Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 17, 2024

Drexel University is offering tuition at half the cost for students who have earned an associate degree from any accredited community college in the U.S. Now, the university is expanding the program to benefit community college graduates across the country. cumulative GPA. cumulative GPA.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 8, 2024

The profile of the average community college student is changing. While two-year institutions still have significant populations of adult students and people desirous of enhancing their career options, there is a growing number of first-time college students, age 18 to 22, that are seeking a traditional college experience.

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Today's Learner

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Beginning in high school, I started teaching Sunday school and read the Sunday school minutes. In college, students asked me to proofread their essays, and I shared successful tips on how to study and organize their time. For Ann Snell, teaching is her true passion Going to college was not always on my bucket list.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 13, 2025

Dr. Romn Liera is a rising star in higher education, with a dedication to equity, innovative scholarship and student-centered learni Dr. Romn Liera ning. He went to an under-resourced high school. You are more than how you are being assessed, so find and do what brings you joy as a faculty member.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) show that, on average, those ages 25 and older who hold a bachelor's degree continue earning just over $30,000 each year more than their counterparts who only have a high school diploma. More than 99% of our Trine alumni are employed or in graduate school within six months of graduation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Necessary support is provided through GANAS (Gaining Access ’AND Academic Success), an innovative access and retention program that serves community college transfer students. Spanish-language presentations and family engagement help demystify the college process and foster a college-going culture. in the last two years.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 8, 2023

Testing and research giant ETS, is offering a number of scholarships for underrepresented students who demonstrate academic excellence. Green Scholarship; the Dr. Lillian M. Those selected will receive a full tuition-only need/merit scholarships for the 2023–2024 academic school year. The $20,000 Lenora M.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The University of Wyoming (UW) and five community colleges in the state are building a faculty network to share best practices and make science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education more inclusive. This article was published in our March 2023 issue. This article was published in our March 2023 issue.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 23, 2025

Collectively, as researchers, we have about 50 or more years of experience conducting empirical studies on Black men attending diverse institutional types, ranging from predominantly White institutions, community colleges, and historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs).

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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. SVMC’s initial idea was to fund scholarships.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The University of Arkansas’ new transfer scholarship program seeks to address these challenges. The Arkansas Transfer Achievement Scholarship (ATAS), rolled out in fall 2019, has shown incredible growth, particularly among students from low-income and underrepresented backgrounds, including first-generation students.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2023

The United Negro College Fund (UNCF) has received $190 million, its largest philanthropic corporate gift, for a scholarship program. Pamela Everhart The money – from Fidelity Investments – will go towards launching the Fidelity Scholars Program, which will have renewable, need-based scholarships and wrap-around support services.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

New findings from the Community College Research Center (CCRC) are eerily similar to those of the Department of Education : only 16% of community college students earn a bachelor’s degree within six years.

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Insight Into Diversity

MAY 14, 2023

Since its inception 21 years ago, the Point Foundation has become the largest scholarship-granting organization for LGBTQ+ college students in the country. In the 2018-2019 academic year, the organization awarded scholarships to 98 students. At one time, the organization received over 1,500 applications for only 20 scholarships.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 12, 2023

Although 80% of students who enroll in community colleges plan on getting a bachelor’s degree, only around 15% do so within six years. It’s a product of what seems like a perpetually leaky transfer process, in which, nationwide, 43% of credits are lost between schools.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 26, 2024

Baker More than 170,000 residents enrolled in academic courses or registered for adult education and workforce training during the 2023-24 school year, according to the Alabama Community College System (ACCS). Baker, chancellor of the Alabama Community College System.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Ipsen The global 2023 Progress, Accomplishment, Thriving, Hope (PATH) Scholarship consists of $10,000-$25,000 grants to higher ed institutions to help students with expenses such as housing, tuition, and food. Two-year public colleges are at the heart of the U.S. Awardees outside the U.S. will be announced in the coming months.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 18, 2024

Brigid Flanigan The Portland Community College Foundation has received a $1 million gift pledge to launch the college’s First-Year Experience initiative, benefitting historically underserved students. The gift was made by Tenfold Senior Living founder and principal Brigid Flanigan.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Bureau of Labor Statistics show that, on average, those ages 25 and older who hold a bachelor’s degree continue earning just over $30,000 each year more than their counterparts who only have a high school diploma. More than 99% of our Trine alumni are employed or in graduate school within six months of graduation.

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University Business

MAY 10, 2023

Eligible students must be enrolled in at least one credit per semester at a public community college or four-year university in either the University of Minnesota, Minnesota State system, or a state tribal college. California The Excelsior Scholarship covers tuition for first-year students whose families make up to $125,000.

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University Business

JANUARY 22, 2024

However, several institutions are reaping great enrollment numbers from the high school realm. Creating initiatives that dilate their schools’ access and affordability. Buoyed by a $20 million investment from the state, MCCS targeted high school graduates from 2020 to 2023 who might have been affected by the pandemic.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

But at the beginning of this new fall semester, colleges across the country are reporting big turnarounds. The University of Arkansas, for example, has welcomed a record number of students this school year, topping 32,000. gain in first-time college students, thanks in part to an 8.9%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 23, 2024

This is the second consecutive year of undergraduate growth and third straight year of growth for community colleges. At -6%, 18-year-olds enrolling immediately after high school account for much of the decline. By comparison, freshman enrollment at comparable community colleges shows a 1.2% Dr. Larry Hlavenka Jr.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 27, 2024

Let them know that the high price of rent is one of the leading contributors to student debt, and that nearly one in two undergraduates struggles with housing insecurity while in school. And in California, Los Angeles Room and Board supports community college students with residence hall-style living located off-campus.

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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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University Business

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The vast majority of postsecondary institutions can no longer rely on a relentless stream of new high school graduates to help them meet their enrollment and budget targets, much less prosper and grow. Students also said they had difficulty getting access to online and hybrid programs and worried that they could not succeed at school.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The Minority Male Initiative, an annual conference aimed at helping shape the futures of high school juniors, seniors, and current Brookdale Community College students will take place next week at the New Jersey institution. It also offers scholarships, internships, and career opportunities.

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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

MARCH 15, 2023

Others, alarmed by reports of the high cost of tuition, believe that going to college will require them to shoulder an oppressive debt burden. Still others, influenced by dangerous myths, are reluctant to attend an open-access institution like a community college. Despite the data, community colleges suffer from low prestige.

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

This big decision hinges on various factors, from academics and finances to student life and career prospects—all of which are aspects of a school that can be used by marketers to better stand out in a highly competitive space. Source: Reed College. Reviewing Admission Requirements Before Student Enrollment.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 4, 2024

For higher education, the budget comprises $120 million in increased funding for scholarships and grants, $20 million for student teacher stipends, a $15.7 million (6%) increase for community colleges, and a $35.1 million (6%) increase for Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education schools.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

These students are provided academic supports that include counseling, scholarships, and opportunities to participate in innovative science programs. “Dr. Salcedo is the director of the Center for Community College Partnerships at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The California legislature put some caveats.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 1, 2023

HB 982 will create the Pilot Program for Human Services Careers, changing eligibility criteria for the Maryland Loan Assistance Repayment Program for Police Officers and the Maryland Police Officers Scholarship Program to include probation agents. It also establishes the Pilot Program for Human Services Careers Scholarship.

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University Business

MARCH 16, 2023

A recent report by The Princeton Review considered the perspectives of 12,225 people—with a 72/28% split between student and parent respondents—to understand what colleges they’re interested in and why they’re motivated to apply. Overall, schools’ test-optional policies aren’t creating such a hoopla.

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University Business

MAY 22, 2024

“It will also ensure that students transferring from a community college to a four-year institution receive credits they deserve for the classes they’ve successfully completed.” Studies indicate the longer students take to finish school, the lower the chance they have of graduating.

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