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November 2025

in Celebrations, Community college, Holiday, Inspiration

A Brief Season of Respite and Thankfulness

November 25, 2025

For decades, Thanksgiving has offered us a day to celebrate and to reflect on our many blessings.  However, this year, this familiar holiday may just serve as a much-needed respite from the unusual level of divisiveness and political rancor that has permeated our everyday existence for months. All of higher education has donned battle gear to wrestle not only with…

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Every One of Us Counts: Standing Strong Through the Shutdown

November 10, 2025

As we make our way through the longest government shutdown we have yet experienced, we in the community college world occupy an unwelcome front row seat as direct witness to the impact on many of our students and employees. Roughly 85 percent of all community college students come from economically challenged areas; thus their lives are often financially challenged. While…

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