Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 1, 2023

Jobs for the Future (JFF), a nonprofit driving workforce and education transformation, in partnership with the University of Phoenix released the report “Professional Social Capital: A Key to Black Economic Advancement.” Connections, networks and resources help people understand, access and navigate educational systems and the labor market.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Blogs 5 career services to support your professional and adult learners Build these services to aid your current students and stand out to prospects Career services are going to be especially important to your graduate and adult students in 2024. Adult learner recruitment 2.

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The University Innovation Alliance

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Bridging the Gap From Education to Employment. A Playbook for Transforming College-to-Career. College to Career. Career preparation is a core objective of a university education. We've found a misaligned perception between how campus leadership and business leaders view student career outcomes.

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Student Research Foundation

DECEMBER 6, 2024

While many colleges are known for the quality of their education, most excel in specific fields or subject areas. Your college education culminates into a degree, which denotes a certain level of academic qualification. If you want to help people, some of the best majors for you may be education or nursing.

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Civitas Learning

APRIL 3, 2025

SUMMARY : Adaptable analytics empowers higher education leaders with real-time, actionable insights that evolve with changing circumstances, enabling smarter decisions, more effective planning, and stronger team collaboration to proactively support student success. Adaptable analytics simplifies that process.

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Civitas Learning

MARCH 13, 2025

Higher Education must also prepare and develop students to reach their goals. Yet many institutions struggle to adopt a broader approach to student impact due to systemic barriers, such as departmental silos and limited access to actionable insights. This allows them to shape the student outcomes that matter most to them.

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COE

APRIL 7, 2023

From College to Careers: The Pell Institute Receives $748,000 Ascendium Grant to Explore Career Development within TRIO Programs April 7, 2023 — by Terry Vaughan III The research will examine how TRIO programs can work with existing career services to provide comprehensive career support to learners.

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Civitas Learning

JANUARY 9, 2025

This approach fosters proactive, collaborative support by enabling the coordination of services such as academic coaching, advising, financial aid, and career guidance. These programs address many challenges that students face and ensure students thrive, feel a sense of belonging, and make the most of available resources.

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Symplicity

APRIL 28, 2023

According to the World Bank , one billion people, or 15percent of the world's population, experience some form of disability, and persons with disabilities are more likely to experience adverse socioeconomic outcomes such as less education, poorer health outcomes, lower levels of employment, and higher poverty rates.

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Civitas Learning

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Higher education institutions that bring together previously disjointed approaches to student care gain greater clarity and drive measurable improvements in retention, completion rates, career readiness, and the overall student experience. Discover: Common challenges that institutions face in aligning care.

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EAB

JANUARY 12, 2023

Between a pandemic, a national racial reckoning, and increasing challenges to the higher education business model, student affairs leaders have spent the past few years looking for ways to innovate and collaborate more effectively across the cabinet. Most student affairs divisions now own career services.

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Symplicity

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The first half of my career was spent in Alumni Relations, and then I spent the last 7 in Career Services. What got you interested in higher education? I also really enjoyed the opportunities I had over those years to attend Symposium and interact with staff and other career services offices around the country.

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The University Innovation Alliance

DECEMBER 12, 2022

In 2022, we released Proactive Advising: A Playbook for Higher Education Innovators , outlining what we learned about designing and delivering proactive advising within different university contexts. MAAPS demonstrated the value of an accessible, coordinated approach to advising. College to Career.

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The College Pod

MARCH 7, 2025

But this is your chance to look beyond rankings and focus on what truly matters for your education and future. Do they have research opportunities, internships, or career support? Another key factor is access to professors. Having access to faculty can open doors to mentorship, networking, and research opportunities.

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Timely MD

DECEMBER 13, 2022

What can higher education do to better prepare students for the workforce? At Handshake’s Access 2022 conference for employers and career services professionals, three students spoke about their journey with mental health. Create an expectation of student commitment to college-to-career transition preparation.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Private K-12 schools continue to make education accessible to all students, regardless of their socioeconomic background. By offering academic tutoring, mentorship, and scholarship opportunities, schools help students navigate the challenges of private education and develop the skills necessary for success.

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Civitas Learning

MARCH 13, 2025

Higher Education must also prepare and develop students to reach their goals. Yet many institutions struggle to adopt a broader approach to student impact due to systemic barriers, such as departmental silos and limited access to actionable insights. This allows them to shape the student outcomes that matter most to them.

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Eric Stoller on Academic Advising

MARCH 2, 2017

Admissions professionals, academics, academic advisors, career services representatives, tutors, alumni officers, etc. Social media are the go-to engagement channels for both traditional campus communicators and online-only education programs. Career services departments have a tremendous responsibility.

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The University Innovation Alliance

AUGUST 9, 2024

Repairing the College-to-Career Pipeline A Conversation With Aimée Eubanks Davis, Founder and CEO of Braven Elana Thu, 08/15/2024 - 18:01 Image College to Career First Generation Weekly Wisdom Braven is an inspiring organization: a nonprofit that partners with higher education institutions to guide their graduates into the workforce.

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The University Innovation Alliance

APRIL 26, 2023

When you understand that higher education has a design problem, you can work on the design solution. So imagine that all your data systems are firing and the right people have access to that data. In the end, the future of career services is inside every classroom. Innovating Through Failure.

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Timely MD

DECEMBER 13, 2022

What can higher education do to better prepare students for the workforce? At Handshake’s Access 2022 conference for employers and career services professionals, three students spoke about their journey with mental health. What do college graduates say about their mental health? Listen to their stories.

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EAB

JUNE 12, 2023

This is the key finding in a new report from EAB, a leading education company. EAB notes that diminished access to in-person instruction during the pandemic created gaps in academic achievement and decreased opportunities for social development through classroom interactions with peers and teachers.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Read on for five key insights and recommendations to ensure Gen P’s success in higher education. Many students missed crucial classroom experiences or faced challenges with remote learning, creating gaps in their educational foundation. Read EAB’s insight paper on how to tailor your recruitment strategy for Gen P Gen P Students Are… 1.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

The culminating experience for the EAB Rising Higher Education Leaders Fellowship was the capstone project that substantively contributed to the fellows’ professional advancement and helped solve a pressing challenge facing their home institutions.

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EAB

JULY 17, 2023

It makes sense that the pandemic played a role in this trend: high school counselors reported that many of their students were less focused on college research during the pandemic, as they had less access to school resources and deprioritized college planning amid the stressors of the pandemic.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 17, 2023

Department of Education (ED) has released proposed regulations to better protect students from unaffordable debt or insufficient earnings from career training programs and to increase transparency in postsecondary programs. Secretary of Education Dr. Miguel A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

This is especially critical in Chicago, a highly diverse community that is an economic powerhouse in our country but where structural inequities in access to and completion of a post-secondary credential of value put countless lives at risk.” Dr. Imani Perry delivers keynote address at the Achieving the Dream convening in Orlando, Florida.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 16, 2023

McManus knew the importance of education. McManus graduated valedictorian of her high school and went on to Clemson University, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in special education and a master’s degree in counseling with an emphasis in student affairs. Dr. Kimberly O. That is no easy feat. “My

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 16, 2023

Even students who spent the least amount of time learning remotely, just a month or less, missed the equivalent of seven to 10 weeks of academic learning according to the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University. Dr. Douglas N. They learned less and got into some bad habits and haven't rebounded, not fully from all of that.

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EAB

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Just to provide you with some context, adult learners now make up 42% of total higher education revenue. In our survey, we asked what were the primary reasons for continuing your education? One particular area of focus for me and my work has been around how institutions engage and enroll adult learners. BD: Thanks, Todd.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 12, 2024

As career services professionals who work or have worked in Texas, this has impacted us deeply that such a heavily populated minoritized state would pass legislation that could hurt the very citizens the state strives to elevate within their workforce agendas.

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