Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 13, 2025

In this practice, educators are committed to the success of historically marginalized student subgroups by countering oppressive pedagogies. This happens by first acknowledging structural issues and then reducing negative impacts on students (Hill et al., We cannot comprehend how such professionals can think otherwise.

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MARCH 28, 2024

Additionally, Curry has secured millions of dollars for student success initiatives. All the while, Curry has kept his focus on expanding equity for his students, with his sights specifically on food and housing insecurity, an issue that impacts many of his students. The trio call themselves the Equity Avengers.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Diversity Abroad—a membership consortium that inspires and supports educators, policymakers, and other stakeholders in advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in and through global education and exchange—kicked off its annual this week, drawing hundreds of participants to Chicago from across the nation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Success for all students in higher education cannot simply be achieved with a “one-size-fits-all approach,” according to a new equity toolkit from Achieving the Dream (ATD). Equity is everyone's job at an institution,” said Francesca Carpenter, director of equity initiatives at ATD and contributor to the toolkit. “S

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Researchers will analyze what types of courses and programs currently utilize the shortened format and assess student success rates compared to those in traditional-length courses. This data will provide valuable insights into the effectiveness of the approach across different disciplines and student demographics.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The historic gains made in recent years resulted from colleges and universities across the country focusing on eliminating disparities in educational access and student access based on race, gender, and socioeconomic status. Dr. Tammy Jordan Wyatt, is vice provost for student success at the University of Texas at San Antonio .

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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. This work is necessary for advancing higher education, student success, and our economy.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 30, 2023

When it comes to improving mental health equity on college campuses, more work just needs to be done, mental health experts said during a webinar Wednesday. Then, we can start to address equity from that lens," said Dr. Shawnté Elbert , chief health equity officer at Columbus Public Health. It’s not enough to make statements.

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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

MARCH 8, 2023

The City Colleges of Chicago (CCC) have made a pledge for educational equity, and institutional and organizational partnerships will help make that pledge a reality. The seven community colleges in the CCC system currently have a 30% completion rate for Black students and 33% completion rate for Latinx students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 23, 2024

Within that school district lies Southwest Junior High (SJH), a school comprising mostly Latinx (96%) students. Dr. Cindy Trejo According to Dr. Cindy Trejo, author of a new report produced by the Rutgers University’s Samuel Dewitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity, & Justice, what the school does is simply “magic.” “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Fundamental to all of this is the need to develop strategies born out of active and collaborative partnership, not merely looking within our own spheres.” In addition to focusing on associate degree earners, they have an explicitly stated emphasis on diversity and equity,” said Harrison. Stout, president and CEO of ATD.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2025

According to Ess Pokornowski, Reintegrating students face a unique set of overlapping challenges: they are leaving a total institution where choice, communication, access to healthcare, access to technology, and opportunities for education and gainful employment are all dramatically limited. In the words of Derrick A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Harper is a highly principled and energetic academic leader, with a well-established track record of innovation, student success and inspiring faculty engagement and productivity,” said Dr. Jolene Koester, CSU interim chancellor. “He

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2024

To adapt effectively, we need to rethink how we deliver the educational experience, which requires innovation and collaboration from everyone, regardless of whether you’re supporting an institution or working at one. Take the example of the courseware we deliver to students in gateway classes.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

DECEMBER 12, 2024

We elevated evidence-based strategies that support degree completion and student success. Our team debuted the College Completion Comebacks film series featuring stories of students who returned to college after stopping out, and the strategies that supported their journeys to graduation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

"I look forward to engaging and collaborating with Cal State LA’s talented students, staff and faculty to continue the institution’s journey to new heights in student success, research, scholarship and creative activity, and community engagement.” Clarke, Jr., chair of the Cal State LA Presidential Search Committee.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Once she takes the helm at Hunter College, she said that she plans to work closely with the Manhattan school’s staff and shared governance group to think about how to work towards some of the ideals she’s championed throughout her career: student success, collaboration with the community, equity, and “a sustainable, just society."

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Christian is one of our nation’s most dynamic college leaders, with a demonstrated record of collaboration and results in the Central Valley,” said California Gov. She understands what is needed to deliver on record levels of higher education investment to make real improvements to the lived reality of our students. Gavin Newsom.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 21, 2024

As a first-generation college student, a Black woman, and the child of immigrants, I have witnessed firsthand the transformative power of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs in higher education. Our higher education institutions must reflect this reality and prepare students for the world they will inherit.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 24, 2024

Studying the data, intentional collaboration, and asking students what they need are keys to improving outcomes. 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.

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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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The University of Texas System’s board of regents has suspended all new policies promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and asked school leaders to report on their current DEI policies, citing that some practices have “strayed from the original intent,” The Texas Tribune reported.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 21, 2024

“NASPA is well-positioned to advocate for student affairs professionals around the world and, by doing so, we can demonstrate our commitment to student success and the association’s vision for fulfilling the promise of higher education. “As

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 21, 2023

This institute will seek to close the academic barriers that marginalized and nontraditional students face in higher education. Dr. Thomas Stewart, vice chancellor for Social Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, was named as the inaugural executive director of CRI.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 14, 2023

Furthermore, there has been a growing focus on student success, completion rates, and workforce development within community colleges. Create a strong organizational culture As an employer, MCCCD strives to build an atmosphere that values and embraces diversity, equity, and inclusion.

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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. 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.

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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. Understanding how students may use their completion grant funds. The unique needs of transfer students. College to Career.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 2, 2023

In the meantime, the workshop leaders introduced participants to the concept of an equity framework, or a way of developing anti-racist practices on personal, professional, and institutional levels. These questions provoked some deep uncertainty from Brianne Sanchez, the dean of student success at South Seattle College.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

DECEMBER 20, 2023

We welcomed new colleagues, celebrated a long-time equity champion , and commemorated 30 years of advancing equitable college access and success. Thank you for engaging with our work, sharing your insights and for YOUR ongoing commitment to supporting student success.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 19, 2023

The program is offered in a cohort model to encourage collaborative learning and networking. Participants were asked to rate how effectively the KSU-CCLP created a leadership culture centered on the following three values: involvement; embracing varying perspectives; and focusing on student success, equity, and learning.

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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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Civitas Learning

JANUARY 9, 2025

Today’s most influential leaders recognize that student success goes beyond traditional measures like retention and graduation rates. A study of Civitas Learning partner institutions reinforces this wisdom, revealing that 39% of students experience a change in their likelihood to persist within a single term.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

And with those assets, she has sought to improve student success at CGU and help coach rising student affairs leaders amid issues of turnover and fatigue in the field. These skills have proven to be a good fit to CGU’s trans-disciplinary approaches to problem solving, she continues.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Julian Vasquez Heilig Lori Gottschling For Vasquez Heilig—a prominent public policy researcher who has carved out a national reputation both in and outside academic circles for his scholarship on equity and innovation—the pendulum at WMU is swinging in the right direction. Equity has long been a part of Western Michigan University’s DNA.

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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

JANUARY 12, 2023

vice president for diversity, equity, and inclusion at Molloy University and a 2020 Emerging Scholar, in his letter nominating Means this year. “My During his tenure with Elon Academy, he worked with more than 120 students and their families, leading to a 95% college persistence rate during his tenure there.

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