Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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They needed long-term, data-driven, institutionally customized strategies to build financial resilience, promote academic innovation, and drive student success models that work for their institutions. One of our most defining initiatives started in 2016: the Career Pathways Initiative (CPI), a $50 million investment by the Lilly Endowment.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2024

Student success experts have prescribed potential solutions to declining Black student enrollment and retention numbers in California’s public universities in a recent report published by The California State University (CSU) Office of the Chancellor. strategies that directly support Black student success; 2.) Dr. Thomas A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 10, 2024

Terri Gomez Gomez’s “deep understanding of our campus’ strengths and opportunities; her student-centered approach to leadership; her dedication to faculty and staff excellence; and her unwavering commitment to the success of our diverse students,” said President Dr. Soraya M.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Rivera A task force composed of faculty and staff examined the policy’s effect on our application volume, applicant diversity, and student academic success metrics. Test-required and test-optional admissions policies yielded similar predictive power for academic success.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Brown, Excelencia in Education has the stated mission to accelerate Latino student success in higher education. It has done that with an 86% success rate for the 2022-23 academic year. In 2016, EAP reduced the number of courses in its course sequence, increased tutoring services and added embedded tutoring.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

CPE’s 2024 Higher Education Matters Progress Report shows the graduation rate for URM in the Kentucky Community & Technical College System (KCTCS) increased 15 percentage points from the 2016-17 academic year to the 2022-23 academic year. Dr. Amanda Ellis joined CPE in 2020 as vice president of K-12 policies and programs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Faculty and staff serving Indigenous students at PWIs must be aware of the varying institutional contexts and how students navigate and experience their educational pathways. However, TCU students often transfer to PWIs to continue their education or engage in bilateral mobility between TCUs and PWIs while working toward degree requirements.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Cynthia Teniente-Matson helped Texas A&M University-San Antonio grow into the strong regional university it has become and we are thankful for her service and wish her continued success at San José State,” said John Sharp, Chancellor of The Texas A&M University System. Her focus on serving South San Antonio will be her legacy here.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

At a time when the Latino population in the United States is growing and students are still facing daunting obstacles, Excelencia in Education is recognizing nine institutions for their clear and decisive commitment to Latino student success with the Seal of Excelencia. It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The presidents of these institutions said these increases are testament to tireless and intentional effort from faculty, staff, and leadership. Through carefully targeted programs and partnerships that remove barriers to educational access and success, these leaders hope their latest numbers portend future growth.

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#RealCollege Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Her professor directed her to the faculty union and its emergency non-profit, the Local 212 MATC FAST Fund. Faculty and Students Together (FAST) The FAST Fund is a faculty-led, non-profit organization that provides MATC students experiencing economic challenges with quick financial assistance. This model is spreading.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2023

In terms of retention, Carter says hiring supportive faculty is a huge component. “We We get students of color primarily through word-of-mouth and because of the fact that we have so many faculty members who are people of color,” Cummings says. We also have a lot of supports built into our curriculum,” she says. Online, 18.1%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

“Macaulay can provide an elite education — or a model that exemplifies the best of what higher ed has to offer — but without elitist recruitment or admissions processes,” says Byrne, who has been a faculty member at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (part of CUNY) since 2003. She concluded the fellowship and joined the faculty of John Jay.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 5, 2023

SAU faced an earlier probation between 2016 and 2018. "I I have a real strong feeling that the faculty and staff at Saint Augustine's University are so committed to this university that they're going to work aggressively with heartfelt enthusiasm to give that appeal everything that they have in them to be successful," McPhail said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 27, 2024

Experts say that faculty, administration, alumni, and even current students have a role to play in influencing the stability of their university’s executive office. We truly get to know them in terms of board, alumni, students, faculty, and staff.” If there is a lot of turnover, faculty and alums need to ask, ‘what’s going on with us?’”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

sociology, University of Colorado Boulder Career mentors: Elaine Enarson, independent scholar; Ophra Leyser-Whalen, University of Texas at El Paso; and Ron Aday, Middle Tennessee State University Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty members: “Your career path may look very different than your mentors and/or your faculty colleagues.

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The University Innovation Alliance

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The University Innovation Alliance's Three Playbooks for Student Success. The University Innovation Alliance (UIA) operates as a multi-campus laboratory for student success innovation. Thu, 12/15/2022 - 06:00. College to Career. Completion Grants. Proactive Advising. Understanding how students may use their completion grant funds.

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Civitas Learning

MAY 7, 2025

Advisors, faculty, and staff need a holistic view of a students experienceacademic progress, goals, challenges, and engagementso they can intervene early and offer proactive support. Faculty need simple ways to flag concerns and coordinate with advisors in real time. For student-facing teams, that story matters.

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Civitas Learning

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

In today’s higher education landscape, creating a successful student experience means seeing the whole student—not just their academic performance. The reliability of data and the institution’s willingness to use it can create significant barriers to success.

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EAB

JANUARY 30, 2023

Used properly, data can help to facilitate the goals and growth of an organization and can help leaders and stakeholders better identify and understand areas of concern—and areas of success. By using data to accurately assess institutional successes and challenges, the accountability discussion can become more illuminating and nuanced.

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Symplicity

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

This process can begin before a student even enters a classroom (whether virtual or in-person) which can make or break a student’s academic and wellbeing success. In fact, in a 2016 study by the Institute of Education Sciences , only 13 percent of students with a disability disclosed.

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EAB

DECEMBER 19, 2022

What we learned about the future of student success from 1,200 success leaders. CONNECTED is my favorite time of year in the Student Success Collaborative , and this year did not disappoint! Here are my 3 biggest takeaways from CONNECTED22: The pandemic is still affecting student success in critical ways. get your copy.

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Civitas Learning

JULY 11, 2024

Effective communication, guidance, and resources are foundational to an effective student success strategy. Unified Understanding of Student Success Student success doesn’t rest on the shoulders of one department — it’s the responsibility of the entire institution. Read the Blog 2.

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Active Minds

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In 2016, she gained national notoriety after sharing her story of resilience and perseverance in her viral testimony “Don’t Quit, Anything Can Happen” video with over 900k views. Bring him to your community for faculty and staff trainings and to talk about all things related to mental health for men and People of Color.

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EAB

APRIL 14, 2023

Blogs The 4 stages of an integrated lifecycle approach for community college student success How EAB’s Navigate helps community colleges at every stage There is encouraging data showing that six-year completion rates have been rising across all community colleges, with a.9% The 4 stages of an integrated lifecycle approach to success 1.

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Timely MD

AUGUST 29, 2024

is accustomed to success. That’s why Emory invited successful faculty, staff, and alumni to get vulnerable about their own stories and help students see that life doesn’t always work out the way you plan. Michael “MJ” Curtis Jr. He graduated from the honors program at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville College of Nursing.

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Supporting Student Success

APRIL 1, 2021

This was the start to the excellent Rural Student Success Unconference hosted by the University of Georgia, March 19-20, 2021. Higher education leaders, faculty and staff members, college counselors, and college access advocates met virtually to discuss obstacles and opportunities to support rural students’ success.

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Civitas Learning

JUNE 13, 2024

The Strategy: Implement student success technology to generate actionable insights, improve visibility, and create workflow efficiencies to lift enrollment, retention, and graduation rates. Their work has already resulted in enrollment improvements and significant enhancements in how faculty and advisors work together.

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The University Innovation Alliance

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

As we approach our ten-year anniversary of accelerating student success innovation across higher education to drive social and economic mobility nationwide, I am grateful and humbled that this movement has expanded and evolved to inspire so many institutions and student success leaders beyond the UIA.

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Scholarship America

OCTOBER 24, 2022

In this role, he represents more than 26,000 admission and counseling professionals worldwide committed to postsecondary access and success. In addition, he was a visiting international faculty member at Rikkyo University in Japan. He is the primary voice of the association to government, media, and global partners. He holds a B.S.

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EAB

JANUARY 31, 2023

Beginning in the fall of 2021, input was gathered from the OSU community, including students, faculty, staff, alumni, and stakeholders. The preeminent land-grant university is the institution that most successfully carries out the land-grant mission for the place it serves” (The Strategy, 2022). Resources Boyer, E. Jossey-Bass. Gavazzi, S.

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EAB

JANUARY 30, 2023

With this increased focus on adult learner enrollment should come a growing emphasis on adult learner success. But as my colleague Ed Venit described , student success efforts for graduate students and other adult learner populations often lag behind those at the undergraduate level. Get to know your future adult learner population.

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Civitas Learning

AUGUST 1, 2024

Regularly measuring the efficacy of student success initiatives is crucial for strategic decision-making and planning. Partners across the Civitas Learning community who regularly engage in efficacy analysis are seeing significant success. However, this evaluation shouldn't be an occasional practice.

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The University Innovation Alliance

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

As we approach our ten-year anniversary of accelerating student success innovation across higher education to drive social and economic mobility nationwide, I am grateful and humbled that this movement has expanded and evolved to inspire so many institutions and student success leaders beyond the UIA.

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Supporting Student Success

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The research findings presented below draw from analysis of the National College Health Assessment (NCHA) 2016 Canadian Reference group, which included 42,642 students from 42 postsecondary institutions (colleges and universities) across Canada (ACHA, 2016; Ezekiel, In Press). Mental Health Among Marginalized Sociodemographic Groups.

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EAB

MAY 25, 2023

Louis Slimak , Associate Provost for Curriculum and Assessment at West Virginia University (WVU), has done extensive work to overhaul the WVU’s program review process—and its culture around data more broadly—since his arrival in 2016. We’re also standing up a dedicated Edify dashboard for our faculty hiring process.

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Clair Kamp Dush

MAY 2, 2018

The view on a walk during my 2016 InkWell writing retreat. I went on one of Michelle’s amazing retreats in 2016 (cannot recommend her enough), and one of the best parts of retreating was my half hour I spent with Michelle each day. Just as with any kind of group work, I have a few tips for success.

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