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How Being a Mother and Academic Helped Me Fix Higher Education’s Transfer Crisis

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A 2023 report by the Community College Research Center found that only 16% of community college students earned a bachelors program within six years and just 10% of low-income students did. In 2023, CUNY s Board of Trustees charged the Universitys leadership including myself to fix the transfer system.

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Native Son Propels Opportunities for Kentucky Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The graduation rate for URM at four-year public institutions (4YP) increased 9 percentage points from 2016-17 to 2022-23, and the graduation rate for low-income students increased 10 percentage points in that time period. He became executive vice president in 2013 and assumed the presidency in 2018.

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2022: Reemerging, Growing, and Evolving

The University Innovation Alliance

We released two new playbooks to assist leadership teams in their practices of proactive advising and college-to-career transition. The number of annual graduates of color at UIA institutions has increased 93% from 2012-2013 to 2021-2022. The number of annual graduates from low-income backgrounds has increased by 50%.

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2022: Reemerging, Growing, and Evolving

The University Innovation Alliance

We released two new playbooks to assist leadership teams in their practices of proactive advising and college-to-career transition. The number of annual graduates of color at UIA institutions has increased 93% from 2012-2013 to 2021-2022. The number of annual graduates from low-income backgrounds has increased by 50%.

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University of Virginia President Emeritus Dr. John T. Casteen III Dies at 81

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Casteen, who served as UVA's seventh president from 1990 to 2010, was honored by Diverse: Issues In Higher Education in 2013 with the prestigious Dr. John Hope Franklin Award for his exceptional commitment to diversity and inclusion in higher education. As a teacher, mentor, colleague and friend, he was beloved."

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The Year Behind and the Year Ahead

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

But they also agree that everyone involved at an institution, from board of trustee members to the students, have a role to play and the power to protect educational goals and aspirations. Since 2013, over 80 anti-DEI bills have been introduced in 28 states, and 14 have been signed into law. Dr. Stella M.