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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 20, 2024

million to LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City, Queens, to create the Cohen Career Collective, a state-of-the-art workforce training center. The 160,000 square-foot facility will ensure economic mobility for New Yorkers while providing skilled workers for local employers.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Sorrell Sorrell said that the grant will launch a campus housing initiative that will eventually be accompanied by a larger mixed-use development that includes student and family housing, retail and restaurant spaces, parks, outdoor meeting areas, and classroom facilities—all designed to serve both the campus and the surrounding community.

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University Business

APRIL 3, 2024

Colleges and universities are trudging through inflationary construction costs to successfully reinvest in their existing facilities as students’ interactions with the campus community change in an ever-digitalized world, suggests data from the 11th edition of the State of Facilities in Higher Education report.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 6, 2023

Image: Community college baccalaureate programs in California can help more Black and Latino students earn bachelor’s degrees in a state that badly needs a more educated workforce, according to a new report. ” There are currently no community college baccalaureate programs in nursing in the state.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 16, 2024

Danielle Lopez has been appointed the inaugural director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) for Accessibility Services at Hudson County Community College (HCCC). Danielle Lopez Lopez will serve as the college’s Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)/Section 504 coordinator, according to HCCC President Dr. Christopher Reber.

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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.—

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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.

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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 facility closed in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic and associated budget reduction efforts.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Image: The heating at Bronx Community College was restored to most of the campus Monday after not working for over a month. Employees say heating and other infrastructure problems have been a perennial issue at the college and across the City University of New York system. Bronx Community College isn’t alone.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Kirkwood Community College will be closing or modifying three programs and is laying off faculty and staff, citing low enrollment, Corridor Business Journal reported. One such program that will be receiving changes is the truck driving program.

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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. Out of the system’s 1.8

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Liaison International

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Most students consider campus facilities when choosing a college. Two out of three recently surveyed students said campus facilities influenced their college choice at least somewhat. Overall, 21% of the 2,000 respondents said facilities mattered “a great deal.” Source: Inside Higher Ed. Source: Inside Higher Ed.

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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

MARCH 28, 2024

And while I am always trying to find ways to support community college students, I believe this work can be applied to all higher education institutions. Community college is free, and student aid covers the total cost of attendance. The facility would also address the mental health of our students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Borough of Manhattan Community College and the Institute for Justice and Opportunity at John Jay College of Criminal Justice have teamed up to create a new degree-granting Prison-to-College Pathways (P2CP) program for incarcerated students at Otisville Correctional Facility in upstate New York.

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University Business

APRIL 18, 2025

Hired Shari Olsen – Northland Community and Technical College (Minn.) Shari Olson, Northland Community College Shari Olsen has been promoted to permanent president of Northland Community College, effective immediately. Stepping down Fred Keating – Rowan College of South Jersey (N.J.)

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 23, 2024

The City University of New York (CUNY) is responding to allegations it failed to honor an agreement to build a new community college facility with monies donated by The Stella and Charles Guttman Foundation. The foundation is a not-for-profit corporation established in 1959 by New York businessman Charles Guttman.

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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. It is never a given that academic research will translate directly and impactfully to the transformation of our local communities,” said Laanan.

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University Business

OCTOBER 18, 2024

The sewer systems at two Los Angeles community colleges are about to fail — “catastrophically.” Nearby, in Torrance, a community college shut down multiple buildings, some for weeks at a time, because the heating and cooling system is so old it broke. billion, would help community colleges.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 17, 2023

Being a community college student is challenging … You’re juggling work schedules and childcare schedules and arranging your life so that you can be in school. And doing all of that when it feels like the college, the administration, isn’t on your side, why would anyone bother? “That was heartbreaking.

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

JUNE 12, 2023

The New Student Experience at a Community College The enrollment data for community colleges is positive for the first time in a long time, with an overall enrollment increase of 2.1% Despite this recent trend reversal, community colleges can’t ignore the 37% decline (nearly 2.6

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Assuming the position when the previous president resigned, she knew everyone was looking to her to bring stability to the community college. In California, we have great workforce needs across the board, and that’s a huge role for community colleges.” Also, the college’s nursing program is experiencing exciting growth.

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IHEP

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Participants include: the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE), City Colleges of Chicago (CCC), Kauai Community College, Dallas College and the state of New Jersey. PASSHE is using the Value Data Collaborative to assess the long-term impact of a college education for their students.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Image: A new automotive technology program at Coconino Community College, launched last fall, is on pause as campus leaders struggle to hire a full-time faculty member to keep it afloat. The college offered four automotive technology classes last fall and five courses in the spring, serving 46 students.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Even for students who do not complete their education while in prison, incarcerated individuals who take academic or vocational college courses are several times more likely to enroll in a state community college upon release than incarcerated people not utilizing available educational resources.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 23, 2023

In my position as a community college president, a large part of the work is showing up as my authentic self. We’ve also established new initiatives that support racial equity and have changed the policies, practices, systems and structures of Compton College accordingly.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2024

In 2005 — long before Curry took the helm — the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges revoked the school’s accreditation because of financial instability. It was a devastating blow to the college. He says he also wants to build a 24-hour urgent care facility on campus. This is it.”

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MindMax

JANUARY 5, 2023

In the late 20th century, schools’ summer programming efforts were primarily driven by the question, “What can we do with all these available facilities?” Increasing corporate involvement on campus as remote companies in the community look for facilities to host their events. Opportunistic Era.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Two-thirds of the revenue from the tax would go toward improving academic improvement and scholarships, while a third would go toward repairing and upgrading athletic facilities, including the football stadium. The Los Angeles Community College District’s $5.3 billion request makes up the bulk of that total.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Voters across the country approved local bond measures that will help community colleges transform their physical campuses. By Wednesday afternoon, the Los Angeles Community College District’s record $5.3 In Rhode Island, 57.8 “Very, very appreciative of the confidence that the public and the L.A.

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EAB

JUNE 1, 2023

Together, Mott and Ferris have tailored an existing business administration transfer pathway to deliver to students at the Thumb Correctional Facility beginning in Fall 2024. Additionally, online learning inhibits community building, which is particularly important for this demographic.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 31, 2023

Image: Setting community college students up for success can result in institutional partnerships, as demonstrated by the University of Dayton’s work with Sinclair Community College in Ohio. The initiative also increases the number of graduates who remain in the Dayton area and contribute to its local workforce.

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University Business

JULY 10, 2024

More from UB: Is community college reaching a new level of confidence? Another university taking a similar approach to its pre-college summer programs is Marist College , which hosts three sessions across July (two on campus and one virtually).

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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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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

After an initial two-year trial period, during which their prisoners can receive Pell Grants, the corrections agency overseeing a facility will make a determination about whether the program is operating in students’ best interest. The college serves 75 students across three correctional facilities in the central Virginia region.

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