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Negotiating the Future: How HBCUs and MSIs Can Leverage Strategic Enrollment Management for Institutional Resilience

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Strategic enrollment leaders must develop cultural humility and data literacy to avoid overgeneralization and instead build nuanced personas that guide outreach. Consider this: An HBCU looking to boost STEM enrollment among underrepresented males recognizes that traditional outreach and scholarship packages have limited impact.

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Examples of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The focus on English skills needed in an academic setting and tailored support services through the Academic Literacy & Language (ALL) Center have proven beneficial. Among the services it provides to first-year students are individualized academic advising, tutoring and community-building events. WSU’s CAMP was founded in 2006.

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How to Attract Diverse Families with Financial Aid

School & Student Services by Community Brands

Break down what financial aid entails: scholarships, need-based grants, payment plans, or tuition discounts. Videos, quotes, and short profiles can be shared across newsletters, social media platforms, and during events. Schools can also explore partnerships that fund scholarships or create new financial aid opportunities.

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Anti-Racist Teachers: Disrupting Resegregation [Overrepresentation] in Special Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Rather, educators are intentional about participating in and attending events to become more familiar with and knowledgeable about their Students of Color. Similarly, our second finding suggests that kindergarten assessments predicted the resegregation of these boys and girls in special education, compared to white girls, by third grade.

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Beyond the Numbers: What Families Really Want from the Financial Aid Process

School & Student Services by Community Brands

With more school‑choice options available—from open enrollment public charter schools to vouchers, tax‑credit scholarships, and Education Savings Accounts—families are navigating what feels like a new frontier of educational possibility. FAFSA completion events: Colleges offer on-site assistance nights.

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A data literacy workshop series offered each semester helps to foster a data-driven decision-making culture across the university. We’ve also provided emergency housing, financial support for off-campus temporary housing and scholarships for DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) students,” says Morishita. Dr. Erika D.

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OER23 part one: Higher Education for Good

Catherine Cronin

I’ve many thoughts and reflections following the event – which will require two blog posts. In our introductory chapter, we as editors sought to identify principles of good in higher education based on the depth and breadth of work across the book, as well as the wealth of global scholarship and experience on which it is based.