Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 25, 2025

This is the topic we took to task in Fostering Healthier Campuses: Applying Sense of Belonging Theory to Student Affairs Research and Practice at the recent annual meeting of NASPAStudent Affairs Administrators in Higher Education. J'Quen Johnson RECOMMENDATIONS: BELONGING 2.0 &

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

The Metro-Wide American Indian Graduation Celebration facilitates conversations between tribal colleges and four-year institutions. UM also has the Office of Native American Affairs, which facilitates communication and consultation with tribal nations to improve UM systemwide to better serve Native communities and learners.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 3, 2022

We have visited schools in South Florida and met with administrators, teachers, and students to assess current levels of computer science access and instruction and to find ways to add value to present academic programming.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 6, 2024

million American adults and teens reported having serious thoughts of suicide in 2022, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The same report found that Black/African American administrators in higher education were just 8% of all senior leaders. How did this small percentage of Black administrators facilitate their success against the odds? Whites make up more than 75% of all professionals in higher education. More than 80% were white.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

It is filled with information based on lived experiences of Black women who are currently administrators. Regardless of your heritage, background, or identity, we hope viewing higher education through the multidimensional lens of Black women administrators will improve your leadership vision,” the editors write in the book’s introduction.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 25, 2024

The annual forum brought together more than 650 students, faculty, athletic directors, and administrators for a three-day conversation focused on enhancing diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging initiatives at colleges and universities. That topic was among many issues discussed Thursday at the NCAA Inclusion Forum.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2025

DIVERSE : In addition to policymakers, faculty, and administrators, students play a major role in UNITE. It's about equipping institutions with the tools to drive change on their campuses, fostering cross-campus collaboration, and ensuring that HBCUs are setting an agenda for higher education innovation, not just responding to it.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

Partly because conservatives were successful in assigning negative implications to the term “affirmative action,” the expression diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) came into use to describe and facilitate processes that resulted in greater access and participation for people from marginalized communities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas, partners with over 62 high schools across the state, facilitating college access for Latino, rural, and other marginalized communities. From 2018 to 2023, Latinx staff representation increased from 33% to 38%, and administrator representation increased from 17% to 25%, respectively. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 19, 2023

Jessica Enders COD's leaders support staff development to ensure its faculty, administrators, and staff are up-to-date on issues and teaching and learning strategies. of the history and organization of COD) and a broadened perspective that facilitated communication.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2024

This suggests, said Shapiro, that these students were encountering other barriers to credentials, including fees or administrative holds. The report also found that roughly 25% of returning students were able to receive a credential within their first year back.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 17, 2023

When affirmative action was introduced to provide greater access and opportunity to individuals from underrepresented groups, it was grudgingly accepted in the academic community and the administrative offices that were created to facilitate its implementation had little clout, and even less power.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2024

The conference attendees were a mix of students, faculty, donors, education administrators, and edtech professionals. This suggestion is reasonable given the common occurrence of faculty in the higher education sector being hired without any prior preparation to teach [facilitate learning].

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Given that less than 1% of Americans have served in the military, administrative leaders across all education sectors often have a learning curve. If your community college is struggling to have those conversations, outside facilitators can support you. 2) Who are your military-connected learners and how do you know?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Recommendations: · Pre-work: University should provide departments with an anonymous, structured evaluation forms (with decision criteria and clear rubrics, just as is used to facilitate fairness in student grading) to rate the candidate both quantitatively and qualitatively.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

A report called “The Economics of Early Childhood Investment” produced by the Obama administration cited research that suggested that “expanding early learning initiatives would provide benefits to society of roughly $8.60 for every $1 spent, about half of which comes from increased earnings for children when they grow up.”

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Active Minds

JANUARY 29, 2025

Active Minds is proud to facilitate change by supporting our fellows through funding, mentorship, and amplification. Juky Chen The City College of New York Project: DreaMHealth: Elevating the Voices of Undocumented Students Juky Chen is a junior at The City College of New York, majoring in Business Administration.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Claudia Salcedo, who adds that administrators can sometimes be perceived as separate from the students they serve. Prior to starting this position in April 2024, Salcedo spent two years as assistant director for administration of the Academic Advancement Program working with Alexander, who has directed AAP for over a decade.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 17, 2024

In terms of institutional administrations, a unified approach like this would require coordination and collaboration across offices and departments representing housing, student affairs, finance, registrar, provost, legal, campus safety, and more.

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Active Minds

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Active Minds is proud to facilitate change by supporting our fellows through funding, mentorship, and amplification. Juky Chen The City College of New York Project: DreaMHealth: Elevating the Voices of Undocumented Students Juky Chen is a junior at The City College of New York, majoring in Business Administration.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 2, 2023

On Friday, at NCORE, the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education, administrators looking to walk the walk gathered for a three-hour workshop titled “Anti-Racist Leadership: What Does it Take?” But actual anti-racist leadership is a different and trickier matter. How do you know?”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2023

Primm is the Convener and Chair of the All Healers Mental Health Alliance, a national network of mental health professionals, health advocates and faith community leaders that facilitates culturally tailored responses to the mental health needs of people affected by disasters.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Moreover, the syllabus speaks to the course structure, description, assessment and grading, resources, learning objectives and outcomes, and legal and administrative information. Further, it is viewed as a contract between student and professor that is accountable and transparent.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

“I am pleased that we are able to continue the excellent work of the Campus Free Expression Project and offer resources and support to presidents, trustees, faculty, and administrators of independent colleges and universities.” It engages with legislators, policymakers, presidents, and other campus stakeholders in support of the effort.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Examples of possible careers in the field include nursing home administrators and health quality managers, according to Ongeri. It includes an internship at a healthcare facility. Dr. Elimelda Ongeri “Societal problems are complex, and to solve them, we really have to have multi-disciplinary expertise come into play,” says Ongeri.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

While anti-racism mitigated this, educators also need supporting anti-racist, administrative leadership and policies. This facilitates racial and ethnic pride among Black, Hispanic, and other Students of Color. There is an important and necessary focus on socio-emotional learning (SEL).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 1, 2025

Utilizing a data-driven approach, ATD provides coaching that facilitates institutional transformation so that these colleges can have maximum impact on the lives of their students and on the communities within which they are located.

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Civitas Learning

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The Challenge: Administrators and staff lacked the real-time information necessary to reach struggling students before it was too late. And collaboration with other stakeholders remained difficult due to workflow inefficiencies and a lack of supportive tools to facilitate coordinated student care.

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Civitas Learning

MARCH 7, 2024

Facilitate seamless transitions between departments When students recount the same information to different campus support staff, it wastes valuable meeting time and negatively impacts their experience, leading to frustration and a sense of disconnect.

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Active Minds

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Creating an Active Minds Chapter at my community college has allowed me to facilitate these conversations about mental health where they didn’t exist before. We reached out to the administration at my community college, fellow students, and mental health professionals in Albuquerque, NM, to gather support for our cause.

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Timely MD

MAY 13, 2024

MBC facilitates the early detection of emerging issues by providing clinicians with objective measures of progress or deterioration. MBC fosters a culture of accountability by establishing clear benchmarks for progress and facilitating open dialogue regarding treatment goals and expectations.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Those taking part in the fellowship have come from a wide range of academic fields, such as biology, nutritional science, anthropology, health administration, fungal ecology, social work, history, and neuroscience. They can work on their mentor’s already established research project or develop their own.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

MARCH 14, 2025

Additionally, by using verified multi-year tax data, administrators can also make fair, mission-driven financial aid decisions with confidence, ensuring support reaches the right students. Our own VenturEd Solutions marketing team members were present to answer questions, facilitate discussions, and ensure that everyone had a fantastic time.

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Civitas Learning

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Student-Level Powerful Predictor Insights for Advisors To facilitate precise student support, we’re enhancing advisor visibility with student-level insights around the most influential factors impacting their persistence. This approach can significantly impact student retention, resulting in 2-5% uplifts in persistence.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

As I discussed in the first blog post in this series , institutions need a sufficient technology infrastructure to facilitate curation, access, and retrieval of data. In the upcoming and final blog post, we will explore how data might be employed in practice to facilitate institutional effectiveness. Executive leadership.

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Civitas Learning

AUGUST 28, 2023

CONHI’s program leaders utilized Civitas Learning’s Administrative Analytics tools to surface timely and actionable insights they wouldn’t have been able to see otherwise. The analysis found that the online orientation program saw an average 7.4% lift in persistence among participating students.

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