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Two Scholars are Building Diversity Initiative Database for All

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The Academic Pipeline Exchange is an open access database charting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs in businesses, organizations, and institutions of higher education across the nation. While the full database is only in its initial stages, Drs.

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Report and New Database Identify Successful Programming for Latinx Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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.

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Leaning Into Best Practices

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In the early aughts, Renick says, it was standard practice for student support programs to address equity gaps and low graduation or retention numbers through the creation of targeted programs, like initiatives for first-generation students, and African American male initiatives.

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HBCU Advancement Teams: Don't Underestimate the Power of the Individual Donor

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

They include those currently in our alumni databases, friends of the college/university who annually comprise the president’s Christmas card list, or perhaps they are associates of Board members. Once this is accomplished, the other valuable attributes become easy to achieve, like stewardship, recognition and retention, and results/outcomes.

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

After undergraduate programming demonstrated improved retention and graduation rates, Watford was able to recruit students to Virginia Tech. I can go to conferences to build relationships with these students, creating a database, bringing it back, and sharing it with the department to do outreach,” Waller says.

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Building a Sustainable Model for School Wellness Initiatives

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Offering resources to help increase student retention is also beneficial for the financial health of the campus and local economy. Examples from higher education show how private donations can help increase campus mental health resources. And the impact on student engagement and retention is real.

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What does a data management platform actually do?

EAB

In this blog post, we answer that question with examples of the transformative impact that a data management platform can have on higher education. EAB's data management platform, Edify , is built specifically for higher education. What is a data management platform? This granular perspective has a twofold effect.