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News Clips
The National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments (NCSSLE) tracks trends and developments in issues related to school climate and conditions for learning through online media sites, blogs, syndication and aggregation services, and other news resources from local, regional, and national media outlets. Browse this ongoing collection of posts to learn about what’s happening in communities near you and across the nation.
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Displaying 5144 News Clips.March 2024
The University Innovation Alliance (UIA) last year committed $3.5 million over two-and-a-half years to scaling a promising academic-credit–recovery model across 10 additional campuses. Now data… Read more »
Senate lawmakers want to pass a bill to expand sexual misconduct prevention on college campuses, after shelving it last session amid scrutiny from schools and survivor advocates. S.120 was… Read more »
The Pennsylvania State University Commonwealth campuses and the state’s community colleges are embarking on a new partnership to ease the transfer process. The partnership creates a common dual-… Read more »
In California, 300,000 undergraduate student parents enroll in college each year. However, their backgrounds, family characteristics, and educational experiences are not well understood,… Read more »
A qualitative study from a Virginia Tech researcher identifies five themes in the lived experiences of first-generation students in a scholarship program and five recommendations to better support… Read more »
High Point University Campus Police received the Best Practices in Campus Safety Award from the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) Campus Safety and Violence… Read more »
San Diego State University will use its experience bringing higher education to prisons to help train other educators to do the same, drawing from a newly announced $1 million grant from the… Read more »
A four-year study by Dartmouth researchers captures the most in-depth data yet on how college students' self-esteem and mental health fluctuates during their four years in academia, identifying… Read more »
From complex general education requirements to early application deadlines, transferring from community college to California State University, Northridge proved to be a confusing process for… Read more »
For student parents, access to the kind of child care that Head Start provides can remove serious barriers to getting a degree. And yet, out of about 3,000 community college campuses in the United… Read more »
Starting this week, a team of private security guards will patrol the south side of the University of California Berkeley campus. They were hired by a group of concerned parents. The guards will… Read more »
While graduation rates for Black students are the lowest in California universities, cultural centers can help address equity issues. Centers for Black students create a safe space to foster… Read more »
Steve Perez faced a daunting challenge as he considered where to attend college. The first in his family to pursue a higher education, Perez was “basically all on my own.” Rejected from his top… Read more »
Basic needs services at California’s community colleges can take any number of forms. Students might find information on how to get help with housing and transportation, or get funding for laundry… Read more »
A survey of Iowa community college employees found stakeholders want to support students’ mental health, but many feel underprepared to do so. University of Iowa researchers identified six… Read more »
Males of Color Consortium receives $3.2 million to help Black, Latino men statewide while Sacramento State debuts first Black Honors College.
Inside a trailer parked on the grounds of Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution sat a row of chairs on raised yellow, metal platforms in front of four large screens. Twelve men incarcerated at… Read more »
A new pilot program gives students who were formerly incarcerated or in the foster care system, and some low-income parents, money to help pay their living costs.
Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) offer more upward mobility for their students when compared to Predominantly White Institutions (PWIs), despite having fewer resources.