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Near the Mexican Border, Texas University Uses Value and Smarts to Help Students Stay Enrolled

Anne Kim

April 04, 2022 |

Washington Monthly |

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Response Location: United States, Edinburg, Texas

The University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley has high graduation rates despite having a student body that is heavily compromised of first-generation students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds. Historically, those two groups of students have lower graduation rates. Generous financial aid and low tuition have led to these stellar results.

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On-campus food pantry tries to keep up with demand

Katherine Arroyo Sergio Gutierrez

March 29, 2022 |

el Don |

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Response Location: United States, Santa Ana, California

The Fainbarg-Chase Thrive Center food pantry provides Santa Ana College students with a daily snack and one free bag of groceries per week. The food pantry sees about 80 to 90 students daily and offers monthly cooking demos over Zoom.

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Good Talk

Jennifer Miller

March 16, 2022 |

The Washington Post |

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Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The University of Pennsylvania created a Civil Dialogue Seminar to teach students how to communicate across political divides. The seminar, which is part of a growing civil dialogue movement taking place among Gen Z, includes social psychology curriculum to help students navigate difficult conversations with people they disagree with. Students participate in the Red and Blue Exchange, small group conversations about controversial topics, where they practice having conversations about issues that elicit strong responses. Students also investigate their own emotional responses with weekly journal reflections.

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Greek community members say alcohol ban is effective

Elena Adair

March 11, 2022 |

The Daily Evergreen |

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Response Location: United States, Pullman, Washington

The WSU Greek Row hard alcohol ban emerged after a student and fraternity member died from alcohol poisoning. To ensure Greek life members are respecting the ban and staying safe, registered functions have sober volunteers to monitor the event and help out in case there’s a dangerous situation.

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Filling the Education Gap

Katerina Lanska

January 07, 2022 |

Transitions Online |

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Response Location: Czech Republic

The Faculties Tutor initiative connects elementary schools with students in need of tutoring with trained college students knowledgeable in the appropriate topics.

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Making the grade: B.C. tuition waiver program made education possible for hundreds of young people

Tracy Sherlock

September 14, 2021 |

Education Matters British Columbia |

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Response Location: Canada, British Columbia

The British Columbia government waives tuition at public universities for undergraduate students who grew up in foster care, a measure that takes aim at the disadvantages young people face after aging out of the child welfare system. Former foster children, who in British Columbia are disproportionately of Indigenous heritage, average lower high school graduation rates and have above-average problems with income, housing, and work after childhoods that often feature multiple moves. About 1,700 young people have received tuition-free educations since 2017.

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University degree awarded to student behind bars: his thesis on autoethnography is a survival story

Francesco Ciampa

September 07, 2021 |

News48 |

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Response Location: Italy, Catanzaro, Calabria

Magna Graecia University partnered with prison administrators in Catanzaro, Italy, to help two incarcerated men find a form of rehabilitation by writing their own lives' stories. In a process called autoethnography, the men, who are serving life sentences, focus on describing without moral judgment "the psychological and creative resources they used for survival before prison and during their time behind bars." This helps them see the traits that led them into crime might also lead them out of it. Both men tell of extraordinary personal growth through the experience, which others now seek to duplicate.

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Hunger on Campus: Western's systems fail to meet student need

Cameron Sires Mallory Kruml Kenneth Duncan

August 15, 2021 |

The Front |

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Response Location: United States, Bellingham, Washington

A third of surveyed college students experience food insecurity, the rate is even higher at Western Washington University. To address the issue that university has unfolded a number of responses; food pantries, meal donations, community gardens, and state assitance, among others.

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College-in-prison programs have many benefits, but barriers to access abound

Tamar Sarai Davis

June 21, 2021 |

Prism |

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Response Location: United States, Middletown, Connecticut

College-in-prison programs like Wesleyan University's Center for Prison Education have a track record for improving incarcerated students' lives, lowering crime, and making prisons safer. But a number of factors compromise the number and effectiveness of such programs. Many fewer programs exist since incarcerated students were denied Pell Grants beginning in the 1990s. A 2015 program aimed at making financial aid more accessible poses a number of logistical hurdles. Prisons themselves can be inhospitable environments for attending classes and independent studies.

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How some college counselors are fighting back against pandemic-induced enrollment decline

Charlotte West

June 16, 2021 |

CalMatters |

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Response Location: United States, Riverside, California

Riverside County launched College Comeback to address the COVID-19 related decline in graduating high school students going to college. Six counselors each spend 25 hours a week reaching out to the high school class of 2020 and holding one-on-one appointments to help students navigate application deadlines, financial aid, and California Dream Act forms, as well as provide information about technical programs and military service. Counselors’ stipends come from money previously allotted for travel, and since they are also trained mental health professionals, counselors provide emotional support as well.

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