Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2025

The partnership with mental health provider Uwill has served 18,223 students across 45 public and independent institutions statewide, representing the nation's first comprehensive state-level investment in free teletherapy services for all college students. Bridges, New Jersey's secretary of higher education. on weekends.

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 27, 2024

“Supporting Early Career Faculty at Minority Serving Institutions,” examines CMSI’s ELEVATE program launched in 2015, which supports professional development, mentorship, and retention for MSI faculty. How to achieve tenure and publishing assistance is also on the agenda.

Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Im also guided by a quest for inclusion and student success. Givencurrent restrictions, how does the department currentlyrecruit and retain a diverse student body? Recruitment and retention are essential goals throughout the University for students, faculty and staff.

Inclusion

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

An example of where even completing a FAFSA—a requirement of North Star Promise—can clash with Native American culture is provided by Tiffany Gusbeth, vice president of student success services of the American Indian College Fund (College Fund). A vital component is developing culturally reflective support services. “In

Higher education

Knack

JULY 23, 2025

At the University of New Hampshire (UNH), student success isn’t left to chance. During a recent webinar co-hosted by Knack and EAB, Dawna Perez from UNH shared how they’ve built a unified student support ecosystem by combining peer tutoring through Knack with early alerts and case management via Navigate360. The result?

Retention

Civitas Learning

JUNE 24, 2025

Subscribe: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Youtube Music | Full Transcript At Utah Valley University (UVU), student support doesn’t start and stop with a form or a deadline—it’s sustained through consistent, human connection. And it’s working.

Student success

Civitas Learning

JANUARY 9, 2025

Today’s most influential leaders recognize that student success goes beyond traditional measures like retention and graduation rates. A study of Civitas Learning partner institutions reinforces this wisdom, revealing that 39% of students experience a change in their likelihood to persist within a single term.

Retention

Knack

JULY 1, 2025

In fact, Knack has helped the university reach students who had previously gone unserved. Over 54% of Knack users had never engaged with tutoring before —a critical data point for any institution seeking to improve equity in access.

Tutoring

Civitas Learning

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

In today’s higher education landscape, creating a successful student experience means seeing the whole student—not just their academic performance. Insights help teams create tailored support plans, but many institutions find it difficult to access quality data. So, how can schools access clean, usable data?

Advising

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 2, 2025

Funds will support student scholarships, enhance recruitment and retention efforts, and provide technological upgrades and infrastructure improvements that will benefit current and future band members. Crawford III expressed gratitude for the foundation's investment in student success. "We

Grant

Civitas Learning

JUNE 10, 2025

Subscribe: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Youtube Music | Full Transcript For many institutions, improving persistence and retention rates feels like an uphill battle, but Greenville Technical College (GTC) is proving what’s possible when data meets execution. When messages are targeted and timely, engagement follows.

Advising

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.

Students

Civitas Learning

JUNE 12, 2025

When we talk about student success, it’s easy to focus on the classroom. But even the most capable students can struggle if they don’t have access to basic resources like quiet study spaces, reliable Wi-Fi, group meeting areas, and academic support services. percentage point (PP) lift in persistence Library Resources — 5.3

Success

Civitas Learning

MAY 7, 2025

But sometimes, the root issue is closer to home students cant access the courses they need to stay on track to progress toward their degree. By equipping staff and faculty with a centralized platform to access and share student information, Northwest streamlined advising and made it easier to provide timely, personalized support.

Scheduling

Civitas Learning

MARCH 13, 2025

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. Without collaboration and a unified view of student data, they only see fragments of the bigger picture.

Retention

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. Four actionable steps to centralize and streamline student support.

Advising

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 22, 2025

ATLANTA — The United Negro College Fund (UNCF) launched its premier UNITE 2025 conference in this week, drawing over 1,300 attendees from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) nationwide for a transformative four-day gathering focused on advancing institutional excellence and student success.

Literacy

School & Student Services by Community Brands

MARCH 5, 2025

Sessions on innovative approaches to financial aid and tuition modeling provided administrators with new strategies to make financial aid more accessible and efficient. Discussions on fostering diversity, equity, and belonging emphasized the importance of inclusive school communities and the impact of policy decisions on student success.

Financial aid

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2024

Students at LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City, NY. IHEP identified these two institutions by using the Equitable Value Explorer , a free, publicly accessible site that analyzes data from colleges and universities across the country. Data is critical for UNT’s student success as well, said Voight.

Student success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 13, 2024

Education is a human right regardless of one’s background, and access and support should be readily available to those in need. We are fully committed to first-generation students, but commitment is just the start. Since 2020, our first-generation retention rate has increased by 7.2% Dr. Montserrat Fuentes is president of St.

First generation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 24, 2024

In his speech titled, "From Mirage to Oasis: The Role of Higher Education in Advancing Opportunity for All," Baston noted that food and housing insecurity and access to the internet, are among the litany of challenges that continue to serve as barriers to student success. Dr. Michael A.

Student success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 26, 2024

Legislators are looking to enshrine the Postsecondary Student Success Grant (PSSG) program, a student outcomes-centered federal effort, into law through new legislation this March. Although the effort has received support generally, some higher ed scholars and advocates have levied some criticisms and concerns about it.

Student success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Texas A&M University-San Antonio has received a $3 million grant to address economic issues and expand technology access for its student population. Texas A&M University-San Antonio The money – in the form of a “Caminos Hacia el Éxito” (Pathways to Success) grant from the U.S.

Grant

Civitas Learning

JUNE 1, 2023

The Challenge: Deliver on the mission to provide holistic services that support the success of every student every day. The Strategy: Adopt an integrated and holistic student success management model and implement a unified student success platform to make personalized support feasible at scale.

Retention

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

At a time when the Latino population in the United States is growing and students are still facing daunting obstacles, Excelencia in Education is recognizing nine institutions for their clear and decisive commitment to Latino student success with the Seal of Excelencia. It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students.

Retention

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

The potential for community college students and adults with some college credit to obtain a future degree is limited by a higher education system that has not fully embraced the many pathways today’s learners take to complete a degree, according to a new white paper from the Center for Higher Education Policy and Practice’s (CHEPP).

Higher education

IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

OCTOBER 30, 2023

By Elenaor Eckerson Peters Last week, IHEP joined Results for America to highlight promising postsecondary student success models in Colorado and Massachusetts. According to a national independent evaluation , receiving these services leads to positive, statistically significant increases in retention and degree completion.

Student success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 9, 2024

Colclough hatched an idea — what if they could develop professional learning environments easily accessible for all faculty in North Carolina’s community colleges, and what if that development could move the needle on student success? But it does depend on what each community college in our region tells us they most need.”

Teaching

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Joy Gaston Gayles opened the 47th annual conference for the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) in Las Vegas with a call to disrupt the systemic oppression keeping marginalized populations from accessing higher education and burning out academics working toward greater diversity, equity, and inclusion. “If

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 4, 2023

Even with these successes, the long-term viability of many HBCUs remains precarious if we don’t take advantage of this moment to create lasting, systemic changes to advance the ways HBCUs operate and provide more Black Americans with access to the distinct educational opportunities these historic campuses offer.

Retention

IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

AUGUST 22, 2023

ED’s latest Postsecondary Student Success Grant Program application includes performance measures recommended by IHEP research By Jessica Vivar Earning a college degree is the best path to turning career aspirations into a successful livelihood and financially secure, fulfilling life. The result?

Student success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2024

The winner is expected to be announced in the spring of 2025, standing out among more than 1,000 community colleges nationwide as having high and improving levels of student success, including equitable outcomes for Black and Hispanic students and those from lower-income backgrounds.

Community college

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Since its founding, Achieving the Dream has been focused on helping institutions deliver more equitable results in student success. It then projects this inequality into labor markets, housing markets, and local school districts, guaranteeing the intergenerational transmission of race and class privilege.” Francesca I.

Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 14, 2023

Community colleges play a critical role, providing affordable and accessible education for diverse populations. million credit and non-credit students for the 2021-22 academic year; the need to retain top talent among faculty and staff continues to grow. As a System, we want more students to cross the finish line.

Community college

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.”

Retention

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2023

EAB has announced an upgrade to its flagship technology, Navigate , to help colleges recruit and retain students. It was tested in partnership with select community colleges and now will become available to more schools. “The Schirmeier said: “The technology is just one part of the solution.

Retention

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 26, 2024

On Monday, October 28, Believe in Students is hosting a webinar at 2 p.m. EST to share insights on student success and rising college costs, expressing the urgency of the curriculum. The most recent data from the National Student Clearinghouse shows that more than 40 million students in the U.S.

Curriculum