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Report: California Community College Leadership Growing More Diverse But CEOs Face Shorter Tenures

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

California community college presidents and chancellors are spending less time in their roles while the leadership ranks are becoming increasingly diverse, highlighting Dr. Larry Galizio both challenges and progress in the nation's largest public higher education system. of leaders, more than 2.5 of CEOs, though still below their 40.4%

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HBCU Leaders Unite to Address Threats to Black Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Black Leadership Across Campuses) Summit, held on April 3, brought together university presidents, scholars, K-12 administrators, policymakers, and students for a candid three-hour discussion on systemic barriers and emerging threats to educational equity. The virtual B.L.A.C. Ingram described her institution's holistic support strategy.

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Miami Dade College: A Hispanic Serving Institution Documenting “Servingness” through Community Engagement

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

When applying for the Carnegie Classification for Community Engagement, MDC emphasized the large numbers of faculty involved with community engagement, including their having formal leadership roles in deepening and expanding community engagement across the curriculum.

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Plan B Propels Engineer to Higher Ed Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It has been documented exhaustively that diversity contributes to positive learning outcomes, and work teams that consist of individuals with varied backgrounds, perspectives, ethnicities, races, belief systems, cultures and socio-economic statuses are proven to achieve greater results than those that lack such diversity.”

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Another HBCU on Track for Reaccreditation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Biddix’s team of graduate students, who Lundy called “the A-Team” as a nod to accreditation and the superheroes of the 1980s, began working with KC leadership and Brown in June 2022. When we think about retention rates, especially with Black males—HBCUs are still significant. Early photo of McKee Hall at Knoxville College.

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2025 NAIS Thrive: Elevating the Future of Independent Schools

School & Student Services by Community Brands

Attendees engaging in meaningful conversations about enrollment trends, financial sustainability, leadership development, and the private K-12 family school experience. His insights into unconscious biases and decision-making offered school leaders a deeper understanding of how these factors influence education and leadership.

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Improving Retention and Completion: 5 Key Elements of a Data-Activated Success Strategy

Civitas Learning

Tailoring and implementing the right mix of initiatives for each institution is crucial to improving retention and graduation rates. This approach has yielded impressive results: an 8% improvement in retention from 2016 to 2021, and an overall retention rate of 80% from Fall 2021 to Fall 2022, surpassing their retention goal.