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OPINION: We can and must do better to help Black students enroll in college and succeed

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Little wonder that a recent report reveals that Black public community college enrollment dropped by 26 percent, or almost 300,000 students, between 2011 and 2019 and by another 100,000 students during the pandemic, bringing Black community college enrollment levels back to where they were more than two decades ago.

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These students are finishing high school, but their degrees don’t help them go to college

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Related: How one district solved its special education dropout problem. Although an estimated 90 percent of students with disabilities should be able to meet the same graduation standards as their peers, the national graduation percentage for students with disabilities lingers in the mid-60s. Her fear is well-founded.

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Some colleges seek radical solutions to survive

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million since the last peak, in the fall of 2011 , according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Colleges are also working to reduce their numbers of dropouts on the principle that it’s cheaper to provide the kind of support required to keep tuition-paying students than to recruit more. Will there be more?

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Minnesota has a persistent higher-ed gap: Are new efforts making a difference?

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Though some programs have helped lower dropout rates and improved graduation rates for students of color, the gap in the percentage of students finishing a degree has barely budged across the 30 community colleges in the Minnesota State Colleges and University system. In 2011, fewer than 16 percent of employees were people of color.

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

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Postsecondary enrollment has been falling since 2011 , with particularly big dips last year and this , according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. A coach was meeting with a student virtually behind a glass door decorated with a decal of a stylized Rosie the Riveter. Credit: Molly Haley for The Hechinger Report.

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A regional public university’s identity crisis

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A June 2020 study by the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program shows enrollments at regional public universities across six states — Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin — have fallen by over 10 percent since 2011. More than 100 faculty members, adjuncts and others joined the group’s first Zoom meeting.

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College dreams often melt away in summer months. ‘Near-peer’ counseling is helping keep them alive.

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But the incoming Queens College junior has been trained by the nonprofit College Access: Research and Action (CARA) to help guide students like Tasnia through the transition to college. Started in 2011, the College Bridge program now has 45 coaches in 35 high schools serving 3,800 students, according to administrators.