Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 26, 2022

But he ultimately went to Ohlone College, a community college in Fremont, Calif., The path to medical school is rife with financial and structural barriers for community college graduates like him. “We’re weeding out a lot of students who have vital perspectives in their communities,” he said.

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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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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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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.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Without proper oversight, there are risks of perpetuating or exacerbating existing disparities in higher education, such as unequal access to resources between well-funded institutions and underresourced community colleges, racial and socioeconomic biases in admissions algorithms, and limited support for first-generation and nontraditional students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 25, 2023

A Chicago-based student support program for community college students is set to drastically expand its reach and the number of students it serves. I come from a disadvantaged community. And this worked. And I came here during the pandemic,” Bernstein said. “If

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University Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Tens of thousands of Texas students enter college without the skills and knowledge needed to succeed in entry-level English and math, putting them at a disadvantage when it comes to graduating with a degree, state data shows.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Image: A longtime higher ed paradox is this: community colleges open doors to educational opportunities, particularly for underrepresented, low-income or underprepared students, but most students who enter these institutions do not earn degrees. The data set included more than 40,000 transcripts.)

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University Business

MAY 22, 2023

.” It would also create the Financial Aid for Swift Transfer program to enroll high school students who are economically disadvantaged in dual credit courses at no cost. The post Texas Senate approves bill to invest $430M in additional funding for community colleges appeared first on University Business.

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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. One, it’s an opportunity for dialogue led by community college students who are disadvantaged by rankings and the prestige of “good schools.”

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University Business

JULY 28, 2023

Eloy Ortiz Oakley, president and CEO of the College Futures Foundation , said the process begins by “flipping the nomenclature,” or reframing how we inherently perceive different kinds of institutions. He believes community colleges should be considered “elite” for housing under-resourced students.

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Continuous Learning Institute

OCTOBER 2, 2023

We call the first academic inequities, the second, resource disadvantages, and the third, cultural discrimination." "I He has worked directly with over 50 colleges and universities and has trained well over 5,000 educators. Access the Transcript ] Podcast Homepage

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 9, 2023

Image: Transfers between community colleges and four-year institutions continued to drop last fall, an ongoing trend since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. percent among students who previously stopped out of college. percent and 1.4

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Nine US HEIs will receive up to $10,000 to award scholarships to disadvantaged or underrepresented students from the UK to enrol at their institution during the 2023/24 academic year. The American International Recruitment Council has announced the 2023 recipients of the Sir Cyril Taylor Memorial Scholarship for Study in the US.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Image: Three California community colleges are fighting to start new baccalaureate programs, which their leaders insist would fill critical local workforce needs and help students who couldn’t otherwise afford to pursue a four-year degree. ” Half of states now allow community college baccalaureate degrees.

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University Business

JULY 10, 2024

Small- to mid-sized colleges that lack brand power are finding themselves at a deeper recruiting disadvantage than large state schools and high-profile private universities. More from UB: Is community college reaching a new level of confidence?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 2, 2022

After nearly 50 years of funding community colleges based on enrollment and outreach, the state of Texas is considering making the switch to outcome-based funding, rooted in metrics like retention, completion, and the successful transfer to four-year programs. Like the majority of community colleges in the U.S.,

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 11, 2022

As a recent report from Georgetown’s Center on Education and the Workforce points out: A kindergartner from an affluent family with bottom-half test scores has a seven in 10 chance of being affluent as a young adult, while a disadvantaged kindergartner with top-half test scores only has a three in 10 chance.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

” Equity is essential as college student demographics change. Declines during the pandemic have been steepest among community college students and African American and Latinx males, Lynn Pasquerella , president of the American Association of Colleges and Universities, points out.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 27, 2023

Community colleges and both public and private four-year institutions experienced increases in persistence and retention, but private for-profit four-year schools and primarily associate degree-granting baccalaureate institutions saw declines. That’s what worries me and many community college leaders the most.”

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Image: Two tenured professors at Cuyahoga Community College in Ohio are suing former and current administrators at the college. The faculty members claim they were retaliated against after they raised concerns about course scheduling practices disadvantaging students of color in an interview with a local media outlet last year.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 26, 2022

” Elizabeth Cox Brand, executive director for the Student Success Center at the Oregon Community College Association, helped start corequisite math programs at 11 Oregon community colleges during the pandemic, and she is convinced that the courses can help students who are far behind in math catch up.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

In the first two years, more than 10 percent of students reported increased motivation, belonging, identity, safety, and trust, with the greatest impact reported by those from structurally disadvantaged backgrounds. Photo courtesy of Glendale Community College) Improving the student experience also benefits teachers.

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Higher Education Inquirer

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Tribal Colleges and Universities (49) , Historically Black Colleges and Universities (107 ), Minority-Serving Institutions (about 700) , and community colleges (about 1100) – all serving diverse student populations – face a constant uphill battle. This can make it difficult to attract and retain qualified personnel.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

For example, people from economically disadvantaged backgrounds statistically do not perform as well in high school overall, when compared to economically advantaged ones. Another approach some take in dealing with students who are traditionally underqualified, is pushing them towards a community college. Ways forward.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 11, 2022

Blue Mountain Community College was 34 miles away, in Pendleton, Oregon, but 12 of those miles were covered in ice in winter, which would have made commuting difficult. The COVID-19 pandemic has made navigating traditional transfer options especially difficult for disadvantaged populations, according to another Clearinghouse report.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

And it’s an extra burden on the very students who are more likely to take a non-traditional path: socioeconomically disadvantaged learners, who may find that credits that they’ve worked for and paid for suddenly count for nothing. It’s a major reason that the transfer pipeline is so often described as “leaky.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 10, 2023

Now, a new study from the Community College Research Center at Columbia University has shown that summer Pell has had meaningful benefits, improving retention, attainment, and even earnings up to nine years after college entry for students who received it. Summer Pell seems to offer particular help to disadvantaged groups.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 28, 2022

” Altmire said he expects institutions located in economically disadvantaged communities or near a military base to struggle to meet the 90-10 threshold. “Our schools, the proprietary sector, don’t get the big state subsidies that public universities and community colleges get,” he said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

She was crucial to building smooth transfer pathways from CUNY’s community colleges to John Jay. From its inception, Macaulay Honors College only accepted applications from high school seniors and has not accepted transfer students. The current cohorts do take specific seminars, but Byrne wants experiential learning added.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Willis Scholarship Program, which launched at the start of the 2016-2017 academic year, provides scholarships to Connecticut students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds. They run the gamut from low-price community colleges to Yale [University].” The Roberta B.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

Sustainable Pathways from Community College to Bachelor’s Degree for Urban Youth in STEM (S-STEM) Hudson County Community College School of Science, Engineering, Technology, Mathematics S-STEM provides students with the financial and academic resources to transfer to a four-year institution.

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Higher Education Inquirer

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

This report examines the chasm between the wealthiest university endowments and underfunded tribal colleges, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), and community colleges and how this leads to unnecessary human suffering. Today, more than 120 universities have endowments greater than a billion dollars.

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Continuous Learning Institute

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Another example is Dartmouth College’s recent laughable, but sad rationale to reinstate the SAT/ACT because their internal “research” shows they would effectively be more equitable for low-income students. In terms of UCLA, freshmen retention rates: SAT/ACT was eliminated in 2020. 2021-22: 95.6% 2022-23: 96.5%

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean For various day job–related reasons, I’ve been thinking a lot lately about general education requirements and what we really want students to have, or do, or be able to do.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The collection of 64 campuses, including 30 community col leges, is breaking down barriers to ensure that economically disadvantaged and historically marginalized students in New York have opportunities to attain social mobility through education. Through the U.S. million. “The Included in this was a $1.72

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean. The “should colleges be politically neutral” debate has surfaced again. As tradition-bound as they are, colleges often embody wild contradictions between sincerely progressive rhetoric and traditional practices that prevent those aspirations from coming true.

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