An inspirational friendship
Shawn Cheshire rode across the country on her bicycle, depending on Jesse Crandall, a chemistry professor at Grand Rapids Community College (GRCC), to guide her every bit of the two-month, 3,700-mile trek. Cheshire is a…
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Community college freshman enrollment up 6.1%
Undergraduate enrollments seem to have stabilized this fall — including at community colleges — and there’s been an uptick among freshmen, with public two-year colleges seeing the biggest bump, according to final fall enrollment data…
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DeSantis takes on the education establishment, and builds his brand New York Times Appearing on Tuesday at the State College of Florida, Manatee-Sarasota, one of the state’s 28 publicly funded state and community colleges, Florida…
Half of community college students received HEERF help
Nearly one in two community college students received a grant through the federal Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund (HEERF) in 2021, which was critical to keeping many of them enrolled during the Covid pandemic, according…
Teaching while Black: My story
When I was young, we often drove from Ohio to Louisiana to visit family. I recall my parents needing to plan strategically so that we would not have to stop in certain unsafe states, and…
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Senators re-introduce bipartisan JOBS Act Studying strategies for post-Covid student recovery Senators re-introduce bipartisan JOBS Act Sens. Tim Kaine (D-Virginia) and Mike Braun (R-Indiana) on Tuesday reintroduced the Jumpstarting Our Businesses by Supporting Students (JOBS)…
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Hochul’s plan to bolster community college enrollment receives praise from local education leaders Daily Gazette A proposal by New York Gov. Kathy Hochul that would automatically admit all high school students to their local community…
Bringing the three Rs to higher ed marketing
Purple squirrels … blue diamonds … unicorns. No matter what terms we use, we all have those special customers that Psychology Today coins “pseudo-exceptionals.” These pseudo-exceptionals are those who believe they’re completely different from others…
A source of knowledge and inspiration
When Douglas B. Hamm applied to MentorLinks, he hoped it would improve Lakeshore Technical College (LTC) faculty and staff members’ understanding of National Science Foundation (NSF) resources and lead to better connections with the American…
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Clear, simple and wrong Inside Higher Ed Defining student success must reflect actual student behavior and intentions. The Voluntary Framework for Accountability comes much closer to reality, but it’s largely absent from policy discussions. That…