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Compton College Addresses Student Homelessness and Basic Needs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This moment inspired Joshua Jackson and Dayshawn Louden, then student leaders at Compton College, to begin campaigning and advocating for student housing and increased basic needs on campus. This group provides system-wide recommendations to address housing and food insecurities for California Community College students.

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Paul Quinn College to Create an Innovative Housing Model and a Mixed-Use Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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Report: Community college baccalaureate can drive racial equity

Inside Higher Ed

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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Bronx Community College spent over a month without heat

Inside Higher Ed

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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Higher Education Summer Sessions: Past, Present, and Future

MindMax

A Brief History of Summer Programming. The history of summer programming at higher education institutions can be broken down into three distinct eras. In the late 20th century, schools’ summer programming efforts were primarily driven by the question, “What can we do with all these available facilities?” Opportunistic Era.

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700,000 incarcerated students will be Pell-eligible in 2023. Here’s what that could mean for your institution

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The History of Higher Ed for Incarcerated Students. In the early ‘90s, there were more than 770 college and university programs in nearly 1,300 prisons nationwide , all thanks to funding from the Pell Grant. The program serves 5,000 incarcerated students through 11 degree programs in more than 120 facilities.

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Capital Funding Strategies in Higher Education: How Universities Are Solving Infrastructure and Student Housing Challenges: Changing Higher Ed podcast 256 with host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and guest Brent Miller of HED

The Change Leader, Inc.

Corporate Sponsorships: Companies like Ford Motor Company are entering into collaborative research and facility-sharing agreements with universities, creating mutual value while funding new infrastructure. They continue to do those profound transformations in their history to electrification, connectivity, and automation, right?