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Report: Communication Key to Improving Transfer Rate

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Community colleges have transfer advising and articulation agreements, but these agreements evolve and change. That’s why it’s important to have communication with the student right at the beginning.” Lehman College, a four-year CUNY school, also has a Virtual Transfer Center that community college students can go to for information.

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Alumni Influence to Facilitate Diversity Starts With a One-Dollar Donation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

To facilitate and sustain positive changes in the academy, influence and pressure from both internal and external sources are necessary. As potential financial contributors to their alma maters, alumni are in an especially interesting position to advocate for an institutional environment that affirms and supports people of color.

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Empowering Change: Four Key Strategies for Supporting Student Affairs Administrators in the New Affirmative Action Landscape

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

These communities of practice should be spaces where student affairs educators at all levels and in all functional areas come together to learn, grow, and problem-solve with other professionals committed to positive personal and institutional transformation. We cannot support people if we do not know what they need.

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A Missing Piece [Peace]: Teaching & Learning in the Digital Age

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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]. We can do things like engage our colleagues within our institutions who are well equipped to facilitate learning using digital learning tools.

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Active Minds’ 2023 Emerging Scholars Break Down Mental Health Barriers

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Active Minds is excited to empower our scholars and see how their projects facilitate change and pave the way towards a more inclusive, just society. He studies courses related to communication and education politics and holds a doctorate in applied linguistics from the University of Mindanao, Philippines. Maico Demi B.

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Jodi Gillette

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

She facilitates communication between tribal nations and the White House, and is imperative to the annual White House Tribal Nations Conferences. Department of the Interior, deputy associate director of intergovernmental affairs and associate director of public engagement.

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Five Questions That College Leaders Should Be Asking to Improve Student Success in 2024

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By allowing the credits from one program to stack toward a higher credential, institutions can facilitate the upward mobility of their learners. Are our learners comfortable communicating in times of need and able to receive the support they need? Do we accept credit for prior learning and experience?