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Preparing Academic Advisors to Serve at Hispanic-Serving Institutions

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 27, 2025

Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) play a vital role in advancing educational opportunities for Latine students across the United States. This significant responsibility has prompted researchers to examine how these institutions prepare academic advisors to effectively serve their diverse student populations.

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A Blueprint for College Students’ Sense of Belonging

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 25, 2025

A landing page for student-facing websites at University of Michigan and Amherst College, just to name a few. There can be no question that this reflects a growing infrastructure to support belonging for all faculty, staff, and students in higher education. Figure 1 is a visual representation of points shared in the session.

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College Completion Rates Edging Upward

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2024

A new report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center (NSCRC) n otes that 61.1% The improvements here were mostly driven by students who started at community colleges. “The The improvements here were mostly driven by students who started at community colleges. For the Hispanic student population, it is 49.5%. “We,

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What We’re Learning About the Dual Enrollment Student Experience

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Courtney Adkins The beginning of the fall academic term brings to mind images of freshly graduated high school students arriving on college campuses across the country. When the fall 2023 term begins, close to 20% of community college students will also be high school students who are dually enrolled.

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Data and Collaboration are the Key to Preserving Higher Ed’s Hard-Fought Equity Gains

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Over the last four decades, Latino and African-American students were among the fastest-growing demographics in higher education. Since the mid-1970s, the Latino college student population has increased fivefold, with one out of every five college students being Latino by 2017. Many declined to enroll in the first place.

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Just-in-Time Care: How Institutions Can Build A Better Path To College Completion

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 6, 2025

Historically Black Colleges and Universities play a critical role in student success. million Black students found that those who initially enrolled at an HBCU were nearly 15 percentage points more likely to graduate than those who attended other types of postsecondary institutions. A 2023 study that examined outcomes of 1.2

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Sacramento State Creates Nation's First Black Honors College

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Sacramento State — home to the largest number of Black students within the California State University (CSU) system — is launching what will become the nation’s first-ever Black Honors College. Slated to begin operating in the fall, the honors college will enroll students who have a GPA of 3.5

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Leaning Into Best Practices

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. We’re also one of the largest enrollers of Pell Grant students in the country, enrolling about 30,000 Pell students every semester.”

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Report Underscores Diverse Approaches to Advising for HSIs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 26, 2024

Bermea Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) may be models for how institutions can organize to effectively serve and advise students, according to a new report from Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions. It provides tips for effective advising and includes strategies to help ensure students receive needed support.

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TSU’s Systematic Approach to Student Success

EAB

MAY 16, 2023

Podcast TSU's Systematic Approach to Student Success Episode 151. Raijanel Crockem and Naomi Lawrence-Lee from Texas Southern University join EAB’s Joanie Garcia to discuss their work to strengthen TSU’s approach to student success. May 16, 2023. Welcome to the Office Hours with EAB podcast. Learn more.

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4 Ways to Partner with Faculty on Student Success

Civitas Learning

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Faculty play a central role in building connections with students. Their regular interaction and academic and career guidance, especially within their areas of expertise, can significantly help students in their college experience.

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4 Challenges Derailing Academic Advisor Effectiveness (And How to Fix Them)

Civitas Learning

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Effective academic advising teams have the power to significantly impact student success, but often there are unseen barriers preventing advisors from reaching the right students at the right time. A Civitas Learning study on what works for student success found that advising is the most impactful initiative (5.8

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How can colleges use predictive algorithms equitably? A conversation with Dr. Denisa Gándara

IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

New research reveals that algorithms commonly used by institutions to predict student success may be racially biased against Black and Latinx students. Around the same time, institutions were beginning to use predictive models to identify students at risk of not graduating and I wondered if these tools might be biased as well.

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Delivering Proactive Academic Support at Scale

Civitas Learning

JUNE 13, 2023

Rindy shares Slippery Rock’s initiatives on how to help all students succeed with increasing student needs and shrinking resources. 5:22] – One part of the strategic plan is the promise that students will be successful and how they make sure they can be. [6:46] 17:52] – Conveying information isn’t the goal.

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Proactive Student Success Culture Improves Outcomes for All at the University of Cincinnati

Civitas Learning

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Providing them with a unique opportunity — and an imperative — to provide pathways to social and economic mobility to students and the surrounding community. 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.

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Student Success, Retention, and Employability – Getting Digital in a High Tech, High Touch Environment

Eric Stoller on Academic Advising

MARCH 2, 2017

However, with a deeper glance, it’s the connections between these areas that are the strands that form essential aspects of the student experience. Student Success. Student engagement is everything when it comes to student success. Engagement is what creates a meaningful student experience.

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Innovating to Close Equity Gaps: The National Institute for Student Success

The University Innovation Alliance

AUGUST 11, 2022

Innovating to Close Equity Gaps: The National Institute for Student Success. Student Success. These respected campus leaders are skilled in change management, and we look to them for spearheading and scaling student success initiatives at our member institutions. How to Improve Student Outcomes.

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How Civitas Learning Partners are Removing Retention and Completion Barriers

Civitas Learning

MARCH 7, 2024

Civitas Learning’s Texas Leadership Workshop recently brought together leaders from ten different institutions across Texas and beyond to discuss student success strategies for higher education. However, student feedback revealed redundancy in conversations and information sharing between advisors and coaches.

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Nobody’s Perfect: Helping Students Navigate Achievement and Academic Excellence

Timely MD

AUGUST 29, 2024

is accustomed to success. He led a wide range of student groups, from the Student Government Association to the Multicultural Mentoring Program to Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. Making mistakes comes with being human, but when you’re a college student, you don’t always have the life experience to know that yet.”

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Looking to the future of advising: 6 takeaways from the 2023 NACADA conference

EAB

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Blogs Looking to the future of advising: 6 takeaways from the 2023 NACADA conference The academic advising profession faces shrinking budgets, expanding student and administration expectations, and increasing turnover—all of which make it harder for institutions to think strategically about advising structure and staffing to support student success.

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The Ivy League of Student Success Innovation: Bridget Burns Visits the Ed on the Edge Podcast

The University Innovation Alliance

JUNE 12, 2024

Speaking with host Michael Moe , she discussed her personal experiences with student success, the UIA’s first ten years, how to scale change, and the value of embracing failure. At no point did I ever talk to an academic advisor. It's not that people are lazy, don't care, or don't want to help students.

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Creating Advising Capacity with Diversified Support

Civitas Learning

JUNE 27, 2023

If you’d like to hear a previous episode with Rob Friedhoff, he spoke about boosting academic advising capacity in Season 1, Episode 7. In our discussion today, we discuss how to use student success analytics to deliver the right support instead of the same one to every student.

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Transfer Advocate Blog, Issue 12

Missouri State Academic Advising and Transfer Cent

MARCH 1, 2023

Lawrence Excellence in Advising Award Winners at the Master Advisor Reception and Naming Ceremony. The ceremony will be held on Wednesday, March 22, 2023, from 4:00PM-5:00PM in the Plaster Student Union’s Union Club. This celebration is open to all advisors. Registration is encouraged.

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Is Your Institution ‘Gen P’ Ready?

EAB

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

5 Areas to Improve Your Campus Support for Pandemic-Era Students Generation Pandemic (“Gen P”) are the cohort of students whose high school years were significantly influenced by COVID-19. This summer, my friends on EAB's enrollment research team surveyed over 20,000 high school students to gather insight into recruiting Gen P.

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Texas A&M-San Antonio Improves New Student Orientation with Quicker, Smarter Scheduling

Civitas Learning

MARCH 23, 2023

The Challenge: New student orientation course scheduling process overwhelmed students, prevented advisors from having meaningful student interactions, and made it harder to manage classroom space and observe bottlenecks in class scheduling effectively.

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Texas A&M-San Antonio Improves New Student Orientation with Quicker, Smarter Scheduling

Civitas Learning

MARCH 23, 2023

The Challenge: New student orientation course scheduling process overwhelmed students, prevented advisors from having meaningful student interactions, and made it harder to manage classroom space and observe bottlenecks in class scheduling effectively.

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Developing a Strengths-Based Campus: Successes, Challenges, and Lessons Learned

Supporting Student Success

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

It was early in 2017 when our Student Life department received the approval we had been waiting for – we were embarking on a journey to make the University of Guelph-Humber a CliftonStrengths campus and I was tasked with leading the project. You may be asking what is CliftonStrengths (CS) and how does it help students? By: Liana Acri.

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New Student Engagement Data Reveals Surprises

EAB

MAY 23, 2023

Podcast New Student Engagement Data Reveals Surprises Episode 152. They also offer advice to community college leaders on ways to make measurable improvements in student retention and enrollment. EAB · New Student Engagement Data Reveal Surprises Transcript [music] 0:00:13.0 May 23, 2023. Give these folks a listen and enjoy.

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Advising, Counseling, Mentoring and Teaching Black Males in Secondary and Postsecondary Settings

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2024

We and many others have written about how Black males are the most disenfranchised students in our nation’s schools. Giving all of our students access to contemporary literature that centers Black youth perspectives is not only important in decolonizing literature education but also in presenting a holistic view of Black childhood.

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The Future of Academic Advising

The University Innovation Alliance

JUNE 23, 2022

The UIA was founded by a pioneering group of university presidents and chancellors committed to breaking down the silos inhibiting collaboration, and to leading on testing, sharing, and scaling ideas across the sector to help more students succeed. Looking at the Whole Student. Advisors' Roles and Students' Expectations.

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How Thematic Major Clusters, Major Maps, and Faculty Mentorship Elevate the Student Experience

EAB

DECEMBER 19, 2022

How thematic major clusters, major maps, and faculty mentorship elevate the student experience. Today’s students face more difficulties succeeding in their academic experience than those that came before them. BIPOC and first-generation students). BIPOC and first-generation students).

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How to Encourage Student Help-Seeking Behavior

EAB

JULY 25, 2023

Podcast How to Encourage Student Help-Seeking Behavior Episode 159. In this second of a three-part series focused on student mental health, EAB’s Ed Venit, Lindsay Schappell, and Matt Mustard share ways to encourage and support help-seeking behavior by students. July 25, 2023. Welcome to the Office Hours with EAB podcast.

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The Council for Opportunity in Education Announces Partnership with NACADA to Launch Credentialing Opportunity for Higher Education Professionals

COE

JULY 12, 2024

Hamm As more first-generation college students enroll in higher education, this course becomes not just timely but essential, highlighting the growing need for support and guidance in their educational journeys. Developing a list of campus or organizational resources that support first-generation college students’ success.

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Funding at Risk: How AANAPISI Programs Transform Student Lives

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 13, 2025

Mike Hoa Nguyen As a visiting professor at the University of Connecticut Hartford, Dr. Qazi Arka Rahman leads a Critical Refugee Studies course that encourages students to see refugees as more than simply victims, objects of rescue, problems, and crises. He published his fi ndings in a 2024 study for The Review of Higher Education.

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Preparing Academic Advisors to Serve at Hispanic-Serving Institutions

A Blueprint for College Students’ Sense of Belonging

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College Completion Rates Edging Upward

What We’re Learning About the Dual Enrollment Student Experience

Data and Collaboration are the Key to Preserving Higher Ed’s Hard-Fought Equity Gains

Just-in-Time Care: How Institutions Can Build A Better Path To College Completion

Sacramento State Creates Nation's First Black Honors College

Leaning Into Best Practices

Report Underscores Diverse Approaches to Advising for HSIs

TSU’s Systematic Approach to Student Success

4 Ways to Partner with Faculty on Student Success

4 Challenges Derailing Academic Advisor Effectiveness (And How to Fix Them)

How can colleges use predictive algorithms equitably? A conversation with Dr. Denisa Gándara

Delivering Proactive Academic Support at Scale

Proactive Student Success Culture Improves Outcomes for All at the University of Cincinnati

Student Success, Retention, and Employability – Getting Digital in a High Tech, High Touch Environment

Innovating to Close Equity Gaps: The National Institute for Student Success

How Civitas Learning Partners are Removing Retention and Completion Barriers

Nobody’s Perfect: Helping Students Navigate Achievement and Academic Excellence

Looking to the future of advising: 6 takeaways from the 2023 NACADA conference

The Ivy League of Student Success Innovation: Bridget Burns Visits the Ed on the Edge Podcast

Creating Advising Capacity with Diversified Support

Transfer Advocate Blog, Issue 12

Is Your Institution ‘Gen P’ Ready?

Texas A&M-San Antonio Improves New Student Orientation with Quicker, Smarter Scheduling

Texas A&M-San Antonio Improves New Student Orientation with Quicker, Smarter Scheduling

Developing a Strengths-Based Campus: Successes, Challenges, and Lessons Learned

New Student Engagement Data Reveals Surprises

Advising, Counseling, Mentoring and Teaching Black Males in Secondary and Postsecondary Settings

The Future of Academic Advising

How Thematic Major Clusters, Major Maps, and Faculty Mentorship Elevate the Student Experience

How to Encourage Student Help-Seeking Behavior

The Council for Opportunity in Education Announces Partnership with NACADA to Launch Credentialing Opportunity for Higher Education Professionals

Funding at Risk: How AANAPISI Programs Transform Student Lives

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