Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 12, 2025

Ezeonu previously served as where Vice President of Instruction at Green River College from July 2018 through February 2025. During her time there, she led full-time and adjunct faculty recruitment, development, retention and evaluation, curriculum and instruction.

Instruction

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 23, 2025

Starting with the Fall 2025 semester, every first-time college freshman will receive a complimentary 11-inch Apple iPad equipped with a comprehensive four-year AppleCare+ subscription. This structure encourages student retention while ensuring the investment reaches students committed to completing their education.

University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 22, 2025

AccessLex Institute has released its 2025 Legal Education Data Deck, providing comprehensive insights into the current state of legal education in the United States. The data deck also highlights concerning patterns in student retention. The updated data reveals persistent disparities in admissions rates across demographic groups.

Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Dr. Kristin Mallory Mallory, who currently serves as vice president for Academic Affairs at Wor-Wic Community College in Maryland, will assume her new role on July 1, 2025, bringing with her a comprehensive vision for educational excellence and community engagement.

Community college

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

Highlighting excellence in community college education, Achieving the Dream (ATD) has named 23 institutions as either Leader Colleges or Leader Colleges of Distinction for 2025, celebrating their commitment to student success and institutional reform. The announcement was made last week at the organization's annual meeting in Philadelphia.

Student success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 25, 2025

When instruction includes novel, emotionally or intellectually stimulating features, students show greater attention, motivation, and cognitive performance, particularly in STEM and technical subjects (see Guo & Fryer, 2025 ; Hidi & Renninger, 2006 ). 2003 ; Bloom, 2009 ).

Inclusion

Civitas Learning

JUNE 12, 2025

Findings from the 2025 Student Success Impact Report reinforce a powerful truth: supplemental instruction (SI), tutoring, and writing centers aren’t just add-ons—they’re foundational to a healthy student success model. Download the 2025 Student Success Impact Report to read more about what our partner institutions uncovered in 2024.

Success

School & Student Services by Community Brands

MARCH 5, 2025

Our team just returned from the annual NAIS Thrive 2025 conference, held from February 2628 in Nashville, TN. Leadership development and faculty retention were also central themes, with speakers sharing best practices for cultivating strong, sustainable school communities. “Attending NAIS Thrive 2025 was a remarkable experience.

Financial aid

Timely MD

JUNE 6, 2025

One of our latest innovations is the academic confidence score, launched in February 2025. Stronger retention and graduation rates: Belief in their ability keeps students on track toward degree completion. At TimelyCare, we’re committed to supporting students on their academic journeys. a statistically significant difference.

Student success

Missouri State Academic Advising and Transfer Cent

MARCH 3, 2025

Lawrence Excellence in Advising Award Recipients Announced Dr. Rhonda Stanton, Azaria Hogans, and Karmen Brewer will be recognized as the recipients of the 2025 Curtis P. Davis Master Advisor Reception on March 10, 2025, from 4-5 p.m. Lawrence Excellence in Advising Awards at the Kathy J. in the Ballroom East in Plaster Student Union.

Advising

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 22, 2025

ATLANTA — The United Negro College Fund (UNCF) launched its premier UNITE 2025 conference in this week, drawing over 1,300 attendees from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) nationwide for a transformative four-day gathering focused on advancing institutional excellence and student success.

Literacy

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2025

She served as principal investigator on the National Science Foundation grant focused on Evidence-Informed Practices to Improve Climate (Project EPIC) to transform departmental cultures within STEM disciplines to improve the retention and advancement of women, particularly women of color.

University

School & Student Services by Community Brands

APRIL 4, 2025

Schools can monitor changes over three years, empowering them to make better long-term decisions around financial aid retention and budgeting. September 2025: The new streamlined SSS application goes live, eliminating tax questions entirely for families. Almond emphasized that this isnt a one-time data pull.

Financial aid

School & Student Services by Community Brands

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Were sharing a wrap-up of 2024 resources for our K-12 private schools to help your school increase retention, enrollment, diversity, and marketing initiatives for the new year.o How to Streamline your Financial Aid Process with SSS Here are key actionable steps to prepare for the 2025 season. Read the full blog here.

Financial aid

Knack

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

By embedding tutoring into their academic ecosystems, these institutions are creating sustainable, student-driven support structures that enhance learning, engagement, and retention at scale.

Tutoring

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 16, 2025

Meanwhile, the administration continues pressuring Harvard University to accept restrictions on student visas, creating uncertainty for the institution's international recruitment and retention efforts. The Quinnipiac University poll surveyed 1,265 registered voters between June 6-10, 2025, with a margin of error of plus or minus 2.8

International student

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 25, 2024

The recently released "Project 2025: The Conservative Promise" paints a dystopian picture of American higher education, overrun by a "woke" ideology that supposedly threatens our nation's very foundations. This could stifle critical thinking and limit students’ exposure to diverse perspectives.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 23, 2024

The report re-evaluates supports for Black students and addresses trends in low Black student enrollment, retention, and graduation rates. The universities self-assessment of campus offerings highlighted areas of strengths as well as opportunities for growth, cross-campus collaboration, and innovation in supporting Black students, said Dr.

Student success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 10, 2024

In 2016, she was responsible for the launch of the Office of Student Success at Cal Poly Pomona to focus our campus efforts as part of the CSU Graduation Initiative 2025. Gomez was honored in 2024 by Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda Solis for her leadership in empowering vulnerable communities.

Advising

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

The global nonprofit Aspen Institute has named 20 semifinalists for the 2025 Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence, a $1 million prize. The Aspen Institute plans to announce 10 finalists in June.

Community college

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 26, 2024

In 2025, three additional courses, including one focused on supporting parenting students, will be added. These students are disproportionately affected by basic needs insecurity, making it essential for institutions to address these challenges to improve retention, academic performance, and post-graduation success,” said Fraire.

Curriculum

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

In the early aughts, Renick says, it was standard practice for student support programs to address equity gaps and low graduation or retention numbers through the creation of targeted programs, like initiatives for first-generation students, and African American male initiatives. This was to be accomplished by the year 2025. “We

Retention

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 14, 2024

In 2020, NJIT created the Hispanic and Latinx Leadership Council, which is made up of students, faculty, staff and alumni as well as business and community leaders who work collaboratively to address recruitment, retention, engagement and persistence among Latinx students. Hispanic and Latinx students are getting more involved,” Jones says.

Inclusion

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2024

The report’s conclusions urge institutions to find ways to engage this ever-growing population, particularly to help America achieve its 60% credential attainment goal for those between 25 and 64 years old by the year 2025. If that staff member in financial aid or that person who was motivating them no longer exists, why would they show up?”

Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 26, 2023

Programming and strategies Since the HSI classification was approved, NAU integrated the work into the university’s strategic plan, “NAU 2025 – Elevating Excellence.” 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

JUNE 26, 2023

Since the 2015 launch of Graduation Initiative 2025, a state-backed project to improve graduation rates, the California State University system (CSU) has made significant progress, with students from all groups earning degrees at higher rates. But disparities persist. The graduation rate gap between Black and white students is 22.2

Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

That data show that the students who attend the summer bridge program build great resilience skills, and resilience leads to retention. Alexander is working with Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, to do a similar student exchange starting in the fall of 2025. She asked many questions, which he gladly answered.

Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 1, 2025

Stout, recipient of the 2025 Diverse Champions Award, has focused her career on helping community colleges achieve outstanding student success. The metrics include course completion, retention, program completion and program completion with wage gains. For 41 years, Dr. Karen A. Dr. Stout is a thought leader, says Dr. Steady H.

Community college

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Once this is accomplished, the other valuable attributes become easy to achieve, like stewardship, recognition and retention, and results/outcomes. An effective advancement operation realizes the value of the donor cycle and strategically defines success with a donor-centered philosophy.

Database

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 22, 2025

His work delves into crucial questions about retention, working conditions, and the importance of allowing Black teachers to maintain their autonomy and cultural teaching practices. This research is particularly timely given the expected expansion of school choice programs and the ongoing push to recruit more Black teachers.

Education

The Advisor That Cares

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

For Advisors: Transform transactional advising general information and onboarding orientation to systems, procedures, degree plan, resources to video, audio, and text resources in personally curated web resources by the Fall 2025 intake cycle for individualized flipped advisor guidance.

Advising

The Advisor That Cares

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Transform transactional advising general information and onboarding orientation to video, audio, and text resources in flipped advising modules with digital assessments by the Fall 2025 intake cycle. . … how vital the role of a strong advising relationship is to students’ retention and success. Measurement. Care about policies.

Advising

College Planners of America

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Employers improve employee recruitment, loyalty, and retention. The COVID-19 Relief Bill that was attached to the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021, approved December 21, 2020, extended the tax-free status of employer tuition refund payments under IRS Section 127 through 2025.

Education

EAB

APRIL 18, 2023

Blogs What enrollment leaders need to know about the upcoming FAFSA changes Updated April 2023 As most of us in enrollment know, the FAFSA is set to substantially change for the 2024-2025 academic year. EAB estimates a 10%-25% increase in Pell recipients. So, what does this mean for your institution?

FAFSA

IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

APRIL 25, 2024

Congress is considering next year’s federal funding priorities, and the Biden-Harris administration has released its fiscal year 2025 (FY25) budget proposal. Amidst the cherry blossom blooms and springtime buzz, important business is happening on Capitol Hill.

Student success

IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

APRIL 23, 2024

Congress is considering next year’s federal funding priorities, and the Biden-Harris administration has released its fiscal year 2025 (FY25) budget proposal. Amidst the cherry blossom blooms and springtime buzz, important business is happening on Capitol Hill.

Student success