Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 13, 2024

Education is a human right regardless of one’s background, and access and support should be readily available to those in need. We are fully committed to first-generation students, but commitment is just the start. In addition to our CAMP scholars, the number of first-generation students at St.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 24, 2025

The report, Increasing Student Support and Success by Boosting Medicaid Engagement, draws on data collected from a review of over 1,000 community colleges. Stewart previously served as the Secretary of Education for New Mexico and has inspired his thinking about how K-12 schools accessed student resources through Medicaid.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 22, 2025

These dynamics affect household incomes, mental health, academic success, and long-term aspirations. First, acknowledge that these students exist. When possible, build basic needs programming that focuses beyond the individual to the family systems that shape student success. And yet, we rarely talk about it.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 23, 2023

Jonelle Knox When I reviewed the question posed to me about [re]engaging the college community, I started thinking about a missed opportunity that many colleges and university leaders are not taking advantage of; the collaboration of student affairs and human resources to create [re]engagement activities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 2, 2023

Wayne State University has received $6 million for a cluster hire program to recruit and hire 30 new humanities faculty and create a Black Studies center. With this Mellon-supported initiative, we aim to have a major impact on the key work of Wayne State: research, teaching, community engagement, and student success,” said Dr. M.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 25, 2025

This is the topic we took to task in Fostering Healthier Campuses: Applying Sense of Belonging Theory to Student Affairs Research and Practice at the recent annual meeting of NASPAStudent Affairs Administrators in Higher Education. Figure 1 is a visual representation of points shared in the session.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 4, 2025

Our view is weve got to do more to transform higher education, workforce systems in order to meet human talent needs. Dr. Courtney Brown To reach the 2040 goal, Lumina is prioritizing four key areas: credentials of value, access, student success and redesign.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

However, the Minority Male Success Initiative (MMSI), a three-year project from the North Carolina Community College System (NCCCS) and Watermark, an ed tech company, has offered a glimmer of hope: students who received success coaching using an online platform were 22.4% Success coaches seek to be as involved as necessary.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 15, 2024

In their study, “ Inside the Black Box ,” researchers discovered that algorithms used to predict student success produced false negatives for 19% of Black and 21% of Latinx students, incorrectly calculating these percentages of students would fail out of college. All the algorithms can see and learn,” said Anahideh.

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Civitas Learning

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

As higher education continues to shapeshift to meet the changing needs of students, many leaders are asking what role each department plays in supporting student success. Everyone is responsible for student success” is easy to say but harder to do. But this is a missed opportunity.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

An example of where even completing a FAFSA—a requirement of North Star Promise—can clash with Native American culture is provided by Tiffany Gusbeth, vice president of student success services of the American Indian College Fund (College Fund). Among the larger two-year programs are law enforcement, nursing and human services.

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DECEMBER 12, 2023

Kristina Londy Kristina Londy has been named director of student success and inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility at MiraCosta College in Oceanside, California.

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OCTOBER 31, 2023

Artificial Intelligence (AI) should be used to augment, not replace, human creativity and intelligence. AI is at the core of our Student Impact Platform and has been since the company’s founding in 2011. AI is at the core of our Student Impact Platform and has been since the company’s founding in 2011.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2024

in human development from The Pennsylvania State University. Seed funds are expected to assist selected universities in removing entrenched barriers to student success, improving student outcomes, and creating educational environments that are more effective and equitable for all.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 4, 2024

The bill is part of the Roadmap to College Student Success campaign to reform America’s higher education system for students and families. It would require that the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services identify and promote such successful programs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 30, 2024

The campus centers seek to prepare the next generation of leaders and thinkers to build equitable and just communities by dismantling the false belief in a hierarchy of human value. AAC&U is accepting applications for the 2024 institute , held virtually June 25-28.

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JANUARY 11, 2024

in human development from The Pennsylvania State University. Seed funds are expected to assist selected universities in removing entrenched barriers to student success, improving student outcomes, and creating educational environments that are more effective and equitable for all.

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Civitas Learning

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

For years, colleges and universities have doubled down on their investments in student success. Despite their best efforts, many institutions still have work to do to improve student retention and graduation. This helps you to make better-informed resource allocation decisions and build on the success of existing programs.

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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. There was also a robust focus on the humanities. ATD is not just a conference,” says Dr. Karen A.

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DECEMBER 12, 2022

The University Innovation Alliance's Three Playbooks for Student Success. The University Innovation Alliance (UIA) operates as a multi-campus laboratory for student success innovation. The misconceptions about middle-income students' financial needs and eligibility for resources. Thu, 12/15/2022 - 06:00.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 4, 2023

HBCUs are attracting students at record numbers and experiencing an uptick in philanthropic support, both of which are chipping away at decades of underfunding. Imagine what more they could do and how many more students they could serve with the infrastructure and tools necessary for their continued short and long-term success.

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MARCH 21, 2025

Thinking Beyond the Status Quo In an era where artificial intelligence is reshaping education, its tempting to believe that technology can replicate or even replace the human interactions that define effective learning.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Slated to begin operating in the fall, the honors college will enroll students who have a GPA of 3.5 Luke Wood “This is one component of a larger effort to increase success rates for Black students,” said Dr. J. Additionally, selected students will have the opportunity to reside in a living and learning community.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Many educators come to the profession because they have a passion and commitment to help students succeed. However, the complexities of education often get in the way of successfully advocating for Black students in a way that is impactful and transformative. Dr. Erik M. Dr. Donna Y.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Shayne Halls Halls, president and CEO of Manifested Dreams , a company that connects organizations to AI services, spoke about the various ways AI can improve tasks and projects previously assigned to humans, removing human biases and time-intensive processes along the way. “AI AI is not new.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 1, 2024

Department of Education confirmed that 8% of students experiences homelessness. Colorado’s Department of Higher Education frames its basic needs efforts with a “ social determinants of student success ” lens and the California Community College System uses a “ social determinants of education ” framework.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Dr. Zoe Corwin, a research professor at the University of Southern California Rossier School of Education and principal investigator for the Promoting At-Promise Student Success Project, agreed that measuring social mobility can be problematic. It’s how human beings do everything,” he said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 24, 2024

The human development she studied in her doctoral program opened her eyes to what was needed on the college level to ensure student success. She focused on single parents who deal with many variables, developing a model program that helped these students succeed and graduate.

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EAB

DECEMBER 20, 2022

What the mental health crisis means for student success leaders. The long-term impacts of the pandemic on student mental health—and 7 steps you can take to prepare. The pandemic ripple effects on student success will last for years, including the long-term impact on student mental health.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

Thompson notes that students who participate in dual enrollment/credit — attending high school and a community college simultaneously — outperform other students when they get into college, but data showed there weren’t enough low-income and URM students entering that pipeline. His focus has not been strictly on people of color.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Data gathered by Excelencia in Education, a nonprofit organization working to improve and accelerate Latinx student success in postsecondary education, showed that in 2021, there were 401 emerging HSI institutions across 43 states. Demographic changes have led to an increasing number of Latinx students attending higher education.

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Civitas Learning

JUNE 12, 2025

Targeted outreach, such as messaging students who’ve started but not completed registration, is far more effective. The 2024 analysis in our 2025 Student Success Impact Report found that institutions are not only increasing outreach—they’re measuring its impact.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 16, 2024

“These spaces were created out of a demand to recognize our existence in these spaces, to serve us, provide us the resources that we need to be successful in our educational trajectories, and, in doing so, be successful overall. It is a space to establish community, which is important for persistence and student success.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 7, 2024

Bradford thinks that receiving the “Black-Serving Institution” label will present a great opportunity to boost enrollment and increase graduation rates for African American students. The immediate response to a proposal of this kind from the opponents of DEI will likely be to label it as divisive and polarizing. Dr. William B.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 11, 2024

She stood up to the principal and affirmed my humanity. She let me know, ‘You are a full human being, and they’re going to have to recognize you.’” Rema,” says she has learned from her own experiences to defend our collective humanity. “My mother recognized the violence I experienced that day,” recalls Vassar.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

Smith, who earned tenure in 2022, is an associate professor of higher education and program coordinator of educational leadership in the College of Education, Criminal Justice, Human Services, and Information Technology at the University of Cincinnati.

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Civitas Learning

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

As higher education continues to shapeshift to meet the changing needs of students, many leaders are asking what role each department plays in supporting student success. Everyone is responsible for student success” is easy to say but harder to do. But this is a missed opportunity.

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