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According to the Centers for Disease Control, over 140,000 people die each year from excessive alcohol use. In 2020, 11,654 people died in alcohol-related car crashes, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Presents an analysis of capacity at the California Community Colleges, the University of California, the California State University, and the Association of Independent California Colleges and Universities (private schools). The firm worked in collaboration with these higher education systems and the California Department of Education and used proprietary and publicly available data.
Provides the most comprehensive mixed-methods study of university students’ unmet basic needs and the relationship to student success ever completed within a 4-year higher education system. Findings from this study provide not only the prevalence of university student homelessness and food insecurity, but living examples from students about what they surmount in order to succeed at their dreams of earning a higher education degree.
Admissions requirements for popular majors are a challenge many students don’t expect after they’ve successfully gotten into college. Large public universities are far more likely than private ones to limit access to popular majors by GPA. Experts say that hurts students of color and those from disadvantaged socioeconomic backgrounds, robbing them of future income—and their dreams.
Reducing stigma—and treating people with dignity when they ask for support—can have a powerful impact on alleviating food insecurity for college students, says a new report from the Hope Center on College, Community, and Justice. The study shares five valuable lessons from a pilot intervention at Compton College to connect eligible community college students to Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits.
State lawmakers are giving public colleges and universities $1.4 billion this year to build or renovate affordable dorms for students. The 25 projects across California range in size and price but are expected to make space for 7,300 students.
Higher education may never be the same after the COVID-19 pandemic, and that’s true even for the most elite colleges. A group of researchers at Stanford University spent the past year documenting how teaching and student services changed at Stanford during emergency remote learning, and their report argues that there’s been a shift in the institution’s identity as a result.
Alcoholic beverage servers and managers at over 56,000 businesses must be trained and certified by August 31, 2022, per the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control.
College students often face housing challenges during academic breaks. Outside groups are helping students pay for available college dorm rooms so they have a place to call home.