Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 16, 2025

The university has achieved record retention rates and a 61% increase in four-year graduation rates. At Montana State, Cruzado's leadership has resulted in not just increased diversity but also improved outcomes across the board. She holds a Ph.D.

Grant

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The formal work of AANAPISI at UCLA is in its very early stages, but it builds upon a legacy of programs in many different units across the campus such as academic and student affairs, admissions, academic support and retention programs, and alumni affairs,” said Yoo.

Retention

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 9, 2025

Serving, studying, and being mentored by this living legend has been the blessing of a lifetime. He understands that creating a supportive environment is equally crucial for retention. Yet they often struggle with retention and graduation metrics. What’s Joe Garcia like?

Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Requiring tutor hours where appropriate fosters consistent engagement with support systems, improving retention and academic performance. These initiatives not only enhance learning but also connect students with mentors and peers who share similar interests.

Student success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 24, 2025

To advance retention, persistence, and specific course completion, the grant will improve the First Year Seminar, provide professional develop with a focus on culturally responsive pedagogy, integrate tutoring, peer mentoring, academic and career coaching, and target intervention in gateway courses.

Grant

Civitas Learning

JUNE 12, 2025

While academic mentoring and coaching continued to show strong results, this year’s analysis from our partner institutions spotlighted notable gains in two key academic support areas: Academic Support Programs and Centers — 5.7 Access to physical spaces like libraries and technology hubs also play a critical role.

Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Lawrence Scott, an assistant professor in the College of Education and Human Development at Texas A&M University, San Antonio called “quite unique” and said could catch fire among other schools looking to improve retention for minority students. Are these mentors and students doing any classes or modules or anything additional?”

Retention

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Layered mentoring where older students mentor younger ones, enhancing their own sense of belonging. Henderson, an assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at UH and the project’s principal investigator. Monthly professional development workshops to build essential skills.

Mentoring

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.

STEM education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2023

A panel titled, “Diversifying the Future of the Profession: On Mentoring, Mattering & Movements,” was moderated by Dr. Terrell L. This has translated as mentoring in my professional life. Mentoring remains one of the most viable and critical tools for professional development.” That’s what mentoring is all about.”

Student affairs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Also, that year the program’s retention rate of Latino students was 18% higher than the college’s general retention rate. The aims of the CAMP at Washington State University (WSU) are first-year completion, second-year retention and successful graduation. It has done that with an 86% success rate for the 2022-23 academic year.

Tutoring

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 17, 2023

It includes support for academic and non-academic challenges via an OMD program coordinator; life skills training; a mentor; and financial support up to $1,000 a year for students who meet expectations. And the mentor is there to give advice, wisdom, and encouragement, said Sohoni and Malcom X President David A.

Mentoring

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.

STEM education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2024

Mentoring is not a stronghold of a lot of primary investigators, and the lack of mentoring puts a lot of pressure on people who are already pressured. At PSU, he ran a mentoring program and worked with 15 different mentees at any given time, he says. You see pressure across the board, regardless of race or gender.

Mentoring

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Martin APA Task Force Report on Promotion, Tenure and Retention of Faculty of Color in Psychology details the many obstacles that psychological science faculty from underrepresented groups face, including being tasked with additional responsibilities, hostile work environments, and biased evaluations. Dr. Michelle Y.

Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

It seeks to provide information about successful strategies, explore mentoring programs that enable the success of the young men, and to provide the latest research of the methods higher education institutions can employ to increase access, persistence, and retention and graduation rates.

Retention

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 10, 2024

Through campus partnerships, support programs, and academic interventions, she has led advances in student retention, persistence and graduation with the goal of eliminating equity gaps for our most vulnerable students.

Advising

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 5, 2024

Across higher education, the desire for diversity among student populations is usually the responsibility of recruitment efforts but falls short in retention strategies. It is the institution’s responsibility to ensure long-term success and retention. However, there is an oversight that continues to happen.

Retention

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

educational leadership & policy analysis, University of Wisconsin-Madison Career mentors: Dr. Rachelle Winkle-Wagner, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Dr. Alberta M. Another is “Culturally Responsive Mentoring: a Psychosociocultural Perspective on Sustaining Students of Color Career Aspirations in STEM,” which she is co-authoring.

Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 11, 2024

Andes said that Radford’s grant submission prioritized “enhanced student services in mental health and mentoring,” which made Radford’s proposal stand out. Radford plans to increase its retention rates by 5% this cohort, and likewise increase its graduation rate, said Trageser.

Low income student

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

There is tutoring and mentoring, and Espiritu designed a model in which second-year students mentor first-year students. This continues after graduation when students attending four-year institutions mentor second-year EPW students. One secret of our program’s exponential growth is retention,” says Espiritu.

Mentoring

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The culturally reflective mentoring will fill a critical gap in how universities meet the needs of all doctoral students by advancing retention practices and building social capital.” As the largest historically Black university in the nation, N.C.

Grant

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 1, 2023

The report notes that the implementation of peer mentoring, paid work-based learning, building partnerships for intentional and inclusive hiring, and elevating career services and DEIB (diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging) to be organizational priorities. This includes peer-to-peer mentoring as well as connection to alumni.

Mentoring

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Ford envisions him having an impact on recruitment and retention. Leyva teaches and mentors undergraduate and graduate students. mathematics education Career mentors: Dr. Dan Battey, Rutgers University; Dr. Ilana Horn, Vanderbilt University; and Dr. Nicole M. He’s bringing innovative approaches. mathematics education; and Ph.D.,

Mathematics

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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.

Retention

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 9, 2024

The absence of African American male role models and mentors in the spaces of higher education and professional settings who can provide guidance and inspiration further exacerbates this issue. This can result in feelings of isolation, discrimination, and alienation, which negatively impact academic performance and retention rates.

Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The report, titled “Unblocking the Pipeline: Supporting the Retention, Progression and Promotion of Black Early-Career Academics,” was the culmination of a monthslong survey of Black ECAs by the Higher Education Policy Institute, a U.K. think tank. Both Burt and Patton Davis agree that most U.S.

Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Although women publish less than men, they do more of the sort of necessary work that isn’t respected by promotion boards, like mentoring and service activities. This program will feature time for faculty to learn from their mentors as well as professional development workshops, including one on grant-writing.

Grant

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2023

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. Additionally, more than four dozen faculty will be V-FIRST mentors.

University

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.

Retention

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

Mentorship Part of the grant’s funds will be used to replicate a peer mentoring program that already exists on UConn’s main campus in Storrs, Connecticut. We know that there are certain issues that we want to tackle in the mentoring program. It will also be hiring a full-time program coordinator to help manage the grant’s efforts.

Mentoring

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 26, 2023

This includes working on retention strategies that emphasize information on financial aid and mental health services as well as continuing to build a sense of belonging. Another support group, the Hispanic Organization for Growth, Advancement and Retention, has focused on family engagement. She notes it helps build community.

Tutoring

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The framework encourages decisionmakers to set data goals for implementing programs and practices and measuring impact that reflects change to the access, retention, completion, and/or workforce statistics for the employee and student groups. Pierce College (WA) is revamping its faculty hiring and tenure process.

Equity

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. Once students transition out of that first-year format, the success and retention office continues to work with them through graduation. “We

Retention

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 7, 2023

In fact, most studies concerning African Americans have focused on the retention of students or faculty (Wolfe & Dilworth, 2015). 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.

Community college

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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.

Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The students who are accepted into the college will complete their General Education (GE) classes there and will be taught in small classes and mentored by mostly Black Sacramento State faculty members. Wood — whose research focuses on racial equity in education — saw an opportunity.

Placement