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Colleges hire directors to tackle student basic needs

Inside Higher Ed

She’d spent seven years as a part-time student at Los Angeles Pierce Community College after graduating from high school and struggled to earn money and find financial aid to pay for a four-year education. UC Irvine was one of the earliest colleges to have such a center.

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Duke Invests in Community-Engaged Research to Increase STEM Access

Insight Into Diversity

recently allocated funding from its endowment to support seven faculty projects that will examine and address issues relevant to the surrounding population. Duke University is taking action to advance racial and social justice by investing in community-engaged research. The private university in Durham, N.C.,

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Innovative Funding Helps Health Professions Research College Raise $1 Million, Advance Diverse Research

Insight Into Diversity

Thirty percent more African American, Latinx, and Hispanic faculty are working this year within the College of Public Health and Health Professions (PHHP) at the University of Florida (UF), thanks to a $1 million initiative to recruit faculty who address diverse research and instruction. Michael Perri. Together, they raised $300,000. .

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California's Community Colleges See the Benefits of Student Housing

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

When Imperial Valley College (IVC) conducted a student survey seven years ago, they discovered over 200 students experiencing food and housing insecurity. While visiting the kitchen, then Dean of Student Services Dr. Lennor Johnson, president and superintendent of Imperial Valley College in El Centro, California.

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Performance-based funding: The new normal or a schtick?

University Business

With public trust in higher education waning and a barrage of reports illustrating the middling outcomes associated with Americans who earn a college degree, state lawmakers are fighting to restore public trust in their institutions by promising to hold them more accountable.

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Librarians' "new normal" includes pain points

Inside Higher Ed

Ithaka S+R shared results from its triennial survey published last week, which sought to capture college library deans’ and directors’ perspectives three years into the pandemic. Librarians at master’s-granting colleges and doctoral universities felt similarly dispirited (13 percent and 20 percent, respectively).

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2022 Delphi Award Winners Share Practices to Support Part-Time Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Offering advice about professional development opportunities, shared governance, and health benefits were but some of the practices presented and discussed by Montgomery College and the Dominican University of California, the two winners of the 2022 Delphi Award, at a webinar onWednesday.

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