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Sara Weissman wrote a new post, Excelsior awards mainly help middle-income CUNY students, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 10 hours, 46 minutes ago
Image: The Excelsior Scholarship program, which covers tuition for low- and middle-income students at public colleges and universities in New York State, mostly serves middle-income students and fails to reach […]
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Sara Weissman wrote a new post, President put on leave, foundation facing backlash, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 2 days, 10 hours ago
Image: When Luis Sanchez, president of Oxnard College, was put on paid administrative leave earlier this month, the move elicited surprise and outrage from some employees and alumni. Ventura County Community […]
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Sara Weissman wrote a new post, Tuition waivers for Native American students spread, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 6 days, 10 hours ago
Image: Kyla Aguirre, a junior at Metropolitan State University of Denver, didn’t know if she could afford her last year of college. She’s a full-time student, and she and her husband were struggling to get by on j […]
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Sara Weissman wrote a new post, Peralta Community College District cuts courses, adjuncts, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 1 week, 2 days ago
Image: Michelle Gallaga, a second-year student at Berkeley City College, was hoping to take a sociology of gender course this coming fall, but when she went to register, she found out the class was no longer […]
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Sara Weissman wrote a new post, Morris Brown college rebuilds after accreditation restored, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 1 week, 3 days ago
Image: When Kevin James became president of Morris Brown College in 2019, people thought he was “absolutely nuts” for taking the job. The college had been unaccredited for almost two decades. It had filed for bank […]
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Sara Weissman wrote a new post, Multigenerational admissions policies and scholarships grow, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 2 weeks, 1 day ago
Image: Rodney Braziel is pursuing a bachelor’s degree at the University of Toledo this spring after a two-decade hiatus from college. He always planned to return to college and complete his last semester and gr […]
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Sara Weissman wrote a new post, Some community colleges drop 'community' from their names, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 2 weeks, 3 days ago
Image: Pikes Peak Community College is poised to transform into Pikes Peak State College after Colorado governor Jared Polis signed a bill last month to change the college’s name.
Campus leaders discussed dr […]
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Sara Weissman wrote a new post, Seminary draws nonreligious students with social justice, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 2 weeks, 6 days ago
Image: Alexis Morin saw herself as an unlikely candidate for a seminary. For one thing, she wouldn’t call herself religious, per se. She describes herself as “spiritual but not religious” or “spiritually fluid” a […]
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Sara Weissman wrote a new post, A $2.5 million retirement incentive at Erie Community College, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 1 month ago
Image: Erie Community College is offering a new retirement incentive to faculty members and administrators to nudge them to cut short their time at the college. College leaders hope providing payments to […]
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Sara Weissman wrote a new post, New tool scores campuses on religious diversity, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 1 month ago
Image: Prospective students and their parents can find a wide range of useful information online about colleges and universities to help them decide which institutions might be the best fit. But there’s no go […]
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Sara Weissman wrote a new post, Some HBCU leaders plan expansion with satellite campuses, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 1 month, 1 week ago
Image: Paul Quinn College president Michael Sorrell made a surprising announcement at a recent event to celebrate the college’s 150th anniversary: leaders of the private Dallas institution are considering cr […]
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Sara Weissman wrote a new post, HBCU bomb threats take a toll on mental health, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 1 month, 1 week ago
Image: When Tanya Washington Hicks heard there was a bomb threat at Morgan State University, she felt like her heart was being “squeezed” in her chest. She called her son, a freshman at Morgan State, in a pani […]
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Sara Weissman wrote a new post, Leadership turnover plagues California Community Colleges, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 1 month, 1 week ago
Image: Kindred Murillo, interim superintendent/president at Santa Barbara City College, came out of retirement in fall 2021 to help steady the troubled institution. Murillo, who previously headed the Lake Tahoe […]
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Sara Weissman wrote a new post, A new report assesses Georgia State's microgrant program, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Image: When Georgia State University administrators realized they were barring about 1,000 students from enrollment every semester because they owed the university money, the university leaders knew they needed […]
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Sara Weissman wrote a new post, New center promotes access to good jobs after prison, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Image: Terrell Blount was released from prison in 2009 and graduated from Rutgers University four years later. With a bachelor’s degree in hand, he felt invincible, like he was “on top of a mountain” and ready […]
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Sara Weissman wrote a new post, Third attempt to close Calbright College, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Image: California state legislators are threatening to shut down Calbright College—again.
Assemblymember Jose Medina recently introduced a bill that would permanently shutter the state’s first all-online comm […]
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Sara Weissman wrote a new post, Several community colleges raise tuition for fall, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Image: Faculty members and students at Connecticut community colleges are concerned about a recent vote by the state Board of Regents to raise tuition at the institutions by 5 percent. They are particularly d […]
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Sara Weissman wrote a new post, Re-enrolling students with the promise of life credits, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Image: LaGuardia Community College in Queens, N.Y., is creating an Office of Credit for Prior Learning, a first for the college and for the City University of New York system. The office is dedicated to giving […]
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Sara Weissman wrote a new post, Online learning scholarships for 1,000 Ukrainian refugees, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 1 month, 4 weeks ago
Image: Kateryna Glubochenko woke up to loud booming noises outside her house in Mykolaiv, in southern Ukraine. She initially thought it might be fireworks. The news told her otherwise—her country had been in […]
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Sara Weissman wrote a new post, New study explores how to use chat bots to retain students, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 2 months ago
Image: A new study from Georgia State University found that community college students receiving targeted, personal text messages from an artificial intelligence chat bot were more likely to complete tasks […]
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