Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The CSUEB Pathfinders Institute is dedicated to enhancing culturally relevant professional development through an intensive two-week program for faculty teaching critical first-year courses. CSUSM’s inclusive hiring practices have increased Latino representation among faculty, administrators and staff.

Retention

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.”

International student

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

In his sophomore year of college, Williams had begun to struggle academically and financially, but the leadership and faculty at Xavier gave him the opportunity to continue his education. Because of the dean leads, the vice provost, the team members working with me, we were able to do great things with faculty and faculty fellows.

Placement

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 10, 2025

For emerging leaders in higher education, Bumphus advises: “Know who you are as a leader. When asked about the personal qualities that made him successful, Bumphus emphasizes listening—truly hearing people and putting himself in their position to understand what support they need. He adds, “Don’t be too full of yourself.

Leadership

Civitas Learning

APRIL 29, 2025

This new feature enables colleges and universities to integrate Civitas Learning advising functionality directly within the Canvas Learning Management System (LMS), providing a seamless user experience for faculty and advisors. How Does It Work? Together, lets impact the student outcomes that matter most.

Advising

Student Research Foundation

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Youll want to take into account everything from faculty expertise and available electives to career services and networking opportunities. Helpful resources might include everything from research grants and advising services to specialized workshops and student groups. Often, this takes place in a research setting.

Curriculum

Missouri State Academic Advising and Transfer Cent

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Lawrence Excellence in Advising Awards at the Kathy J. Brewer serves as a Senior Academic Advisor in the Business Advisement Center. Each year, this award is presented to one undergraduate faculty advisor, one undergraduate staff advisor, and graduate advisor. Advisors are nominated by students, faculty, and staff.

Advising

Civitas Learning

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Longstanding methods of managing data in silos make it difficult for faculty and administrators to agree on common data sources and shared dashboards. Whether addressing a financial hold or advising on course enrollment, UTSA knows that every interaction impacts the student experience.

Advising

Timely MD

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

It never hurts to arm faculty and staff with the information as well, so they can suggest on-campus resources when they identify a student who is struggling. Help Students Thrive Do not forget about faculty and staff! In addition to the challenges students are facing with time management, many faculty and staff may be struggling, too.

Student success

Student Research Foundation

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

You may even benefit from investing in one-on-one advising through a college counseling service like CollegeAdvisor. In addition to traditional tours, many colleges offer opportunities to connect directly with faculty or current students.

Application

Civitas Learning

APRIL 17, 2025

This approach empowers institutions to uncover hidden gaps and drive outcomes like improving retention, scaling advising, and strengthening cross-campus collaboration. To address this, ACC partnered with Civitas Learning and took a collaborative approach, engaging faculty, advisors, and student success staff from the beginning.

Advising

Timely MD

DECEMBER 18, 2024

A lack of diverse counselors, advisors, and faculty can prevent students from utilizing available resources. Ensure counseling centers, academic support teams, and faculty include professionals who reflect the diverse identities of your student body. Increase representation in support resources Representation matters.

Mental health

Civitas Learning

MAY 7, 2025

Advisors, faculty, and staff need a holistic view of a students experienceacademic progress, goals, challenges, and engagementso they can intervene early and offer proactive support. Faculty need simple ways to flag concerns and coordinate with advisors in real time. For student-facing teams, that story matters.

Scheduling

Civitas Learning

DECEMBER 12, 2024

By identifying the specific factors affecting studentssuch as LMS compared to their peers, last advising appointment, or shifts in engagement or persistence likelihood advisors can proactively engage and offer tailored support. There is a tremendous opportunity to get faculty more involved in student success efforts.

Students

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. This insight led to strategic adjustments like group advising to free up capacity for those needing individualized support.

Advising

Missouri State Academic Advising and Transfer Cent

MARCH 3, 2025

Lawrence Excellence in Advising Award Recipients Announced Dr. Rhonda Stanton, Azaria Hogans, and Karmen Brewer will be recognized as the recipients of the 2025 Curtis P. Lawrence Excellence in Advising Awards at the Kathy J. Brewer serves as a Senior Academic Advisor in the Business Advisement Center.

Advising

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.

Student success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 4, 2025

Ethan Pollock Ethan Pollock, a faculty member and academic leader with nearly 20 years of service to Brown University, will become the Universitys new dean of the College, effective July 1. A professor of history and Slavic studies who joined the Brown faculty in 2006, Pollock has served as chair of the Department of History since 2020.

Curriculum

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

John Hopkins University Student Well-Being Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

A comprehensive archive of blog posts written by students, faculty, and staff covering a variety of health and well-being topics can be found on the Student Health and Well-Being website. Any JH staff, student, and faculty can access the pantry upon submission of a brief form upon arrival. The Calm app. Student Well-Being Blog.

Scheduling

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 10, 2025

Black women faculty advise twice the number of first-gen students, chair diversity committees, and cover the costs of food, books, childcare, and more so vulnerable students have a fair shot at success—tasks rarely logged in tenure dossiers. More than a century later, the barter persists. Where else do we go from here?

Advising

Missouri State Academic Advising and Transfer Cent

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

All faculty and staff are welcome, so please encourage colleagues to participate. The minutes from the Transfer Advising Committees latest meeting can be found below. The minutes from the Transfer Advising Committees latest meeting can be found below. Registration is strongly encouraged.

Advising

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Ruth Simmons, the outgoing president of Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU), will become a senior adviser to the president of Harvard University on engagement with historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), effective Jun. 1, The Harvard Gazette reported. Simmons’ ties to Harvard are longstanding.

Advising

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 26, 2024

Bermea Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) may be models for how institutions can organize to effectively serve and advise students, according to a new report from Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions. It provides tips for effective advising and includes strategies to help ensure students receive needed support.

Advising

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 2, 2024

College students are turning to faculty for career advice, but not as many of these educators are working with their school’s career centers to better respond, according to a new study from the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE). Awareness is important,” NACE President and CEO Shawn VanDerziel said.

Collaboration

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 14, 2023

As a law professor emanating from a primarily liberal arts institution, I deemed it invaluable that the author’s note in my law review articles could state that research was conducted, in part, as an FRN Scholar-in-Residence at NYU, courtesy of the Faculty Resource Network.

Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 23, 2024

The California State University (CSU) has reached a tentative agreement with the California Faculty Association (CFA), ending their systemwide strike after one day. “I This tentative agreement makes major gains for all faculty at the CSU.” More details regarding the agreement are expected over the coming days.

Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Despite the fact that faculty are so crucial to students’ academic lives, they are often underutilized as levers of institutional change. Moreover, institutions are grappling with faculty burnout, dissatisfaction, and resignations at growing rates.

Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Washington State University’s historic College Hill home in Pullman will be renamed in honor of Ida Lou Anderson, one of WSU’s first female faculty. Anderson made her mark on radio broadcasting and the field of communications, serving as a mentor and adviser to famed WSU alum and broadcast journalist Edward R.

Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

CUNY’s central offices will use $150,000 on professional development, faculty engagement, and monthly discussions on issues related to discrimination. And the CUNY School of Law will have an adviser for faculty and staff on fostering a common understanding of discrimination and how to confront it.

Advising

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 10, 2024

Dr. Terri Gomez Gomez’s “deep understanding of our campus’ strengths and opportunities; her student-centered approach to leadership; her dedication to faculty and staff excellence; and her unwavering commitment to the success of our diverse students,” said President Dr. Soraya M.

Advising

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 11, 2023

Jackson – an urban researcher, media ethnographer, anthropologist of religion, and theorist of race/ethnicity – is currently the dean at Penn’s Annenberg School for Communication and serves as the Richard Perry University Professor and is on the faculty at Penn’s Center for Experimental Ethnography.

University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 22, 2024

The literal and physical road map to an academic record begins with what faculty identify as the course work and field experience necessary to represent the academy beyond its respective institutions in the workforce and in research. Johnson is University Registrar at Lincoln University.

Advising

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 20, 2023

Our agency is deeply committed to the inclusion of all people in STEM, which is vital to the nation's health, security, and prosperity,” said Moore, who is also a faculty member at The Ohio State University. “At Meanwhile, Kalantarians advised researchers to find topics students are interested in. “We

Mathematics

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 13, 2024

The 15-page guide, titled An Equal Space for All: A Trustee Guide to Preventing Encampments and Occupations on Campus , calls on college governing boards to enact clear, content-neutral time, place, and manner restrictions so that students and faculty understand in advance which activities are acceptable and which are not.

Advising

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Community colleges have transfer advising and articulation agreements, but these agreements evolve and change. Several of New Jersey’s public four-year institutions have a presence on the BCC campus and are available to advise students. Another possibility is for faculty to invite advisors to their courses, said Garcia.

Communication

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2024

In February 2023, the workgroup hosted three virtual listening forums, respectively targeting Black students, Black faculty, and Black staff across CSU’s 23 universities. strategies that support faculty and staff in support of Black student success; and 3.) strategies that directly support Black student success; 2.)

Student success