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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The overall academic success of college football student-athletes has remained the same from last year with an 83% Graduation Success Rate (GSR), but the gap between Black and white football student-athletes has increased. The average GSR for white football student-athletes increased from 91% in 2022 to 92.5%

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A Black and openly queer woman, Williams-Goliday serves as a guide of sorts, helping students navigate their identity and the world around them, and how they can continue to be authentic as they go about their studies and approach the workplace, she says. “A There, she worked with students academically underprepared for college, she says.

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

Civitas Learning

Providing them with a unique opportunity — and an imperative — to provide pathways to social and economic mobility to students and the surrounding community. Amid this steady decline, the University of Cincinnati continues improving retention and graduation rates, setting enrollment records, achieving diversity goals, and closing equity gaps.