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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Incoming transfer students can enroll in courses early to guarantee that they have access to coursework. Necessary support is provided through GANAS (Gaining Access ’AND Academic Success), an innovative access and retention program that serves community college transfer students.

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Credentials Awarded Drop for Second Year in a Row

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It could be the result of the gradual decline in postsecondary enrollment seen in the nation since around 2010, or a result from the severe enrollment drops during the COVID-19 pandemic, seen particularly at community colleges. Doug Shapiro, executive director of the Clearinghouse Research Center.

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas, partners with over 62 high schools across the state, facilitating college access for Latino, rural, and other marginalized communities. That sends a powerful message to students and also the faculty that they’re valued, and it has led to retention and growth.” Hawkins Jr. Hawkins, Jr.

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Fostering Success

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Alexander is very accessible, very approachable for students,” says Dr. Claudia Salcedo, who adds that administrators can sometimes be perceived as separate from the students they serve. It is providing greater access for students from low-income, first-generation backgrounds. Coming from such a background drives him. “I

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Puerto Rican Resilience Is a Lesson for the Mainland

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Being an HSI gives institutions access to grants and funding that must be used to better support and serve Latinx students. UAGM - Gurabo’s retention rate between 2016 and 2020 remained at or above 75%. Between 2010 and 2020, U.S. 6 and 7, 2020 at a 5.8 magnitude and 6.4 magnitude respectively. Census tracked an 11.8%

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Providing Wraparound Services for UCONN’s Asian American Studies

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This marks an increase of more than 15,000 Asian people in the county since 2010. Mental Health TEAS will bring aboard an additional full-time clinical therapist as well to help boost Asian American student retention and completion. Katie Martin, an assistant campus director on the Hartford campus, serves as the grant’s other co-PI.

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Proactive Student Success Culture Improves Outcomes for All at the University of Cincinnati

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Amid this steady decline, the University of Cincinnati continues improving retention and graduation rates, setting enrollment records, achieving diversity goals, and closing equity gaps. percentage point lift in first-year retention from 2012 to 2020 and even stronger gains for second and third-year retention A 7.7