Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 22, 2025

The data deck also highlights concerning patterns in student retention. However, when adjusted for inflation, salaries in most employment sectors have struggled to keep pace with rising costs, with the exception of private practice positions, which saw a $6,000 inflation-adjusted increase from 2022 to 2023.

Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

As his reputation grew, Williams was recruited by Northwestern University, where he served as assistant dean of diversity and inclusion between 2017 and 2021, and then until 2022 as the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion lead of Northwestern’s Public Health Program.

Placement

Civitas Learning

JANUARY 9, 2025

Today’s most influential leaders recognize that student success goes beyond traditional measures like retention and graduation rates. This approach overwhelms advising and support teams and contributes to declining retention rates.

Retention

Civitas Learning

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

As Northwest Missouri State University (Northwest) worked to improve retention rates, it recognized that faculty and staff needed a centralized location to communicate and access student data easily. Their data-driven student support ecosystem has led to significant improvements in retention, with a 16% increase from 2012 to 2022.

Advising

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 24, 2025

To advance retention, persistence, and specific course completion, the grant will improve the First Year Seminar, provide professional develop with a focus on culturally responsive pedagogy, integrate tutoring, peer mentoring, academic and career coaching, and target intervention in gateway courses. population.

Grant

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 25, 2025

March 3, 2022, a middle school teacher at San Francisco’s Creative Arts Charter School wanted to incorporate active learning in her history lesson on slavery. For instance, research shows that collaborative testing not only improves scores and reduces anxiety, but also supports long-term retention and peer learning (see Cortright et al.,

Inclusion

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

Civitas Learning

APRIL 3, 2025

Combined with broader strategies, this insight helped UTSA achieve a 16% increase in retention and a 14% increase in completion from 2012 to 2022. Final Thoughts Adaptable Analytics helps higher education leaders make smarter, faster decisions by turning complex student data into timely, actionable insights.

Students

Civitas Learning

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Traditional metrics, such as retention and graduation rates, don’t fully capture whether students succeed during college. increase in enrollment between Fall 2022 and Spring 2024. Higher education is continually evolving, and 2024 has presented new opportunities for institutions to better address students’ changing needs.

Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 27, 2024

A new report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center noted that more than 76% of students who started college in the fall of 2022 returned for their second year. Done annually, the 2024 Persistence and Retention report shows the persistence rate (returning to college at any institution) rose 0.8 to 58.5%.”

Retention

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2023

James Runcie, CEO and co-founder of Ed Advancement, said he hopes Ed Advance and the HBCU Dx program shows how CRMs offer a sustainable way to improve HBCU enrollment and retention. “A billion in the last 23 years, according to a 2022 study by Hunt Institute, a nonprofit education research group.

Retention

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 25, 2024

Eight in 10 employers surveyed expect to maintain or increase the number of interns they bring in for 2023-24 compared to the 2022-23. National Association of Colleges and Employers New research suggests that the levels of hiring college students for internships will remain stable this year. See Figure 1.)

Retention

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Financial aid, retention, and faculty/staff representation are part of the Seal,” says Dr. Deborah Santiago, co-founder and CEO of Excelencia in Education, who says she is delighted to see institutions with intentional practices actively working toward increasing Latino representation in key positions. Hawkins Jr. Hawkins, Jr.

Retention

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

But fall 2022 saw those losses slow. At CCC, a Historically Black College and University, fall 2022 enrollment jumped 22.2%, the highest enrollment gains of any community college in the state. IRSC’s fall 2022 enrollment increased by 8.9%, with its incoming cohort breaking their ten-year average enrollment by more than 1,000 students.

Community college

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

The paper cited a 2022 report — “ A Dream Derailed? It stated that, by aligning policies with students’ interests, institutions supporting student success through broader acceptance of transfer credit and other practices aimed at reducing costs to students are reaping the benefits of greater enrollment, retention, and completion.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 8, 2024

A 2022 national report from the Center for Community College Student Engagement (CCCSE) notes that community college students often deal with housing insecurity, which was exacerbated by the pandemic — 14% of study respondents were classified as housing insecure. Campus housing could have a discernable impact on retention and graduation.

Community college

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 4, 2023

Coupled with the $400 increase in the 2022 fiscal year, this is the largest two-year increase ever in the history of the grant. trillion by the end of 2022, according to the U.S. In spring 2020, Black male retention at Whittier dropped to 30%. In spring 2020, Black male retention at Whittier dropped to 30%. Dr. Karen A.

Low income student

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.

Student success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2024

Zamani-Gallaher’s scholarly work focuses on equitable participation in higher education; transfer, access, and retention policies; minoritized student populations in marginalized institutional contexts; and racial equity and campus climate in postsecondary education pathways. In 2022, Diverse recognized her with the Diverse Champions Award.

Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

As indicated by several key metrics, over the past decade underrepresented minority (URM) students have made considerable progress in retention, graduation, and persistence rates. Working with our campuses, we’ve put in place high standards to raise their overall retention rates, overall graduation rates and overall attainment rates.”

Low income student

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 14, 2023

As chancellor of Arizona’s most extensive community college system, the Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD), with nearly 140,000 students, paired with 10,000 faculty and staff members, my leadership philosophy is that we all play a role in the recruitment and retention of our students.

Community college

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 15, 2024

It has done that with an 86% success rate for the 2022-23 academic year. Also, that year the program’s retention rate of Latino students was 18% higher than the college’s general retention rate. The aims of the CAMP at Washington State University (WSU) are first-year completion, second-year retention and successful graduation.

Tutoring

Civitas Learning

JUNE 1, 2023

The Outcomes: An 8% increase in retention, improved advising efficiency, and more effective cross-functional collaboration. Get in Touch The post Integrated Approach to Student Success Leads to 8% Retention Lift at Northwest Missouri State University appeared first on Civitas Learning.

Retention

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 3, 2023

Dasha Lundy, executive vice president and chief operations officer, is hoping to follow in the footsteps of other HBCUs who have regained accreditation through TRACS, the Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools, like Paine College in November 2022 and Morris Brown College (MBC) in April.

Financial aid

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 12, 2023

Penn State has had ongoing issues in recruitment and retention of Black faculty, something that Black faculty have repeatedly mentioned, West said. There were 10 fewer Black tenure-line faculty overall in fall 2022 compared to the year before. “It

Faculty

Civitas Learning

AUGUST 10, 2023

We discovered the key steps leaders and institutions are taking to strategically –and sometimes dramatically– improve their retention rates. 5 High-Impact Retention Strategies While institutions continue working hard to ensure their students graduate, initiative results often fall short of expectations. PP when misapplied.

Retention

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 31, 2023

The University of Phoenix has proven itself, through strikingly low graduation and retention rates, to be unsuccessful at helping students reach their educational goals, anathema to what we do here,” University of Arkansas in Fayetteville’s faculty senate wrote in a Mar. In 2022, UA created nonprofit Transformative Education Services Inc.

University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 13, 2024

Since 2020, our first-generation retention rate has increased by 7.2% Our Fall 2022 first-gen, first-year retention rate (81.5%) outpaced their non-first-gen peers (78.6%). Edward’s “familia” or family of students, faculty, staff, and leadership.

First generation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The long-running lawsuit between Maryland’s HBCUs and the state was finally settled, and Morgan State received its first appropriation from those funds on July 1, 2022, amounting to $15.1 Retention efforts Morgan State is currently number one in the United States in producing Black electrical engineers and civil engineers, Wilson notes.

Retention

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 26, 2023

Dr. Justin Jernigan, dean of student success at Georgia Gwinnett College (GGC), said the plan to pursue HSI status, announced in 2022, was intentional. This includes working on retention strategies that emphasize information on financial aid and mental health services as well as continuing to build a sense of belonging.

Tutoring

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2024

Undergraduate credentials awarded in the 2022–23 academic year fell by 2.8%, continuing its downward trend for the second year in a row.

Retention

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Back in September, Western Michigan University—a public research institution located in the southwestern corner of the state—released its fall 2024 enrollment and retention numbers, much to the delight of the school’s provost, Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig. Black student enrollment, for example, went up 2.3% in Hispanic enrollment. “We

Retention

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

A 2022 Gallup poll found that educators reported the highest level of burnout of any industry , and 35% of college and university workers reported “always” or “very often” feeling burned out at work. Permitting faculty and staff to rotate in-person work or to only come in on certain days might help with retention.

Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

“My research examines the ways in which larger social processes affect students and their overall well-being while also addressing underrepresented and marginalized students in relation to retention and success,” she says. Dueñas says she uses both qualitative and quantitative methods to examine students in their higher educational spaces.

Equity

EAB

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

How Pueblo College Supercharged Yield and Retention Efforts. November 1, 2022. EAB · How Pueblo College Supercharged Yield and Retention Efforts. The post How Pueblo College Supercharged Yield and Retention Efforts appeared first on EAB. Episode 126. Welcome to the Office Hours with EAB podcast. Transcript. So I think.

Retention

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 10, 2024

ChatGPT launched in November of 2022,” Watson said. AI has promise in terms of recognizing student patterns and how they relate to student persistence and retention, said panelist Dr. William J. Within two months, there was a survey of students that found 89% had already given ChatGPT a try." These new AI tools.

Humanities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The latest data for fall 2022 enrollment shows the declines characteristic of the pandemic have begun to level off, but overall postsecondary enrollment is still on the decline, dropping by 1.1% 4%, an encouraging number compared to its previous enrollment losses, losing 20% of their enrollment between spring 2020 and spring 2022.

Community college