Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 1, 2025

Stout, recipient of the 2025 Diverse Champions Award, has focused her career on helping community colleges achieve outstanding student success. Moono, president of SUNY Schenectady County Community College. Shes helping colleges implement evidence-based reforms. Where were the students coming from?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 4, 2024

Jefferson will become the 18th president of Roxbury Community College (RCC), effective July 1. Coast Guard Academy as well as dean of the schools of business at Clark Atlanta University and Albany State University. Jonathan K. Dr. Jonathan K. He recently served as chief academic officer and provost at Lesley University.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Emergency federal aid during the pandemic helped keep millions of students enrolled. 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. Of the $76.2

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Community college students find themselves running into the same obstacles time and again on their way to credential completion: costs, blocked academic pathways and competing life priorities. Grayson College also hit a 19-year high student success rate (81%) two years after revamping its eight-week course schedule offerings.

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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. Students navigate housing and food insecurity, transportation issues, and other limitations to access.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Facing a national shortage of early childhood educators , the Community College of Vermont (CCV) and the Southwestern Vermont Medical Center (SVMC) have teamed up for an innovative solution: paying students to reduce their hours at their jobs in favor of taking more classes. So why aren’t programs like this one more common?

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Dean of online learning and digital education in Leeds, Margaret Korosec, commented: “We are excited to have a virtual campus for those who wouldn’t otherwise come to campus and to have that experience of being in Leeds and experience the opportunity to be able to walk around, engage and speak with others in the space.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 26, 2023

George Timmons will become president of Holyoke Community College, pending approval of the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education, MassLive reported. Dr. George Timmons Timmons is currently provost and senior vice president of academic and student affairs at Columbia-Greene Community College (CGCC).

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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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Mott Community College’s automotive department is reopening its student service garage to the public starting Feb. Meanwhile, Mott students gain skills by working on vehicles with oversight from instructors, ASE Certified mechanics. 13, giving drivers a low-cost option for auto repairs again, ABC12 News reported.

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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.

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WCET Frontiers

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Today, we’re excited to spotlight the Mississippi Virtual Community College (MSVCC) and hear from Christa Wilhite and Krista LeBrun from the Mississippi Community College Board. Today’s students, having grown up immersed in technology, expect flexible, digitally enhanced courses.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

When Imperial Valley College (IVC) conducted a student survey seven years ago, they discovered over 200 students experiencing food and housing insecurity. The findings spurred the creation of a basic needs support program on campus, including the IVC Kitchen, which provides emergency food and groceries to hungry students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2023

This fall semester, Massasoit Community College achieved a new first. It became the first two-year school in the state of Massachusetts to allow students to attain degrees in Black Studies. Massasoit Community College is officially offering a Black Studies curriculum. Census Bureau.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Two Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C) professors are suing the school, claiming that it and its top administrators retaliated against them for making critical comments about the school to the press, Cleveland.com reported. The lawsuit was filed Monday by attorney Subodh Chandra in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 7, 2023

Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC) has received $75,000 to increase retention, completion, and transfer success for male students of color. Within higher education, closing the achievement gap is the conversation most associated with our male students of color,” said MSSI Program Director Dr. Sunni Solomon.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

I just began loving teaching from there, even if I had imaginary students.” I remember clearly the day she first sat in my methods class as a transfer student. “They always chose me to be the teacher,” said Thompson, who was born in St. James, Jamaica. “I At FAMU, Thompson began taking education courses in her major. "I

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University Business

APRIL 12, 2024

Larry Johnson first encountered Stella and Charles Guttman Community College in 2015 as a dean at Broward College (Fla.) when he read the seminal book “Redesigning America’s Community Colleges: A Clearer Path to Student Success.” Johnson is no longer a distant admirer.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The Exploring Transfer program at Vassar College is a summer intensive that immerses currently enrolled community college students in an academically rigorous environment, providing vital support and encouragement so they can ultimately continue their education at a competitive four-year institution. This is about. —

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 25, 2023

Marta Yera Cronin will become president of Delaware County Community College (DCCC), making her the second woman and the first Latina to lead the school. Dr. Marta Cronin Cronin – a first-generation college student born of immigrant parents – is currently president of Columbia Gorge Community College.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 4, 2025

Courtney Brown To reach the 2040 goal, Lumina is prioritizing four key areas: credentials of value, access, student success and redesign. The redesign involves rethinking how education and workforce systems are structured, funded and governed to serve todays students better.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 28, 2023

Massasoit Community College in Brockton, Massachusetts, will begin offering a Black Studies degree. Everyone should be taking these subject matters,” said Dr. Carine Sauvignon, an executive dean at Massasoit. “It But for this to happen at the community college level is very significant.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2023

Erika Endrijonas will become superintendent and president of the Santa Barbara Community College District (SBCC), effective Aug. Dr. Erika Endrijonas Endrijonas is currently superintendent and president of Pasadena City College. Previously, she was president of Los Angeles Valley College. “Dr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Sonya Christian has been selected to lead California Community Colleges, effective Jun. Dr. Sonya Christian Christian is chancellor of the Kern Community College District. “Dr. I look forward to continuing to partner with Dr. Christian to ensure our community colleges are engines of equity and opportunity.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College (FDLTCC) will become the first two-year educational institute in Minnesota to get approval to give bachelor's degrees in elementary education, Duluth News Tribune reported. The elementary education degree is the school’s first and only four-year degree.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 27, 2023

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean I lost track of the number of times on Friday I heard someone use the word “refreshing.” ” The context was the “Bringing Community Back to Community Colleges” conference held at Bergen Community College last week.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 12, 2024

The Utah Prison Education Project (UPEP) at the University of Utah is admitting its first cohort of fifteen degree-seeking students incarcerated at the Utah State Correctional Facility. Erin Castro, the associate dean and associate professor who co-founded the initiative with 12 undergraduate honors students in 2016.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2024

Students at LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City, NY. IHEP identified these two institutions by using the Equitable Value Explorer , a free, publicly accessible site that analyzes data from colleges and universities across the country. Kenneth Adams, president of LaGuardia Community College.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 23, 2023

Image: When Andrea Mora enrolled at University of California, Irvine, in 2012, she was a low-income, first-generation student. She’d spent seven years as a part-time student at Los Angeles Pierce Community College after graduating from high school and struggled to earn money and find financial aid to pay for a four-year education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Her work around students’ basic needs, supporting undocumented and mixed-status students, and achieving social justice through focused racial equity efforts has made her a rising star in community college leadership. She began as a professor of psychology counseling at Chabot College.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Former collegiate athlete Yusuf Sabree was a standout student-athlete who currently holds the position of district dean of student services at Wayne County (Mich.) Community College. These student-athletes were also interviewed about the support services that they needed. Engage in relationship building.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

When Adrianne Washington, dean of special academic programs at the Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC), found that the Honors Program was overlooking the school’s Black men, it didn’t sit right with her. Washington is dean of the nascent Honors College. They weren't a part of the success.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

This fundamental challenge is a driving force behind recent colleges propped up in the past two years by other widely respected R1 universities, whose leaders also joined the call. Steve Harmon is the associate dean of research at Georgia Tech’s College of Lifetime Learning, the first new college in 36 years.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

Image: A line of students out the door of the advising center, extending down the hallway to the floor below. That’s how academic advising at Tallahassee Community College used to look, says Pamela Johnston, dean of career and academic planning there: “Very reactionary.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Jerry Fliger Fliger is currently vice president for instruction at College of the Mainland. Previously, he has served as dean of arts and sciences at Alvin Community College and associate dean at Florida State College at Jacksonville. “Dr. in rhetoric and culture from Bowling Green State University.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Image: The University of Wyoming is launching a new program focused on boosting enrollment and graduation rates among rural students in the state. The initiative will provide college-prep training to up to 2,000 high school students selected from 10 rural public schools, funded by a $1.2 million grant from the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 11, 2023

Students from underrepresented backgrounds face considerable barriers when it comes to completing a community college program. Nationally, only 24% of African American, Latinx, and Native American students finish within two years. DFC has graduated an average of 56% of its students since its formation in 2017.

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