Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (AGB) has launched a digital toolkit to help higher education governing boards proactively oversee equitable student success. This resource is a key element of AGB’s justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion initiative ,” said Henry Stoever, AGB president and CEO.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 2, 2023

Jennifer Sramek The student-led campaign is commendable, but the community college stigma doesn’t only affect students. Faculty members are sometimes questioned about their choice to teach at a community college rather than at other higher education institutions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Ed Venit The white paper, “Navigating the Recovery: A Long Term Perspective on Student Success Following the Pandemic and What Actions You Can Take Now,” notes three student success issues that were made worse by the pandemic: K-12 learning loss, high staff turnover rates in higher education, and student mental health needs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Energy and excitement filled the McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago, as over two thousand community college leaders, faculty, and staff gathered to share stories of access, equity, and inclusion at the 2023 Dream conference. But despite their efforts to increase access and opportunity for all, equity gaps remain. “We

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EAB

DECEMBER 20, 2022

How to Build a Sustainable Model for Student Equity and Increase Student Success. The pandemic and widespread civil unrest of 2020 forced institutions to acknowledge the impact new learning environments and sociocultural issues have on students. Were there any other reasons that pushed you to complete this audit?

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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

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EAB

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Blogs How will we measure student success in the 2020s? A review of how student success metrics have evolved over time—and where they might go in the future Before I studied student success, I studied evolutionary biology.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 8, 2023

Nwosu Nwosu is currently provost and senior vice president for academic affairs and student success at Herbert H. My career has been and will continue to focus on student success, and what struck me at SUNY Oswego was the energy around campus to create opportunities,” Nwosu said. “My Dr. Peter O. Lehman College.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2024

Kelley’s notion of the “ Freedom Dream ,” an invitation to imagine an educational space that is grounded in racial equity, social justice, and collective liberation. It is about taking a bold stance to break the old and create new systems and structures that support our students’ success.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 24, 2023

His experience at Sac State played a role in his career focus on student success. Once Wood had access, he made the most of it. He became the first Black faculty member to be named a Distinguished Professor at SDSU in 2017. I would expect its faculty and staff to become more diverse.” I expect enrollment to grow.

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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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The college will have its own dean of students, director, counselors, academic advisors, and outreach and support staff, and it will draw from existing faculty who have “a demonstrated record of success in teaching Black students,” said Wood.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 21, 2023

Thomas Stewart, vice chancellor for Social Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, was named as the inaugural executive director of CRI. The CRI will concentrate on expanding undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate research opportunities for underrepresented students and institutions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

To study the elements causing success—or failure—in gateway math courses, a team of researchers at Education Equity Solutions (EES), an organization focused on higher ed policy reform, examined records for over 22,000 students at four California community colleges. There’s an opportunity to really change student success rates.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

Across the country, state legislators have been debating—and in several cases passing— legislation that censors teaching and learning, threatens academic freedom, and limits or eliminates diversity, equity, and inclusion offices and efforts both on and off campuses. Community engagement requires a holistic and campus-wide approach.

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EAB

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Blogs How Change Leadership Propelled University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Journey to Equity Change leadership acts as a vital bridge between intent and action. Create a Sense of Urgency UWM recognized the pressing need to address equity gaps in student success. What does effective change leadership look like in practice?

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The University Innovation Alliance

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The University Innovation Alliance's Three Playbooks for Student Success. The University Innovation Alliance (UIA) operates as a multi-campus laboratory for student success innovation. Leveraging strong data-driven tools to help advisors guide students. The unique needs of transfer students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2024

Without Higher Education Emergency Relief (HEER) funding, experts say many community college programs would have closed, faculty and staff laid off, and more students forced to stop out on their pathways towards accreditation. They prioritized equity over equality in providing emergency aid.” The need became clearer.

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EAB

DECEMBER 20, 2022

What the mental health crisis means for student success leaders. The long-term impacts of the pandemic on student mental health—and 7 steps you can take to prepare. The pandemic ripple effects on student success will last for years, including the long-term impact on student mental health.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

DECEMBER 20, 2021

While t ransfer pathways can offer students like Coleen an affordable and accessible route to earning a four-year degree, they too often fall short of delivering on this promise. For every 100 students who enroll in community college, 31 percent transfer to a four-year institution and just 14.6

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Timely MD

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Now imagine those very characteristics that make us who we are inadvertently becoming obstacles to accessing health care. It’s a reality experienced every day by historically underrepresented and marginalized college students. These barriers are a significant roadblock that impacts students’ academic and personal health outcomes.

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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.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

MAY 1, 2024

“It wasn’t always easy to know where to go if I needed advice on what classes to take, what to declare for my major, how to get financial aid,” Cardona shared in a keynote at last week’s Attaining College Excellence and Equity Summit. Not knowing where to find guidance is a common challenge faced by many of today’s college students.

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Civitas Learning

MAY 11, 2023

Those who’ve found the most success understand that financial stability requires investing in a student success model that supports students and fiscal health. To achieve this, we measured the impact of student success initiatives on student persistence at 48 partner institutions.

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EAB

JULY 28, 2023

Blogs Attack of the “Math Shark”: Why Unfinished Learning Is a Lurking Threat to Student Success in the Late 2020s Students are no longer entering college with the same levels of academic preparation that we might have expected before the pandemic, one of the many ripple effects we face as a result of disruptions in high school learning.

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EAB

JULY 28, 2023

Blogs Attack of the “Math Shark”: Why Unfinished Learning Is a Lurking Threat to Student Success in the Late 2020s Students are no longer entering college with the same levels of academic preparation that we might have expected before the pandemic, one of the many ripple effects we face as a result of disruptions in high school learning.

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The University Innovation Alliance

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The Accelerator Model as an Innovation for Student Success First-year students sometimes have difficulties adjusting to college’s academic demands, and Dr. Renick’s team noted that freshmen struggled even more during the pandemic. Addressing this problem was the genesis of the accelerator model.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

Smith Title: Associate Professor of Higher Education; Provost Faculty Fellow, University of Cincinnati Age: 39 Education: B.S., Smith Title: Associate Professor of Higher Education; Provost Faculty Fellow, University of Cincinnati Age: 39 Education: B.S., Everrett A. psychology, Middle Tennessee State University; M.S.,

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The University Innovation Alliance

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

It has become clearer than ever that we need a movement toward large-scale student success to elevate us as a society and as a competitive economy. For this to happen, we simply must achieve equity for those student groups that have been traditionally underserved.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Akré, now an assistant professor of health policy and clinical practice at the Dartmouth Institute whose work focuses on how structural inequities effect access to health care for vulnerable populations, is the first recipient of Dartmouth’s new E.E. Just Faculty Fellowship. of STEM faculty are from minoritized backgrounds.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

Molloy University; and Dr. Leigh Patel, University of Pittsburgh Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty members: Find and develop a community of supportive colleagues and mentors. vice president for diversity, equity, and inclusion at Molloy University and a 2020 Emerging Scholar, in his letter nominating Means this year. “My

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 27, 2024

Yet despite the back and forth between Florida and the College Board, the program has now spread to 700 schools with nearly 13,000 students enrolled. Attendees at this year’s conference expressed both concern about the future and their continued dedication to HBCUs serving Black and Brown students on their way to successful careers.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Christian to ensure our community colleges are engines of equity and opportunity.” I invite and welcome Dr. Christian’s partnership in collaboratively advancing our shared goals for student success.”

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EAB

DECEMBER 19, 2022

What we learned about the future of student success from 1,200 success leaders. CONNECTED is my favorite time of year in the Student Success Collaborative , and this year did not disappoint! Here are my 3 biggest takeaways from CONNECTED22: The pandemic is still affecting student success in critical ways.

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EAB

JUNE 1, 2023

Given the extensive barriers individuals with criminal convictions face accessing employment, these policy interventions increase the likelihood of positive workforce placement upon completion of a degree. Best Practices Explore the 15 student success best practices that power the Moon Shot initiative.

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Civitas Learning

MARCH 9, 2023

Recent research from New America indicates that poorly designed early alert interventions can work against your student success efforts and even deepen equity gaps for students of color and other underserved student groups. When Do Early Alerts Harm Student Success Efforts?

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EAB

AUGUST 21, 2023

Their advocacy extends to parenting college students of any age, highlighting the transformational impact of a degree on their lives and their families. 92% of respondents either did not have access to or were unaware of on-campus child care options. Here are some key findings: Teen parents juggle multiple responsibilities.

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