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Top 7 Benefits of Attending a Local Community College

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Are you a high school student unsure about which colleges to apply to, or maybe an adult thinking about going back to school? If so, have you considered the benefits of attending a local community college? There are plenty of reasons why community college might be the perfect fit for you. from fall 2022.

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This Initiative Is Mapping Public Transit Access to Community Colleges. Here’s Why.

BestColleges

The recently launched Civic Mapping Initiative is making state-by-state maps of community colleges' accessibility by public transit. Many community colleges are located within just a few miles of a public transit stop, potentially making for an easy and low-cost expansion of services.

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Do Community Colleges Need an “Intervention”?

EAB

Podcast Do Community Colleges Need an “Intervention”? Reporter Jon Marcus joins EAB’s Tara Zirkel to explore the root causes behind steep enrollment declines and poor student outcomes at community colleges. EAB · Do Community Colleges Need an “Intervention?” Episode 150. May 9, 2023. million people.

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PepsiCo Donates $250K to Fight Food Insecurity at HBCUs

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Last year, PepsiCo donated $400,000 to Bunker Hill Community College in Boston to expand Black and Hispanic student access to higher education. PepsiCo is helping to fight food insecurity at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) with a quarter-million-dollar donation to five HBCUs.

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5 areas for community colleges leaders to take stock in 2023

EAB

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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Your student loan payments are due: 3 strategies to support community college students’ financial wellness

EAB

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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700,000 incarcerated students will be Pell-eligible in 2023. Here’s what that could mean for your institution

EAB

Here's what you need to know about the state of higher education as it relates to incarcerated students. There is strong interest among incarcerated students for educational programing. Take the Higher Education in Prison program at Portland State University.

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