Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 30, 2025

Community colleges across the nation are grappling with how to integrate artificial intelligence into their operations and curricula as students increasingly use AI tools while faculty and administrators lag behind in adoption, according to a new report from Achieving the Dream.

Community college

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 22, 2025

Seventy-one percent of respondents said decision-making and AI initiatives are overwhelmingly led by college or university administrations, with many describing administrators pushing AI integration into research, teaching, and policy with little meaningful input from faculty, staff, or students.

Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 30, 2025

That explains quite a bit about Gomezs scholarship, teaching methods and service. Dr. Anne Marie Todd, Dean of the College of Social Sciences, says Gomezs research provides the foundation for his teaching and service. He also facilitates a leadership retreat for Chicanx/Latinx Student Success Center, also known as Centro.

Teaching

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 24, 2025

A growing number of administrators are trying to offer that help to students but struggle to afford the costs. My hope is that this report spurs action and increases funding available to support student success at community colleges. I believe addresssing the informational barriers alone will close a lot of the gap.

Community college

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 30, 2025

That explains quite a bit about Gomezs scholarship, teaching methods and service. Dr. Anne Marie Todd, Dean of the College of Social Sciences, says Gomezs research provides the foundation for his teaching and service. He also facilitates a leadership retreat for Chicanx/Latinx Student Success Center, also known as Centro.

Teaching

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2025

Yet, for students with disabilitiesincluding neurodivergent learnersthese institutions still present significant challenges. Nachman recommends that instructors gather input from students at the start of each semester in order to tailor teaching strategies to ensure a more inclusive learning environment.

Inclusion

Timely MD

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Organize, plan, prioritize Learning how to organize, plan, and prioritize time wisely can help students manage their stress and stay on top of their workload. This is a skill that you can build into the learning experience, both from the student success lens and in the academic classroom setting.

Student success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Brown, is to advance Latino student success in higher education by promoting Latino student achievement, conducting analysis to inform educational policies and advancing institutional practices. This is a paid, on-campus internship for undocumented students at CSUSB. “By

Retention

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 14, 2025

And how do they inform the ways I navigate campus culture and focus on student success? First, I believe a college presidents leadership success can be measured based on the impact that a leader has on the lives of the people they serve.

Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

An example of where even completing a FAFSA—a requirement of North Star Promise—can clash with Native American culture is provided by Tiffany Gusbeth, vice president of student success services of the American Indian College Fund (College Fund). That they have folks that look like them teaching at those four-year universities.

Higher education

Knack

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Although debates around the value of a college degree continue, research and real-world outcomes demonstrate that higher education remains essential for teaching critical thinking—a skill increasingly necessary in both personal and civic life.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Teaching critical thinking skills and an understanding of civic institutions are essential components of a well-rounded education that can empower Latino males to make informed decisions in every area of life, from voting to career choices. Dr. Victor B.

Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 6, 2025

The "learning college" concept O'Banion pioneered emphasized placing learning first in all institutional decisions, fundamentally transforming how community colleges approach student success. O'Banion's career trajectory reflected his deep commitment to community college education at every level.

Community college

Civitas Learning

APRIL 29, 2025

At Civitas Learning, we’re always looking for ways to make student success tools more accessible and intuitive. Why This Matters Time and ease of use are critical for users balancing teaching, advising, and administrative tasks.

Advising

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 28, 2025

The students were grateful for support from counselors, from faculty, Tomaneng said. We already know that DEI programming increases student engagement and leads to student success. A few of these graduation celebrations were for international students. They have feared revocation of their visas.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 15, 2025

As deputy chancellor of California Community Colleges, she fosters policies and practice that support student success and college effectiveness. Organizers say 12 people had registered by late April out of a maximum 35 slots.

Instruction

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 5, 2025

These reforms included “seven breakthrough solutions” such as “rating professors based on student assessments, separating teaching and research, and using revenue as one measure of whether a program or class should continue” (Goodwyn, 2014, para. 3–4; Ramsey, 2013). Dr. Shawntal Z.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 13, 2025

Student Angelyca Sarrol says the program has given her a place to focus on my studies while also learning more about my culture. I have met so many amazing people who continue to teach me new things and push me to be a better person, says Sarrol, who now serves as a peer mentor in the program.

Tutoring

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Broadly speaking, the areas where faculty typically have had autonomy and academic freedomcurriculum, deciding who teaches what subjects and researchcould be impacted by anti DEI agendas. He said Gays resignation teaches us that nobody is safe, particularly when youre a first at your institution. presidential nominee.

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 8, 2025

In combination with supporting the academic recovery and college preparedness of Generation P learners, a term that now describes students through online platforms during the pandemic, educators are in need of new strategies to achieve equitable student success among students. As recently written by Dr. Charles L.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 30, 2025

No government regardless of which party is in power should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue, President Alan M. Harvards decision to resist the Trump administration has been greeted with relief, gratitude, and praise.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 26, 2024

What does student success mean? Some colleges associate student success with high graduation rates, others focus on alumni achievements, and then other colleges emphasize test scores and grades. Foundations continue to focus on awarding scholarships to students who navigate and matriculate in college with ease.

Student success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 6, 2023

As associate director of the university’s Center for Advancement of Teaching, Rahming oversees FSU’s Learning Assistant Program, which has yielded impressive results in helping students excel in some of the school’s high-enrollment, lower-division courses that provide the foundation for learning in late courses.

Student success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 9, 2024

Colclough hatched an idea — what if they could develop professional learning environments easily accessible for all faculty in North Carolina’s community colleges, and what if that development could move the needle on student success? They’re in the classroom right now, teaching,” said Jaeger.

Teaching

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 24, 2024

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. In the opening keynote to the conference, Dr. Michael A.

Student success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

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.

Student success coach

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Educators from a variety of community colleges shared how student success and sense of belonging is vital to meeting their local workforce needs, and how their unique geographic locations, demographic growth, and regional needs have influenced how they connect with big industry and small to mid-sized businesses.

Student success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

As a result, DFW rates declined and retention rates improved for students who took a course taught by an Equity Champion, with a sizable decrease in retention equity gaps. Dr. Willie McKether What we did not expect was that by actively trying to improve students’ experiences, we also improved the faculty experience.

Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 23, 2024

Interviewees attributed their successes in math to Jesus Arrizon, an award-winning math teacher at SJH whose work has been recognized nationally, including by the Obama administration. The interviewees also expressed appreciation for the ways that SJH respected and supported their families and cultural backgrounds as Mexican Americans.

Student success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

And with those assets, she has sought to improve student success at CGU and help coach rising student affairs leaders amid issues of turnover and fatigue in the field. These skills have proven to be a good fit to CGU’s trans-disciplinary approaches to problem solving, she continues.

Therapist

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Aspen subsequently began two intensive fellowships that select senior administrators with the qualities of exceptional presidents and teach lessons from the field about how to achieve exceptional and equitable levels of student success.

Leadership development

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Morgan State University, a Historically Black university in Baltimore, has been awarded the 2022 ETS/CGS Award for Innovation in Promoting Success in Graduate Education: From Admission through Completion from The Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) and ETS. Its instructional curriculum is built on a series of four courses.

Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Elizabeth Dooley is a professor of exceptional student education in the School of Teacher Education at the University of Central Florida College of Community Innovation and Education. Teaching Learning and Development Track. She is the academic program director for the Ph.D.

University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 15, 2024

faculty, advisors, peers, ethnic organizations, targeted support programs) impact the outcomes of historically marginalized and underserved student populations,” he says. Institutional environments can affect college student success and failure. Notwithstanding, there is life after students leave campus.

Scholarship

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 11, 2024

The colleges will enter ATD’s Foundations of Transformation core engagement, an intensive three-year program, where they will work with ATD’s expert coaches to build essential capacities for student success, focusing on matters including equity, data, teaching and learning, leadership, community partnerships, and student supports.

Community college

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Since its founding, Achieving the Dream has been focused on helping institutions deliver more equitable results in student success. It then projects this inequality into labor markets, housing markets, and local school districts, guaranteeing the intergenerational transmission of race and class privilege.” Francesca I.

Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Dr. Roberto Rubalcaba, an associate professor at San Diego City College who teaches gateway math courses, was unsurprised by the findings. I’ve heard professors bragging, ‘Oh, I only had five students pass this class,’” said Rubalcaba. It’s an environment where students have fear [and are] doubting themselves.

Teaching