Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 1, 2024

The announcement comes as more community colleges across the nation are looking to encourage their students to study abroad. BMCC is the first and only community college locally or abroad to have entered into a shared interest agreement with LSE.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 19, 2025

Historically Black and Predominantly Black community colleges across the South received an unprecedented $2.7 From 2020 to 2022, the federal government distributed nearly $80 billion to higher education institutions through three rounds of HEERF funding, with community colleges receiving $25 billion of that total.

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DECEMBER 19, 2024

Key Takeaways: Community colleges play a vital role in addressing enrollment barriers, offering tailored support to first-generation and working students. Community colleges are uniquely positioned to open doors for these students who might otherwise never step foot into higher education.

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Higher Ed Dive

JUNE 2, 2023

The system will send letters informing students in the coming days, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2024

According to LeiLani, When learning is personalized and can be done anywhere, continued relevancy for schools will rely on providing what the present generation values the mostquality experience. Interestingly, at the Community College of Aurora, over 40% of our learners identify as adult learners.

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Inside Higher Ed

JULY 11, 2024

Michigan high schoolers will be able to attend a local community college without paying tuition starting next fall.

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University Business

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Its the lament of an Indianapolis high school senior who waited until late into his sophomore yearGasp!to to take advantage of the college classes Indiana offers high schoolers for free or little cost. Indiana is one of the few states where starting college as a high school sophomore makes you a late bloomer.

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University Business

JANUARY 6, 2025

Loud and overcrowded classrooms are just some of the big problems Massachusetts community college professors say they dealt with this past semester with free community college now available in the state. We are overcapacity. Read more at NBC News.

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University Business

MARCH 25, 2025

Enrollment in trade schools has significantly increased since the pandemic, and it’s only expected to continue over the next decade, according to a new report from Validated Insights. More from UB: College degree? All the trade school indices are pointed upwards, said Brady Colby, head of market research at Validated Insights.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 23, 2023

After large pandemic-related declines the past several years, community college enrollment grew this spring by 0.5%, or 22,000 students, compared to spring 2022. at public schools and 0.2% The gains in the community college sector were driven by an 8% increase in dual-enrolled high schoolers (49,000 students).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The improvements here were mostly driven by students who started at community colleges. Community college completion rates jumped 1.2 The rise in dual enrollment—high school students taking college courses—has had a positive impact with a national six-year completion rate of 71.1%.

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University Business

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Experts are increasingly sounding the alarm on community “college deserts” that leave students without readily accessible higher education options. The post Community ‘college deserts’ leave students stranded from higher education appeared first on University Business. Read more at The Hill.

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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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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. But such was the case at many two-year schools across the U.S. For us, this was the largest donation that we had ever received.

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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. Felder, president of Harford Community College in Maryland, where Stout began her community college career in 1984.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

A widespread health crisis is undermining American community colleges, with many current and potential students exhibit high rates of anxiety, depression, substance abuse, suicidal ideation, food insecurity, and more. Let’s be real: it costs significant money and time to address this problem, and most community colleges lack both.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 16, 2024

Austin Community College District (ACC) is proposing to make college tuition free for all high school seniors in Central Texas. The Austin Community College District plans to present a formal plan for a free tuition pilot program to its Board of Trustees in February.

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Higher Education Inquirer

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) has documented the decline in community college enrollment for more than a decade. The question we are asking now is, where is the floor for the community college meltdown? And community colleges would need to provide stronger returns on investment for those who attend.

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University Business

DECEMBER 16, 2024

California math educators this fall have been locked in a vigorous debate: Will the implementation of a new law help more community college STEM students by skipping prerequisites and placing them directly into calculus, or will it set up the states least-prepared students for failure? This week, critics scored something of a victory.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The Aspen Institute has named the 150 community colleges that can compete for its $1 million Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence. Joshua Wyner The selected schools – out of more than 1,000 U.S. The 150 schools can submit data and narratives about strategies for better, more equitable student outcomes. “The

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 5, 2025

In contrast, non-transfer enrollment, meaning students continuing at or returning to the same school they had previously attended, remains 3.5% The data also shows more transfers into community colleges and shorter-term programs and certificates. increase in transfer enrollment at community colleges since fall 2020.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 7, 2024

More community colleges in the U.S. are beginning to offer bachelor's degrees in addition to their usual offerings, and many of them serve minority populations, according to a recent report from The Community College Baccalaureate Association (CCBA) and higher ed consulting firm Bragg & Associates Inc.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Adult community college students in degree-progressing English and math courses are nearing parity with their traditional-age student counterparts when it comes to course completion, according to a new report from California Competes.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Erie County community members begged for a community college in their area. When Erie County Community College first launched three years ago, the upstart Pennsylvania institution had two offices for its six employees and rented out classrooms on the third floor of an old Catholic high school.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

New faculty unions at Howard Community College and Frederick Community College have been certified and recognized, with full-time faculty recognized as AFT-Maryland members, Maryland Matters reported. That’s why it is such a hot labor summer.” Unions do not necessarily have to be adversarial.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2025

During the 2016-2017 school year, the Brothers to Sisters Club at Compton College reserved a portion of their meetings for Real Talk. 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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 23, 2025

Richard Finger Clearinghouse Research Center (NSCRC) released revised and more complete data, which shows that last fall freshman enrollment actually grew by 5.5% (130,000), particularly at community colleges, which added 63,000 (7.1%) freshmen. to approximately 19 million students, which is above pre-pandemic levels. Dr. Brian R.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 13, 2024

A new Data Points series is providing insights into the impacts of community college bachelor’s degree education and increasingly diverse populations and their career prospects.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Piedmont Community College will be offering a Taylor Swift course next year. Seeing larger schools with similar offerings inspired him to create the course about the popular artist, he said. Seeing larger schools with similar offerings inspired him to create the course about the popular artist, he said. “I

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University Business

AUGUST 21, 2024

Leading the way are the nation’s community colleges. But the students who are returning to community college classrooms today are less interested in earning a bachelor’s degree. The school even has a clean room lab space. According to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, enrollment grew by 2.5%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 24, 2024

community college students are finding that their schools are not equipping them with the knowledge to succeed after they graduate, according to recent findings from University of Texas at Austin’s 2023 Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCCSE). Sizable portions of U.S.

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University Business

JUNE 27, 2024

Many feel it is a lack of support from school leadership, overloading teachers due to the shortages in their schools and no letup in the amount of work they do. Some of the main reasons reported by teachers follow: Schools are short-staffed and staffed with many teachers lacking certification.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

Maura Healey signed the state budget worth nearly $58 billion that includes free community college. It invests in areas that we are already leading on and makes them better – including our #1 ranked schools and our nation-leading childcare strategy. Massachusetts Gov.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The data shows stark disparities in educational attainment among recent high school graduates. Over half of Asian students and nearly 40% of white students earn a college degree within eight years of high school graduation, while less than 20% of low-income, Black, or Latinx students reach the same milestone.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 5, 2023

Image: Community colleges serve high numbers of parenting students, but too few institutions have campus childcare centers, or sufficient spots to meet demand, to help these students persist and graduate. Leaders of the two organizations plan to lay the groundwork to bring more Head Start centers to community college campuses.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2025

As associate provost at the college, Ill admit I was biased but even two decades of experience in higher education couldnt fully prepare me for her struggle to transfer credits. Queens College is one of The City University of New Yorks 25 colleges. There are also many individual articulation agreements between colleges.

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