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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Necessary support is provided through GANAS (Gaining Access ’AND Academic Success), an innovative access and retention program that serves community college transfer students. CSUSM gathers and analyzes disaggregated data pertaining to retention, unit completion and graduation.

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Two Community Colleges in the South Are Bringing Students Back

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It was most pronounced from 2016 to 2020, where we dropped about 25% of our enrollment. He developed a robust recruitment and retention team and had long conversations with all of his faculty and staff to impress upon them a “healthy anxiety” about their enrollment numbers, he said.

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Puerto Rican Resilience Is a Lesson for the Mainland

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Even though UAGM - Gurabo enrollment dropped from 17,167 in 2016 to 13,553 in 2020, Méndez Méndez and other leaders made conscious decisions that would keep the cost of tuition level. UAGM - Gurabo’s retention rate between 2016 and 2020 remained at or above 75%. 6 and 7, 2020 at a 5.8 magnitude and 6.4 magnitude respectively.

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Community Colleges Increase Housing Options

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Central Oregon Community College (COCC) opened its current housing facility, Wickiup Hall, in 2016. Their fall-to-fall retention rate between fall 2022 and fall 2023 was actually 11% higher than commuters.” Campus housing could have a discernable impact on retention and graduation. versus 83.8%

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Persistence Rebounds to Pre-COVID Levels, But Not for Everyone

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

of the students entering college in fall 2021 continued their studies in fall 2022, an increase of nearly one point from the previous year, and equaling the average rate for freshmen from 2016-2018. “It Computer science had double-digit enrollment increases and saw greater persistence and retention among freshmen at all credential levels.

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6 trends impacting community college enrollment in 2023

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After losing over 10% of two-year students during the pandemic, both due to declines in new students and to a national dip in retention, this enrollment recovery was a welcomed reprieve. 9% increase in six-year completion rates from the fall 2015 cohort to fall 2016. Nationally, from fall 2021 to fall 2022, two-year colleges only lost.4%

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Our LGBTQ students’ lives and well-being are at risk—here are 5 things campus leaders can do to help

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I recently had the opportunity to participate in a media interview with Brandon Wolf , a survivor of the 2016 mass shooting at Pulse nightclub in Orlando and a civil rights activist. Efforts to boost student retention are more critical than ever as overall enrollment numbers decline. It isn’t just the right thing to do. Learn more.