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Food insecurity is common on college campuses, and Pennsylvania colleges are no exception. State leaders are calling for action to improve the state of food access on college campuses across the state.
Nationally, Black and Latinx male students complete college programs at lower rates than both white male students and their Black and Latinx female counterparts, according to the most recent findings from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Data from the same nonprofit also show college enrollment for Black and Latinx men has decreased by 14.8% and 10.3%, respectively, during the pandemic.
The Community College Research Center's (CCRC’s) latest research on Integrated Planning and Advising for Student Success (iPASS) considers promising practices for supporting Black, Latinx, and limited-income learners.
In Ohio, efforts among community colleges over the past decade have helped to increase student achievement, in particular, two-year college graduation rates have nearly doubled, according to the Ohio Association of Community Colleges (OACC).
SUNY Westchester Community College and MDRC, a social policy research organization, released the results of a new study which found that students in the college’s student support program enrolled full-time at higher rates and accumulated more credits than their peers.
While the City University of New York has been hailed as an engine of social mobility, some 55 percent of students across 19 of its campuses recently were housing insecure. Now, a partnership with the Neighborhood Coalition for Shelter is launching an innovative pilot program to help give students affordable housing, while also easing a serious obstacle to academic success.
After convening last March, the task force’s work led it to eight key recommendations, which will be used to help inform both immediate and long-term solutions to help combat gun violence in the Philadelphia region.
Coe College has received a $15,350 Institutionalizing Community-Based Pedagogies grant from the Associated Colleges of the Midwest. The grant will support the creation of a new Prison Learning Initiative at Coe which will provide a range of high-impact experiences for students and community members to learn about and become involved with the criminal-legal system in Iowa and the Midwest.
In today's higher-education landscape, more than one-in-five college students also are parents - leading one New Mexico college to create a Student Parent Resource Hub offering support systems. Santa Fe Community College is using a $1.75- million grant from the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation to help students who are pregnant or have young children.