Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The Exploring Transfer program at Vassar College is a summer intensive that immerses currently enrolled community college students in an academically rigorous environment, providing vital support and encouragement so they can ultimately continue their education at a competitive four-year institution.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 7, 2023

The Colorado Community College System has announced transfer agreements with two historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs): Saint Augustine’s University and Texas Southern University. SAU will also offer scholarships to Bridge to Bachelor’s students.

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Insight Into Diversity

MAY 14, 2023

Since its inception 21 years ago, the Point Foundation has become the largest scholarship-granting organization for LGBTQ+ college students in the country. In the 2018-2019 academic year, the organization awarded scholarships to 98 students. At one time, the organization received over 1,500 applications for only 20 scholarships.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The University of Arkansas’ new transfer scholarship program seeks to address these challenges. The Arkansas Transfer Achievement Scholarship (ATAS), rolled out in fall 2019, has shown incredible growth, particularly among students from low-income and underrepresented backgrounds, including first-generation students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Facing a national shortage of early childhood educators , the Community College of Vermont (CCV) and the Southwestern Vermont Medical Center (SVMC) have teamed up for an innovative solution: paying students to reduce their hours at their jobs in favor of taking more classes. SVMC’s initial idea was to fund scholarships.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 7, 2023

A new bill has been introduced in the Texas legislature that would revamp how the state gives its community colleges money, KXAN reported. Gary VanDeaver, would alter the funding formula for money that the state gives its 50 community college districts, effective Sept.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

College officials met with local legislators Thursday to give updates on local and statewide community college initiatives before the upcoming February legislative session. The post Gillette College officials, legislators talk impact of nontraditional student scholarship appeared first on University Business.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2023

The United Negro College Fund (UNCF) has received $190 million, its largest philanthropic corporate gift, for a scholarship program. Pamela Everhart The money – from Fidelity Investments – will go towards launching the Fidelity Scholars Program, which will have renewable, need-based scholarships and wrap-around support services.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

In an era when so many faculty and young scholars are trying to just focus on their scholarship or focus on writing the book, Everrett is that rare individual who can bring it all together.” Smith was recently named guest editor for the summer 2023 issue of New Directions for Community Colleges, which will focus on urban community colleges.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

APRIL 13, 2023

Community College Partnerships Each year, 80% of students who enroll in community colleges say that their long-term goal is to complete a bachelor’s degree, but only 16% of them do, and that percentage is dropping. One of those agreements is with Harrisburg Area Community College ( HACC ).

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

SUNY Westchester Community College and MDRC, a social policy research organization, released the results of a new study Thursday, which found that students in the college’s student support program enrolled full-time at higher rates and accumulated more credits than their peers. GPA to be eligible. Hide by line?:

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Ipsen The global 2023 Progress, Accomplishment, Thriving, Hope (PATH) Scholarship consists of $10,000-$25,000 grants to higher ed institutions to help students with expenses such as housing, tuition, and food. Through the PATH Scholarship program, we are dedicated to investing in their potential and contributing to their success."

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

But after showing up at one of Michigan’s community colleges, the returning student is given a high-stakes test in math and English to see if they are “ready” for college-level work. And Michigan colleges have begun making those changes. And they follow through.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The award — applicable to most of the degree and teaching credential programs offered by the university — provides financial assistance to A2MEND students, college advisors, and full-time or part-time permanent staff at its 39 chapters across the California Community Colleges system.

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University Business

JANUARY 22, 2024

Tackling workforce needs with financial assistance Maine Free College, a free college scholarship initiative introduced by the Maine Community College System (MCCS) in the 2022-23 academic year, has helped contribute to a mass resurgence in enrollment compared to the rest of the country. The same goes for Arizona.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

New findings from the Community College Research Center (CCRC) are eerily similar to those of the Department of Education : only 16% of community college students earn a bachelor’s degree within six years.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 23, 2024

Achieving the Dream (ATD) has announced that eight ATD Network community college students were chosen as 2024 DREAM Scholars, including one Tribal College and University student, one student from a college within the South African Siyaphumelela Network, and one student from a Gateway to College program.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The Minority Male Initiative, an annual conference aimed at helping shape the futures of high school juniors, seniors, and current Brookdale Community College students will take place next week at the New Jersey institution. It also offers scholarships, internships, and career opportunities.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Whether rebounding from a sluggish 2022 or rivaling pre-pandemic enrollment numbers, colleges and universities embraced a variety of initiatives to win new students and maintain a healthy cohort. gain in first-time college students, thanks in part to an 8.9% increase in community college transfer students, NC Newsline reports.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

to Teach Sarah Bray Tue, 11/28/2023 - 03:00 AM Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria and Nicholas Papas describe the powerful synergy that can occur between scholarship-oriented students at universities and community college faculty with practical teaching experience. Partnering to Train Ph.D.s

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University Business

JULY 28, 2023

Eloy Ortiz Oakley, president and CEO of the College Futures Foundation , said the process begins by “flipping the nomenclature,” or reframing how we inherently perceive different kinds of institutions. He believes community colleges should be considered “elite” for housing under-resourced students.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The American International Recruitment Council has announced the 2023 recipients of the Sir Cyril Taylor Memorial Scholarship for Study in the US. Nine US HEIs will receive up to $10,000 to award scholarships to disadvantaged or underrepresented students from the UK to enrol at their institution during the 2023/24 academic year.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

A 2022 report from the UCLA School of Law Williams Institute and the Point Foundation, an LGBTQ scholarship fund, noted that 32.6% of LGBTQ people experienced bullying, harassment, or assault at college, compared to 18.9% Prior to that, GALA raised over $250,000 to endow UND LGBTQ student scholarships; two are given every year.

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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. when MacKenzie Scott, one of the richest women in the world, decided to make a major investment in community colleges.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Willis Scholarship Program, which launched at the start of the 2016-2017 academic year, provides scholarships to Connecticut students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds. The program is divided into two scholarships, both of which provide funding to low-income students — need-merit and need-based offerings.

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University Business

APRIL 1, 2024

Nearly $376 million will be funneled into nonprofits, community colleges and universities to provide scholarships for migrant students and seasonal farmworkers and their children to pursue higher education or earn their GED, an alternative to a four-year high school diploma.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

When Adrianne Washington, dean of special academic programs at the Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC), found that the Honors Program was overlooking the school’s Black men, it didn’t sit right with her. Washington is dean of the nascent Honors College. We really have to be flexible.

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ACPA

MARCH 14, 2024

Dariel “DT” Henry, Bristol Community College 2013 – Lisa S. Kelsay, Moraine Valley Community College 2012 – Darl Drummond, College of Lake County 2011 – Deborah Casey-Powell, Green River Community College 2010 – Randy L.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean The state of Florida is conducting a master class in how not to have civil debate. It’s about completion scholarships. Some context: completion scholarships are typically small grants of money that colleges or universities will give to students who are nearly finished.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Kelly Peloquin Kelly Peloquin has been named athletics director at Bronx Community College in New York. She attended the University of Miami on an athletics scholarship for swimming and received a degree in sports administration. Peloquin served as assistant director.

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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

MAY 1, 2023

HB 982 will create the Pilot Program for Human Services Careers, changing eligibility criteria for the Maryland Loan Assistance Repayment Program for Police Officers and the Maryland Police Officers Scholarship Program to include probation agents. It also establishes the Pilot Program for Human Services Careers Scholarship.

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Marcia J. Ballinger, Ph.D.

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Lorain County Community College is the community’s college, providing pathways to rewarding careers in all fields, including liberal arts and the humanities. This semester, the first cohort of the Mandel program came together, comprised of students with interests in the arts, writing, communication or the humanities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2023

Others, alarmed by reports of the high cost of tuition, believe that going to college will require them to shoulder an oppressive debt burden. Still others, influenced by dangerous myths, are reluctant to attend an open-access institution like a community college. Despite the data, community colleges suffer from low prestige.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The TCURJ, established by the American Indian College Fund in 2016, serves as the only academic publication outlet for peer reviewed scholarship specifically for TCU faculty. Dr. Alex Red Corn serves as Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership, College of Education, Kansas State University. Roueche and Margaretta B.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The program enables eligible community college graduates to transfer into participating four-year institutions—admission guaranteed. Community college graduates need only their associate degree and a minimum cumulative GPA to be granted admission to participating institutions in their state.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

After earning her high school diploma, she received a Longleaf Commitment scholarship, a last dollar scholarship created by North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper through federal pandemic relief funding. For a lot of people, having a scholarship can be a make or break. “For North Carolina Secretary of Commerce Machelle Sanders.

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