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How Being a Mother and Academic Helped Me Fix Higher Education’s Transfer Crisis

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The purpose of an integrated university system is to offer an array of options for students which transfer seamlessly across all colleges. In 2013, the University implemented the Pathways initiative which established the seamless transfer of general education courses across its undergraduate colleges.

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Report Shows Increases in Retention and Persistence

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

for incoming students who began fall 2013 to 55% for those who began fall 2022. Shapiro noted that community colleges saw the sharpest declines in enrollment and persistence at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, especially among part-time students, and that is now rebounding. percentage points from 51.3%

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The Erosion of DEI in Higher Education: A Threat to Progress and National Strength

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Recent studies have shown that exposure to diverse perspectives and experiences in college settings leads to increased empathy, critical thinking, and a broader worldview among students. 2019) found that academic engagement and psychological capital resources were significant antecedents of academic performance among university students.

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Native Son Propels Opportunities for Kentucky Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

He became executive vice president in 2013 and assumed the presidency in 2018. If something is even perceived as being not fully designed for all students, Thompson says a redesign is called for to foster greater student success. The ongoing goal is to keep building pipelines for students.

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Dr. Mildred Garcia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Committee on Measures of Student Success. In 2010, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan appointed García to the U.S.

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How Career Services Can Support Student Mental Health

Symplicity

The Healthy Minds network released a study in 2022 which found that in the last eight years, the mental health of college students has steadily declined with 135percent increase in depression and 110% increase in anxiety from 2013-2021. This paired with a saddening report from the JED Foundation, 25.5

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2022: Reemerging, Growing, and Evolving

The University Innovation Alliance

As we approach our ten-year anniversary of accelerating student success innovation across higher education to drive social and economic mobility nationwide, I am grateful and humbled that this movement has expanded and evolved to inspire so many institutions and student success leaders beyond the UIA.