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Reducing Barriers Like Standardized Test Requirements Expands Access

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Macalester studied the issue, and we have decided that remaining test optional is an effective way to make our college more accessible to the greatest number of qualified students. Test-required and test-optional admissions policies yielded similar predictive power for academic success. Dr. Suzanne M. Dr. Suzanne M.

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Measuring What Matters in Student Success

IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

ED’s latest Postsecondary Student Success Grant Program application includes performance measures recommended by IHEP research By Jessica Vivar Earning a college degree is the best path to turning career aspirations into a successful livelihood and financially secure, fulfilling life. The result?

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Native Son Propels Opportunities for Kentucky Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

CPE’s 2024 Higher Education Matters Progress Report shows the graduation rate for URM in the Kentucky Community & Technical College System (KCTCS) increased 15 percentage points from the 2016-17 academic year to the 2022-23 academic year. Dr. Amanda Ellis joined CPE in 2020 as vice president of K-12 policies and programs.

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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The path to higher education success has many obstacles and barriers for Latinos across the U.S. Brown, is to advance Latino student success in higher education by promoting Latino student achievement, conducting analysis to inform educational policies and advancing institutional practices. Santiago and Sarita E.

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Examples of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Brown, Excelencia in Education has the stated mission to accelerate Latino student success in higher education. It has done that with an 86% success rate for the 2022-23 academic year. In 2016, EAP reduced the number of courses in its course sequence, increased tutoring services and added embedded tutoring.

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Transfer Enrollments Increased Fall 2023

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

For students who started community college in 2016, which means a portion of their six years overlapped with COVID, 35% obtained a credential. This form of upward transfer, that really represents an increase in access for lower-income students to more selective and more competitive colleges,” said Shapiro. “It In fall of 2023, 5.3%

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The University Innovation Alliance's Three Playbooks for Student Success

The University Innovation Alliance

The University Innovation Alliance's Three Playbooks for Student Success. The University Innovation Alliance (UIA) operates as a multi-campus laboratory for student success innovation. MAAPS demonstrated the value of an accessible, coordinated approach to advising. Thu, 12/15/2022 - 06:00. College to Career. Completion Grants.