Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 2, 2023

The Character Collaborative was recently acquired by the National Association for College Admissions Counseling (NACAC), which will make its work the centerpiece of its Character Focus Initiative, announced last Thursday in the strongest sign yet of character’s newfound prominence.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Brown, Excelencia in Education has the stated mission to accelerate Latino student success in higher education. It has done that with an 86% success rate for the 2022-23 academic year. One is a very high college success rate. This is year 19 for Examples of Excelencia, an annual recognition given by Excelencia in Education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 30, 2023

Mellon Foundation, the BMRI amplifies collaborative thought leadership and social justice and strives to counter conflicting narratives, distrust, and ambiguity with a clear, authoritative voice on the experiences of Black men. Funded by a $1.4 million grant from the Andrew W.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

If something is even perceived as being not fully designed for all students, Thompson says a redesign is called for to foster greater student success. She is currently engaged in working collaboratively with K-12, higher education, and business partners around dual credits. “We His focus has not been strictly on people of color.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

definitely sets this fellowship apart,” Williams says. And what the ongoing success of Columbia’s HBCU Fellowship means is that there is a “scalable design” that other schools can also adopt, says Strayhorn. you belong at Columbia, and you can succeed at Columbia,” Williams says.

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EAB

MAY 16, 2023

Podcast TSU's Systematic Approach to Student Success Episode 151. Raijanel Crockem and Naomi Lawrence-Lee from Texas Southern University join EAB’s Joanie Garcia to discuss their work to strengthen TSU’s approach to student success. May 16, 2023. Welcome to the Office Hours with EAB podcast. Learn more. Transcript 0:00:12.0

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Civitas Learning

JUNE 8, 2023

The widely accepted belief that student success is a responsibility shared by the entire campus, rather than just traditional student services, is challenging to implement. Silos persist, differing definitions of student success hinder collaboration, and institutions struggle to establish a consistent and centralized knowledge base.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2023

Fox describes it as “phenomenally successful” with graduation rates around 90% and licensure pass rates near 100%. In reflection, Fox said she has greatly enjoyed being part of the Mary Baldwin community and the collaborative efforts that have gone into accomplishing the many exciting developments.

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Civitas Learning

MARCH 13, 2025

A students journeyand how prepared they feel for life after collegedirectly impacts long-term success. Without collaboration and a unified view of student data, they only see fragments of the bigger picture. This approach allows a broadened focus and can quickly adapt as your definitions of success evolve.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

MAY 11, 2023

Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona welcomed postsecondary leaders, researchers, and student success advocates to the U.S. The day’s conversations included inspiring reflections and honest accounts about challenges with accessing and using data to promote student success. By: Mamie Voight When U.S.

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Steve Keating

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

They said that “all you need to know to be a success you have learned by the time you’re 40.” It also told me that he fit the classic definition of a know it all. Remind everyone of the common goal and the importance of collaboration. This person is somewhere in their early 50’s, at least that’s my best guess.

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Timely MD

JUNE 4, 2024

Programs like this are really beneficial because students can get super in-depth and evidence-based strategies from health professionals, and I think that can definitely increase students’ confidence within their interactions with their peers,” they said. Students can be and are fundamental drivers of change.

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EAB

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The 4 most common barriers to higher ed data and analytics success. The survey results made clear that leaders consider data critical to the most fundamental priorities at their institutions, such as enrollment, retention, student success. LEARN WHY DATA DEFINITIONS AND GOVERNANCE MATTER FOR UNIVERSITY STRATEGY.

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Supporting Student Success

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

At first these were mostly made up words with definitions that were new to me but as a I learned more, I understood how useful this tool could be. Here are some of our successes, challenges, and the lessons learned along the way. Mindset: The new psychology of success. Random House. Leibbrandt, M. 2013, August 28).

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The University Innovation Alliance

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Between 2018 and 2020, seven University Innovation Alliance institutions utilized change management and human-centered design principles to identify and deconstruct barriers to successful career readiness for first-generation and low-income students. Positioning for Mutual Success. Identifying Barriers to Equitable Career Readiness.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

EAB’s Tara Zirkel is joined by Pueblo Community College VP of Student Success, Dr. Heather Speed, to examine changes Pueblo made to boost enrollment heading into the fall semester. In the end, the institution spurred enrollment growth by pairing the right technology with stronger collaboration and process improvements. Transcript.

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EAB

MAY 2, 2023

Dindo and Herrmann discuss the success of these efforts and offer advice to other campus leaders about meeting the mental health needs of a diverse student population. This is lovely, I can't wait to have a nice conversation with you and really continue, I think the work that we did as a group through the EAB Collaborative last year.

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The University Innovation Alliance

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The UIA was founded by a pioneering group of university presidents and chancellors committed to breaking down the silos inhibiting collaboration, and to leading on testing, sharing, and scaling ideas across the sector to help more students succeed. So Iowa State truly is working collectively to make sure the students are successful.".

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The Advisor That Cares

APRIL 3, 2023

This has rejuvenized the collaborative aspect of learning that I enjoy (and miss) so very much. I love that we have a facilitator who genuinely wants to help us be successful in our writing. I definitely have a better understanding of the point of the darn thing. I greatly appreciate Dr. Meeuwse holding office hours.

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Civitas Learning

MARCH 13, 2025

A students journeyand how prepared they feel for life after collegedirectly impacts long-term success. Without collaboration and a unified view of student data, they only see fragments of the bigger picture. This approach allows a broadened focus and can quickly adapt as your definitions of success evolve.

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EAB

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

JW: So I have worked in one of those before, where I worked for the CBO, but my office was actually in a public school building, and I was collaborating with the administrators and the district people there. So I just transitioned more recently into an external-facing role. And so when we're working with colleges, it's helpful.

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Eric Stoller on Academic Advising

DECEMBER 13, 2016

The creative and imaginative ways in which we make meaning, offer services, engage, and even make predictions for future success are all predicated on a variety of technology-based solutions. Predictive analytics are definitely on the cutting edge of technologies that are being used to help support and enrich the experience of students.

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Student Research Foundation

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

points higher than non-first-generation students) and slightly less likely to say they are “definitely planning to go to college” (2.6 New Report Suggests New Ways to Use Data to Build Student Success. Research Partner Profile: National Girls Collaborative Project. points lower). points higher than non-first-generation students.

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EAB

MAY 2, 2023

Creating this data foundation requires that campuses follow five key pillars to design effective data governance: institutional data ownership data governance structures enterprise data value data quality assurance data access controls Get more insights Create a collaborative campus culture through effective data governance.

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NACAC's Admitted

AUGUST 10, 2023

iStock NACAC, in collaboration with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and several other organizations, is carefully exploring admission policies and practices in an increasingly test-optional or test-free environment. A large number of non-academic factors, such as income level, exert a powerful influence on student persistence.

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Blackboard Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Some common themes we heard about strategy included the following: Depending on the institution’s resources and parameters, a one-stop strategy can be operational within a year through collaborative planning and commitment. The institution needs to define what student success is and how the one-stop operation helps with that.

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The University Innovation Alliance

APRIL 1, 2024

But if you come together and say, ‘This is a community college project,’ and half of the community colleges in the state are all doing one application, you're more likely to find success. When I came back to West Virginia, I wrote a Strengthening Community Colleges project in collaboration with colleagues in Parkersburg.

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EAB

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Finally, they identify ways to collaborate more effectively with influencers at other institutions in your area who can have an outsized impact on steering right-fit students to your school. MS: Ted it's interesting you mentioned the demographic cliff and being one of the definitely up at night issues.

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EAB

AUGUST 8, 2023

Spoiler alerts, they invite juniors and their parents and guardians, how they collaborate with campus stakeholders, who support the team's diversity efforts and how they leverage College Greenlight CBO Network to build affinity with future applicants. JA: Yeah, your program is definitely unique from many programs in those respects.

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EAB

MAY 23, 2023

Additionally, this team researches best practices and trends related to community college success as a way to grow the community of practice within the two-year sphere. And so the area that decreased the most was active and collaborative learning. Now, loving students to success and getting the Aspen Prize didn't happen overnight.

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EAB

MARCH 14, 2023

Doing so helps short-staffed admissions team streamline subsequent communication efforts to convert more inquiries into applicants and more applicants into successful, engaged students. So we've seen how enrollment has definitely been impacted by the pandemic, right? I know we've collaborated a lot in our work. MS: Interesting.

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EAB

MARCH 7, 2023

And then we think even more broadly, we think about our donors associating with whatever topic and or interest that they are collaborating with us on in order to invest, of course in our institution. So those would definitely be the mistakes. SS: So I know Angela you mentioned that word flashpoint. SS: Don't we all?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Collaborative effort Even before the pandemic, courses covered healthcare disparities, such as social determinates of health, but students’ experiences in the early months brought a slightly different focus. They explored issues around success and access and how institutions can better serve the population.

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Catherine Cronin

JANUARY 30, 2024

Many authors described how proud they are of the final results; some of their comments include: “our chapter is the definitive record of our project”; “reviewers asked me to find the hope — and I did”; “the experience has been life changing”.

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