Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 7, 2025

Success stories Among the initiatives success stories is Dr. Shanna L. In 2011, when she joined Colorado College as a postdoctoral fellow, she faced significant social challenges as a Black woman from Washington, D.C., Jackson suggests that successful leadership often comes down to institutional fit.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 4, 2023

One major key to success in college is thoroughly reviewing and critiquing your work before a professor can. 2. Wale (“Ambition”, 2011) “Move with aggression, use my mind as a weapon. There is no luck when it comes to academic success. Retaining a level of tunnel vision is a necessity for reaching academic success.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

At a time when the Latino population in the United States is growing and students are still facing daunting obstacles, Excelencia in Education is recognizing nine institutions for their clear and decisive commitment to Latino student success with the Seal of Excelencia. It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students.

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EAB

JANUARY 26, 2023

These six trends will have long-term impacts on how community colleges interact with students and getting ahead of them now will position you for success in the future. Some states, like Washington, California, and Illinois, have implemented policies that require public colleges to assist students with access to basic needs.

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EAB

MAY 2, 2023

Among the strategies they’ve implemented is getting counselors out of their office more often and “embedding” them in places where students congregate naturally. Dindo and Herrmann discuss the success of these efforts and offer advice to other campus leaders about meeting the mental health needs of a diverse student population.

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Supporting Student Success

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

2011) Acknowledgement of and collective meaning making related to experiences with discrimination or oppression, and galvanized purpose toward collective action (French et al., Within student affairs, representation in programming offered (e.g. 2009; Kirmayer et al., 2020; Kirmayer et al., 2009; Kirmayer et al.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 24, 2023

Wood is currently San Diego State University’s (SDSU) vice president for student affairs and campus diversity and chief diversity officer. And if Sac State could make a person like me successful, then they can help create that kind of pathway for any student.” He’ll take over for retiring President Robert S.

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