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What it Means to Sit at the Intersection of Blackness, Queerness

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Yolanda Vivian Williams-Goliday Dr. Yolanda Vivian Williams-Goliday’s first priority is to make sure that the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) is a supportive and inclusive space for its LGBTQ+, gender nonconforming, and nonbinary community. There, she worked with students academically underprepared for college, she says.

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Academic Progress at FBS Schools Continues, But So Do Racial Disparities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Michael Harris Michael Harris, director of student-athlete academic services at Boston College, said intentionality is key. These play a role in student retention and completion. Student-athletes are expected to graduate in eight semesters. Even the team’s chaplain, Fr. Jack Butler, creates a home away from home environment.

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

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Amid this steady decline, the University of Cincinnati continues improving retention and graduation rates, setting enrollment records, achieving diversity goals, and closing equity gaps. percentage point lift in first-year retention from 2012 to 2020 and even stronger gains for second and third-year retention A 7.7