Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Energy and excitement filled the McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago, as over two thousand community college leaders, faculty, and staff gathered to share stories of access, equity, and inclusion at the 2023 Dream conference. ATD] staff and coaches will learn as much as we can about what you’re already doing around student success.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 7, 2024

There is great concern that African American student enrollment is reported to have declined by 29% from 2011 to 2019, representing a decrease of 600,000 persons. It’s crucial that ways are found to reverse this trend, and using the Black-Serving Institution designation might be a good way to assure students that they are valued.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 19, 2024

Dr. Grace Alexis Stephens Generations College boasts a 120-year rich legacy of providing accessible and high-quality education to campus-based and online students from diverse backgrounds across 40 states. Generations College is dedicated to empowering single parents and breaking barriers through education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 14, 2023

Community colleges play a critical role, providing affordable and accessible education for diverse populations. million credit and non-credit students for the 2021-22 academic year; the need to retain top talent among faculty and staff continues to grow. As a System, we want more students to cross the finish line.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 27, 2024

When Dr. Ericka Armstrong Dunbar first got the call in 2019 to proofread scripts for accuracy in Julian Fellowes’ new series The Gilded Age on HBO, she was surprised. Through the third-party feedback the institutional leaders receive from the coaches, the HBCUs are able to nimbly pivot to meet student needs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Justin Ortagus, an associate professor of higher education administration and policy and the director of the Institute of Higher Education at the University of Florida, examined over 40,000 student transcripts from a diverse, high-enrollment community college from between 2009 and 2019.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 30, 2024

ACC is, after all, the sixth-largest community college system in the country, serving 70,000 students in a state that is now majority Hispanic. In 2019, however, the system was awarded the National Seal of Excelencia by the nonprofit Excelencia in Education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Between fall 2019 and fall 2021, Texas community colleges lost 11% of their enrollment, according to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, which oversees higher education in the state. Ensuring access to all student populations across the state will always remain a focus,” Martinez says. Dr. Karen A.

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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. The intent is to bring attention to evidence-based practices that are making a positive difference for Hispanic students,” says Santiago, chief executive officer of Excelencia in Education. Santiago and Sarita E.

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Civitas Learning

DECEMBER 1, 2022

In 2019, its president rolled out the Bearcat Promise , a pledge that all students will leave the university with a degree in one hand and a career plan in the other. Through a consistent focus on student success that embraces its identity as an urban public research university, UC has achieved remarkable outcomes, including: a 15.8%

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EAB

MARCH 9, 2023

To ease the negative impacts on faculty, academic leaders can set clear expectations for faculty about their role in student mental health support and help faculty set boundaries with students. 5 critical to dos for academic leaders to support student success 2.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

As I discussed in the first blog post in this series , institutions need a sufficient technology infrastructure to facilitate curation, access, and retrieval of data. The 2019 Campus Computing Project survey of chief information officers and senior campus officials found the following (4): %. Data analysts. Krawitz, M., July 29, 2022.

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EAB

JULY 21, 2023

In order to design a modern student experience , colleges must understand the forces that shape student expectations long before they arrive on campus. EAB’s Modern Student Experience framework offers six pillars that institutions can use to guide their modernization conversations.

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Civitas Learning

APRIL 4, 2024

Finding innovative, effective ways to overcome barriers to recruiting new students and retaining existing ones is imperative to JAX State’s future. However, navigating enrollment has become increasingly complex, with students taking classes alongside work and family obligations, often needing help balancing life with their education.

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EAB

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

It could also affect recruitment as prospective students are more likely to question whether college is worth the cost in the first place. --> 0 % of high school students reported college isn’t “worth the cost” in 2023, up from 8% in 2019. Financial hardship is the #1 reason students stop out. More on this later.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

My team has worked with an increasing number of institutions that are seeking to re-center their student success strategies around a more holistic definition of the student experience. This summer, my friends on EAB's enrollment research team surveyed over 20,000 high school students to gather insight into recruiting Gen P.

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Purdue University Global

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Even though there’s a lot of external reasons why an online student would need to drop a course (whether it’s time constraints, a lack of support, or financial reasons; all those play a role in student success), there are two skills that students can develop that are correlated to the success they will have in their course.

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EAB

JUNE 12, 2023

EAB’s new survey shows that 20 percent of students who indicate they will not enroll in college right after high school say their primary reason is that they believe college is not worth the cost, compared to just 8 percent who expressed this view in EAB’s 2019 survey.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Blogs What is “one front door” onboarding and how could it help your students? Insights from Dr. Tiffany Ray-Patterson, VP of Student Success at Germanna Community College Based on our Office Hours with EAB podcast, Episode 166, Could Your Students Benefit from “One Front Door” Onboarding?

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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. Named by a Forbes article in 2019 as the most influential voice in college admission, he strives to build an educational ecosystem that better represents today’s society. “As

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Believe in Students

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

One significant barrier is that students cannot adequately focus on college since their basic needs such as food and housing are not met. A rising challenge for students nationwide is access to basic needs. In 2019, more than 55% of Compton College students faced food insecurity, and 63% reported housing insecurity.

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COE

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

2023 National TRIO Achiever Awards: Honoring the Journeys and Impact of Distinguished Alumni September 13, 2023 — by Maura Casey Through their powerful messages, these National TRIO Achievers ensured that the Educational Opportunity Dinner was, once again, a most inspiring event that illuminated the vital role of TRIO programs in student success.

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The University Innovation Alliance

MARCH 7, 2024

Alan Sugg was an incredibly effective leader, very kind, very engaging, and everything came back to student success. Dr. Welch has deep ties to AASCU, having led two member institutions, and served as chair of the AASCU Board of Directors twice from 2019-2021. Number one, you get that call; you're going to say yes.

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The University Innovation Alliance

AUGUST 14, 2023

We asked Chancellor Larive her thoughts about keeping people engaged, focused on what they have to do today, and hopeful about what's ahead, and she spoke about the transformational power of higher education: "Higher education changed my life from a low-income, first-generation college student. We do that every day at universities.

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The University Innovation Alliance

DECEMBER 1, 2023

In keeping with her career-long commitment to building outstanding leadership teams dedicated to student success, President Stokes has recruit diverse and talented leaders nationwide. Bridget Burns is the founding Executive Director of the University Innovation Alliance (UIA).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2024

[link] Comics and graphic novels can disrupt traditional texts by challenging the worship of the written word ( Torres, 2019 ), a feature of white supremacy that perpetuates textual hierarchies within educational spaces. Black boys are also suspended and expelled at much higher rates than other students ( Graves & Wang, 2022 ).

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EAB

APRIL 25, 2023

And so they've done a lot of work to try to transparently communicate how they select their offset partners, how they're ensuring the accountability and auditing of those activities, so that they can maintain the relative level of success they achieved back in 2018, 2019. MG: Yeah, thank you so much, Michael. This is fun.

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Civitas Learning

JANUARY 12, 2023

We know that student success analytics (diagnostic, descriptive, prescriptive, and predictive) provide valuable insights for higher education. Student-level persistence and completion predictions can identify individuals at risk of stopping out. Empower Frontline Staff to Understand the Role of Student Success Analytics.

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COE

JUNE 30, 2023

COE President Maureen Hoyler National TRIO Achiever Award recipients have made significant contributions in their fields while exemplifying the values and principles of educational access and equity. Brett , president and CEO of The New England Council, has been recognized for his relentless advocacy for educational equity and access.

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