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In he current role, Lyn works with the Benedict Student Success Center, striving towards improving student retention and degree completion. “I She has been an advocate for educational equity and for our scholars for many years. I congratulate Ms.

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OCTOBER 9, 2023

Financial aid, retention, and faculty/staff representation are part of the Seal,” says Dr. Deborah Santiago, co-founder and CEO of Excelencia in Education, who says she is delighted to see institutions with intentional practices actively working toward increasing Latino representation in key positions. Hawkins Jr. Hawkins, Jr.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Blogs How Change Leadership Propelled University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Journey to Equity Change leadership acts as a vital bridge between intent and action. Create a Sense of Urgency UWM recognized the pressing need to address equity gaps in student success. What does effective change leadership look like in practice?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 31, 2024

Back in February, more than 1,000 practitioners from hundreds of colleges across the nation gathered in Orlando, Florida, to exchange evidence-based approaches to accelerating student success and equity. Lumina Foundation CEO Jamie Merisotis delivers a keynote address at the DREAM 2024 conference.

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JANUARY 18, 2024

Student success experts have prescribed potential solutions to declining Black student enrollment and retention numbers in California’s public universities in a recent report published by The California State University (CSU) Office of the Chancellor. Parham and Saúl Jiménez-Sandoval, co-chairs for the workgroup.

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MAY 4, 2023

In an effort to reverse this tide, scholars at San Diego State University’s Community College Equity Assessment Lab (CCEAL) have created a series of recommendations for state and institutional policy dedicated to the enrollment, retention, and success of minoritized men. This can make school seem like a less attractive choice.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2024

Each awardee receives a two-year, $250,000 seed grant to develop plans and begin implementation of evidence-based policies and practices to advance a mission of equitable and diverse physical science and engineering doctoral programs with a focus on improving recruitment, retention, and graduation outcomes.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2023

For colleges and universities to close these equity gaps, they must address the core of the student experience: the time that students spend in the classroom. Recognizing the key role of faculty in this work, we established the Equity Champions (EC) , a faculty community of practice intentionally designed to build relationships.

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JANUARY 8, 2024

The goal of virtually all colleges and universities is to increase retention and completion. What we need to do is make a funding model that’s based on an attainment goal, work it backwards with equity at the heart so that we can actually have these colleges act as the engines of social mobility that they’re supposed to be.”

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JANUARY 11, 2024

Each awardee receives a two-year, $250,000 seed grant to develop plans and begin implementation of evidence-based policies and practices to advance a mission of equitable and diverse physical science and engineering doctoral programs with a focus on improving recruitment, retention, and graduation outcomes.

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JUNE 26, 2023

Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) and Vanderbilt University (VU) are launching a $17-million diversity, equity, inclusion, (DEI) and belonging program for the biomedical research community.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 14, 2023

As chancellor of Arizona’s most extensive community college system, the Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD), with nearly 140,000 students, paired with 10,000 faculty and staff members, my leadership philosophy is that we all play a role in the recruitment and retention of our students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Leshchinskaya is part of a team from Brooklyn College and the University of Florida looking to change that with the creation of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Institutionalization (DEII) assessment, a new instrument that allows colleges and universities to measure their DEI work at the institution level.

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AUGUST 17, 2023

The financial assistance portion of the program works partially as a retention tool by helping students through financial emergencies and needs that might prompt them to drop out, Sohoni said. Working with OMD has improved retention rates for participating students to approximately 85%, Sanders said. “That is the power of what we do.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The plan was designed to both elevate Black excellence and address the continuing decline in Black student enrollment, retention, and graduation rates across the 23 CSU universities. Wood — whose research focuses on racial equity in education — saw an opportunity.

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APRIL 2, 2024

By assessing these environmental impacts on your students, your institution is better prepared to develop a plan to fund long-term resources to address these barriers impacting enrollment, persistence, retention, and program completion. According to the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Furman’s cohort – LCC1 – will facilitate faculty training in values of equity, social justice, and inclusive pedagogy; elevate student voices; improve the student experience; and engage faculty, staff, and students in making sustainable changes to introductory course curriculum.

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JULY 7, 2023

In fact, most studies concerning African Americans have focused on the retention of students or faculty (Wolfe & Dilworth, 2015). Research revealed that all but one of these award-winning colleges had a board-influenced diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) mandate. Equity is a clear part of the vision and mission of the college.

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MARCH 14, 2023

Numerous state legislatures are in the news recently, asking their campuses to report budgets and resources devoted to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts, and for a list of the programs, services and efforts focused on DEI. In SEL, equity becomes everyone’s work and not the work of a Chief Diversity Officer or DEI office.

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JANUARY 17, 2024

Ford envisions him having an impact on recruitment and retention. Also, his research explores issues of equity, STEM identity, and classroom experiences among minoritized populations, which I think is crucial to informing what can be done to recruit more underrepresented students into STEM, particularly through math.”

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OCTOBER 13, 2023

Addressing the need Queensborough Community College (QCC), a two-year institution in the City University of New York system, conducted an equity audit that showed there were retention and graduation disparities for male students overall, with Black and Latinx male students disproportionately impacted.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 22, 2022

Title: Associate Provost for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion; Distinguished Full Professor, Saint Joseph’s University Stokes is the inaugural associate provost for diversity, equity and inclusion at Saint Joseph’s University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 12, 2023

Michael West, head of Penn State’s Department of African American Studies, has resigned from the role, alleging that leadership broke promises and questioning the school's commitment to diversity and equity, Centre Daily Times reported. Dr. Michael West West will continue to serve as a tenured professor in the department. West resigned Apr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

They make a real, positive difference for students, address equity gaps, empower and enable faculty,” said Iuzzini. On those same metrics (retention, credits, math and English), equity gaps are starting to close as instructors use these practices,” said Iuzzini. There is compelling data to suggest [emergent pedagogy] works.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Transforming a campus culture to meet the needs of its diverse community does not happen overnight––it takes a village deeply engaged and committed to making equity and inclusion everyone’s responsibility.” The network will start early Spring 2023 – online pre-registration opens this week.

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DECEMBER 13, 2022

The regulation’s review requirements outline the Florida Educational Equity Act, which bars teaching of themes of critical race theory at universities. “By The regulation may put faculty recruitment and retention at risk as well, according to Dr. Danaya Wright, UF professor of law.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Collaboration among various departments, including academic affairs, student affairs, and equity and diversity offices, ensures a comprehensive approach to student and administrator support. grade point average (GPA), retention rates, and persistence rates) and socio-emotional concerns (e.g.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 4, 2023

Those dollars, coupled with a $12 million donation in December 2020 from billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott, were allocated into need-based scholarships, which Oubré said “resulted in some of the best retention rates we’ve ever had, particularly in demographic groups that are the most vulnerable, like African American men.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2024

AI, Equity, and Affordability: A Primer for Higher Education Leaders and Educators " a report produced by Whiteboard Advisors and created in partnership with the Harvard-MIT Axim Collaborative, details the ways in which AI can be used to assist colleges and universities with student support, data organization, enrollment, and retention.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

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. Dr. Amer Ahbed, vice provost for diversity, equity and inclusion at the University of Vermont. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Joy Gaston Gayles opened the 47th annual conference for the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) in Las Vegas with a call to disrupt the systemic oppression keeping marginalized populations from accessing higher education and burning out academics working toward greater diversity, equity, and inclusion. “If

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OCTOBER 1, 2023

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. Rueda-Acedo says the service learning is extremely beneficial in retention as well as the students’ personal connection to this profession.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 10, 2024

“We’re not afraid to specifically address Black male student-athlete achievement,” said Harris, who oversees all student-athlete academic support services and is also an athletics diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) designee, which involves overseeing the athletics department’s DEI initiatives. “We Even the team’s chaplain, Fr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 1, 2023

“We saw evidence that relationships were critical to fill in that missing variable to the completion and economic advancement equation,” said Michael Collins, JFF vice president and leader of JFF’s Center for Racial Economic Equity. “We We wanted to create a framework and supports for institutions.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 20, 2023

If you care about things like racial equity and college attainment, then identify the metrics you care about, and then from there identify the data you need,” said Ansell. Student success reform efforts, if well executed, improve graduation rates in a way that closes equity gaps, said Ansell.

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DECEMBER 5, 2022

More diverse faculties have been linked to higher retention, persistence, and graduation rates for minoritized students, as well as an improved sense of belonging. When it came to who ultimately got tenure, there was also little equity to be found. But I appreciated the ability to name it in such a clear way.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 28, 2023

It is a journey that aligns with the historical mission, values, and aspirations of those who have fought for educational equity and social progress. Dr. Christine Johnson McPhail serves as president of Saint Augustine’s University.

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