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Tallahassee Community College Earns Highest Distinction from Achieving the Dream

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Tallahassee Community College (TCC) recently received high honors from Achieving the Dream , an organization and network founded to close achievement gaps and accelerate student success nationwide by guiding institutional change, influencing public policy, generating knowledge, and engaging the public. 19-22, in Orlando, Florida.

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Tallahassee Community College Receives Recognition from Achieving the Dream

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Tallahassee Community College (TCC) recently received recognition from Achieving the Dream , an organization and network founded to close achievement gaps and accelerate student success nationwide by guiding institutional change, influencing public policy, generating knowledge, and engaging the public. 19-22, in Orlando, Florida.

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Mapping Transfer Pathways: How Data and Equitable Admissions Policies can Support Transfer Student Success

IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

By providing financial and social supports for students throughout the transfer process, four-year institutions can promote a transfer-receptive culture that welcomes and nurtures transfer studentssuccess. Journal of The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition , 22(1), 49–66(18). 2009, October).

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Study Shows Limit to Benefits of Online Classes for Community College Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Justin Ortagus, an associate professor of higher education administration and policy and the director of the Institute of Higher Education at the University of Florida, examined over 40,000 student transcripts from a diverse, high-enrollment community college from between 2009 and 2019.

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Conference Welcomes New Members Fighting for Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

ATD] staff and coaches will learn as much as we can about what you’re already doing around student success. When Harper College joined ATD in 2009, their graduation rate was a mere 14%. They will support each other as well as receive guidance and coaching from ATD leadership and other ATD member colleges. “[ATD]

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Athletics and Academics

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

John’s University, was the assistant director and then director of ACP from 2009 to 2014. Pompey says as ACP followed up with students who graduated high school and went to college, they saw increasing success rates. Also, collegiate athletic departments have stepped up their efforts toward retention and student success.

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Institutions Can Help Close Widening Completion Gaps with the Postsecondary Data GPS

IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

The results of the study show a troubling trend: gaps in baccalaureate attainment by income level were even larger than they were in the previous study , conducted between 2004 and 2009 (BPS:04/09). These widening gaps are the result of attainment rising for everyone, but rising more rapidly for students in the highest income quintile.