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Enrollment for Black students in community colleges is not down because of COVID or because individuals left to attend a four-year college or get jobs paying self-sustaining wages, says Keith Curry, president/CEO of Compton College, in this op-ed piece.
Black learners, like other learners, are not seeing a valuable, welcoming, and career-connected experience in higher education today. A new project aims to improve this value proposition and deliver on the overdue opportunities Black students need and deserve.

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.

The strike by University of California academic workers may soon hit some undergraduates in a vulnerable spot: their grades.
UC faculty members are pledging to withhold more than 30,000 grades this fall in solidarity with striking graduate workers. That could have implications for undergraduates who need certain grade point averages to keep their financial aid.

Journalism jobs are hard to find. But it’s nice work when you can get it. That’s the takeaway from a new report from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce on the payoff of journalism programs.
For college and university administrators and faculty, the report could give insight into the right approach for offering journalism and communication programs—or other high-profile programs in shrinking fields.

The recent midterm elections highlighted the growing educational divide between voters as well as the increasing political polarization in the country—both of which are areas of concern for higher education but not ones that colleges and universities can address on their own.
To counter this reality, experts say college leaders should focus on expanding access to higher education, think about an institution’s role in the surrounding communities, and identify and focus on the fundamental values of their institution.

For millions of people brought to the United States without documentation as children, simply existing can mean breaking the law. Many don’t have the legal paperwork that allows them to work, drive, or attend school.
And even though they may speak fluent English, know no other country, and consider themselves American, the threat of deportation is always present. Here’s what advocates want people to know about the many roadblocks facing DACA and Dreamers.