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OPINION: A New York model helps community college students reach their goals

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The ASAP model was designed in 2007 to address institutional barriers to student success, particularly for CUNY’s low-income students. A good example is the Accelerated Study in Associate Programs , or ASAP, at the City University of New York (CUNY).

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

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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. college students with lifetime diagnoses of mental health conditions in 2017 was 36 percent, compared with 22 percent in 2007.

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As enrollment falls and colleges close, a surprising number of new ones are opening

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Thanks to one-on-one counseling like this, the dropout rate is a third lower than at conventional universities and colleges, according to figures provided by the school. The Rivet School itself consists of an office big enough for four desks, a minifridge and some bookshelves.

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What if we hired for skills, not degrees?

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In late 2017, a research project led by the Harvard Business School, a workforce organization called Grads of Life and the consulting firm Accenture concluded in a report, “Dismissed by Degrees,” that employers “appear to be closing off their access to the two-thirds of the U.S. workforce that does not have a four-year college degree.”

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Can ‘work colleges’ in cities become a low-cost, high-value model for the future?

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For in-person instruction, students will go to classes at designated spaces easily accessible from their jobs and provided by the college’s corporate partners. Sorrell took over as president of Paul Quinn in 2007 and is its longest serving president. 13, said Chris Dowdy, the vice president of academic affairs.

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Stop condemning high schools for college graduation rates

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The College Cost Reduction and Access Act of 2007 provides resources in the form of financial assistance and services to make college accessible for homeless youth. That’s a good start, but it’s not enough.

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After all the fuss about getting in, how do poor students survive on elite campuses?

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They are struggles that Jack, an assistant professor at Harvard, knows well from his own experience as an undergraduate scholarship student at Amherst College in Massachusetts, where he prodded his classmates to understand being dependent on food stamps, before he graduated in 2007. Access, Jack says, is not inclusion.