Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 24, 2024

Excelencia in Education, an organization working for increased access and completion of Latinx students in postsecondary education, has released its latest report on programs that have qualitatively and quantitatively shown to improve and increase the success of Latinx students in higher education. Dr. Jimmy E.

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Steve Keating

JANUARY 12, 2025

Becoming a more persuasive communicator involves mastering techniques that help you influence others effectively while at the same time building trust and respect. Heres a handful of ideas to help you improve your persuasive communication skills. Be trustworthy: Be honest, consistent, and fair in your communication.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 24, 2025

The report emphasized that employers are primarily seeking communication, critical thinking, and teamwork skills from job candidates. "Whether or not they screen by GPA, employers hiring for entry-level positions report that they strongly consider a student's major, industry, and internship experience," said VanDerziel.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 11, 2025

Language barriers- Some families' first language is not English and communication may be challenging for them. Lack of Communication- In some cases, teachers do not communicate with families until something negative has occurred. Research the history and cultural values of the community.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 29, 2024

A new report from the Center for Community College Student Engagement (CCCSE) details mental health challenges that students face and how they can be better supported. We’re hoping that there is an increased awareness of how mental health and well-being can impact academic success,” said Garcia.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Undergraduate LAs operate as part of an instructional team, supporting both students and faculty to create more inclusive, learner-centered classrooms that improve student and faculty success. The Colombia native has plans to practice medicine in underserved communities around the globe.

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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. To implement a sense of compassion, educators must be committed to a flexible process facilitated through positive communication and transparency.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The second goal of the program is to help build a community and culture at the institution that is attractive to prospective Native staff, faculty, and students. The primary goal is helping increase the number of Native students enrolling in MSU and successfully completing a degree at MSU,” says Leonard. Language matters,” she says.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The path to higher education success has many obstacles and barriers for Latinos across the U.S. Brown, is to advance Latino student success in higher education by promoting Latino student achievement, conducting analysis to inform educational policies and advancing institutional practices. Santiago and Sarita E.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

In my 30-year journey as a university president, I learned that successful leaders are not those who simply speak quickly, but rather those who learn to listen carefully and ask thoughtful questions. In these challenging times, I focused on maintaining clear communication and providing strong support systems for our university community.

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Steve Keating

MARCH 19, 2023

There are a lot of ways a leader, people in general actually, can cause communication to go sideways. Perhaps the biggest is simply not communicating often enough. Assuming people know what you’re thinking and therefore you don’t need to communicate much, is often the fatal flaw of what could have been a successful leadership tenure.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Communication is key on how the funding works to benefit students.” An example of where even completing a FAFSA—a requirement of North Star Promise—can clash with Native American culture is provided by Tiffany Gusbeth, vice president of student success services of the American Indian College Fund (College Fund).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 12, 2025

The survey, conducted by higher education virtual health provider TimelyCare, highlights the significant challenges threatening student success across American campuses. Mental health challenges matched financial concerns in severity, with an overwhelming 95% of students identifying at least one obstacle impacting their academic success.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2025

But this gives us an opportunity to do that by inviting all communities to come and celebrate a meaningful event, such as the King week celebration. Partnering with the city of Knoxville, Vaughn added, has proven successful. So, we are excited to host it here, and really it's been a great partnership.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 26, 2024

Legislators are looking to enshrine the Postsecondary Student Success Grant (PSSG) program, a student outcomes-centered federal effort, into law through new legislation this March. Although the effort has received support generally, some higher ed scholars and advocates have levied some criticisms and concerns about it.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2024

While some individual campuses have emerged as success stories around college completion, growth in the nation’s college completion rate has stalled at 62.2%, according to a new report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Many adult learners must prioritize earning a living and caring for their families.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 6, 2024

Well before the first college lecture, however, newly enrolled college students should consider a couple questions and a few simple steps that can lower barriers to college success. He is the author of How to Solve A Problem: Insights for Critical Thinking, Problem-Solving, and Success in College. The who and the what ?

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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.

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Steve Keating

JANUARY 23, 2025

Accountability is what we dont want; its also what we most need if we want massive success in our lives. They know that a culture of accountability is key to good leadership and lasting success. Document and Communicate: Clearly outline expectations in writing to eliminate ambiguity.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The academy's curriculum aligns with Professional Standards for Educational Leaders (PSEL) and covers essential competencies including district operations, budgeting, board relations, communications, and community engagement.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 10, 2025

As chancellor of Louisiana’s community college system, he navigated the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. His current focus includes what he calls “AACC 5.0,” an effort to amplify successful programs with new initiatives he hopes to unveil by August 2025. Bumphus’s leadership was particularly tested during crises.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 2, 2025

Nevertheless, to better understand their success in postsecondary STEM education better, we must counter deficit narratives and advertise the strengths and cultural assets these students bring to their educational journeys. Kornbluh et al.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 30, 2025

Social media, virtual interactions, and fragmented communication are abundant today and have negative consequences for our youth. As shared by the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL), developing empathy and strong social-emotional skills are essential to future success.

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Steve Keating

JUNE 8, 2025

Yet, time and again, the most successful people across industries, from entrepreneurs to artists to leaders, credit one skill above others: the ability to truly listen. Here’s why mastering the art of listening can pave your path to success. Listening Builds Stronger Relationships Success rarely happens in isolation.

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Steve Keating

DECEMBER 21, 2023

There are so many challenges in life that have their origins tied to poor communication that it would be almost impossible to list them all. Relationships have ended and businesses destroyed by misunderstandings caused by poor communication skills. Every relationship you have will be stronger when you improve your communication skills.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 12, 2025

Kellie Sims Butler, Superintendent President, Solano Community College: Lessons from Failure to Leadership As I reflect on my path to the presidency, I am reminded of the words of Maya Angelou, Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The second goal of the program is to help build a community and culture at the institution that is attractive to prospective Native staff, faculty, and students. The primary goal is helping increase the number of Native students enrolling in MSU and successfully completing a degree at MSU,” says Leonard. Language matters,” she says.

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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

JUNE 8, 2023

Nwosu Nwosu is currently provost and senior vice president for academic affairs and student success at Herbert H. His deep-rooted record in higher education … combined with his commitment and belief in student success, equity, access, community engagement and economic development, and shared governance resonated with our university community.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 12, 2023

Now, the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP), a nonpartisan nonprofit promoting post-secondary access and success, is publishing lessons learned from its ongoing attempts to build a better, more equitable transfer system. Establish[ing] relationships is really, really helpful and necessary for the success of some of these pathways.”

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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. Jackson, Jr. Jackson holds a B.A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2025

Layla has an extensive background in System-wide leadership and advocacy, and intimate knowledge of local colleges operations, student success goals and challenges.

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Civitas Learning

JUNE 12, 2025

When we talk about student success, it’s easy to focus on the classroom. Findings from the 2025 Student Success Impact Report reinforce a powerful truth: supplemental instruction (SI), tutoring, and writing centers aren’t just add-ons—they’re foundational to a healthy student success model.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

He served as vice president for student success at Ivy Tech Community College in Indianapolis, Indiana. Clasemann holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism and mass communication from Creighton University, a master’s in organizational management from the University of Phoenix, and a Ph.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 3, 2024

The community organizations would really benefit from learning more about college students’ needs reentering, but on the flip side the colleges aren’t always thinking about their own reentering students.” That is a fact and we see it all the time with our own students when they return to community (P2CP began in 2011).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Fliger holds a bachelor’s in interpersonal and public communication from Purdue University Fort Wayne; a master’s in speech communication from Miami University; and a Ph.D. Working in partnership with the campus community, I look forward to the many possibilities that await.

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Thrive Alliance Group

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Students succeed with parent-teacher communication & partnerships We know it takes a village to raise a child. Start with student-centered parent communication. Let’s take a look at why communicating with parents is more challenging than ever, and why it’s worth the effort to build relationships. Poor quality communication.

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