Supporting Student Success

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The graphic below summarizes promising priorities for institutional action to promote wellbeing, equity and learning among marginalized sociodemographic groups in postsecondary education. This can include institutionally (faculty / staff) supported student groups (e.g. Stress and Mental Health in Marginalized Sociodemographic Groups.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Dr. Alvin Poussaint For more than five decades, Poussaint served as a beacon of change at Harvard Medical School (HMS), where he worked as faculty associate dean for student affairs and founding director of the HMS Office of Recruitment & Multicultural Affairs.

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The University Innovation Alliance

OCTOBER 27, 2023

In our mission to elevate student success and educational equity, the UIA sometimes comes face to face with the uncomfortable idea that the institution itself may be part of the problem it’s trying to solve. Is Institutional Culture Part of the Problem? If you need evidence that we're the problem, that's it right there.

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EAB

APRIL 14, 2023

Even more impressively, there has been a 4% improvement in completion rates when compared to the fall 2008 cohort. 9% increase in six-year completion rates for students who started in fall 2015 compared to fall 2016. rate for students starting in fall 2009, compared to 52.4% for students starting in fall 2020. Here’s what we learned.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 12, 2024

The Berkeley-based nonprofit organization promotes social equity through education, using a cradle-to-career reach across four distinct demographic groups. In 2008, he was a board member for the Obama presidential transition with general responsibility for healthcare, education, and immigration. Gavin Newsom.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 11, 2023

This entails being anti-racist, equity-minded, and culturally responsive, as we have written about in Diverse: Issues In Higher Education and several other scholarly outlets. The more resistance to change, the more effort is needed by faculty and presenters.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 22, 2023

We have a long way to go to achieve equity in the academy for Black males. To note, Black males have the highest unemployment rate in the nation. These concerns are not new; Tinto’s (1993) and Tracey and Sedlacek’s (1984) groundbreaking studies and theoretical scholarship remain relevant today.

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John Hopkins University Student Well-Being Blog

AUGUST 22, 2023

While privacy is always at the center of the work of all Hopkins staff, those staff who are confidential are able hold on to the details you share (who, what, where, when) and provide help and support without the requirement of any involvement by the Office of Institutional Equity (OIE). Rainn.org, 2021. Campus Sexual Violence Statistics.

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John Hopkins University Student Well-Being Blog

AUGUST 21, 2024

While privacy is always at the center of the work of all Hopkins staff, those staff who are confidential are able hold on to the details you share (who, what, where, when) and provide help and support without the requirement of any involvement by the Office of Institutional Equity (OIE). Title IX guidelines changed on August 1, 2024.

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