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Seal of Excelencia 2024

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Necessary support is provided through GANAS (Gaining Access ’AND Academic Success), an innovative access and retention program that serves community college transfer students. CSUSM gathers and analyzes disaggregated data pertaining to retention, unit completion and graduation. Morales, president of CSUSB.

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Promoting Higher Education for Native Americans in Minnesota

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While there are FAFSA webinars available, I believe community and family focused FAFSA and financial aid workshops in tribal communities might be an effective way to promote college going overall among indigenous students.” That is something that identifies this institution for over 30 years.

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How Project 2025’s War on Higher Education Diversity Threatens Our Global Competitiveness

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If implemented, its recommendations would likely lead to significant cuts in funding for programs designed to support underrepresented students, including recruitment and retention programs for minority students, financial aid for low-income students, and support services for first-generation college students.

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Number of Some College, No Credential Students Continues to Increase

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If that staff member in financial aid or that person who was motivating them no longer exists, why would they show up?” Briscoe said institutions need to “reassess how dismantling all these things are actively affecting recruitment and retention.” “How How are we supporting students in the midst of all these legislative bans?

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Examples of Excelencia

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Also, that year the program’s retention rate of Latino students was 18% higher than the college’s general retention rate. The aims of the CAMP at Washington State University (WSU) are first-year completion, second-year retention and successful graduation. It has done that with an 86% success rate for the 2022-23 academic year.

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Dr. Dara N. Byrne: Leveraging Public Higher Education for the Common Good

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From December 2016 to July 2022, when she left to begin her new position, she served as associate provost for undergraduate retention and dean of undergraduate studies. She oversaw 15 departments and was responsible for the academic success of John Jay’s 13,000 undergraduates. In its first three years, about 600 more students earned degrees.

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A Continued Commitment to Community

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We design the curriculum individually to students’ needs. One secret of our program’s exponential growth is retention,” says Espiritu. In the last three years EPW’s fall to fall retention ranges from 93% to 96%. “I I track them in retention. Students attend a six-week course contextualized for their needs.

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