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Native Son Propels Opportunities for Kentucky Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As indicated by several key metrics, over the past decade underrepresented minority (URM) students have made considerable progress in retention, graduation, and persistence rates. Working with our campuses, we’ve put in place high standards to raise their overall retention rates, overall graduation rates and overall attainment rates.”

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Athletics and Academics

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Hilliard says that athletic scholarships in artistic gymnastics tend to go to elite gymnasts who’ve competed at the highest level. Since its inception, ACP has helped participants receive over $10 million in college scholarship funds. John’s University, was the assistant director and then director of ACP from 2009 to 2014.

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

After undergraduate programming demonstrated improved retention and graduation rates, Watford was able to recruit students to Virginia Tech. in 2009, he worked at other institutions before returning to work with Watford, whom he calls a superwoman that forges collaborations and helps others climb the ladder of success.

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Unconventional Higher Ed Leadership Paths

The University Innovation Alliance

We did well improving retention, diversity, and outcomes, moving up in ranks, all these sorts of things, but I want to do this at a scale that could only be done in a place like Arizona State University.’ When I was at Oxford on the Rhodes Scholarship, I had a guy named Colonel Mark Hyatt, an F-111 squadron commander of the nearby base.