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Tag: Generation Z
Community Colleges
Community College: Advancing Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in the Post-COVID Labor Market
This opinion piece provides an example of why community colleges given their role and legacy are well positioned in partnering with the K–12, community-based organization, and business sectors in engaging and preparing America’s diverse workforce to meet the labor market skills of the future.
August 9, 2021
Opinion
Self-Help Recommendations on How Millennial Women of Color Survive College
During this self-isolation and social distancing period, I have come to the realization that I did not fully know myself as much as I thought, and that was a notion that was frightening yet ethereal.
April 15, 2021
HBCUs
Gen Z is Using Their Voice and Their Vote for Change, But Are We Listening?
On November 5th, the country saw the highest voter turnout in over a century, leading to the election of the first Black women Vice President in the history of the United States, who is also a HBCU graduate. Additionally, another historic unspoken milestone was reached, according to a recent Tufts University study. Fifty-three percent of young people showed up to the polls, which was the largest youth voter turnout in decades. Some may ask, why?
December 2, 2020
African-American
COVID-19 Comes to Campus: What Hurricane Katrina Tells Us About the Current Campus Crisis
We are living in pandemic pandemonium, where panic is the prevailing mode of operation. Every college and university is operating with all hands-on deck, altering their operational norms; the result is that campus employees—academics, practitioners, and leaders—are beyond exhausted. Yet, for those of us who have witnessed campuses in crisis, all of this feels eerily familiar. As two higher education professionals and scholars who worked on the ground through Hurricane Katrina and studied campus crisis response, we are extremely reflective and vigilant about how we move forward in this new reality.
March 25, 2020
Students
Common App Receives Two Grants to Help Underrepresented Students Attend College
Common Application, a nonprofit higher education application organization, announced that they received two grants to help provide support for underrepresented students looking to attend college. The Kresge Foundation awarded the Common App $350,000 and the Michelson 20mm Foundation granted the organization $25,000. Three initiatives aimed to help students through the college process including applications, scholarships […]
September 25, 2019
Students
Diversity Ensures Today’s Campuses Not Your Grandparents’ Universities
Maybe the demographics of our universities have changed so dramatically that students and the colleges they attend are ill-prepared to cope with diversity.
November 2, 2016
Home
Poll: Generation Z Teens Describe Themselves Entrepreneurial, Self-directed
Young Americans between 16- and 19-years-old value higher education and characterize themselves as highly entrepreneurial and self-directed, a new national survey has found.
November 18, 2014
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