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Student Enrollment Declines Across California’s Community College System
According to EdSource, student enrollment within California’s community college system has declined this fall — systemwide. Some campuses have even reported in double-digit losses. Though it is the nation’s largest college system, the circumstances have been compounded by the coronavirus pandemic, significant job loss, remote school/work as well as historic wildfires. “This is an issue […]
September 22, 2020
Students
Can We Judge Colleges by Their Success at Encouraging Grit?
One of my former students recently filled me with hope for the next generation. Clifton Jett Jr. is the director and writer of a play that he was about to bring to the stage, “Black Tar Boulevard,” when the pandemic hit. Although many productions have shut down, Clifton decided instead to pivot and turn the play into an independent film. He says, “We have worked too hard and waited too long to just throw it all away.” He and his team are moving ahead, in a safe and responsible manner.
September 22, 2020
Students
Bellarmine University Creates New Scholarship Program for Low-Income Students
Bellarmine University is creating a scholarship program to recruit low-income, high-achieving students into several STEM fields using an approximately $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The STEM fields are computer engineering, computer science, mathematics and data science. “The STEM Career Pathways Scholarship program will award annual scholarships of $7,200 each to two […]
September 19, 2020
Students
Legacy of Community College Professor Continues Through Scholarship
With a plan to pursue a postsecondary degree, Frederick Kakumba left Uganda in 1964 to come to the United States. “The opportunity came and I wanted to use it to help people in Africa,” said Kakumba, a retired Hudson Valley Community College (HVCC) professor. However, the transition was not easy. In school, he experienced racism and found it difficult to adjust to American culture.
September 17, 2020
Students
SAT, ACT Scores Still Required for Some Scholarships in Georgia
SAT and ACT scores are optional next year for admission to Georgia public colleges and universities, but are still required for some scholarships, The Athens Banner-Herald reported. A standardized test score is still required for some scholarships, including the state’s Zell Miller scholarship – “the top tier of Georgia’s two-tiered HOPE scholarship program” – which […]
September 14, 2020
Students
Peyton Manning’s Peyback Foundation Create Scholarships at Four HBCUs
Former NFL quarterback Peyton Manning’s Peyback Foundation has endowed six scholarships at four Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in Louisiana and two in Tennessee, according to a report Sunday from ESPN, GoVols247 reported. Grambling State University, Southern University, Tennessee State, Fisk University, Xavier University of Louisiana and Dillard University in New Orleans received the […]
September 14, 2020
Students
Racial and Social Justice Is the Work of College Student Educators
Since our founding in 1924 by six women employed as job placement officers who were dissatisfied there was no network for women working in colleges, the American College Personnel Association (ACPA) has represented student affairs professionals across higher education. Fast-forward to the Civil Rights Movement, student affairs and ACPA were again among the first to […]
September 14, 2020
Students
Report Finds Disparities Among Students Earning Paid Internships
New research by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) found disparities among students who work at unpaid versus paid internships based on their race, gender and parents’ education.
September 9, 2020
Students
We Must Not Leave Nontraditional Students Behind as COVID-19 Forces Colleges Online
In just a matter of weeks, millions of students will be attending college online and yet few traditional schools are adequately prepared. America’s higher education industry is wading into a minefield—it is difficult to effectively support students when the very instructors and administrators they rely on are also in unfamiliar territory. But the risk of failure will be even greater for a variety of marginalized student groups like minorities, first-generation students, transfer students, and others. As classes resume, schools must devote special attention to these groups.
September 8, 2020
Students
Loyola U New Orleans Earns $1.4 Million Federal Grant to Help Low-Income, First-Gen Students
Loyola University New Orleans has earned a nearly $1.4 million TRIO-Student Success Support Services (SSS) grant from the U.S. Department of Education to help provide services for low-income, first-generation and students with disabilities. It is the first time the school has received an SSS grant, which will be awarded over the next five years. According […]
September 2, 2020
Students
U of Florida’s Law School Receives $1.1 Million Gift To Fund Scholarships For HBCU Grads
In tribute to the late congressman and civil rights activist John Lewis, a Florida real estate developer has given $1.1 million to the University of Florida’s (UF) law school to fund scholarships for at least five graduates of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) each year, reports the Herald-Tribune. “Congressman Lewis used every day of […]
September 1, 2020
Students
College Students Among Justice Advocates in D.C. for Historic March
More than 200,000 people rallied on Friday at the Lincoln Memorial on the 57th anniversary of the historic 1963 March on Washington where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech. This time, they came to demand an end to systemic racism in the wake of the police shootings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Jacob Blake, among others.
August 30, 2020
Students
Dr. Dwayne Smith: From First Gen Student to CEO of Housatonic Community College
In July, Dr. Dwayne Smith began his new role as CEO of Housatonic Community College.
August 11, 2020
Students
CED Provides Recommendations for Higher Education Reform After COVID-19
New research conducted by the Committee for Economic Development of the Conference Board (CED) provides recommendations to policymakers for how to mitigate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the higher education system.
August 5, 2020
Students
Pandemic Could Potentially Delay Graduation for Students of Color
Although 30% of Black, Latinx and Asian American students said the COVID-19 pandemic boosted their perceived value of a college education (as opposed to 11% of White students), students of color and low-income students were more likely to take fewer classes in the fall, potentially delaying their graduation dates, according to the Understanding Coronavirus in […]
August 4, 2020
Students
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.
August 3, 2020
Students
Closing University Child Care Centers Hurts Both Student Parents and Future Educators
Across the country, early childhood care and education programs have been hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. Most closed in March, and though some are reopening as they are allowed by states, it’s expected that many will never reopen. These programs were financially precarious before the pandemic, and after months of closures and now with new regulations around cleaning and social distancing, it’s tough to make the numbers add up.
July 31, 2020
Students
The Trump Administration Is ‘Temporarily’ Rejecting All New DACA Applications and Shortening Renewals
Weeks after the Supreme Court blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), the White House announced Tuesday it would reject all new applications for the program and shorten the length of renewals from two years to one for the more than 650,000 DACA recipients. A day later, on Wednesday, […]
July 29, 2020
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