Strategic Planning
Mental health has increasingly become a significant barrier to student success in community colleges, second only to the growing cost of tuition (Gallup & Lumina Foundation, 2024). According to The State of Education 2024 by Gallup and the Lumina Foundation (2024), 64 percent of students who considered dropping out of higher education cited stress or mental health struggles as a primary reason. As reported in Supporting Minds, Supporting Learners (Center for Community College Student Engagement, 2024), 56 percent of respondents experienced emotional or mental difficulties that hurt their...
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Middlesex Community College (MCC), with campuses in Bedford and Lowell, Massachusetts, has a longstanding mission of educational access and success for its diverse communities, but this commitment was deepened with the adoption of its 2022-2027 strategic plan: With Equity At Its Core. This plan outlines ambitious goals for addressing systemic and persistent disparities in educational outcomes by rooting work across the college in the equity agenda. Recognizing changing community demographics and the need to expand access to high-quality education to all, MCC made a bold move to embed equity...
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September
2002
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