Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Kirkwood Community College will be closing or modifying three programs and is laying off faculty and staff, citing low enrollment, Corridor Business Journal reported. The greater the number of our graduates, the greater the impact they will have on our region.” One such program that will be receiving changes is the truck driving program.

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APRIL 23, 2024

The report re-evaluates supports for Black students and addresses trends in low Black student enrollment, retention, and graduation rates.

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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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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. strategies that support faculty and staff in support of Black student success; and 3.)

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Civitas Learning

AUGUST 10, 2023

We discovered the key steps leaders and institutions are taking to strategically –and sometimes dramatically– improve their retention rates. 5 High-Impact Retention Strategies While institutions continue working hard to ensure their students graduate, initiative results often fall short of expectations. PP when misapplied.

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Civitas Learning

JUNE 1, 2023

The Outcomes: An 8% increase in retention, improved advising efficiency, and more effective cross-functional collaboration. Faculty and staff needed ways to easily communicate and access student data in one place so they had the shared context they needed to meaningfully help students.

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Timely MD

MARCH 7, 2024

Faculty and staff at colleges and universities have the second-highest burnout rate out of industry in the country, just behind K-12 workers, according to a recent Gallup Panel Workforce Study. Why are faculty and staff leaving their positions? during the same period.” “There’s also record turnover for faculty,” said Bichsel.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

How Pueblo College Supercharged Yield and Retention Efforts. They also provided more hands-on training for faculty and students to spur wider adoption of the Navigate student success platform and improve communication during the registration process. EAB · How Pueblo College Supercharged Yield and Retention Efforts. Episode 126.

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EAB

JANUARY 10, 2023

Lessons Learned from a Student Retention Revamp at Syracuse. Syracuse University’s Kal Srinivas joins EAB’s Andrina Musser to talk about how the technology, people, and processes changed at Syracuse to boost student retention efforts. EAB · Lessons Learned from a Student Retention Revamp at Syracuse. Episode 133. Transcript.

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EAB

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Other AI enhancements in Navigate will make it easier for staff and administrators to generate reports on institutional student retention and success efforts. We are excited to pilot EAB’s new AI features to help staff save time, create deeper connections with our students, and have a measurable impact on their lives.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 7, 2024

As the chief academic and enrollment officer at Dillard, she is expected to manage academic offerings and faculty initiatives and lead the implementation of an institutional recruitment and retention strategy. “I I believe my extensive professional journey has prepared me for this opportunity.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

How Ogden School District is Restoring Teacher Morale and Improving Retention with EAB Ogden School District's Success Through EAB's Teacher Morale Collaborative About Ogden School District consists of thirteen neighborhood elementary schools, six secondary schools and one youth-in care school. These barriers are probably why.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2023

In the role, he worked to improve the school’s recruitment and retention of African American students and faculty. Slaughter Slaughter was a trailblazer, leading the school as its first African American chancellor from 1982 to 1988.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

For institutions looking to measure their DEI efforts, the tool of choice has typically been campus climate assessments, surveys of groups like faculty or students that provide an aggregate picture of the impact of a college’s endeavors. The instrument also revealed that some basic DEI practices were less common.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 7, 2024

As the chief academic and enrollment officer at Dillard, she is expected to manage academic offerings and faculty initiatives and lead the implementation of an institutional recruitment and retention strategy. “I I believe my extensive professional journey has prepared me for this opportunity.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 15, 2023

Previously, she was dean of the College of Natural and Social Sciences at California State University, Los Angeles; interim dean of the College of Liberal Arts and founding director of the psychometrics graduate program at Morgan State University; faculty at Spelman; and senior research scientist for Kraft General Foods. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 14, 2023

million credit and non-credit students for the 2021-22 academic year; the need to retain top talent among faculty and staff continues to grow. A successful balance between employee recruitment and student retention requires constantly evaluating strategies and implementing changes.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The initiatives include a summer bridge program for students who have not passed the Texas Success Initiative and have not yet been deemed college-ready; a redesign of its First Year Seminar course to focus on career exploration and academic skills; an improvement to faculty professional development opportunities; and a loan program for laptops.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 12, 2023

Clarence Lang, dean of the College of the Liberal Arts, had refused to follow through on a commitment to hire two new tenure-line faculty. Penn State has had ongoing issues in recruitment and retention of Black faculty, something that Black faculty have repeatedly mentioned, West said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2023

Dr. Consuelo Wilkins The Vanderbilt Faculty Institutional Recruitment for Sustainable Transformation Program (V-FIRST) – funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) – will aim to accelerate hiring, promotion, and retention efforts for diverse, early-career investigators. American Indian, and 0.1% Pacific Islander.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 1, 2022

This is the time for us to come together and support our faculty so that we can work to increase representation in the future.” . In the last several years, and through the pandemic, there’s been a light shined on health outcomes in communities of color,” Minguez said.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

· Diversifying faculty hiring and increasing retention of racially minoritized faculty so that they are as racially and ethnically diverse as the students they serve. Pierce College (WA) is revamping its faculty hiring and tenure process.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) and the Association of College and University Educators (ACUE) have jointly announced a network to give faculty and staff ways to improve student belonging and inclusion. When students know they belong, they stay and succeed, and ultimately go on to become the future leaders our country needs.”.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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

APRIL 4, 2024

Our program directors and faculty chairs work closely to match them to existing courses.” Smatresk, and his leadership realized that students, faculty, and staff would benefit from a more robust and insightful data set that anyone could use or access at any time. In many of our ACE programs, we grant academic credit.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 29, 2024

He researches college student self-efficacy ; STEM research ; college retention ; school closing and massive resistance ; high school to college transition, spirituality among college students ; and psychological well-being of students and administrators in higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Cochrane is a member of the Faculty Academy, a statewide initiative that trains faculty in a pedagogy called “Real Talk,” created by Dr. Paul Hernandez, senior advisor to the president and CEO at Achieving the Dream (ATD), a partner network of over 300 community colleges working to equitize higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2024

The outcomes Despite minor improvement in Fall 2021, rates of retention – those who come back to the same school the next year – and persistence – those who continue at any institution – among Latino students continue to trail behind national averages by several percentage points, according to the report.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

We’re looking at creating a national clearinghouse of diversity, BIPOC [Black, Indigenous, People of Color] initiatives for minoritized students, faculty and staff at universities,” said Byrd. There’s diversity happening among students, where the pipeline is slowing down is at the faculty level.” We’ve not seen the growth that we want.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 29, 2023

Strengthening a Diverse Leadership Pipeline Through Leadership Preparation and Development” is a partnership of faculty from five schools: Stony Brook, City College of New York, Fordham University, Hofstra University, and St. John's University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

In the era of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Great Resignation, faculty and staff burnout is a major problem in higher education. Many faculty and staff, she pointed out, have had to take on extra responsibilities from other positions that have gone unfilled. They’re worn down. People are just plain overworked,” said Dr. Margaret W.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Retention efforts Morgan State is currently number one in the United States in producing Black electrical engineers and civil engineers, Wilson notes. This requires thoughtful retention efforts. At that time, they transition to either a professional advisor in their school or major or mostly to faculty advisement.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 10, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT can prove very valuable and promising in the realm of higher education but come with their own suite of issues that need to be considered, according to higher ed leaders and faculty who participated in a panel discussion on Wednesday. These new AI tools. are within that wider context."

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 2, 2024

Dr. 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

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Faculty and staff serving Indigenous students at PWIs must be aware of the varying institutional contexts and how students navigate and experience their educational pathways. However, TCU students often transfer to PWIs to continue their education or engage in bilateral mobility between TCUs and PWIs while working toward degree requirements.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 24, 2024

Jenkins, who is Associate Provost for Faculty Development and a Professor of Higher Education at the University of South Carolina said that the power of Hip-Hop can't simply be reduced to music. In the opening keynote to the conference, Dr. In her powerful closing keynote, Dr. Toby S.

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