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Diversity, Equity and Student Success Conference Plots Agenda for the Future

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In the opening keynote to the conference, Dr. In his speech titled, "From Mirage to Oasis: The Role of Higher Education in Advancing Opportunity for All," Baston noted that food and housing insecurity and access to the internet, are among the litany of challenges that continue to serve as barriers to student success. Dr. Michael A.

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Achieving the Dream Convening Highlights Student Success

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ORLANDO— Achieving the Dream (ATD), the national reform network of more than 300 community colleges committed to increasing student success, kicked off its annual convening this week showcasing the powerful narrative of its member institutions. Embedded in its work is a concentrated focus on equity and inclusion.

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Workgroup Offers 13 Recommendations to Advance CSU Student Success

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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. strategies that directly support Black student success; 2.)

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Bill to Codify Postsecondary Student Success Grants Met with Support and Criticism from Scholars and Advocates

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Legislators are looking to enshrine the Postsecondary Student Success Grant (PSSG) program, a student outcomes-centered federal effort, into law through new legislation this March. Although the effort has received support generally, some higher ed scholars and advocates have levied some criticisms and concerns about it.

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Diversity Abroad Conference Focuses on Inclusive Student Success

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Centering student equity and pushing institutions to be more intentional in building inclusive student success, is a central part of the five-day convening. “The “There’s work as a field, as a sector that we have to do in order to ensure that equitably, our numbers are rebounding.”

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Partnership Focuses on Enhancing Student Success Coaching Program

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The University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC) is looking to enhance its student success coaching program as its student demographics change. And it is partnering with student coaching non-profit InsideTrack to do so.

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Five Questions That College Leaders Should Be Asking to Improve Student Success in 2024

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To better serve these learners, institutions must build programs for the busy adults and first-generation students who make up significant and growing shares of today’s college population. Institutions must respect this reality by maximizing flexibility for learners and structure their programs to promote student success.