higher education couldnt fully prepare me for her struggle to transfer credits. Government Accountability Office.
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Insight Into Diversity
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
Hilton Foundation, the Santa Fe Community College (SFCC) Foundation in New Mexico is creating a Student Parent Resource Hub to expand its support systems for students who are pregnant or have young children. The post Community College Prioritizes Support for Student Parents appeared first on INSIGHT Into Diversity.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 8, 2024
Supreme Court struck down race-consciousness in college admissions upending four decades of precedent and reshaping the landscape of higher education (Edelman, 2023, par. The presentation drew upon a study by Smalls (2023) focused on the experiences of African American community college trustees. In June 2023, the U.
University Business
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
The Ohio College Comeback Compact began in the summer of 2022 across eight partnering institutions : Cleveland State University, Cuyahoga Community College, Kent State University, Lakeland Community College, Lorain County Community College, Stark State College, The University of Akron and Youngstown State University.
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 20, 2022
The Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT) has received a three-year, $1.56 Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service (FNS). The association will select two cohorts each of state systems and rural community colleges. “In million grant from the U.S.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
APRIL 19, 2024
Howard Community College President Dr. Daria J. Willis has announced plans to reopen the college’s on-campus Children’s Learning Center in partnership with the Community Action Council of Howard County. The college was awarded a $1 million grant in 2023 from the U.S.
Inside Higher Ed
NOVEMBER 22, 2022
One bright spot was community colleges, which, after a nearly 10 percent enrollment decline during the pandemic, saw a slight increase for the 2021–22 academic year. Department of Education. The key for community colleges, Fink said, lies in getting high schoolers to matriculate after graduating.
University Business
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
Although community college may be regularly associated as an equitable pathway to bachelor’s degrees, wealthier students typically capitalize on the opportunity. As for low-income students, a new report from the Department of Education details how infrequently their college hopes pan out.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
SEPTEMBER 17, 2023
Community colleges could potentially serve as a valuable source for immigrants to access affordable postsecondary education, upskilling and reskilling opportunities, and workforce preparation, the report noted. today have a college degree or higher, Krause-Vilmar said. job search?"
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
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.
Insight Into Diversity
MAY 29, 2024
The Massachusetts Senate approved a nearly $58 billion state budget proposal last week, which includes a plan that would secure free community college across the state. million investment in free community college to all state residents. The latest provision in the budget calls for a $117.5
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 10, 2023
Only over a tenth of students receiving Title IV aid (13%) who start at community colleges ultimately earn bachelor’s degrees within eight years, according to a U.S. Department of Education (ED) report. Though 13% was the overall community college BA attainment rate, there was significant variation among U.S.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
APRIL 2, 2023
In 2022, student leaders launched a campaign to challenge the long-standing stigma associated with attending community colleges. To overcome negative stereotypes, the CCSmart advocacy campaign tells the stories of students’ educational journeys and the positive impact community colleges had on their lives.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 5, 2023
David Doré will become chancellor of the Virginia Community College System (VCCS), effective Apr. Dr. David Doré Doré is currently president of campuses and executive vice chancellor for student experience and workforce development at Pima Community College.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
As the holidays approach, today’s colleges and universities are increasingly marked by overflowing donation bins containing canned goods collected by every student organization and faculty department to stock the campus food pantry. It’s why Compton College’s campus boasts a beautiful market featuring healthy prepared meals.
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 24, 2023
Over the last two decades, our nation’s community colleges have received increasing recognition, and for good reason. Community college students are more likely to be Black, Hispanic, and from lower-income backgrounds than four-year students. Why should new reform efforts focus on leadership?
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 12, 2023
This fall semester, Massasoit Community College achieved a new first. Massasoit Community College is officially offering a Black Studies curriculum. Ten years in the making The story of Black Studies at the Massachusetts public community college goes back a decade. The program got approval last spring.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MAY 7, 2023
With downtown San Antonio as a beautiful backdrop, representatives from 24 community colleges in 13 states convened for the 29th Annual Community College Futures Assembly in February. Hudson County Community College (N.J.) Rose Martinez, director of the Bellwether College Consortium.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
Frederick Shegog, former Delaware County Community College student, now motivational speaker. At the closing plenary of the 2023 Dream Conference in Chicago, Achieving the Dream (ATD), a reform network of over 300 community colleges, handed the microphone to students who either currently attend or graduated from a community college.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 16, 2024
year prison sentence, Cordero Holmes could not see his future as a great dad, Honors College student, or recipient of the MLK Living the Dream Award for community service in his old neighborhood. Looking back seven years later, Holmes says the Incarcerated Reentry Program (IRE) from Rio Salado College gave him a new life map.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 9, 2024
Removing barriers for students to use mental health services is one of the most important goals of college administrations today particularly for students of color and diverse backgrounds. Dr. Nichole Kang College campuses have made great strides in making mental health services available to students, but access remains a critical issue.
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JUNE 8, 2023
Lester Edgardo Sandres Rápalo will become president of Rockland Community College (RCC), effective July 1. Rápalo is an ideal fit for Rockland Community College,” said Martin Wortendyke, chair of the RCC Board of Trustees. Rápalo is a National Community College Hispanic Council (NCCHC) fellow and board member.
Insight Into Diversity
MAY 28, 2024
As beacons of potential for individual growth and social mobility, community colleges often serve as a catalyst for underserved students to pursue a path in higher education. Partnerships between prisons and community colleges can lead to significant benefits for all involved.—
Inside Higher Ed
OCTOBER 21, 2022
Image: A new report , based on a survey of tens of thousands of community college students, found that they face rampant food and housing insecurity that may outpace the on-campus assistance services available to them. The report also includes insights from interviews with 45 students at three community colleges.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JULY 7, 2023
Yet there is little research on the underrepresentation of African American community college trustees. However, research has demonstrated a clear underrepresentation of minority community college trustees (Moltz, 2009) with no progress being made in hiring African American administrators (Levin, Walker et al.,
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 13, 2025
Title: Assistant Professor of Higher Education, Department of Educational Leadership, College for Education and Engaged Learning, Montclair State University Tenured: No Age: 37 Education: B.A., Higher and Postsecondary Education, Teachers College, Columbia University; Ph.D., Psychology, San Diego State University; M.A.,
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The PIE News
AUGUST 2, 2024
Steward spoke to a packed room at the 2024 EducationUSA Forum, a gathering of some 500 higher education professionals hosted by the State Department to promote international education between the US and countries around the world. Over a million international students are studying in the U.S.
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
APRIL 28, 2023
Virginia Western Community College’s campus in Roanoke has been proposed as the location for a new state historic marker about ties between desegregation and the creation of the state’s community college system, The Roanoke Times reported. This was the first community college to open under the new system.”
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