Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 15, 2024

FAMU received the gift — a donation to support of student success initiatives and athletics — from the Issac Batterson 7th Family Trust and Chief Executive Officer Gregory Gerami, a Texas hemp farmer and the founder of Batterson Farms Corp. “I million gift.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

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. The ongoing goal is to keep building pipelines for students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The study, “Helping or Hurting: The Effects of Retention in the Third Grade on Student Outcomes,” examined this practice’s effects, looking at how the state of Indiana’s test-based retention policy – based on third-grade reading tests – impacted student success, disciplinary outcomes, and attendance up to five years down the line.

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The University Innovation Alliance

DECEMBER 12, 2022

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. Understanding how students may use their completion grant funds. The unique needs of transfer students. College to Career.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

While many PWIs have potential to build partnerships, there is a need to acknowledge the cultural components as assets and pursue long-term partnerships built around enhancing student success.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

At a time when the Latino population in the United States is growing and students are still facing daunting obstacles, Excelencia in Education is recognizing nine institutions for their clear and decisive commitment to Latino student success with the Seal of Excelencia. It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Brown, Excelencia in Education has the stated mission to accelerate Latino student success in higher education. The intent is to bring attention to evidence-based practices that are making a positive difference for Hispanic students,” says Santiago, chief executive officer of Excelencia in Education. Santiago and Sarita E.

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Civitas Learning

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

By investing in technologies that streamlined workflows and provided actionable student insights, they were able to deliver comprehensive support at scale, resulting in an 8% increase in retention between 2016 and 2021. Transforming raw data into high-quality insights is a game changer for making decisions that affect student success.

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EAB

DECEMBER 19, 2022

What we learned about the future of student success from 1,200 success leaders. CONNECTED is my favorite time of year in the Student Success Collaborative , and this year did not disappoint! Here are my 3 biggest takeaways from CONNECTED22: The pandemic is still affecting student success in critical ways.

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EAB

APRIL 14, 2023

Blogs The 4 stages of an integrated lifecycle approach for community college student success How EAB’s Navigate helps community colleges at every stage There is encouraging data showing that six-year completion rates have been rising across all community colleges, with a.9% Here’s what we learned.

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Scholarship America

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

million) in 2016 as bachelor’s degrees (1.92 Students specifically pursuing certificates and other forms of certification made up almost 12% of all undergrads. The post Supporting Non-Traditional Paths to Student Success appeared first on Scholarship America.

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#RealCollege Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Faculty and Students Together (FAST) The FAST Fund is a faculty-led, non-profit organization that provides MATC students experiencing economic challenges with quick financial assistance. Goldrick-Rab started a non-profit, Believe in Students , that provided the Local 212 MATC FAST Fund with a $5,000 start-up grant.

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EAB

OCTOBER 20, 2023

DOWNLOAD INFOGRAPHIC Sources “ Completing College: Completing College National and State Reports – Fall 2016 Cohort ” National Student Clearinghouse Research Center (2022). “ How America Completes College: Understanding What Helps Students Graduate ” Sallie Mae, in partnership with Ipsos (2022). Economic Well-Being of U.S.

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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. We must signal that change is needed and we have to demand more for our students. The Modern Student Experience Resource Center. Learn more.

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Supporting Student Success

APRIL 1, 2021

Or maybe they had stood at the crossroads in a small community during a recruiting trip and saw with fresh eyes how big their campus must feel to students whose town has nine buildings along Main Street. This was the start to the excellent Rural Student Success Unconference hosted by the University of Georgia, March 19-20, 2021.

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The University Innovation Alliance

APRIL 20, 2023

The panel explored what's possible with the technology and shared success stories. 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. In four months, we had over 180,000 exchanges.

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EAB

JANUARY 30, 2023

New Directions for Institutional Research, 2016 (166), 47-59. July 29, 2022 What happens when you disaggregate your student success data? The Review of Higher Education, 40 (3), 391-426. link] 1353/rhe.2017.0013 2017.0013 Kirby, Y., & Floyd, N. link] McLendon, M., Hearn, J., & Deaton, R.

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The University Innovation Alliance

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

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.

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Timely MD

AUGUST 29, 2024

In 2017, the American Psychological Association (APA) published a study that examined data from over 40,000 college students in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom between 1989 and 2016. As a result, students will often work, work, work, and not take care of themselves.”

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EAB

JANUARY 30, 2023

Surveyed adult learners consistently identify student support services as an important factor when making an enrollment decision. But as my colleague Ed Venit described , student success efforts for graduate students and other adult learner populations often lag behind those at the undergraduate level.

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Civitas Learning

AUGUST 1, 2024

These initiatives can continue for years without scrutiny, or they may be evaluated during leadership changes or budget reviews to assess their effectiveness in helping students succeed. Regularly measuring the efficacy of student success initiatives is crucial for strategic decision-making and planning.

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Civitas Learning

JULY 11, 2024

Once students enroll and begin classes, an institution’s work is far from over. Effective communication, guidance, and resources are foundational to an effective student success strategy. Every effort matters to keep students enrolled and persisting to graduation. Read the Blog 2.

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The University Innovation Alliance

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

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.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

What happens when you disaggregate your student success data? Organizing for evidence-based decision making and improvement. Change, 44 (4), 45-51. link] 1080/00091383.2012.691865. Wishon, G., & Rose, J. Institutional analytics and the data tsunami. EDUCAUSE Review. M., & Walz, A. September 15, 2022. August 23, 2022.

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Supporting Student Success

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The research findings presented below draw from analysis of the National College Health Assessment (NCHA) 2016 Canadian Reference group, which included 42,642 students from 42 postsecondary institutions (colleges and universities) across Canada (ACHA, 2016; Ezekiel, In Press). American College Health Association (2016).

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Scholarship America

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Prior to joining NACAC in July of 2020, Dr. Pérez served in secondary and higher education leadership positions across America, most recently, as Vice President for Enrollment and Student Success at Trinity College in Connecticut where his work was described as transformative.

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Civitas Learning

JUNE 13, 2024

The Challenge: Confronted with plateaued student outcomes, change was needed to assess the complete student picture and have the right tools to support them holistically. From 2016 to 2022, the total Fall headcount decreased by 25%, and retention and graduation rates told a similar story.

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NACAC's Admitted

AUGUST 10, 2023

First, that predictive power of admission test scores was marginal when combined with high school grades, which decades of research shows are the single-most indicative factor of student success in the admission process. A large number of non-academic factors, such as income level, exert a powerful influence on student persistence.

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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. Twelve months will be an eternity, so keep moving."

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EAB

MAY 30, 2023

percent, 1 which has prompted institutions to reflect on practices that impact student success and on barriers students face in their pursuit of higher education. Since 2020, enrollment at community colleges has declined 5.4 This will help to build trust and eliminate confusion.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 3, 2023

For instance, most Hispanic or Latino students (60%), Black or African American students (59%), and American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander (54%) students were first-gen. Meanwhile, for white students, only 36% were first-gen. A solid portion (28%) of first-gen students are 30 or older.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 24, 2024

Through our ongoing partnership, we are committed to taking education and corporate America higher by advancing academic research, ensuring student success at publicly supported HBCUs and serving as a liaison to the federal government and local officials for our members and their students.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2024

Promoting Black affirmation in advising and coaching for first-generation Black male college students' success. link] This chapter explores the concept of identity-conscious advising and coaching to support the development of First-Generation Black Male College Students during their undergraduate experience. Frazier, R.-M.

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The University Innovation Alliance

AUGUST 24, 2023

President Milliron explained how this approach has already made a difference at National: "Our board has adopted a focus on how everything we do is around championing student success, building trust, advancing inclusion, embracing accountability -- and I love our last one, which is 'make things better.' That is a shared process."

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 17, 2023

Granville said the enrollment management/student success division received $2 million, which will become part of the division’s new recurring budget. This will enable the hiring of additional staff in recruitment, processing, registration, and student success. In February 2023, there were about 2,500.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

In our 2016 co-authored op-ed, “ Viewing Black Male Students as Princes, Not Problems,” we advocate for an approach that emphasizes the potential of Black males rather than focusing on perceived deficiencies. 2016) Dr. Ronald W. Whitaker, II.

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