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Overdue tuition and fees — as little as $41 — derail hundreds of thousands of California community college students

The Hechinger Report

Wilson, 47, started taking courses in 2019, a few months before the pandemic hit and just before he lost his job as an elementary school music teacher. Pandemic-related hardships have propelled many students to choose jobs over education and online classes have been barriers for low-income students without digital resources.

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PROOF POINTS: COVID has been bad for college enrollment — but awful for community college students

The Hechinger Report

According to a preliminary October 2020 report from National Student Clearinghouse Research Center that tallied fall enrollment figures from just over half of the nation’s colleges and universities, the number of undergraduate students has fallen 4 percent since the fall of 2019.

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Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair Refugee Education Fund Partners with Discovery Education

eSchool News

DUBAI, UAE–29 September, 2020 : The Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair Refugee Education Fund (REF) has announced a new first of its kind partnership with Discovery Education to deliver award winning online learning, increasing access to education for thousands of refugees and vulnerable youth in Lebanon.

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Alabama community college overhaul improves the odds for unprepared students

The Hechinger Report

The system fully implemented the program in the 2019-20 school year and reduced the number of developmental course sections it offered. Pigg is the associate dean of institutional research & academic advancement at Southern Union and was chair of the mathematics department in 2019. “It percent in 2019-2020 according to ACCS data.

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Progress in getting underrepresented people into college and skilled jobs may be stalling because of the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

Experts say that this means dropout rates, which had been declining for more than a decade, will likely start to rise again. In the summer, Black enrollment overall dropped by more than 6 percent , compared to 2019, more sharply than that of any other racial group. Access to talent is their number-one competitive priority.”.

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OPINION: The pandemic exposes just how much support college students need

The Hechinger Report

As school presidents agonize over how to reopen their campuses, student affairs and enrollment management leaders are working feverishly to make their services accessible to all students, wherever they are. Likewise, student mental health and wellness had become a significant concern on college campuses long before the pandemic.

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Will the coronavirus transform or destroy higher education as we know it?

The Hechinger Report

Harvard researcher Anthony Jacks revealed in his groundbreaking 2019 book how poor students cleaned showers and toilets and went hungry after cafeterias closed while their wealthier Ivy League classmates fled campus for ski resorts and spring break beaches. higher education system is fair had evaporated. Education as the great equalizer ?

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