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Student Affairs Professionals Gather to Discuss Future of the Profession

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

With the goal of infusing scholarship into practice, thousands of student affairs practitioners from colleges and universities across the nation gathered in Boston to strategize about the future of the profession. My first NASPA conference was focused on the lack of current research on minority student retention.

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Pride in the Halls

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A 2022 report from the UCLA School of Law Williams Institute and the Point Foundation, an LGBTQ scholarship fund, noted that 32.6% At the time, there was only an unapproved (not officially recognized by the university) LGBTQ student group. Rainbow cords are distributed that students are welcome to wear at the campus-wide graduation.

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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

California State University, San Bernardino Over the years, as enrollment of Latinx students at California State University, San Bernadino (CSUSB) grew, the university implemented programs to serve student needs. By example, initially funded in 2007 by a grant from the U.S. of degrees were awarded to Latinx students.

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

We’ve also provided emergency housing, financial support for off-campus temporary housing and scholarships for DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) students,” says Morishita. There is also a family resource center that supports undocumented students.

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To Weather the Storms of Higher Education, Remember Why You’re There

Supporting Student Success

But we tend to get lost on the why because it is personal and squishy—there’s no empirical evidence you can cite, no scholarship to drive your formulation. After all, research has shown that learners whose mothers have earned a college credential are more likely to attain one themselves (Atwell, et al, 2007; Yakaboski, 2010).