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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.
A new report examining peer mental health supports on college campuses found that such programs are popular and useful, though they also raise some concerns. The report, Peer Programs in College Student Mental Health, commissioned by the Ruderman Family Foundation and produced by the Mary Christie Institute, was based on interviews with 22 peer counseling and mental health experts and survey responses from 57 college counseling center directors.
Provides a wealth of handbooks, newsletters, briefs, tutorials, and tools to assist through the twists and turns of program evaluation. Includes information for planning, data collection and analysis, and strategies to share results.
As the Biden administration declares a national health emergency, colleges are preparing for potential campus outbreaks while avoiding unnecessary panic and anti-LGBTQ+ stigma.
Provides a Brief, Workbook and Interactive Tool to assist state and local agencies with identification of alignment opportunities and facilitation of cross-agency conversations related to ESSA, Perkins V, IDEA and WIOA. Provides an interactive tool enabling swift search of laws addressing college and readiness topics for specific language in efforts to find new alignment opportunities.
LaGuardia Community College is creating an Office of Credit for Prior Learning, a first for the college and for the City University of New York system. The idea is to give working adults, especially those returning to college, credits for work experience and accomplishments outside the classroom so they can earn degrees in less time.
It all started with an FSU student, Nathaniel Tackett, who had no idea what his next meal would be one day during the 2021 spring semester. He decided to do something about it. A year later, FSU established EBT (Electronic Benefits Transfer) card terminals in qualifying locations on campus to help students facing food insecurity.
About 4.8 million undergraduate students in the United States are parents. Like so many parents, one of the most significant hurdles that student-parents face is affording adequate child care. While hundreds of colleges offer on-campus care, securing a spot is no easy feat, nor is it always more affordable than off-campus care. One estimate shows that current on-campus child-care centers only meet the needs of 5 percent of student-parents.
On Feb. 5, 2019, William Freeman III walked out of prison, knowing full well that his past would loom over his shoulder like a shadow. Freeman offers a personal account on the barriers facing justice-involved people and what having a second chance really means.
The Black Educator Teacher Residency at Cal State University Bakersfield is aimed not only at recruiting Black teaching candidates but at transforming the education system for Black students.