Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 21, 2024

Spurred on by this interest in universities’ inner workings, Allen went on to eventually lead in an administrative capacity as senior vice president and provost at Widener University before returning to Meredith as its leader in July 2011. This return etched Allen all the more into the history of Meredith.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2024

Additionally, Curry has secured millions of dollars for student success initiatives. Students are staying in classes because of the food resources,” says Curry, who is working with other community college leaders across the nation on replicating Compton’s successful model. “If Our job is to help build out that story.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

MARCH 10, 2025

Comprehensive data on how students allocate time and resources outside the classroom is essential for identifying barriers that disproportionately affect certain student populationsand for informing policies that support their 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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 7, 2024

Bradford thinks that receiving the “Black-Serving Institution” label will present a great opportunity to boost enrollment and increase graduation rates for African American students. The immediate response to a proposal of this kind from the opponents of DEI will likely be to label it as divisive and polarizing.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Stout, president and CEO of ATD, welcomed attendees and praised the increases in completion rates for Black students at community colleges. Stout also acknowledged the sector’s overall enrollment losses, particularly among Black learners, whose enrollment fell by 26% between 2011 and 2019.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 30, 2024

“Colleges and universities that are eligible and federally designated as HSIs must enhance the racial-ethnic identity of Latinxs while striving to provide equitable experiences and outcomes for these students.” Dr. Roberto Montoya is associate vice president of partner success at InsideTrack.

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Civitas Learning

JULY 13, 2023

Student success has always been a primary goal of higher education institutions. With unprecedented demographic and social changes, colleges and universities now face even more pressure to develop student success models that help students thrive academically and help institutions thrive financially.

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The Advisor That Cares

APRIL 8, 2023

Introduction Concerns about the student educational experience, student progress, and degree completion often motivate post-secondary institutions to actively seek innovative ways to enhance engagement and improve student success. It is known that student success is affected by a wide range of factors.

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The University Innovation Alliance

OCTOBER 31, 2022

In 2021, we published our Completion Grants Playbook , and our CEO Bridget Burns joined the Chronicle's Assistant Managing Editor Ian Wilhelm to co-host this virtual conversation about helping under-resourced students complete their degrees. So in 2011, we began to pilot a program that requires no application on the student's part.

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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., These community resilience factors include: Community connection and support (Wexler et al., 2009; Kirmayer et al., 2020; Kirmayer et al., 2009; Kirmayer et al.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

He spearheaded a 40 percent enrollment increase, bringing the student body to 4,000, while simultaneously launching innovative student success initiatives. One of Rich's notable achievements at CCNY was the formation of a Public Service Career Hub, which more than doubled student placement in public service internships and jobs.

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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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The University Innovation Alliance

MAY 4, 2023

Those moments differentiate what your success is going to be, and if you can rebound from those issues, you're going to be way more successful in the long run. There are a thousand student success strategies. And tech integration is rarely seamless: "With any new technology or innovation, you're going to mess it up.

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The University Innovation Alliance

MARCH 7, 2024

Alan Sugg was an incredibly effective leader, very kind, very engaging, and everything came back to student success. When you truly know individuals and try to understand where they're coming from, you have a much better sense of being able to make the right decision and focus on students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 15, 2025

That was the figure in 2011, for instance, and it was not significantly different in 2006 nor 25 years before the latter. As deputy chancellor of California Community Colleges, she fosters policies and practice that support student success and college effectiveness. In the 2022 study, African Americans made up 13.2%

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EAB

MAY 23, 2023

The CCSSE survey administered to students yearly helps community colleges to assess institutional practices and student behaviors that are correlated highly with learning and retention. Does this college support you financially to complete your education and to be successful? And it's also important to ask questions in.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 24, 2023

I'm a former foster child, and I'm a student who struggled with food insecurities and housing insecurities, and I'm a first-generation college student, but I went to Sac State and it was an environment where I had mentors and people who supported me, and programs and services that I benefited from,” Wood said in an interview with Diverse.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Access to high-quality higher education is perhaps the strongest path towards reversing the poisonous culture, but today, the success of males in college lags behind their female counterparts-– with ‘cis’ and ‘identified’ Black and Hispanic/LatinX male outcomes the most concerning.”

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COE

MAY 10, 2024

However, higher education frequently serves to validate success for those who are already successful and to uphold the existing social order. Despite aspirations for higher education, the reality is that many of these students are unable to attain their educational goals within a reasonable timeframe. Margaret Cahalan , Ph.D. ,

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