Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 27, 2025
This significant responsibility has prompted researchers to examine how these institutions prepare academic advisors to effectively serve their diverse student populations. The report emphasizes that HSIs have an opportunity to lead the way in redefining academic advising as a powerful tool for equity and educational transformation.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
Since deploying Civitas Learning’s Student Impact Platform, for example, our academic advisors are now able to quickly identify and connect with learners who are struggling, especially in gateway courses that are crucial for their majors. to take advantage of academic coaching.
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 4, 2023
academic advisors, residence life staff, admissions coordinators, counselors, and cultural center staff) and their interactions and interventions significantly influence students' experiences and success. Keisha Lewars is a senior academic advisor at John Jay College, City University of New York (CUNY).
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
The college will have its own dean of students, director, counselors, academic advisors, and outreach and support staff, and it will draw from existing faculty who have “a demonstrated record of success in teaching Black students,” said Wood. Wood — whose research focuses on racial equity in education — saw an opportunity.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JULY 21, 2023
Research has well established the importance of academic advisors to students from underrepresented backgrounds, but less work has been done on advising that highlights the identities of the schools that educate them, the 859 minority serving institutions (MSIs) that enroll 35% of all undergrads in the U.S.
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. NISS has raised graduation rates by an average of 4.5
IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy
SEPTEMBER 13, 2024
Faculty and staff who are aware of their own potential biases and the societal biases embedded in the data are better equipped to use these models to support rather than hinder equity in student outcomes. On the other hand, they could consider their role in proving the model wrong.
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