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.)

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MAY 15, 2025

Wilks, who brings more than 25 years of experience in higher education leadershipprimarily at Historically Black Colleges and Universitieswill officially begin her tenure on June 1, 2025. Clinton holds a sacred legacy grounded in faith, resilience, and opportunity.

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MAY 12, 2025

Burrell-Craft, who will begin her tenure in Summer 2025, is the fourth generation in her family to be associated with Grambling, following her grandfather, parents, and brotherall alumni of the institution. "Dr.

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MAY 9, 2025

The initiative allows student-athletes to develop their personal brands at no cost while at PCC, with the added benefit that they can maintain their Opendorse profiles if they transfer to other institutions. "I PCC's initiative represents a significant step in expanding these opportunities to the two-year college sector.

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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. In the last few years, we've had somewhere between 2-3% of students attending. Student success is the second pillar.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Applications for ELEVATE 2025 will open on November 15, 2024. These stressors are often heightened by a lack of clarity around tenure expectations and a reluctance among junior faculty to speak up for fear of jeopardizing progression in their career.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2025

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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Eight community college students from across the globe have been named 2025 DREAM Scholars by Achieving the Dream (ATD), marking a diverse cohort that Dr. Karen A. During the conference, scholars will engage with community college leaders and attend specialized sessions focused on improving student success.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 5, 2025

Of the 2,465 new students registered for the spring 2025 semester at Bergen, 19% are new transfers. Although about 25% of enrolled students at Bergen come from outside the county, the transfers from other community colleges would be students seeking a special program unavailable elsewhere. fall-to-fall retention rate.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Michigan State University (MSU) will offer in-state tuition to out-of-state Native American students through their Native American Tuition Advantage Program (NATAP), beginning in Fall 2025.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 25, 2025

This is the topic we took to task in Fostering Healthier Campuses: Applying Sense of Belonging Theory to Student Affairs Research and Practice at the recent annual meeting of NASPAStudent Affairs Administrators in Higher Education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 4, 2025

In 2008, the Lumina Foundation, a national private foundation focused on higher education and workforce development, set a national attainment goal that by 2025 60% of working-age adults would earn college degrees, certificates or industry-recognized certifications.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2025

The recent Moodys downgrade of the 2025 U.S. higher education outlook is not merely a financial tremor; it serves as a chilling echo of the cyclone that swept Dorothy into the tumultuous Land of Oza "tempest of uncertainty" driven by rapid policy shifts and financial pressures, threatening the very foundations of higher education.

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APRIL 4, 2025

Ultimately, this collaborative process ensured that transfer credit advances students' progress toward degree completion rather than being lost as elective credit. Starting in fall 2025, for over 75% of students transferring anywhere within the system, they will carry over most credits in their major.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 10, 2024

She also served as a department chair and interim associate dean in the College of Education and Integrative Studies as well as an associate vice president for student success.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 12, 2024

Ten finalists have been named and are still in the running for the Aspen Institute’s 2025 Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence. The other areas comprise teaching and learning, certificate and degree completion, transfer and bachelor’s attainment, workforce success, and broad access to the college.

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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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Michigan State University (MSU) will offer in-state tuition to out-of-state Native American students through their Native American Tuition Advantage Program (NATAP), beginning in Fall 2025.

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MARCH 6, 2025

Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, CCA is a bold national advocate for dramatically increasing college completion rates and closing equity gaps by working with states, systems, institutions, and partners to scale highly effective structural reforms and promote policies that improve student success.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2023

public two-year colleges – were chosen for high and improving levels of student success and equitable outcomes for lower-income, Black, and Hispanic students. The 150 schools can submit data and narratives about strategies for better, more equitable student outcomes.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2025

She has a record of achievement in a number of areas including student success, enrollment management, faculty development, research, academic program quality, strategic initiatives and partnerships, equity and inclusion, and fundraising.

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JANUARY 30, 2025

At the campus level, Gomez is faculty advisor for the student organization Semillas de Centro America, which seeks to sustain a supportive community for Central American students and community members. He also facilitates a leadership retreat for Chicanx/Latinx Student Success Center, also known as Centro.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

In 2018, when Dr. Tim Renick took on the role of senior vice president for student success at Georgia State University (GSU), the university’s demographics were rapidly changing. This work would eventually lead to GSU’s development of the National Institute for Student Success (NISS).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 23, 2024

“While we have the highest population of Black students, we are in the bottom quartile for success, and have been for many years,” said Sacramento State President Dr. Luke Wood, adding that the Black Honors College will seek to reverse the trend.

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MARCH 5, 2025

Our team just returned from the annual NAIS Thrive 2025 conference, held from February 2628 in Nashville, TN. Discussions on fostering diversity, equity, and belonging emphasized the importance of inclusive school communities and the impact of policy decisions on student success. Missed us at NAIS Thrive? Lets connect!

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OCTOBER 26, 2024

Pilar Huffman, director of professional development at Compton College and Believe in Students Curriculum Advisory Board Member. The curriculum’s first course, “The Students We Have,” is currently available for free to colleges throughout the nation. On Monday, October 28, Believe in Students is hosting a webinar at 2 p.m.

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OCTOBER 14, 2024

The goal was to achieve these numbers by 2025, but NJIT hit its target by the spring of 2024. It was also a time to strategize on ways to retain Latinx students, which includes building additional initiatives to support student success. Hispanic and Latinx students are getting more involved,” Jones says.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Business education is all about preparing students for collaboration, problem-solving, and real-world applicationand peer learning is a natural extension of that mission.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 10, 2024

“Standardized scores combined with high school GPA support this goal by improving early identification of students who demonstrated the greatest academic achievement, the most potential, and those who can most benefit from support through our student success programs.”

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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. To have an institutional-wide approach to student success. For 41 years, Dr. Karen A. Dr. Stout is a thought leader, says Dr. Steady H. These reforms can be broad-based.

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MARCH 6, 2025

As the universitys chief student affairs officer, she develops and oversees numerous initiatives to enhance students sense of belonging, well-being, and career opportunities, creating pathways for student success.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2025

Layla has an extensive background in System-wide leadership and advocacy, and intimate knowledge of local colleges operations, student success goals and challenges. Prior to that she served as a fiscal analyst for the Wisconsin Legislative Fiscal Bureau then a Wisconsin Technical College System policy advisor.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 21, 2024

The Manhattan Institute's "Project on Fair Representation " and the Heritage Foundation's " Project 2025 " both explicitly call for the dismantling of DEI initiatives in higher education. 2019) found that academic engagement and psychological capital resources were significant antecedents of academic performance among university students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 26, 2023

“This is an important segment of the college-bound market and [GBC] continues to make inroads in successful recruitment of Hispanic students, especially with the expansion of the Goizueta Scholarship to now cover full tuition and in some cases room and board,” Eby said. The college also has two bilingual peer mentors.

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MAY 20, 2025

Someone who believes deeply in student success and puts in the work to bring that vision to life. Behind every thriving peer tutoring program is someone who makes it all possible.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Nursing programs are rigorous, fast-paced, and deeply rooted in collaborationmaking peer learning an essential resource for student success. By integrating peer tutoring into their programs, these institutions are helping students build confidence, deepen their understanding, and prepare for the challenges of clinical practice.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 20, 2024

Bennett carries memories of these people and is constantly thinking about ways to honor their hyperlocal and global lens in equity work for student success through the Women’s Center. “By

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