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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Williams became the director of the Career Advancement Center, where he would spend the next five years inviting first generation, low-income students, women, LGBTQ+, and other under-represented undergraduates into pursuing their graduate degrees. Dr. Dereck J. Rovaris, Sr., I’m very thankful of where I am today, because of him.”

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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 released two new playbooks to assist leadership teams in their practices of proactive advising and college-to-career transition. This group of dynamic presidents and chancellors from our member institutions embody our vision and commitment to success for low-income students and students of color. •

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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. This group of dynamic presidents and chancellors from our member institutions embody our vision and commitment to success for low-income students and students of color. •

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How the University Innovation Alliance Is Expanding Our Impact

The University Innovation Alliance

How the University Innovation Alliance Is Expanding Our Impact bridget Thu, 03/21/2024 - 06:06 Higher Ed Leadership University Innovation Lab The University Innovation Alliance (UIA) is a small nonprofit organization with a big objective.

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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. We've had 4,000 students graduate as a result of these completion grants. Innovating Through Failure.

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