Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The previous two versions of the “Pickens Playbook” 7 College Readiness Moves to Make for Student Success and Year One at Tennessee State University (TSU) covered the journey of George Pickens during his last year at Miami Northwestern Senior High School and first year at Tennessee State University (TSU).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The Universities of Wisconsin (UW) Board of Regents rejected a deal that the school system had made with state Republicans to halt UW diversity efforts in exchange for funding and employee raises. Wisconsin Republicans have demonstrated clear opposition against the Universities of Wisconsin’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts.

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Civitas Learning

JUNE 1, 2023

The Strategy: Adopt an integrated and holistic student success management model and implement a unified student success platform to make personalized support feasible at scale. But dispersed student information across multiple systems made implementing an integrated and collaborative student success network challenging.

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Civitas Learning

MAY 14, 2024

Subscribe: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Youtube Music | Full Transcript Student success remains a top priority in higher education, but many institutions face challenges in implementing strategic plans that engage both students and staff. Here’s a glimpse into Northwest’s process for advancing student success from the ground up.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 15, 2023

Latino student success organization Excelencia in Education has announced finalists for the 2023 Examples of Excelencia , highlighting U.S. higher ed programs that intentionally support Latino students with culturally relevant, evidence-based practices.

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Civitas Learning

MAY 14, 2024

Subscribe: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Youtube Music | Full Transcript Student success remains a top priority in higher education, but many institutions face challenges in implementing strategic plans that engage both students and staff. Here’s a glimpse into Northwest’s process for advancing student success from the ground up.

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Knack

MARCH 6, 2025

A time when students lived on campus, attended classes in person, and had schedules built around a traditional college experience. But todays students are anything but traditional. If colleges and universities want to help every student succeed, they need to rethink how academic support is delivered.

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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. It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 24, 2024

He went to the dean of the College of Education at Central Connecticut State University and said, “I need help, or I’m out.” The day’s panels and speakers discussed a wide range of issues and provided attendees with information on raising the bar for advising and student support. There must be diverse hires.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 18, 2023

Over 1,000 HBCU college administrators, including 40 presidents of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), assembled in Atlanta this week to kick off the United Negro College Fund’s 2nd annual UNITE Summit for Black Educators. Last month’s U.S. During remarks on Monday, Dr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 1, 2025

Stout, recipient of the 2025 Diverse Champions Award, has focused her career on helping community colleges achieve outstanding student success. She saw that certain processes and procedures, such as schedules and transcript evaluations, could be unique and not simply replications from four-year institutions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Ortagus believes that the results fit with what we know about the lives of community college students and the limits of virtual interaction. “It It makes sense that a flexible course schedule allows community college students to be more likely to make progress towards a degree and ultimately graduate,” he said.

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Civitas Learning

MAY 7, 2025

A lot can stand in the way of a students decision to enroll for the next termfrom a required course not being offered to scheduling conflicts with work. Even the smallest issues can have a big impact on your ability to retain students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Back in September, Western Michigan University—a public research institution located in the southwestern corner of the state—released its fall 2024 enrollment and retention numbers, much to the delight of the school’s provost, Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig. Black student enrollment, for example, went up 2.3% in Hispanic enrollment.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Growing up in Puerto Rico, she was fascinated with math, but couldn’t imagine studying it at a university until she met a Puerto Rican mathematician who validated her vision. in mathematics at Arizona State University. in mathematics at Arizona State University. The students identify and see themselves as that person.”

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Civitas Learning

APRIL 4, 2024

The Challenge: Facing declining retention and cumbersome scheduling, JAX State needed to address barriers to enrollment. The Strategy: Implement a seamless registration experience that facilitates student persistence to the next term, providing advisors additional time and opportunities to connect with students.

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Civitas Learning

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Jacksonville State University (JSU) recently faced a big decision: embrace its Student Information System’s (SIS) native registration functionality or invest in course scheduling software designed to create a student-centered academic planning and registration experience.

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Civitas Learning

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Institutions shifting their focus from solely graduating students to developing their full potential are redefining what student success truly means. Across the Civitas Learning community, institutions continuously assess how well they meet students’ needs and remove barriers to success.

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Civitas Learning

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Like many higher education institutions, DeVry is always working to improve student engagement, provide awareness of valuable student success resources, encourage the adoption of these success resources, and provide the necessary support around the clock when their students need it.

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APRIL 3, 2025

SUMMARY : Adaptable analytics empowers higher education leaders with real-time, actionable insights that evolve with changing circumstances, enabling smarter decisions, more effective planning, and stronger team collaboration to proactively support student success. The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) is a strong example.

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Civitas Learning

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The Outcomes: This ability to deepen their work has led to a better student experience, improved student services, and a more collaborative approach. Slippery Rock University (SRU), a regional comprehensive university in rural Pennsylvania, surfaced the need for a data-informed approach during its strategic planning process.

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Civitas Learning

MARCH 7, 2024

Civitas Learning’s Texas Leadership Workshop recently brought together leaders from ten different institutions across Texas and beyond to discuss student success strategies for higher education. With a network of nearly 400 colleges and universities, this resource is invaluable for enhancing outcomes.

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Civitas Learning

APRIL 26, 2024

The Strategy: Implement an end-to-end planning, scheduling, and registration system to make it easy for students to receive guidance and find the classes they need to complete their degree. Since its founding in 1905, Northwest Missouri State University (Northwest) has been renowned for cultivating educators, innovators, and leaders.

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Civitas Learning

AUGUST 28, 2023

The Strategy: Putting actionable insights at the fingertips of student success teams allowing them to deliver coordinated, proactive support to students throughout their academic journey.

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Civitas Learning

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Providing them with a unique opportunity — and an imperative — to provide pathways to social and economic mobility to students and the surrounding community. Amid this steady decline, the University of Cincinnati continues improving retention and graduation rates, setting enrollment records, achieving diversity goals, and closing equity gaps.

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Timely MD

JULY 2, 2024

More than one in three currently enrolled students have considered stopping out of their degree or credential program within the last six months, according to Gallup and Lumina Foundation’s State of Higher Education 2024 report. Why do some students persist while others fall back? Brown, Ph.D., ” Angela Stowe, Ph.D.

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Civitas Learning

AUGUST 10, 2023

But what makes some students persist to graduation and others not? In Civitas Learning’s most recent Student Success Impact Report , we examined a broad range of student success initiatives across 48 institutions. Academic advising is a bedrock of any student’s successful persistence toward graduation.

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Civitas Learning

MARCH 23, 2023

The Challenge: New student orientation course scheduling process overwhelmed students, prevented advisors from having meaningful student interactions, and made it harder to manage classroom space and observe bottlenecks in class scheduling effectively.

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Civitas Learning

MARCH 23, 2023

The Challenge: New student orientation course scheduling process overwhelmed students, prevented advisors from having meaningful student interactions, and made it harder to manage classroom space and observe bottlenecks in class scheduling effectively.

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Timely MD

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Inclusive care delivery can help break down these barriers and provide students with the resources they need to thrive. By implementing actionable strategies and best practices, colleges and universities can create an environment that supports all students’ mental health and well-being. At a place like Johnson C.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Blogs Looking to the future of advising: 6 takeaways from the 2023 NACADA conference The academic advising profession faces shrinking budgets, expanding student and administration expectations, and increasing turnover—all of which make it harder for institutions to think strategically about advising structure and staffing to support student success.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The spring and summer are when institutional leaders are doing project plans and budgets for the following academic year, so if opportunities are not already scheduled into the institutional plan, it makes it complicated to get the right people and resources in place to maximize the opportunity.” 2.

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Scholarship America

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

While we still tend to think of traditional college students as the “default,” the fact is more than half of all college attendees fall into one or more “non-traditional” categories. million undergrads enrolled in American colleges and universities were part-time attendees, and around 1/3 of all college attendees are age 25 or older.

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EAB

AUGUST 21, 2023

Lewis emphasizes that it’s crucial to acknowledge and harness this motivation to empower student-parents. Rather than viewing the challenges faced by student-parents as obstacles, universities and colleges should recognize them as opportunities.

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EAB

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Blogs Adult learners: who they are and what they want from college Across the last few years, colleges and universities have increasingly prioritized adult learner enrollment to offset declining undergraduate enrollment and diversify revenue streams.

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Knack

AUGUST 13, 2024

Today’s college students navigate a complex array of responsibilities, from coursework to personal commitments, all while trying to balance the financial demands of higher education.

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Civitas Learning

AUGUST 20, 2024

Subscribe: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Youtube Music | Full Transcript As colleges and universities strive for higher enrollment, educational leaders are implementing proactive strategies that not only get new students in the door but also help them persist and graduate.

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