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They Don’t Really Care About Us? Ensuring a Better Connection Between Research, Policy, and Practice to Ensure Success for Black Men in Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Furthermore, the Black men that attend postsecondary institutions, reportedly have the lowest retention rates of all groups. This stifles Black student success and contributes to low graduation rates from high schools. A recent report about the enrollment of Black men in postsecondary education indicates that Black men comprise 4.6%

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The Slow but Steady Rise of Women in Higher Education Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Success stories Among the initiatives success stories is Dr. Shanna L. Her ascension to the presidency, following Richardsons resignation in 2024, demonstrates the importance of institutional pipelines and succession planning. Jackson suggests that successful leadership often comes down to institutional fit.

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

He was so successful, in fact, that by the time he graduated from high school, Williams had achieved access to the same country club that barred him due to his race. Williams found great success in business, but at the same time, felt the effects of imposter syndrome. Everyone didn’t feel that way.” We did some great work.”

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A State of Affairs, the Underrepresentation of Minority Community College Trustees

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In fact, most studies concerning African Americans have focused on the retention of students or faculty (Wolfe & Dilworth, 2015). Smalls In a perfect world, governing boards and leadership demographics would mirror the student population (Higgs, 2014).

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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The IIT-Wright Engineering Program is an open-ended multi-year agreement that reflects the commitment of both institutions to support the successful transfer of community college students to complete four-year degrees in STEM and related fields. One secret of our program’s exponential growth is retention,” says Espiritu.

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How strong institutional partnerships serve transfer students well. Reflections on ED’s Raise The Bar Summit

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Breakthrough Data Identifies Successful Transfer Partnerships At the summit, ED released—for the first time ever— data showing how well specific four-year institutions serve community college transfer students across the country. TransferBOOST informed a three-part series of insights.

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Athletics and Academics

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

College success “In fencing, you have to make split-second decisions that aren’t always instinctive,” says Prescod. “It John’s University, was the assistant director and then director of ACP from 2009 to 2014. Pompey says as ACP followed up with students who graduated high school and went to college, they saw increasing success rates.