Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2024

Student success experts have prescribed potential solutions to declining Black student enrollment and retention numbers in California’s public universities in a recent report published by The California State University (CSU) Office of the Chancellor.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2022

of those who began their first year of college in 2016 reached graduation within six years, a.1 Students who began in 2016 and finished in four years were likely unaffected by the pandemic, said Dr. Doug Shapiro, vice president of research at the National Student Clearinghouse. The report found that 62.3%

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JANUARY 19, 2023

Past studies have found that corequisite instruction improves retention, completion, and graduation rates for students regardless of their socio-economic background. In 2016, 78% of CUNY’s associate-degree seeking students were placed into remedial classes. We can see the results of reforms most clearly in math.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Also, that year the program’s retention rate of Latino students was 18% higher than the college’s general retention rate. Assistant professor and program coordinator Eleisha Moreno, who has worked with EAP since 2016, says this recognition from Excelencia in Education is validating.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 8, 2024

Central Oregon Community College (COCC) opened its current housing facility, Wickiup Hall, in 2016. Their fall-to-fall retention rate between fall 2022 and fall 2023 was actually 11% higher than commuters.” Campus housing could have a discernable impact on retention and graduation. versus 83.8%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Financial aid, retention, and faculty/staff representation are part of the Seal,” says Dr. Deborah Santiago, co-founder and CEO of Excelencia in Education, who says she is delighted to see institutions with intentional practices actively working toward increasing Latino representation in key positions. Hawkins Jr. Hawkins, Jr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

It was most pronounced from 2016 to 2020, where we dropped about 25% of our enrollment. He developed a robust recruitment and retention team and had long conversations with all of his faculty and staff to impress upon them a “healthy anxiety” about their enrollment numbers, he said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Title: Assistant Vice President for Diversity, Access and Inclusion; Associate to the President, University of Nebraska Jenkins has served as the University of Nebraska’s associate to the president and assistant vice president for diversity, access and inclusion since August of 2016.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 10, 2023

Even though UAGM - Gurabo enrollment dropped from 17,167 in 2016 to 13,553 in 2020, Méndez Méndez and other leaders made conscious decisions that would keep the cost of tuition level. UAGM - Gurabo’s retention rate between 2016 and 2020 remained at or above 75%. 6 and 7, 2020 at a 5.8 magnitude and 6.4 magnitude respectively.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

In 2016, he was tapped to lead the school’s law center, which was founded at the historically Black university (an HBCU) in 1947. Pierre, a seasoned legal scholar, had been serving the Southern University Law Center in numerous roles since 1990, first as a faculty member and then as an administrator.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The TCURJ, established by the American Indian College Fund in 2016, serves as the only academic publication outlet for peer reviewed scholarship specifically for TCU faculty. Funding from the Henry Luce Foundation and support of the American Indian College Fund have maintained the TCURJ as an open access journal.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 27, 2023

of the students entering college in fall 2021 continued their studies in fall 2022, an increase of nearly one point from the previous year, and equaling the average rate for freshmen from 2016-2018. “It Computer science had double-digit enrollment increases and saw greater persistence and retention among freshmen at all credential levels.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2023

In terms of retention, Carter says hiring supportive faculty is a huge component. “We When we launched IMBA (online) in 2016, we disrupted business education in that we offer an MBA for under $24,000,” says Elliott. “We Elliott says the retention rate for online is over 96%, which she attributes to the stellar faculty and flexibility.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

From December 2016 to July 2022, when she left to begin her new position, she served as associate provost for undergraduate retention and dean of undergraduate studies. She oversaw 15 departments and was responsible for the academic success of John Jay’s 13,000 undergraduates.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

AUGUST 22, 2023

Given these parallels, IHEP’s 2016 report, Toward Convergence: A Technical Guide for the Postsecondary Metrics Framework , with its detailed definitions and background information, can serve as a useful resource for PSSG applicants and awardees. Help policymakers support the development of student-focused, evidence-driven policies.

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Civitas Learning

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

As Northwest Missouri State University (Northwest) worked to improve retention rates, it recognized that faculty and staff needed a centralized location to communicate and access student data easily. Their data-driven student support ecosystem has led to significant improvements in retention, with a 16% increase from 2012 to 2022.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 22, 2025

After completing his doctorate in Curriculum and Instruction in 2016, Henry joined the faculty at the University of Arizona, where his understanding of race in America was enriched by exposure to border state dynamics and the intersection of Black, Indigenous, and Mexican communities.

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EAB

JANUARY 26, 2023

After losing over 10% of two-year students during the pandemic, both due to declines in new students and to a national dip in retention, this enrollment recovery was a welcomed reprieve. 9% increase in six-year completion rates from the fall 2015 cohort to fall 2016. Nationally, from fall 2021 to fall 2022, two-year colleges only lost.4%

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EAB

DECEMBER 2, 2022

I recently had the opportunity to participate in a media interview with Brandon Wolf , a survivor of the 2016 mass shooting at Pulse nightclub in Orlando and a civil rights activist. Efforts to boost student retention are more critical than ever as overall enrollment numbers decline. It isn’t just the right thing to do.

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EAB

APRIL 14, 2023

9% increase in six-year completion rates for students who started in fall 2015 compared to fall 2016. While this is worth celebrating, it’s also important to look at short-term retention rates to understand who is leaving community colleges early on. rate for students starting in fall 2009, compared to 52.4%

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Civitas Learning

JUNE 13, 2024

The Strategy: Implement student success technology to generate actionable insights, improve visibility, and create workflow efficiencies to lift enrollment, retention, and graduation rates. However, like many institutions, it faced challenges in boosting enrollment, retention, and completion rates.

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Civitas Learning

AUGUST 1, 2024

This insight, in combination with other strategies and efforts, helped UTSA achieve a 16% increase in retention and a 14% increase in completion from 2012 to 2022. 4 | Socialize Administrators & departmental heads should create a culture of transparency by sharing initiative efficacy with stakeholders across the institution.

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EAB

DECEMBER 19, 2022

We learned that students mental health may be the greatest threat to retention. On the second day of CONNECTED22, we heard from Brandon Wolf, an Orlando-based, nationally recognized LGBTQ civil rights advocate, a leader in the movement to end violence in America, and a survivor of the 2016 shooting at Pulse Nightclub. October 13, 2022.

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The University Innovation Alliance

MARCH 15, 2023

He shared some examples of those projects: "We are doing a budget reassign, a complete reorganization and reimagination of our student enrollment services, retention services, student success units. You cannot just wait until the next chancellor comes along to keep them moving."

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EAB

MAY 8, 2023

Department of Education released its first national measurement of chronic absenteeism in 2016. Blogs Why chronic absenteeism is so high—and how district leaders can start fixing it The national chronic absenteeism rate has skyrocketed since the pandemic, from 16% in 2019 to an estimated 33% in 2022. This is the highest rate since the U.S.

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EAB

MAY 30, 2023

Streamline Onboarding: At Pikes Peak Community College, in 2016 only 20 percent of students were matriculating directly from high school, and 60 percent of applicants never enrolled. This will help to build trust and eliminate confusion.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The original TM 2 was founded in 2016 by former HBCU presidents but later folded. Dakota Doman attended a Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) HBCU fly-in event in Washington, D.C. in 2023, he wasnt planning to resurrect a defunct executive search firm.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 17, 2023

Our retention rates continue to be very strong. Funds are also being allocated to areas, such as classrooms and housing, which will positively impact recruitment and retention. Khala Granville Hudson said FAMU enrollment has remained stable, but retention and graduation rates have increased.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2024

Some of the topics include literacy and math, advising Black male engineering majors, socio-emotional development, leadership, community college experiences, Black male veterans, athletes in P-12 and higher education, and the recruitment and retention of Black males in educator preparation programs. & Alexander, L.D.

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Civitas Learning

JULY 11, 2024

Tailoring and implementing the right mix of initiatives for each institution is crucial to improving retention and graduation rates. This approach has yielded impressive results: an 8% improvement in retention from 2016 to 2021, and an overall retention rate of 80% from Fall 2021 to Fall 2022, surpassing their retention goal.

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The University Innovation Alliance

APRIL 20, 2023

We launched this tool in May 2016 for our incoming students, thinking maybe we'd have 6000, 8000 exchanges with the students before the beginning of fall classes. So we worked with Mainstay and built a knowledge base of about 2000 answers to commonly asked questions. In four months, we had over 180,000 exchanges.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 29, 2024

From 2016 to 2022, the number of applicants from this demographic nearly doubled, yet acceptance rates remained low, highlighting a critical need for additional support. Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander students, for example, have historically faced lower admission and graduation rates at the university.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

The gleeful, emphatic retreat from college degrees has been a thing for a while for our state and national leaders, perhaps first exemplified by former President Donald Trump’s 2016 rallying cry, “I love the poorly educated !”

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