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On a Mission: Damon L. Williams Jr., Takes on the World

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I didn’t understand why everybody didn’t have access. And I was determined to have access,” says Williams. He became what he calls “a student for everybody.” “I I made sure everyone had access, especially my Black classmates and friends,” says Williams. Tapping into access became a deliberate decision.

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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Created in 2005 by Excelencia in Education, Examples of Excelencia is a national initiative that recognizes institutions and nonprofit organizations that identify, aggregate, and promote evidence-based practices that improve Latinx student access in higher education. All Latino students from the Fall 2014 cohort graduated with a B.A.

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The University Innovation Alliance's Three Playbooks for Student Success

The University Innovation Alliance

The University Innovation Alliance (UIA) operates as a multi-campus laboratory for student success innovation. Since launching in 2014, UIA institutions have increased the number of graduates of color produced annually by 93% and the number of low-income graduates produced annually by 50%, resulting in 118,000 more graduates than projected.

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2022: Reemerging, Growing, and Evolving

The University Innovation Alliance

We believe that sharing the best templates, tools, resources, and materials will make innovation adoption easier and faster for thousands of student success administrators. To access the Lab as a non-UIA member, please add your name to our wait list. Diffusion to the Field 1. They are the future of our sector.

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2022: Reemerging, Growing, and Evolving

The University Innovation Alliance

We believe that sharing the best templates, tools, resources, and materials will make innovation adoption easier and faster for thousands of student success administrators. To access the Lab as a non-UIA member, please add your name to our wait list. Diffusion to the Field 1. They are the future of our sector.

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Innovating Through Failure. and Success

The University Innovation Alliance

What types of students dropped out? In many institutions, it's a low-income student. What happens is that we lose students by the thousands, we find out much later, and there's nothing we can do about it. So imagine that all your data systems are firing and the right people have access to that data.

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