AACC

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

September 23, 2022 | Issue # 220 This week, 73 community college representatives were in Washington, DC, for AACC’s Advocates in Action meeting. They also gained insight into how Washington formulates higher education policy. These meeting participants heard from lobbyists, Capitol Hill staff, AACC staff, and more.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 24, 2023

Sade Bonilla, an assistant professor of policy, organizations, leadership and systems division at the University of Pennsylvania, said that postsecondary institutions traditionally spend the most money on students who already have the most advantages. We have this prevailing meritocracy aura in higher education.

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University Business

APRIL 9, 2024

Yet, this developing flexibility is underdeveloped in many community colleges where technical and in-person training is staunchly preserved. Higher education’s best differentiator is delivering on the promise of quality for students.

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IHEP

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Like many students across the country, Coleen began her journey to a four-year degree at a community college. When I was 18, I realized that I was going to be paying for college on my own and it hadn’t really hit me before, like exactly how much it costs,” Coleen explained. FOUR-YEAR INSTITUTIONS.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 15, 2023

The University engages with high schools and California Community Colleges throughout the state to align readiness standards and improve the percentage of students who are eligible for admission to UC and CSU campuses,” she said in an email. (The She also referenced the system’s recruitment and pipeline efforts.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 14, 2024

This finding came as a surprise, said report co-author Martin Van Der Werf, director of editorial and education policy for the CEW. Per their criteria for a good job, researchers found that workers in the rural U.S. hold a proportionate share of good jobs – they make up 13% of the U.S. workforce (14.9 million out of 63.3

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University Business

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

.” “The highest-paying jobs in rural areas are in white-collar, blue-collar, and protective services occupations, and blue-collar and protective services occupations are more likely to employ men,” Martin Van Der Werf, report co-author and CEW’s director of editorial and education policy, said in the press release.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Ultimately, I graduated from Florida State University with a bachelor’s degree in food and nutrition science and a new passion for a career in higher education to ensure more students have equitable access to college and to supports, such as childcare, that help them succeed. I would later earn my Ph.D.

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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

DECEMBER 22, 2022

From a sample of over 560,000 first year, first time community college students and over 32,000 instructors in Texas between 2013 and 2020, researchers found that 77% of white students experienced a racial match. However, only 29% of Hispanic students and 14% of Black students had the same.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The coalition includes California Completes, a higher education and workforce research nonprofit offering guidance to state policy makers; InsideTrack, an organization that offers personalized coaching to help students succeed; ProjectAttain!, Dr. Su Jin Jez, executive director of California Completes.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

The program at Morgan has allowed me to learn specific concepts I didn’t realize were systems within higher education or specific schools of thought,” he noted. I’m able to think about policy development, how higher education policy influences students from various backgrounds.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 26, 2023

Research indicated that many schools prioritized predominantly white and affluent high schools and communities when recruiting, said Mamie Voight, president of the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP), which authored the first of the three briefs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Excelencia in Education works to advance Latino student success in higher education by promoting Latino student achievement, conducting analysis to inform educational policies and advancing institutional practices. It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students. Morishita, interim president at CSULA.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 28, 2022

“We can celebrate today as the day that the loophole was finally closed,” said Barmak Nassirian, vice president of higher education policy for Veterans Education Success, which helped lead the effort to rally public support for the change.

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IHEP

APRIL 5, 2023

Too often, college costs and other barriers prove too high a hurdle for many students, especially students from low-income backgrounds and students of color, but federal appropriations decisions can help bring down those hurdles. President Biden’s FY24 budget proposal included several much-needed increases in higher education funding.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

has the highest educational attainment rate for adults, but it’s also an area known for attracting transplants from other states with high education levels, so its seeming success could mask degree attainment challenges for certain demographics, such as local community college students. For example, Washington, D.C.,

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The survey was fielded in March and April of this year and was conducted by HCM Strategists, a public policy and advocacy consulting firm, and Edge Research, a marketing research firm, with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 2, 2024

Department of Education works to fix the broken system, it’s time for community college leaders to remind Americans that these important institutions exist. All is not lost if only we embrace the expansive and flexible opportunities offered by our community colleges. While the U.S.

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ACPA

MARCH 6, 2023

Frankly, a lot of academics, especially in the field of education, were having trouble seeing the overlap between BIPOC students, tech, and media cultures. I found more support in communications and sociology, but I was in an Education Policy Ph.D. program, so I had to find a topic that was a bit more traditional.

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HESA

APRIL 20, 2023

Ireland trailed most of Europe by ten to fifteen years in massifying its higher education system, and as Ellen notes in our talk, the country’s universities only really gained a research mission at the turn of the millennium. But falling meant the higher education sector could learn from other countries’ success and mistakes.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JUNE 13, 2023

Before 2011, Brown was a senior research associate at the Center for Evaluation and Education Policy at Indiana University. There, she led studies and evaluations focused on education and post-high school programs within the United States and across Europe. We saw it clearly with the community colleges at first.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 15, 2023

The report is based on data from a survey of nearly 900 US colleges and institutions, who provided information on more than 370,000 full-time and 90,000 part-time faculty members. Colleges let short-term employees go to save money during the pandemic, and many of their courses were absorbed by other faculty members, he said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 16, 2023

The data offers new insight on the contributing factors for the spike decline in enrollment at community college and universities across the country. About 26 percent of students surveyed by EAB selected succeeding in college as a top concern behind only to affordability and value. Dr. Douglas N.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 10, 2023

Now, a new study from the Community College Research Center at Columbia University has shown that summer Pell has had meaningful benefits, improving retention, attainment, and even earnings up to nine years after college entry for students who received it.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 26, 2023

Yet, there’s this whole supply of them at community colleges,” said Dr. Shaun Harper, founder and executive director of the Race and Equity Center at the University of Southern California, during a panel on equitable college completion. Dr. Pam Eddinger, president of Bunker Hill Community College in Massachusetts, agreed.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2023

“There’s valuable educational and skill information hiding in plain sight with regard to some of these candidates,” said Sean Gallagher, executive professor of educational policy at Northeastern University and a co-author of the study. “Why do these systems not call for more detailed information?

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Consider the data: no state has a public higher education system with a student body that reflects its demographic profile. The ASAP program doubled associate degree graduation rates at the City University of New York and at three Ohio community colleges where it was replicated.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

When community colleges are mentioned in the State of the Union address, it elevates our sector across policy circles,” said Dr. Walter G. Bumphus, president and CEO of the American Association of Community Colleges, by email. Fansmith says he is curious to see whether Biden brings up free community college.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Michelle Asha Cooper, deputy under secretary of education, will leave her position to join the Lumina Foundation on Oct. 3 as vice president for public policy and executive director of Lumina’s Washington office. Website Headline: Michelle Cooper Will Leave Education Dept. Hide by line?: Disable left side advertisement?:

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EAB

JANUARY 30, 2023

educational policy is a focus on using evidence, or data, to inform decisions about institutional and educator quality, budgetary decisions, and what and how to teach students” (3). 4) I have had the opportunity to redesign the institutional research function at both community colleges and at a public regional university.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 16, 2023

I’ve been working on finalizing my spring course—Current Issues in Higher Education: Policy and Practice—and I’m really excited about focusing on the following big issues: Concurrent enrollment/dual enrollment/early college. Free community college movement. Basic needs (in)security.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 14, 2023

Kellogg Professor of Community College Leadership at the University of Texas at Austin. Although the guidance, which takes the form of a Dear Colleague letter and a seven-page question and answer document, does not have the force of law, it still matters, according to Dr. Liliana Garces, the W.K. Dr. Liliana Garces, the W.K.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

His work and expertise are often cited by national news outlets, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and NBC. So these are schools that have been delivering on the promise of higher education for years. Drumm McNaughton 28:27 Did you look at community colleges with this information?

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Higher Education Inquirer

JUNE 29, 2023

At the front end of the higher ed pipeline, the US is not producing enough domestic students with the resources or skills to succeed in college and beyond. In 2026 we expect an enrollment cliff to occur, a ripple effect of the 2008 Great Recession. The Supreme Court has also spoken recently--ending affirmative action for people of color.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 14, 2022

“The IDR changes are on a much stronger legal footing,” said Kevin Carey, vice president for education policy at New America, a think tank. “I think this is going to create a real dilemma for community colleges,” he said.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Eva Surovell, editor-in-chief of The Cavalier Daily , said what’s happening at UVA is an example of the battles being waged over public education policies and campus culture wars across the country. During his campaign for governor, Youngkin didn’t offer many specifics on his plans for higher education.

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