Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 29, 2024

From 2016 to 2022, the number of applicants from this demographic nearly doubled, yet acceptance rates remained low, highlighting a critical need for additional support. Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander students, for example, have historically faced lower admission and graduation rates at the university.

Retention

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2025

During the 2016-2017 school year, the Brothers to Sisters Club at Compton College reserved a portion of their meetings for Real Talk. This allowed students to share their current feelings and experiences. During one of these meetings, two students spoke up and shared that they were homeless. This was about fostering community and belonging.

Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2025

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.

Collaboration

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The path to higher education success has many obstacles and barriers for Latinos across the U.S. Brown, is to advance Latino student success in higher education by promoting Latino student achievement, conducting analysis to inform educational policies and advancing institutional practices. Santiago and Sarita E.

Retention

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 7, 2025

Joyner has been in her current position since 2016. It’s been fulfilling to see the student success stories that resulted from the strategic financial leadership decisions made here at the university.” Twelve years ago, she took on a contract assignment at NC A&T, which evolved into a full-time position.

Compliance

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 3, 2025

Mahoney, the David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor who led the School of Law from 2008-2016, will assume the presidency on August 11, stepping into a role shaped by unprecedented political turbulence that has shaken the academic community. Ryan's departure came after intense pressure from the U.S. "We

Financial aid

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. They identified that Exercise Science majors with a GPA of 3.0

Advising

Civitas Learning

MAY 7, 2025

This effort contributed to an 8% increase in retention between 2016 and 2021, surpassing their goal with an 80% retention rate from Fall 2021 to Fall 2022.

Scheduling

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 6, 2025

The "learning college" concept O'Banion pioneered emphasized placing learning first in all institutional decisions, fundamentally transforming how community colleges approach student success. In 2016, Diverse honored O’Banion with its Diverse Champions award.

Community college

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 11, 2024

When Donald Trump took office in 2016, the political shockwaves reverberated far beyond the United States, reshaping perceptions of America as the land of opportunity. These institutions, rooted in a mission to uplift Black communities, provide culturally affirming spaces critical to academic and personal success.

International student

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 15, 2025

of Asian American Pacific Islander college presidents nationally when Berkeley City College hired her to Dr. Rowena Tomaneng its top job in 2016. As deputy chancellor of California Community Colleges, she fosters policies and practice that support student success and college effectiveness. Rowena Tomaneng was part of the tiny 1.5%

Instruction

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 5, 2025

As the United States transitioned through the Industrial Revolution and the post–World War II era, the presidency evolved alongside the expansion of higher education and increased student enrollment (Bourgeois, 2016; Melidona et al., 2019; Perrakis et al., Dr. Shawntal Z.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The original TM 2 was founded in 2016 by former HBCU presidents but later folded. Theyre also building research capacity to better understand leadership trends at HBCUs, tracking metrics like presidential tenure and analyzing factors that contribute to successful leadership transitions. The H.E.L.F. I am in this community.

Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 13, 2025

So, I think its important to note that without this type of sustained federal investment, a lot of students are gonna be underserved and its gonna greatly impact student success, Nguyen says. And if they do that, then certainly AANAPISIs would be in that group. San Antonio College speak glowingly about the ARISE program. San Antonio College.

Tutoring

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 18, 2025

He also worked as assistant to the chancellor for external affairs from 2006 to 2016 and has held interim roles in university advancement and alumni affairs. From 2016 to 2018, Howell served as senior vice president for external affairs at the UNC System Office.

University

Believe in Students

JANUARY 14, 2025

The following resolution, presented by our incoming Board Chair, Jesse Thompson, expresses our profound gratitude and recognition for Richard’s exceptional leadership, vision, and commitment to the organization’s mission.

Collaboration

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

The primary argument made in the article is that despite having spent approximately a quarter of a billion dollars since 2016, faculty and students are not enthusiastic about Michigan’s DEI initiatives. Even with this program, making traction with increasing Black enrollment has been slow.

Students

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.

Student success

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.

Advising

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 12, 2024

Hollis Robbins UPEP’s inaugural cohort represents “a bold expression of University of Utah President Taylor Randall’s commitment to unsurpassed social impact in our state and region,” said Dr. Erin Castro, the associate dean and associate professor who co-founded the initiative with 12 undergraduate honors students in 2016.

Education

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.

Accessibility

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

of those who began their first year of college in 2016 reached graduation within six years, a.1 Students who began in 2016 and finished in four years were likely unaffected by the pandemic, said Dr. Doug Shapiro, vice president of research at the National Student Clearinghouse. The report found that 62.3%

Student affairs

IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

AUGUST 22, 2023

ED’s latest Postsecondary Student Success Grant Program application includes performance measures recommended by IHEP research By Jessica Vivar Earning a college degree is the best path to turning career aspirations into a successful livelihood and financially secure, fulfilling life.

Student success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 15, 2024

FAMU received the gift — a donation to support of student success initiatives and athletics — from the Issac Batterson 7th Family Trust and Chief Executive Officer Gregory Gerami, a Texas hemp farmer and the founder of Batterson Farms Corp. “I million gift. I just want to thank her as we move forward for the outstanding job she has done.”

University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 19, 2023

Corequisite instruction allows students to take a college-level and credit-bearing course while also receiving supplemental support to ensure their success. In 2016, 78% of CUNY’s associate-degree seeking students were placed into remedial classes. We can see the results of reforms most clearly in math.”

Mathematics

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. Sustaining success Retention rates have steadily increased.

Low income student

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.

University

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.

Tutoring

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 29, 2023

He had previously given $1 million to Howard in 2016 to establish a scholarship fund and had said that he would donate a further $1 million to the school in the same acceptance speech. Combs added that HBCUs are “under-resourced” and that he was “here to do something about it.” Combs’ checkbook had a busy weekend.

Literacy

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 10, 2023

“The ability to be flexible, adjust, adapt and still meet your mission, to me that’s resilience,” said Dr. Deborah Santiago, co-founder and CEO of Ed Excelencia, an organization promoting Latinx success in higher education and at Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs). At the Gurabo campus, 82% of its 10,896 undergraduates are Pell eligible.

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

This includes issues of 1) campus climate where Indigenous students coming from a TCU are often entering a school environment with primarily white peers for the first time and 2) academic affairs in which advisors must have a clear sense of transfer agreements and credit structures across institutions to ensure successful degree completion.

University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Through carefully targeted programs and partnerships that remove barriers to educational access and success, these leaders hope their latest numbers portend future growth. It was most pronounced from 2016 to 2020, where we dropped about 25% of our enrollment. The mission was a success.

Community college

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The study, “Helping or Hurting: The Effects of Retention in the Third Grade on Student Outcomes,” examined this practice’s effects, looking at how the state of Indiana’s test-based retention policy – based on third-grade reading tests – impacted student success, disciplinary outcomes, and attendance up to five years down the line.

Retention

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 6, 2022

And for this updated 2022 report, those working on it will have access to data regarding student race/ethnicity, information not available for the report’s previous 2016 edition, said John Fink , senior research associate and program lead at the CCRC.

Community college

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 22, 2023

The difficulty of making a successful transition from school to the workforce remains one of the most persistent problems in higher education. A 1998 proposition eliminated most bilingual programs in California schools, and although it was reversed in 2016, there is still a shortage of teachers who speak multiple languages.

Grant

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

For students who started community college in 2016, which means a portion of their six years overlapped with COVID, 35% obtained a credential. In fall of 2023, 5.3% more students than the previous year were able to successfully transfer to a new institution.

Community college

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2023

showing up; engaging), supporting others to success – particularly during challenging times. Drawing upon Duckworth (2016), they connect their work to a purpose beyond themselves… and “can learn to hope when all seems lost” (p. I am witness to the strength of character of these students and their core values of persistence and care.

Leadership