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Mapping Transfer Pathways: How Data and Equitable Admissions Policies can Support Transfer Student Success

IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

While t ransfer pathways can offer students like Coleen an affordable and accessible route to earning a four-year degree, they too often fall short of delivering on this promise. For every 100 students who enroll in community college, 31 percent transfer to a four-year institution and just 14.6 2009, October).

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Conference Welcomes New Members Fighting for Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Energy and excitement filled the McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago, as over two thousand community college leaders, faculty, and staff gathered to share stories of access, equity, and inclusion at the 2023 Dream conference. ATD] staff and coaches will learn as much as we can about what you’re already doing around student success.

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Moving the Needle on Graduation Rates

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

These are the four pillars of transformation, ingredients critical to the mission of Complete College America (CCA), the advocacy organization working to improve college graduation rates since 2009. There’s not enough use of data in an ongoing way to move the needle on student success measures.

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Study Shows Limit to Benefits of Online Classes for Community College Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Justin Ortagus, an associate professor of higher education administration and policy and the director of the Institute of Higher Education at the University of Florida, examined over 40,000 student transcripts from a diverse, high-enrollment community college from between 2009 and 2019.

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Related to student success, CEED has a robust center that includes tutoring, mentoring, and advocacy for students to ensure they are on the path to achievement and graduation,” adds Dr. Karen Eley Sanders, associate vice provost for College Access. “For a lot of them, it comes down to a sense of community.”

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Native Son Propels Opportunities for Kentucky Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The graduation rate for URM at four-year public institutions (4YP) increased 9 percentage points from 2016-17 to 2022-23, and the graduation rate for low-income students increased 10 percentage points in that time period. The ongoing goal is to keep building pipelines for students. Offutt has been with CPE since 2018.

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Athletics and Academics

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Access to sports Growing up in Brooklyn, New York, Nzingha Prescod initially didn’t see many sports options, but at age 8 she found her way to The Peter Westbrook Foundation, which offered fencing to New York City kids. It also seeks to improve access to quality education for kids in under-resourced communities. years at St.