Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 22, 2025

This growth reflects strengthening student interest in accessible, flexible (i.e., Changing our mindset in how we serve these students and trying to meet them where theyre at, instead of the traditional way of if they need help with their courses, theyll walk into their advising office, said Fagan.

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Civitas Learning

JULY 22, 2025

In this episode of Next Practices , we meet three leaders who’ve helped transform advising from a series of disconnected conversations into a cross-campus partnership. That structure opened the door to deeper collaboration between academic programs and advising teams—anchored in clarity, consistency, and shared student goals.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 17, 2025

These pre-college experiences help students build confidence, find community, and understand how to access resources. I often advise mentees to build relationships with at least five staff or faculty members—people they can turn to for help, advice, or encouragement. Programs shouldn’t be a one-size-fits-all.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

I didn’t understand why everybody didn’t have access. And I was determined to have access,” says Williams. I made sure everyone had access, especially my Black classmates and friends,” says Williams. Tapping into access became a deliberate decision. He became what he calls “a student for everybody.” “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Incoming transfer students can enroll in courses early to guarantee that they have access to coursework. Necessary support is provided through GANAS (Gaining Access ’AND Academic Success), an innovative access and retention program that serves community college transfer students. Morales, president of CSUSB. Currently, 60.1%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 18, 2025

So that they have a chance that when this is resolved they can finish their education,” said Pacheco, who advises colleges and universities to conduct assessments to see where they can step up to ensure that students can persist and complete. Also, the ability to switch courses to hybrid mode if they can’t come to campus.”

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Civitas Learning

APRIL 29, 2025

At Civitas Learning, we’re always looking for ways to make student success tools more accessible and intuitive. With the Canvas LTI integration, faculty and staff can now access key Civitas Learning features without leaving the familiar Canvas environment. How Does It Work?

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Active Minds

APRIL 22, 2025

By tailoring events for both undergraduate and graduate students and collaborating with mental health professionals, UC Riverside ensures widespread access to resources throughout their community. Every Wednesday, we host SWIFT mental health clinicians in our space, allowing students to connect with and access mental health support.

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Civitas Learning

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Insights help teams create tailored support plans, but many institutions find it difficult to access quality data. Foster a Data-Driven Culture What’s Preventing Institutions from Accessing Quality Data? So, how can schools access clean, usable data? Enhance Data Integration and Centralization 4.

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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. Research from the Brookings Institution on college access and completion interventions shows that comprehensive programs can drive meaningful improvements in student success.

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Civitas Learning

JUNE 10, 2025

Make Advising Personal—at Scale To scale their impact, GTC aimed for every student to have an advising appointment. After reaching 44% of their goal, they doubled down, and ultimately hit 109% of their advising outreach target. to 58% , a stunning 25 percentage point gain. After early wins, interest across campus surged.

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Student Research Foundation

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Helpful resources might include everything from research grants and advising services to specialized workshops and student groups. Some colleges offer specialized internship advising services within a certain department or school. For instance, at USC, the School of Cinematic Art has its own Internship Program.

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Timely MD

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The barriersranging from cultural stigma and financial constraints to limited access to tailored supportare significant and deeply rooted. Unclear systems: Overlapping or confusing systems for accessing resources can deter already overwhelmed students. Simplifying access and offering proactive guidance can make a huge difference.

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Civitas Learning

JUNE 12, 2025

The Outcomes: Scaled a proactive advising model campus-wide, streamlined advisor workflows to reach more students efficiently, and established continuous measurement to track the impact of support initiatives. One area quickly rose to the top: targeted advising.

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Civitas Learning

APRIL 3, 2025

Four Ways Adaptable Analytics Drives Outcomes Turning data into actionable, accessible insights and getting it to the right people is a challenge many institutions face. To better support students, especially those hesitant to ask for help, institutions need to make these insights accessible across teams, with the right permissions in place.

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Counselors' Corner

JANUARY 7, 2025

This will affect how college counselors advise student athletes in high schools, even though counselors wont have nearly enough information to read all the tea leaves, leaving the potential for bad choices, wrong choices, and unhappy parents. This could get ugly. Because, you know, that suggests theres a chance. Not this year.

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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.

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Civitas Learning

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Disjointed systems can lead to feeling like a pinballbeing bounced between financial aid, advising, faculty, and the registrar over a registration holdcausing confusion and frustration. Initiative analysis revealed that one-on-one advising boosted persistence by 20% for lower-performing students, compared to 3% for high-performing students.

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CFAA College Financial Aid Advisors

APRIL 7, 2025

By submitting the FAFSA early, you unlock access to federal grants that can lower costs right off the bat. Now Enrolling: College Financial Aid Advising for the Class of 2026-2027! For example, a student who receives a combination of grants and scholarships could end up paying only a fraction of the total tuition.

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Civitas Learning

JUNE 24, 2025

A System That Scales with Empathy The team uses Civitas Learning’s early alerts, accessible in Canvas, to proactively reach out when faculty raise concerns. Within one business day, a student gets a personalized text, not a generic warning.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 11, 2025

Garcia advises HSI leaders to take a holistic and multi-dimensional perspective on servingness and to ensure indicators of servingness are reflected in institutional structures such as their mission and purpose, leadership practices, polices, curriculum, co-curricular offerings, and advancement activities.

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COE

MAY 2, 2025

The Council for Opportunity in Education (COE) condemns President Trumps 2026 budget proposal , which calls for the complete elimination of the Federal TRIO Programsa longstanding, bipartisan initiative proven to expand access to higher education for low-income and first-generation students. However, data from the U.S.

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John Hopkins University Student Well-Being Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Any JH staff, student, and faculty can access the pantry upon submission of a brief form upon arrival. This office is committed to fostering an accessible and inclusive culture for students with disabilities. This office is committed to fostering an accessible and inclusive culture for students with disabilities. Mental Health.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 14, 2025

Beyond financial support, the scholarship provides recipients with personalized advising, access to a network of over 3,400 Cooke Scholars and Alumni, and opportunities for internships, study abroad programs, and graduate school support.

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COE

JUNE 3, 2025

The Trump Administrations claim that access is no longer an obstacle for low-income students is flatly contradicted by data and by the lived experience of more than 6 million TRIO alumni. TRIO bridges that gapproviding personalized advising, mentorship, academic support, and a clear pathway to college completion.

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John Hopkins University Student Well-Being Blog

APRIL 8, 2025

A frequent speaker and lecturer at universities and national conferences, Adam has advised the White House Task Force to Address Online Abuse and Harassment , is a special advisor to the Coalition Against Stalkerware and sits on the World Economic Forum ‘s Digital Justice Advisory Committee.

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COE

JANUARY 28, 2025

Given the immediacy of this action, COE advises TRIO grantees to take the actions below. As COE shared last night, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has ordered a pause to the disbursement and obligation of federal funds, to go into effect at TODAY at 5:00 p.m. ET tonight.

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COE

JULY 15, 2025

We look forward to celebrating colleges that have woven SSS best practices into advising, resource alignment, and opportunity-focused planning. “In Nicole Norfles, Ed.D., Jones as Its Third President Press Releases Council for Opportunity in Education Board of Directors Unanimously Chooses Kimberly A. McNair and Perseverance Blog Ronald E.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 7, 2025

Carla Hayden The appointment, announced Monday by the Mellon Foundation, comes as libraries and cultural institutions face unprecedented challenges ranging from artificial intelligence's impact on information access to escalating censorship efforts nationwide. Hayden's contributions to library science have earned widespread recognition.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

"Nonetheless, I continue to believe that the best course for our university is to take actions proactively so that we can manage this new landscape in ways that best uphold the values of excellence, access and opportunity that we hold dear." The university confirmed that 16 positions will be eliminated as a result of these changes.

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Missouri State Academic Advising and Transfer Cent

JANUARY 6, 2025

Approvers, advisors, and students will have an improved user experience as well as access to new features that were previously unavailable. If you would like further details and a more in-depth look at the new functionality, please consider viewing the first 25 minutes of the Transfer Advising Essentials: Whats New?

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

MARCH 10, 2025

By capturing data on veterans use of resources like advising and student services, NPSAS and BPS insights can inform policies and practices that ensure veterans receive necessary support. Unlike datasets that only include information on students income level, NPSAS examines how students pay for college.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2024

Community college students in California will now have an easier time lining up their academic progress to transfer to a California State University (CSU) system school, now that CSU has opened up access to its recent Transfer Planner to even more students. Also, sometimes students work nights or they can't get in to see a counselor.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 2, 2023

Students navigate housing and food insecurity, transportation issues, and other limitations to access. The purpose of community colleges is to increase access to higher education for the most vulnerable populations.” Achieving the Dream works with corporations, foundations, and other partners to support community colleges.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 21, 2024

We want to design into our education programs experiences for that student, whether its peer advising, internships, project-based learning, [or] civic engagement. We want to curate the co-curriculars and other experiences they could have that will be rich for them,” Milliron said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 24, 2024

Department of Education (ED) and the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP) held the Attaining College Excellence and Equity Summit: Holistic Advising and Wraparound Services in Washington, D.C. Speakers addressed evidence-based practices, collaboration, access, and advising. Secretary of Education Dr. Miguel A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 16, 2024

Educators and doctoral students offered advice and shared career experiences Tuesday in an effort to guide aspiring graduate students seeking to become teachers and to promote resources that students could access along the way. Marcus Penny In a Jan.

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