Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 17, 2023

On its cover page, the annual education issue of the New York Times magazine uses the sardonic headline, Not U, to capture the current attitude of parts of the country toward higher education. The headline is then followed by this intriguing subtitle: Why do more and more Americans think college isn’t even worth it?

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

How did this small percentage of Black administrators facilitate their success against the odds? As the study progressed, we wanted to explore these STEM faculty members’ transition to senior leadership administrative positions at universities nationwide. But we noticed two remarkable things about our interviewees.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

At a time when the Latino population in the United States is growing and students are still facing daunting obstacles, Excelencia in Education is recognizing nine institutions for their clear and decisive commitment to Latino student success with the Seal of Excelencia. Dr. Erika D. Beck CSUN President Dr. Erika D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 19, 2023

In May 2018, COD’s board of trustees approved a $1 million investment to support a diverse group of 23 faculty and administrators to participate in Kansas State University’s (KSU) doctoral Community College Leadership Program (CCLP), the first cohort known colloquially as the CCLP Roadrunner cohort. in community college leadership.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

This includes issues of 1) campus climate where Indigenous students coming from a TCU are often entering a school environment with primarily white peers for the first time and 2) academic affairs in which advisors must have a clear sense of transfer agreements and credit structures across institutions to ensure successful degree completion.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 20, 2023

Higher education leaders face an obligation to Kansas families to remove barriers to access and success and ensure that our system lives up to the ideal of equal opportunity for all. Although these actions are helpful, they have not moved the needle toward closing access and success gaps. Structural change is needed.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 2, 2023

The campaign, initiated by the student international officers of the college honor society Phi Theta Kappa, uses evidence-based statistics and first-hand success stories to spread the message that community colleges offer a smart option for individuals to achieve their educational goals. The Roueche Center Forum is co-edited by Drs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 14, 2023

Gonzales The ability to recruit and retain a diverse and talented workforce is imperative to ensuring the success of a community college system. Furthermore, there has been a growing focus on student success, completion rates, and workforce development within community colleges.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2023

As one example, the average age of doctoral students in the Kansas State University Community College Leadership Program (CCLP) is 51 years old. Within the leadership doctoral program, students discuss involving others, the strength of the cohort model (e.g., She directs the K-State Community College Leadership Program.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

However, to move beyond a slogan, community college leaders need to examine how they are creating bridges of empathy (Yelich Biniecki & Berg, 2000) and pathways for success (Kirchner & Yelich Biniecki, 2019) to serve active duty and veteran service members and their families. Dr. Susan M. Dr. Susan M. at Kansas State University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

When community college students take student success courses and first-year experience courses that introduce them to the available support services at the college, they almost always relate that they are glad they did so. Dually enrolled students are no different. The Roueche Center Forum is co-edited by Drs. Roueche and Margaretta B.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Roueche Center for Community College Leadership. Lessons learned We have established a more cohesive alignment of partners who are working to build broader awareness, exploration, and preparation for academic and career success for middle and high school students in Cleveland. Roueche Center for Community College Leadership.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2023

In recognition of his commitment to inclusive excellence, servant leadership, and his devotion to lifting up the disenfranchised in the community college space, Gonzales has been named a 2023 recipient of the Diverse Champions Award. He cares for success, not just for students, I think he cares for the success of his employees."

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 7, 2023

Smalls In a perfect world, governing boards and leadership demographics would mirror the student population (Higgs, 2014). Having an advocate or mentor is critical We found that the presence of a mentor in the life of the trustee was critical to the participants’ successful selection or election as trustee. Dr. Margaretta B.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 26, 2023

“This is an important segment of the college-bound market and [GBC] continues to make inroads in successful recruitment of Hispanic students, especially with the expansion of the Goizueta Scholarship to now cover full tuition and in some cases room and board,” Eby said. Obviously, the number one thing is student success,” she continued.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 7, 2023

The consortium invites select higher education leaders to serve as judges who evaluate a national pool of 30 highly successful programs deemed Bellwether Finalists and choose three Bellwether Award winners. Roueche Center for Community College Leadership, Department of Educational Leadership, College of Education, Kansas State University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Homeless students Homeless youth face many barriers to academic success and degree completion in the post-secondary environment. They often arrive to college feeling out of place, questioning whether they belong or if they have what it takes to be successful. California is a microcosm of homelessness for community college students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Mission HISPA seeks to inspire Latino students to discover their potential and to ignite their desire to embrace education and achieve success. After AT&T and Southern Bell merged, HISPA leadership decided to keep the group intact and in 2007 voted to become the independent nonprofit organization it is today.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

We have questioned and tweaked programs, policies, and practices in an effort to help more students (and faculty and staff) find success and achieve equitable outcomes. It is time to craft our own tools by defining meaningful outcomes and what is incumbent on our institutions to do to achieve success.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Dr. Ericka Miller That’s according to interviews with the leadership of academic search firms, many of whom have spent years in higher education and collaborated with both public and private institutions across the U.S. and even around the world to fill key vacancies. Honesty has been crucial behind the scenes and on campus itself.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2023

Roueche Center for Community College Leadership at Kansas State University. Roueche Center for Community College Leadership, Department of Educational Leadership, College of Education, Kansas State University. He is chair of the board of the Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society and a professor of practice in the John E.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

and NTU leadership and faculty believe that this inaugural class will make history, using their new doctoral titles and research to bring about change and help indigenous nations become more sovereign. Dr. Franklin Sage is an assistant professor of Diné culture, language, and leadership at Navajo Technical University.

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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. Emerging HSIs have a Latinx undergraduate enrollment rate between 15% and 24.9%.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

From the interviews, Sabree identified guiding principles for future student-athletes’ community college success, including: • Practice discipline and demonstrate a great deal of maturity. Dr. Yusuf Sabree Finally, African American student-athletes expressed a clear link between participation in collegiate sports and academic success.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Added to the work-from-home ethos is a changing culture as younger generations move into senior leadership positions. Fostering leadership development provides a platform for ongoing discussion and reinforcement of desired and shared culture and values. In-person relationships are being displaced by virtual engagement. Roueche, n.d.)

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Steve Keating

MARCH 12, 2023

By 6:00am I’ve read two or 3 newspapers, perhaps listened to a podcast, watched a TedTalk or read a magazine or two. Plus it’s in that timeframe that I write this blog two days a week and make my Principles of Leadership Videos for Twitter. Success boils down to what you know and how you use what you know.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

A more recent Supreme Court ruling relates to restrictions on affirmative action in higher education, which negatively impacts the opportunity for low-income Black and other minority students to make a successful high school to college transition. The Roueche Center Forum is co-edited by Drs. Roueche and Margaretta B. Mathis of the John E.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 3, 2023

But other than in our jazz program, we have not been successful in that area.” But the reality is that, still in leadership among these top music schools, that even having a white woman is an unusual aspect. It’s certainly not for lack of trying,” Montgomery said. The Bienen School is one of the top music schools in the U.S.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 22, 2023

They were created out of necessity to educate pillars of African American communities who could then exercise proscribed leadership within a society that discriminated against and penalized the members of their race in many different ways. Dr. William B.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

From the start, applicants are asked about matters of leadership, community, and impact on Columbia and beyond, Crawford says. And what the ongoing success of Columbia’s HBCU Fellowship means is that there is a “scalable design” that other schools can also adopt, says Strayhorn.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 2, 2022

After nearly 50 years of funding community colleges based on enrollment and outreach, the state of Texas is considering making the switch to outcome-based funding, rooted in metrics like retention, completion, and the successful transfer to four-year programs. So, the focus ought to become, ‘what about success?’”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Venette Coleman, director of Institutional Effectiveness at Spelman, says the new initiative aligns with the school’s mission of helping students at an historically Black college for women gain a competitive advantage as they pursue lifelong learning and acquire leadership skills. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2023

It’s [an] optimal time for new leadership,” said Fox. They have leadership and co-curricular programming. Fox describes it as “phenomenally successful” with graduation rates around 90% and licensure pass rates near 100%. She also spends time with student leadership. I would also like to do leadership and mentoring. …

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

When a donor and an advancement officer become partners and ambassadors for the mission-driven work of their nonprofits, they are more than likely to realize optimal success. An effective advancement operation realizes the value of the donor cycle and strategically defines success with a donor-centered philosophy. Smothers Sr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2023

in management and leadership. That has been very successful in attracting more underrepresented minority students, and interestingly, women into our program,” Elliott says. “If For example, the MBA programs offer 11 emphasis areas, including cybersecurity, health administration, data analytics and human resources.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Dr. Tiffany Beth Mfume, associate vice president for student success and retention, says her office is involved from the time a student is admitted to the university until he or she graduates. Once students transition out of that first-year format, the success and retention office continues to work with them through graduation. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 22, 2023

How can more underrepresented students achieve A-level academic success in STEM disciplines? Dr. Ken Coopwood is the CEO of Coopwood Diversity Leadership & Education Universal LLC (Coop Di Leu). It should empower the student to apply the discipline freely and skillfully across racial, ethnic, social, economic, and cultural lines.

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