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Beyond the Campus Food Pantry

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

When a couple of student affairs practitioners created the College and University Food Bank Alliance in 2012, it had just 10 members. Martin argues for change in food pantries writ large, moving beyond a focus on food distribution with new models that center empathy, equity, and systems reform.

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3 Ways to Help Students Before They Fall Behind

Civitas Learning

This approach fosters proactive, collaborative support by enabling the coordination of services such as academic coaching, advising, financial aid, and career guidance. Since implementing this approach, UTSA has achieved significant gains, including a 16% increase in first-year retention rates from 2012 to 2022.

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Report: Adult Community College Students Make Strides

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. David Radwin The brief, " Redrawing the Starting Line: Advancing Equity in Adult Learners’ Developmental Education Outcomes ", compared transfer-level English and math course completion rates between adult community college students – those age 25 or older – and their younger, traditional-age student peers.

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Native Son Propels Opportunities for Kentucky Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Aaron Thompson, president of the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE), participated in the Attaining College Excellence and Equity Summit put together by the U.S. While total enrollment in KCTCS has declined since 2012, URM enrollment has increased. Department of Education and the Institute for Higher Education Policy.

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Georgian Court University Boasts Women-Led Majority Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

GCU, located in New Jersey, also has women in other school leadership positions as well, such as director of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives; director of career services, the director of financial aid, and the director of global education. They expect women to be leaders."

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Dr. Dara N. Byrne: Leveraging Public Higher Education for the Common Good

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Byrne to bring her commitment to access and equity to a new area of public higher education. Justice and equity are driving forces in most everything I do.” She was integral in launching Macaulay at John Jay in 2012, serving three years as the program director. There is also an effort to increase equity.

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Financial aid, retention, and faculty/staff representation are part of the Seal,” says Dr. Deborah Santiago, co-founder and CEO of Excelencia in Education, who says she is delighted to see institutions with intentional practices actively working toward increasing Latino representation in key positions.

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