Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

In addition to support services that include financial aid and academic advising, an example of supporting Latinx student success is the CSUSB Impact Internship, developed by the university’s Undocumented Student Success Center. We aim to eliminate equity gaps and continue to transform our institution into a Hispanic-graduating institution.”

Retention

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

As his reputation grew, Williams was recruited by Northwestern University, where he served as assistant dean of diversity and inclusion between 2017 and 2021, and then until 2022 as the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion lead of Northwestern’s Public Health Program. We’re in a nuanced landscape right now.

Placement

IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

DECEMBER 12, 2024

We also partnered with the Department of Education for the Attaining College Excellence and Equity Advising Summit. We will continue partnering with students and field experts to identify and uplift promising strategies for improving student success.

Higher education

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. This approach overwhelms advising and support teams and contributes to declining retention rates.

Retention

Timely MD

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Partner with student organizations, residence halls, and cultural centers to offer pop-up counseling sessions, financial aid workshops, or academic advising. Empower students to seek support today Promoting help-seeking behaviors on your campus is more than an administrative initiativeits a commitment to equity and academic success.

Mental health

The Advisor That Cares

MARCH 21, 2025

while also making sure that the last appointment of the day is reserved for high school seniors needing advising after school. Collaborative discussion about the functions and features of the advising platform and effective solution of setting new availabilities for that last appointment slot to be only for the incoming cohort.

Advising

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.

Higher education

COE

MAY 2, 2025

Its not enough to provide financial aidstudents also need academic guidance, mentoring, and personalized advising to stay on track. TRIO is the insurance policy for the Pell Grant, said Maureen Hoyler, COE Senior Advisor and past president.

Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 10, 2025

Universities that once hashtagged #Equity during the height of Black Lives Matter are dismantling the very safeguards they pledged to build. Track the after-hours advising, pop-up counseling, and Saturday pantry runs that keep first-gen students enrolled; numbers move budgets faster than sympathy ever has. Center women’s labor here.

Advising

COE

JUNE 3, 2025

TRIO bridges that gapproviding personalized advising, mentorship, academic support, and a clear pathway to college completion. In addition to its proven effectiveness, TRIO is essential in rural communities and under-resourced schools that often lack the infrastructure to support students from historically marginalized backgrounds.

First generation

NACAC's Admitted

AUGUST 8, 2025

Separately, institutions participating in the Great Admissions Redesign are piloting structural innovations to streamline admission, integrate advising and financial aid, and improve student engagement. The House will take up its version after the recess. Federal scrutiny of higher education institutions continues to intensify.

Title IV

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., Blog Veterans Upward Bound Programs Commemorate Memorial Day with Activities and Ceremonies Across the U.S.

First generation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 7, 2025

Hayden's year-long fellowship will focus on scholarship, writing, and research projects while advising Foundation leadership on supporting libraries, archives, and other public knowledge organizations. Hayden's nearly five-decade career in library science has been marked by efforts to democratize access to information.

Humanities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

These changes include discontinuing the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, ending programming under Student Life's Center for Belonging and Social Change, and renaming the Office of Institutional Equity to the Office of Civil Rights Compliance. The decision has drawn mixed reactions from the campus community.

Inclusion

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 21, 2023

Research has well established the importance of academic advisors to students from underrepresented backgrounds, but less work has been done on advising that highlights the identities of the schools that educate them, the 859 minority serving institutions (MSIs) that enroll 35% of all undergrads in the U.S. Dr. Gabriel O. Andrew Millin, Ph.

Advising

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

It is expected to assist campuses in designing and implementing equity-centered curricular models that connect student learning to career exploration, development of professional purpose, and acquisition of transferrable skills.

Curriculum

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2023

Another recommendation was that each school develop retention and persistence strategies for Black students using a personalized student support model, along with enhanced advising. The report drew praise from higher ed equity experts. “It It is monumental,” said Dr. Shaun R.

Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 2, 2023

In an attempt to break this cycle, the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) is releasing a new report investigating employers’ understanding—or lack thereof— of equity in recruitment and offering ideas for how companies and Black colleges and universities can create mutually beneficial ties. Dr. Joshua D.

Equity

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.

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 10, 2024

Through campus partnerships, support programs, and academic interventions, she has led advances in student retention, persistence and graduation with the goal of eliminating equity gaps for our most vulnerable students. She holds a bachelor’s degree, a master’s, and a Ph.D.

Advising

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Overall, learners who engaged with academic advising services have experienced an 8.1 The methods we have put in place to address the needs of special populations of students are now being scaled in ways that have a positive impact across campus. percentage point lift in persistence.

Collaboration

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 30, 2023

Jennifer Hamer Jennifer Hamer has been named special adviser to the president of Pennsylvania State University for institutional equity. Hamer earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology from the University of Texas at San Antonio, a master’s in sociology from Texas A&M University, and a Ph.D.

Advising

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 12, 2024

Black student-athletes should reconsider attending public colleges and universities in Florida , the NAACP advised in its letter to NCAA President Charlie Baker and current and prospective student-athletes. This is not about politics,” read the letter, characterized as a rebuke of anti-Black ideals. In 2023, Florida Gov.

Students

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.

Advising

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

For colleges and universities to close these equity gaps, they must address the core of the student experience: the time that students spend in the classroom. Recognizing the key role of faculty in this work, we established the Equity Champions (EC) , a faculty community of practice intentionally designed to build relationships.

Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2024

Hollingsworth – who has also taught and advised students at Johns Hopkins University – anticipates that she’ll graduate next May. I’m specifically looking at it though from a racialized equity labor lens, stating that Black and Brown students are exerting energy based on race, based on the negligence of the university,” she says.

Advising

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Al Sharpton Together, they have established the national Healthy Equity in Transplantation Coalition, with Al B! serving as executive chairman and Sharpton as senior adviser. , champion of the organ transplant patient community, are partnering to restore Medicare coverage for tests to detect early signs of organ rejection.

Advising

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 10, 2023

Education leaders and researchers discussed the vast disparities in the number of educators of color and potential ways to help recruit them during a panel of the Southern Education Foundation (SEF) Equity Assistance Center-South’s (EAC-South) Educational Equity Indicators Professional Learning Series. More than 50% of students in U.S.

Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Health equity is something MSM leaders, faculty members, and students work toward every day. That’s why Montgomery Rice and other experts are excited about the $2 million donation they received in September from the Croel Family Foundation for the development of the David Satcher Global Health Equity Institute at MSM.

Equity

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

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

“As we pursue the goals set forth in the plan, we are thrilled by the opportunity to sustain and build on IDHE’s outstanding efforts to inform and shift college and university priorities, practices, and culture to strengthen democracy and advance social and political equity.”

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 23, 2023

Florida's higher education law bans the state's public colleges and universities from spending federal and state money on diversity, equity, and inclusion programs or campus activities that advocate for DEI, with certain exceptions. Tallahassee Community College.

Advising

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

In the early aughts, Renick says, it was standard practice for student support programs to address equity gaps and low graduation or retention numbers through the creation of targeted programs, like initiatives for first-generation students, and African American male initiatives. NISS has raised graduation rates by an average of 4.5

Retention

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Dr. Joy Gaston Gayles Gayles is currently an Alumni Distinguished Graduate Professor of Higher Education and senior adviser for advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the College of Education. She was the 2022 President of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE).

Educational leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 7, 2023

Regardless of the mentor’s profession, what was obvious was that the participants had someone coaching, advising, or guiding them and networking on their behalf. Research revealed that all but one of these award-winning colleges had a board-influenced diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) mandate. These recommendations include: 1.

Community college

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

California State University offers programs such as Chico’s Gradu- ate Equity Fellowship Program to help students explore whether to pursue a doctorate degree. The mission of the Grad Equity Fellowship Program is to provide to students an opportunity to explore the possibility of going on to a Ph.D. The program offers a B.A.

Mentoring

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

Aaron Thompson, president of the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE), participated in the Attaining College Excellence and Equity Summit put together by the U.S. She speaks about the Kentucky Advising Academy, which has worked to build capacity around K-12 advising for college and career readiness.

Low income student