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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“I feel like I have found a place in the engineering and computer science community. There is tutoring and mentoring, and Espiritu designed a model in which second-year students mentor first-year students. It has provided me with endless opportunities to improve myself academically, professionally and socially.”

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Amplifying Student Care at DeVry University with Integrated Technology

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The Challenge: Enhancing Student Engagement and Scaling Proactive Support A business request to improve tutoring usage revealed that students not only consistently underutilized tutoring but also struggled to engage with DeVry’s many support services. Driving Student Awareness: Tutoring awareness increased by 500 basis points.

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How Civitas Learning Partners are Removing Retention and Completion Barriers

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Facilitate seamless transitions between departments When students recount the same information to different campus support staff, it wastes valuable meeting time and negatively impacts their experience, leading to frustration and a sense of disconnect.

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From College to Careers: The Pell Institute Receives $748,000 Ascendium Grant to Explore Career Development within TRIO Programs

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Hamm, Associate Vice President of Communications and Marketing via email at terrance.hamm@coenet.org or call (202) 347-7430. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program) help students overcome economic, social, academic, and cultural barriers to higher education. To learn more, visit ascendiumeducation.org.

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4 Ways a Connected Registration Experience Removes Barriers to Completion

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” — Erin Gunnell, Director of Success Advising & Tutoring, Ensign College #3 Discover Opportunities to Simplify the Registration Process Like any shopping experience, moving from multiple platforms during registration often leads to an incomplete transaction (or registration).

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Proactive Support Removes Barriers to Completion at the University of Texas at Arlington

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The Challenge: General lack of visibility into students’ needs, limited methods of communication, and technology constraints, lead to inadequate access to personalized academic advising and support. The analysis found that the online orientation program saw an average 7.4% lift in persistence among participating students.

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A Call to Action: Higher Education Must Implement Culturally Responsive Mental Health Practices

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

predominately white institutions) known to facilitate discrimination, isolation, and marginalization. Arrangements can be made within the community or minority student organizations to create communication channels for carpools or shared rides. This may make accessing support like food banks or religious services difficult.