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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. We’ve brought back a lot of students.”

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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. Funding for low-income students in Kentucky’s performance funding model has increased.

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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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Developing a Strengths-Based Campus: Successes, Challenges, and Lessons Learned

Supporting Student Success

Out of all the “personality assessments” I have taken, CliftonStrengths resonates with me most because of the personalized results and their seemingly infinite combinations – the odds that someone will have the exact same Top 5 results in the exact same order is 1 in 33 million (Leibbrandt, 2013). Mindset: The new psychology of success.

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