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JUNE 19, 2023

New federal legislation aims to boost community college agriculture programs with annual grants. The Community College Agriculture Advancement Act has bipartisan support in both the U.S. House and Senate and is endorsed by a broad range of community college organizations.

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JANUARY 25, 2023

The list includes a variety of state schools, private institutions, and community colleges. The Department of Education (ED) revealed a list of 38 colleges and universities set to receive funds from grant programs to improve outcomes for underrepresented students. ED made 15 awards worth over $8.5

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JANUARY 10, 2023

Massachusetts Senate President Karen Spilka called for free community college in a speech to her chamber. Thirty-one states currently offer free community college with varying eligibility requirements, including several of Massachusetts' neighbors.

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JANUARY 23, 2023

The multi-year grants are part of the Community College Campus Hunger Program and funded through the American Rescue Plan Act. The colleges plan to expand transportation services to help students get to grocery stores and farmers’ markets, as well as working with local nonprofits to combat on-campus food insecurity.

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JULY 31, 2023

Prince George's Community College in Maryland will establish STEM majors through the grant. NASA is making big investments to help science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) students at minority-serving two-year and four-year colleges boost their careers in space research. "We

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JANUARY 24, 2023

The recently launched Civic Mapping Initiative is making state-by-state maps of community colleges' accessibility by public transit. The initiative was launched by the Seldin/Haring-Smith Foundation, which found in a previous nationwide analysis that only 57% of primary community college campuses were accessible by public transit.

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MARCH 7, 2023

The Lowe's Foundation announced $50 million in grants to community and technical colleges Thursday. The grants go toward educating skilled workers amid a nationwide shortage, according to a press release. American Association of Community Colleges President and CEO Walter G.

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MARCH 20, 2023

The National Head Start Association and the Association of Community College Trustees are partnering to bring more Head Start centers to community colleges. Officials hope the centers will cut back on a shortage of childcare access and early childhood educators. Roughly 1 in 10 undergraduate students in the U.S.

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EAB

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Blogs 5 areas for community college leaders to take stock in 2023 And resources to help sustain your post-pandemic momentum Now that community colleges have weathered the storm of the pandemic, it’s time to take a moment to recognize all you have accomplished, and then to begin to steer the transition from a “crisis” mindset to a sustainability one.

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EAB

OCTOBER 24, 2022

5 Tips to Recruit and Enroll Latine/x Students in Your Community College. Prospective Latine/x college students in the U.S. are the most likely to choose community college as their first step when pursuing a higher education. Spotlight: Holyoke Community College. Tip #1: Build belonging.

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DECEMBER 1, 2023

Community college students will receive at least $3,000 and public university students will receive at least $5,000 per year. North Carolina is giving students from most families free tuition and fees to any community college and covering at least half of the tuition and fees to any public state university.

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DECEMBER 20, 2022

Students who are incarcerated are set to regain access to Pell Grants nationwide in 2023. Lawmakers and education officials should step up communication and set up clear guidelines for colleges ahead of the rollout, according to a new NASFAA report. Those questions were nixed by the FAFSA Simplification Act.

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EAB

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Blogs Your student loan payments are due: 3 strategies to support community college students’ financial wellness When I think back to my time in college, student loans were something that nearly everyone had, but not something any of us fully understood. Specifically, we weren’t educated on how to repay them.

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MAY 13, 2024

House Bill 24-1340, also known as the Colorado Promise Act, would give students from families earning $90,000 or less annually a tax credit covering tuition and fees after grants and scholarships are used. The tax credit is valid at any public Colorado four-year institution, technical college, or community college.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

How to engage more community college prospects amid the “great opt out”. As the number of traditional-aged students continues to decline, community college leaders must focus on enrollment and recruitment strategies within their control. Community members who leverage career services resources.

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Peterson's Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2024

College/University There are benefits to going to college and university after high school. Some of these include higher education, specialized degrees, and networking opportunities. There are financial considerations to take into account like scholarships , loans, and grants.

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JANUARY 25, 2024

The budget would also cut funding to the Higher Education Student Housing Grant Program and Middle-Class Scholarship. Gavin Newsom is proposing cuts to specific higher education programs and revenue deferments for the state's university systems. With California facing an expected deficit of $37.9 billion, Gov.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Beginning July 2023, over 700,000 incarcerated adults will become Pell Grant eligible , enabling qualified students to pursue federally funded college education for the first time since the 1990s. When this funding ended, only a handful of secondary education programs in federal and state prisons remained.

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JANUARY 23, 2024

Other colleges have integrated the humanities with pre-professional majors, offering students experiential learning opportunities. A national grant program aims to reposition the liberal arts and humanities as central to the general education curriculum. West Virginia's situation is hardly unique. ’ "It's a balancing act.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Department of Education granted $4 million to the institutions through the Native American Serving Nontribal Institutions program. The grant will help Native and low-income students transfer from Tulsa Community College to Northeastern State University more seamlessly. The partnership, announced Jan.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Louis County, Missouri, is offering college credit courses to people in jail, according to St. Louis Community College. The move comes amid a nationwide restoration of Pell Grant eligibility to people who are incarcerated. Louis County jail detainees with a high school diploma to take college credit courses through St.

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MAY 20, 2024

The state budget, finalized in June, includes $510 million in cuts to the Middle Class Scholarship and excludes funding for changes to Cal Grant, California's financial aid program. The program also applies to students pursuing a teaching credential and those enrolled in a bachelor's degree program at California Community Colleges.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The state announced the MassReconnect program earlier this year, a last-dollar scholarship for students 25 and older to attend state community colleges. Massachusetts is axing costs for Pell Grant-eligible and middle-income students at state community colleges, universities, and the University of Massachusetts.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2024

They want their students to continue seeking higher education. "If Godrej added: "These are people who are going to get released with a University of California bachelor's degree that we hope is going to open doors for them, not just in the arena of employment, but actually in the arena of higher education.

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MARCH 17, 2023

K-12 and college students of color may also have experienced heightened levels of poverty and educational inequity in recent decades. Access to higher education has improved for lower-income college students. However, colleges can expand these programs in several ways.

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JANUARY 16, 2024

Undocumented students are not eligible for federal financial aid, including Pell Grants. With the CADAA, undocumented students in California can qualify for state financial aid including the Cal Grant, Middle-Class Scholarship, and the California Dream Act Service Incentive Grant. The application change may seem insignificant.

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MAY 16, 2023

billion in funding for higher education. Gavin Newsom is not decreasing spending on higher education in his latest budget proposal, despite a state deficit that has grown to a reported $32 billion. Student Housing Impacted Student housing grants would also be impacted by the new budget, with nearly $1.1

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MAY 3, 2023

The pay gap between HBCU and non-HBCU faculty is widest at doctoral-granting institutions. Faculty in higher education earn the most when belonging to a union — $17,000 more, on average. The persistent underfunding of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) may be impacting faculty pay.

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JULY 11, 2024

Nine states have scholarship or grant options to help lessen the need for student loans. A BestColleges report on the challenges this demographic of students faces found that SEFC often feel like an invisible part of higher education. Ten states, meanwhile, offer no state support for SEFC.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2024

A proposed bill in California would allow public higher education institutions in the state to hire undocumented students. There are an estimated 83,000 undocumented postsecondary students in California, according to the Presidents' Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration and the American Immigration Council.

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JUNE 4, 2024

Eligible colleges and universities would have to meet several requirements to be awarded the designation. The designation would be granted for five years and could be renewed. A proposed bill in California would recognize colleges and universities in the state that have a proven track record of educating and supporting Black students.

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JUNE 27, 2023

Colleges largely met a "minimum economic threshold" for students, according to a new Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP) report, meaning students made as much as high school graduates, plus enough to recoup their investment within 10 years. More than 2,400 institutions enrolling 18.3 million students met the threshold.

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MARCH 13, 2024

Rural colleges and universities are key points of access to higher education in their communities — and new research shows that attending a rural-serving institution tends to pay off. higher education landscape. RSIs also tend to enroll more federal Pell Grant recipients than non-RSIs.

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DECEMBER 22, 2022

To address disparities in educational attainment for minority men, the Men of Color Initiative will create programs and partnerships. Its first grant will support 12 community colleges that are increasing efforts to retain men of color. million grant to the University of Southern California Race and Equity Center.

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JUNE 14, 2024

Men and Hispanic, Black, and Native American populations are overrepresented in the some college, no credential (SCNC) cohort. The only institutions that retained more students than the previous year were public two-year schools and bachelor's degree-granting institutions that primarily offer associate programs.

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EAB

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

EAB experts Caylie Privitere and Matthew McAloon examine the benefits to students and institutions from the restoration of Pell Grant funding for incarcerated persons who want to pursue a college education. Our guest today discuss the restoration of Pell Grant funding for incarcerated students. Transcript [music] 0:00:11.6

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APRIL 13, 2023

According to Think College , the preeminent resource for information about these programs, there are 316 such programs across the U.S. That includes 106 housed at two-year community colleges and 187 at four-year colleges and universities. Rewind to 2008, when Congress last reauthorized the Higher Education Act.

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