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Community Colleges

Study Finds Connection Between Public Community College Promise Programs and Enrollment Increases

A new study funded by the American Educational Research Association found a correlation between public community college promise programs and an increase in enrollment among female and underrepresented students.

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Going the Distance: COVID-19 Complicates Graduate Student Retention Efforts

For several decades, research has shown that about half of graduate students leave their programs before completing their degrees. What strategies are institutions of higher ed implementing to help retain their graduate students given the ongoing pandemic?

Institutions Rethink International Recruitment as COVID-19, Political Climate Complicate Process

Due to the limits on in-person interactions during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, graduate schools have transformed their recruitment strategies, especially for international students.

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Institutions Still Working to Achieve Faculty Diversity Goals Despite COVID-19-Related Challenges

While the number of new hires has decreased in the COVID-19 era, the vision of more diverse and inclusive faculty remains decisive.

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Excelencia’s ALASS Institute Focuses on the Future of HSIs

More than 1,000 higher education and organizational leaders virtually convened last week as part of Excelencia in Education’s Accelerating Latino Student Success (ALASS) Institute. Discussions focused on advancing equity for Latinx students as well the future of Hispanic-serving institutions (HSIs) post-COVID-19.

LSU Experiences Record Enrollment Despite COVID-19

Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, enrollment at Louisiana State University (LSU) has reached an all-time high for the fall semester, according to The Associated Press. In fact, more than 34,000 students are taking courses via in-person or online through the Baton Rouge campus. The flagship university also broke records for the third-straight year with its freshmen […]

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Are HBCUs Ready for an Increase in Enrollment?

Since 2016, about 40 of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in the nation saw an increase in applications and enrollments including Grambling State University, Dillard University, Howard University, and Shaw University.

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Enrollment at Some HBCUs Increases in the Wake of Black Lives Matter Protests

On the whole, HBCUs, like the rest of the higher education sector, are experiencing drops in enrollment as the coronavirus continues to create uncertainty. But in the wake of Black Lives Matter protests this summer, some HBCUs are attracting higher numbers of students.

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$4.2 Million Will Be Distributed to 14 Montana Colleges To Support Low-Income Students

Fourteen Montana colleges and universities will receive roughly $4.2 million from the Department of Education for TRIO Student Support Services (SSS) “in an effort to increase retention and graduation rates for low-income students,” reports The Great Falls Tribune. “My parents always said — and I still believe — that public education is the great equalizer […]

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Amid COVID-19 Pandemic, Morehouse School of Medicine Welcomes Its Largest Class

In June, most historically Black colleges and universities were racing against the clock to come up with a plan for what the fall semester would look like or rolling out and then revising strategies to safely re-open. But at Atlanta’s Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM), faculty, staff and most future physicians were already back training, teaching and learning — virtually and in person.

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Online Anti-Oppressive Orientation During COVID-19

With the COVID-19 pandemic shutting down physical college campuses in the spring, many institutions are planning to continue their fall semester in an online setting. In May 2020, we restructured a previously in-person program to an asynchronous and synchronous anti-oppressive orientation program entitled, Power, Privilege and Positionality (PPP) to address recent national uprisings at the intersection of COVID-19.

10 Concrete Policy Changes PWIs Can Enact to Show Black Lives Matter

As senior leaders prepare for the fall semester, I would like to provide 10 concrete policies and practices that could positively impact the institutional climates for their Black populations.

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