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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SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Although 82% of institutions have a designated point of contact for student veterans (Department of Veteran Affairs, 2018), determining how students find the point of contact and what their experiences are can provide valuable information for recruitment and retention.

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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.

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AUGUST 17, 2023

We added new technology; we did more virtual recruitment, so students didn’t have to visit the campus,” said Hudson. “We Khala Granville, director of undergraduate admission and recruitment at Morgan State University in Maryland, said the university has seen a significant increase in application volume as well as admission offers.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 7, 2023

Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC) has received $75,000 to increase retention, completion, and transfer success for male students of color. Dr. Sunni L. As it stands now, Black and Latino male students are approximately 45% of CBCC’s male student population but only 6.9% of the Honors Program population. The goal is at least 15%.

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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.

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JANUARY 17, 2023

James Runcie, CEO and co-founder of Ed Advancement, said he hopes Ed Advance and the HBCU Dx program shows how CRMs offer a sustainable way to improve HBCU enrollment and retention. “A The first wave of the program tackled the enrollment funnel, simplifying the application process from initial recruitment to enrollment.

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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.

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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

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 10, 2024

In addition to her service as AALS President, Testy served as a member of the AALS Executive Committee from 2012 to 2017 and on the Committee on Recruitment and Retention of Minority Law Teachers and Students from 2007 to 2009. She also chaired the planning committee for the AALS Workshop for New Law School Teachers in 2010.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

The University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff (UAPB) will be part of a federal initiative to recruit and retain underrepresented minority students in food and agriculture careers. The ability to afford tuition is a major factor impacting student enrollment, retention, and persistence to graduation.” Dr. Nina Lyon-Bennett As part of the U.S.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2022

PRMPR plans to recruit and graduate 12 underrepresented STEM Ph.D. Integration with LSAMP programs and STEM feeder schools will enhance our recruitment of well-prepared undergraduate students who will enter and complete our doctoral programs,” Smith-Jackson said. Researcher (PFMPR) Bridge to the Doctorate (BD) program.

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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

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Levine Issues include recruitment and retention, professional development, and the role of minority-serving institutions (MSIs). The American Educational Research Association (AERA) has released a handbook discussing issues surrounding teachers of color, Indigenous teachers, and ethnoracial diversity. Dr. Felice J.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 29, 2023

“Research and experience reveal that diverse leaders have significant benefits for schools, including defining and articulating a clear vision and mission, increasing recruitment and retention rates, curating positive school cultures and climates, elevating teachers’ voices, increasing family and community engagement, and most importantly enhancing (..)

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AUGUST 11, 2023

Department of Education is stepping up with $368 million in new grant funding to aid teacher retention and recruitment and improve diversity. Pay remains a persistent challenge to recruitment and retention. The nation’s colleges and universities need support from multiple stakeholders to address both challenges.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Ford envisions him having an impact on recruitment and retention. Also, his research explores issues of equity, STEM identity, and classroom experiences among minoritized populations, which I think is crucial to informing what can be done to recruit more underrepresented students into STEM, particularly through math.”

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APRIL 24, 2024

It is truly a collaborative outreach model, and we focus our recruitment on the benefits of attending MDC and the wonderful access students have to FIU while at MDC.” The program’s successes are clear in the data — C4S students have a higher rate of retention in both fall-to-spring semesters and fall-to-fall.

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JANUARY 2, 2023

The money will go towards funding efforts to improve enrollment and retention at tribal colleges and universities (TCUs). The Lilly grant will allow the College Fund to expand “Culture at the Heart: An Indigenous Approach to Enrollment and Retention,” a pilot program that had funded efforts at five TCUs to attract and keep students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Columbia University’s Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons (VP&S) has established the VP&S Latino Association, a group that aims to foster development, presence, and belonging of the Latino community at the medical school.

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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.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Wood is hoping to recruit some of those students to his campus. “In Recruiters are pushing the college as a selling point at high schools across California, and the university has started a social media campaign, hoping to become a magnet for interested students. Thousands of Black students will now see their dreams become a reality."

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NOVEMBER 9, 2022

He developed a robust recruitment and retention team and had long conversations with all of his faculty and staff to impress upon them a “healthy anxiety” about their enrollment numbers, he said. This enrollment isn’t an admissions or recruitment issue, it’s everyone’s concern,” said Towner.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 12, 2023

Penn State has had ongoing issues in recruitment and retention of Black faculty, something that Black faculty have repeatedly mentioned, West said. “For me to remain as head under such injurious conditions would, to evoke Dean Lang’s discourse and design, amount to accepting the assignment of a fool’s errand.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 4, 2023

Unfortunately, HBCUs have not been immune to the hiring and retention challenges impacting higher education recently. As a result, some HBCUs have been forced to rely on a limited staff which is compounded by using obsolete and less efficient practices in key areas like recruitment and enrollment, student success, and fundraising.

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DECEMBER 13, 2022

The regulation may put faculty recruitment and retention at risk as well, according to Dr. Danaya Wright, UF professor of law. “What the Board of Governors has proposed with this statewide tenure review is deeply problematic," Gothard said. "It It puts the entire decision-making process about tenure in the hands of one person."

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

This plays a key role inhibiting the recruitment and retention of skilled professionals. Despite the importance of their role, early educators face low wages, with the national median worker earning just $13 an hour. Research has shown that pay for early educators lag behind many other professions, highlighting the need for change.

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MARCH 31, 2023

The University of Phoenix has proven itself, through strikingly low graduation and retention rates, to be unsuccessful at helping students reach their educational goals, anathema to what we do here,” University of Arkansas in Fayetteville’s faculty senate wrote in a Mar. Phoenix has faced allegations of fraud from thousands of students.

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Active Minds

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Our hub offers workshop sessions where students can learn about topics like retention and recruitment for school clubs, how to build positive partnerships with school administration, and understanding the impacts of unhealthy relationships.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 23, 2022

She is responsible for developing and implementing strategies, programs and activities to enhance access, inclusion and retention of a diverse student body, faculty and staff. She brings more than a decade of experience in higher education leadership roles that have required strategic planning and execution of diversity-related efforts.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The THRIVE Index will help UVM set realistic goals, ones that put just as great an emphasis on the retention of diverse students, faculty and staff, as well as their recruitment. “I Ahbed added that he is excited to use this data to begin UVM’s first ever, data-driven, DEI strategic planning process.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2023

We have a very high underrepresented minority presence in our student body, but it’s not because we have special recruitment for that. It’s because we have special recruitment for folks who want an alternative to the traditional experience. In terms of retention, Carter says hiring supportive faculty is a huge component. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 26, 2023

Colleen Perry Keith, GBC’s president, approved funding to expand recruitment to students in Puerto Rico. 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. She notes it helps build community.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The Ohio State University College of Nursing uses its Summer Institute for Future Nurses as a recruiting tool for high school students. Information was not provided about new nursing hire recruitment. She says employers need to create conditions that support recruitment and retention.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2023

One would require each of the schools in the CSU system to set recruitment goals for Black students based on their representation in local regions as well as to make plans for how to achieve them. Perhaps most significantly, the committee recommended an increase in the recruitment and support of Black faculty and staff.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Sustainable recruitment and retention programs/plans for prospective/current scholars. Now we have a playbook that we’ve developed to shop to other districts,” says Jean, who adds that recruiting the students into the university that enrolls approximately 23,000 students is just the first step.

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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). Trustees should intentionally place measurable expectations and hold leadership accountable for hiring/recruitment practices, and conduct celebrations of diversity advocates/champions.

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