Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 11, 2025

Today, there are more than 600 HSIs in which approximately two-thirds of all Latinx undergraduate students are enrolled. The institution’s mission, vision, and strategic priorities explicitly affirm a commitment to underserved students, including but not limited to Black student success and Black-Servingness.

Higher education

COE

JULY 15, 2025

Hamm COE is inviting community colleges—with or without a current SSS program—to apply for the inaugural COE Award for Institutional Effectiveness, which will bestow $10,000 each on three campuses that have successfully embedded TRIO Student Support Services practices into their wider student success strategies. WASHINGTON, D.C.

First generation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

He spearheaded a 40 percent enrollment increase, bringing the student body to 4,000, while simultaneously launching innovative student success initiatives. We prepare students for fulfilling lives, inspiring them to achievements that enrich every sector of society.

Placement

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Sophia Rahming As a result of her work, class withdrawals and the number of students failing and having to repeat courses — particularly in STEM-related courses — have dramatically declined since she took the helm of the program in 2019. There were only 45 LAs during the inaugural launch of the program in 2019 and today there are 330.

Student success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 10, 2024

Mary Ann Villarreal has been appointed vice president in the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Student Success at the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U). She will focus on advancing equity and student success efforts in service to undergraduate populations and academic excellence.

Student success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

I look forward to engaging and collaborating with Cal State LA’s talented students, staff and faculty to continue the institution’s journey to new heights in student success, research, scholarship and creative activity, and community engagement.” Clarke, Jr., chair of the Cal State LA Presidential Search Committee.

University

IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

DECEMBER 20, 2021

By providing financial and social supports for students throughout the transfer process, four-year institutions can promote a transfer-receptive culture that welcomes and nurtures transfer students’ success. The cost of opportunity: Student stories of college affordability. References. i Eckerson Peters, E.,

Student success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 18, 2023

Latino student success in higher education is not where it needs to be, according t o findings from Latino student success organization Excelencia in Education. Degree completion gaps had been closing up until about 2019, Santiago said.

Database

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 21, 2024

The impact of DEI programs on student success Recent research continues to demonstrate the positive effects of diversity and inclusion initiatives on student outcomes. 2019) found that academic engagement and psychological capital resources were significant antecedents of academic performance among university students.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 17, 2023

“Supporters of grade retention policies argue they provide students with the opportunity to master skills that are essential for learning in subsequent years, while opponents question the value of the extra time and emphasize the potential for negative social impacts.” As of 2019, 18 U.S.

Retention

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.

Retention

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 19, 2024

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.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 27, 2024

Doug Shapiro, executive director of the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Overall enrollments are still nowhere near back to what they were in 2019, but retention and persistence levels are.” for incoming students who began fall 2013 to 55% for those who began fall 2022. “If percentage points from 51.3%

Retention

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. That’s the goal of coaching: to help students grow into the individuals they came here to be.” Liann Herder can be reached at lherder@diverseeducation.com.

Curriculum

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 14, 2023

Furthermore, there has been a growing focus on student success, completion rates, and workforce development within community colleges. Monitor and improve student success Engaged students are more likely to remain enrolled and recommend their college to others.

Community college

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.

University

IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

New analysis of the National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:20) reveals the diversity of today’s college students, and the types of institutions they attend. NPSAS provides information on students’ self-reported race and ethnicity, across six categories. How can data support student success?

Students

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.

Community college

EAB

MARCH 16, 2023

Infographic Recipes for Student Success DOWNLOAD THE INFOGRAPHIC Discover more K-12 resources District Leadership Blog May 14, 2020 District Leadership Forum July 12, 2019 Ready to find out more? Discover how you can craft a recipe for success for your district through the District Leadership Forum.

Student success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Stout, president and CEO of ATD, welcomed attendees and praised the increases in completion rates for Black students at community colleges. Stout also acknowledged the sector’s overall enrollment losses, particularly among Black learners, whose enrollment fell by 26% between 2011 and 2019.

Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Yet out of the 116 community colleges in California’s system, only 12 have student housing, and only 14 have rapid rehousing programs like hotel or motel vouchers, deposit or move-in assistance. million attendees, current housing capacity exists for only 2,369 students. Out of the system’s 1.8

Community college

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.

Grant

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. “It Texas’s 50 community colleges range from rural to urban and receive roughly 24% of their operational budget from state funding.

Financial aid

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%

Student success

Scholarship America

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

While we still tend to think of traditional college students as the “default,” the fact is more than half of all college attendees fall into one or more “non-traditional” categories. The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) reports that, as of 2019, 7.7 million (nearly 40%) of the 19.6

Student success

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. “We Santiago and Sarita E.

Tutoring

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.

Faculty

School & Student Services by Community Brands

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

in the 2020-2021 school year and just over 30,000 private schools between 2019 and 2020. During the 2019-2020 school year, total public school enrollment was 49.4 million students , while private school enrollment totaled 4.7 When it comes to preparing students to enter college, private schools are the most successful.

Financial aid

EAB

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The 2019 Campus Computing Project survey of chief information officers and senior campus officials found the following (4): %. Campus computing 2019: The 30 th national survey of computing and information technology in American higher education. What happens when you disaggregate your student success data? Krawitz, M.,

Database

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. Navigate also enables a seamless staff and faculty connection to make it easier to share notes, send alerts and more effectively serve students.

Community college

Scholarship America

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

She was also a youth ambassador for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation for three years and served as their 2019 youth advocacy leader. That was only the beginning of Lily’s outreach on behalf of Type 1 diabetes patients.

Success

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.

Scheduling

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.

Online learning

EAB

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

In 2023, EAB learned that almost every issue—student success, employee engagement, and community interactions—had deteriorated since 2019, but the greatest concern was staffing shortages ( Read the 2023 Voice of the Superintendent Survey Executive Brief here ).

Instruction

EAB

JANUARY 30, 2023

Surveyed adult learners consistently identify student support services as an important factor when making an enrollment decision. 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.

Adult education

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.

Mental health

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.

Mental health