South Texas College’s (STC) dual-enrollment academies for medical science, engineering and computer science are part of its larger effort to 
“raise expectations with support” in the predominantly Hispanic communities along the U.S.-Mexico border.
The academies embed science and technology career pathways within their dual-enrollment programs for high school juniors and seniors who are in the top 5-10 percent of their cohorts. The students take high school classes in the morning and are bused to STC campuses for college-level courses from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Thursday. Friday afternoons are reserved for presentations from industry speakers, field trips, university visits or other programs that provide insights into STEM careers.
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Student chapters of the Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society have engaged in various events at colleges across the country to raise awareness about the importance of attaining a degree.
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Connecticut community colleges are using Achieving the Dream’s systemic process of institutional improvement to revise developmental math using STATWAY.
STATWAY, created by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, teaches arithmetic and algebraic concepts within the context of statistics. Students going into the humanities and social studies are the target audience for the dramatically different curriculum, pedagogy and assessment.
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DALLAS — Building a culture of equity on college campuses is challenging because cultural practices and attitudes that create hurdles for 
students are often unseen, according to community college leaders who have made equity a priority at their institutions.
Equitable—rather than equal—treatment of students is like the differentiated care that hospital emergency rooms provide. Just as people suffering heart attacks receive different treatment than those with fractured bones, so students need different services depending on their needs, equity advocates said during a panel discussion with two-year college leaders at the Achieving the Dream annual conference this week.
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