Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 31, 2023

Louisville morbidity and mortality rates vastly differ for those living in its various neighborhoods, according to a 2017 Health Equity Report from the Louisville Metro Department of Public Health and Wellness. However, one thing that makes neighborhoods different from each other is access to health-supportive resources.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 2, 2024

She started the program in September 2017 and finished in October 2020. "It The class of people included in this case are all Black students who were enrolled in Walden’s DBA program from 2007 to 2017 and all female students enrolled in the program in the same time period who had received student loans, according to Ramchandani. “In

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

I didn’t understand why everybody didn’t have access. And I was determined to have access,” says Williams. I made sure everyone had access, especially my Black classmates and friends,” says Williams. Tapping into access became a deliberate decision. He became what he calls “a student for everybody.” “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

And as business owners, Latinos made up 50% of net new small businesses from 2007–2017. Addressing this requires culturally sensitive, early interventions involving families and communities and educational efforts to improve mental health access and awareness within the U.S. Additionally, their purchasing power of $3.4 And as the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Those students also had access to test preparation for ACT and SAT examinations. When it came to six-year college graduation rates, 2017 high school graduates from high minority schools graduated college at 31.5% and those from low minority schools at 48.5%.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 10, 2023

For most of its 50-year history, the Pell Grant has not covered summer classes, with two brief exceptions: 2009-2011 and 2017 to the present. What we are finding here is pretty large,” said Liu, equivalent to hundreds of additional students staying in school and earning degrees.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

My interests in higher education are focused on access,” Means said. “I My first full-time job after earning my master’s degree was to return to Elon to help start a college access and success program,” he recalled, adding the program was designed for students from low-income families or first-generation college students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

“Related to student success, CEED has a robust center that includes tutoring, mentoring, and advocacy for students to ensure they are on the path to achievement and graduation,” adds Dr. Karen Eley Sanders, associate vice provost for College Access. for students who entered in 2017. They also challenge and hold students accountable.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The report found that although 47% of institutions saw accelerating internationalization between 2017 and the start of the pandemic, only 21% described acceleration between 2020 and 2021. Rutgers was one of the many schools that broadened access using technology.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 11, 2023

The students – 23 received a certificate of completion or associate's degree – took classes through SLCC's Prison Education Program – which was founded in 2017 and offers job placement after their sentences end. "We We have no use of internet access. Most of our assignments were handwritten,” Bluff said. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 2, 2023

SHEEO based its analysis on national and state data from the 2017-18 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study, Administrative Collection. Keller also thought that the improved Pell access could also increase enrollment at community colleges, which has been damaged by the pandemic. “If

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

I am prepared to call elite higher education a ‘luxury good,’ and we’re in this world where we want it to be accessible.” Dirks said t hat percentage shrunk to 10% by the time he left in 2017, which resulted in increased tuition. “One of the only mechanisms you have to increase financial aid is to increase tuition.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 10, 2023

Being an HSI gives institutions access to grants and funding that must be used to better support and serve Latinx students. Enrollment decreases are partly due to the exodus of Puerto Rican residents after Hurricane Maria in 2017 and the earthquakes, which started rumbling in late 2019 and culminated in two quakes on Jan.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 15, 2024

These cases argued for equal access to public education for children with disabilities, said McConomy. During the 2017-18 school year, white students made up 58.4% Board of Education as legal precedent. Dr. Donna Y. of public school students in gifted and talented programs despite comprising 47.3%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 11, 2023

DFC has graduated an average of 56% of its students since its formation in 2017. They have access to financial aid counselors, college persistence counselors, and a life coach, and are placed into paid internships after they finish a professional development course. How has the college pulled this off?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

In 2017, Carnegie Math Pathways received funding from the federal Department of Education to launch the program with Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs) like KBOCC. Karon Klipple, director of Carnegie Math Pathways, said, “math was the single greatest barrier to college completion. Success rates have grown from 40 to 60% on average.

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Cal Newport

MAY 4, 2023

It was, as much as anything else, Jean Twenge’s 2017 cover story for The Atlantic , titled “Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?” Over the last few years, a rough consensus has emerged that there really are significant harms in giving young people unrestricted access to the internet through smartphones.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

DECEMBER 20, 2021

While t ransfer pathways can offer students like Coleen an affordable and accessible route to earning a four-year degree, they too often fall short of delivering on this promise. 2017, updated 2021). 2017, August). percent complete a bachelors’ degree within six yea rs. The Institute for Higher Education Policy. ii Shapiro, D.,

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Civitas Learning

JUNE 1, 2023

Faculty and staff needed ways to easily communicate and access student data in one place so they had the shared context they needed to meaningfully help students. Faculty and staff can now access a comprehensive picture of each student. To advise students effectively, we needed to see the whole picture.”

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The Scorecard has gone through several iterations and updates since its initial release in 2015, including one announced earlier this month, so I can only imagine how differently my search would have played out had I had access to the additional information the newest iteration of the tool now offers. ii] Fishman, R., and Hiler, T.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

MAY 31, 2019

A high degree of variation, however, exists in financial aid offer letters sent from different colleges, and many do not clearly convey critical information to their prospective students.

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EAB

JANUARY 30, 2023

In the first blog post in this series , I discussed the necessity of a sufficient technology infrastructure to facilitate curation, access, and retrieval of data. For these professionals to maximize their returns, however, they must have access to adequate data resources and systems that will allow them to perform these analyses.

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Timely MD

MAY 9, 2023

are pursuing an Associate’s Degree and the percentage of job openings that require a four-year degree declined from 51% in 2017 to 44% in 2021, the significance of community colleges in shaping the next generation of workers can’t be overstated. mental health counseling, food banks, Internet access, transportation, etc.).

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NCLC Student Loan Borrower Assistance

JULY 18, 2024

As a result, in 2022, the Department of Education revised its rules for these and other relief programs to make them more accessible to more borrowers. If your loans were issued before July 1, 2017, your application is subject to the standard in 34 CFR § 685.206(c) and the procedures described in 34 CFR § 685.222.

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#RealCollege Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2021

When her classes all went online during the COVID-19 pandemic, she was desperate for help because she could no longer access the computer lab on campus. In its first year of operation (2016–2017) the FAST Fund pilot assisted 26 students. An additional $2,500 was raised locally.

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EAB

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

In fact, the number of high-net-worth donors who reported that their philanthropic giving was based on an issue they cared about (rather than an organization they felt especially attached to) grew by 13% from 2017 to 2020.

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The University Innovation Alliance

JANUARY 19, 2024

So, I have loved having opportunities to do the good work, to have more impact over time, and to now lead an institution that is fundamentally about access, equity, inclusion, for people who are left behind in higher education.” access and inclusion for all, regardless of background. .

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Catherine Cronin

APRIL 14, 2022

The theory was a significant contribution in the field of human development, encouraging a move beyond blunt indicators like GDP and income levels to assess poverty (Nussbaum, 2011a ) and providing new ways of evaluating the quality of the lives of individuals and societies (Robeyns, 2017 ). Making resources legally accessible (e.g.

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EAB

MAY 30, 2023

In addition, more students may be open to nontraditional pathways to access postsecondary knowledge. percent for 16- to 24-year-olds, 7 demonstrating that young adults are gaining access to better paying jobs, which can press pause on their college-going plans. 2017, March 3). 10 EAB (2017). percent overall.

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EAB

MAY 16, 2023

So when it comes down to my favorite about the data, we kind of, we celebrated in 2017 because we had at that time our highest enrollment in a decade. We were at over 10,000 students back in fall 2017. JG: Per team so that they have access to the right information. But then after that, we noticed an enrollment decline.

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EAB

JANUARY 31, 2023

In 2017, I participated in a collaborative effort across the University to assess and identify data systems and analytics capability gaps. Topic and problem As the Vice Provost for Institutional Research and Strategic Analytics at Lehigh University, I oversee institutional research, data analytics, and data governance initiatives.

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Student Loan Hero

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Why some colleges look at your social media accounts Yes, colleges can look at the public version of your social media accounts, but they don’t have some sort of secret, government-like power to access your private information. Less dramatically, you might opt for restricting public access to the accounts.

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The University Innovation Alliance

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

To access the Lab as a non-UIA member, please add your name to our wait list. We believe that sharing the best templates, tools, resources, and materials will make innovation adoption easier and faster for thousands of student success administrators. Diffusion to the Field 1.

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Catherine Cronin

MAY 12, 2023

This open access book, a collection of work by over 70 authors in 18 countries, offers ways of thinking, conceptualising and creating possibilities for (re)making higher education, focusing on futures that foreground inclusion, equity, social justice, care and sustainability. We” are in this together, but we are not one and the same.

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College Planners of America

DECEMBER 8, 2022

It would be ideal if juniors and first semester seniors could have ready access to net price information before they submit applications. The CDS enables students to identify the colleges that are most inclined to offer discounted tuition to high-achieving applicants. However, time must be devoted to CDS research when it is most precious.

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Eric Stoller on Academic Advising

MARCH 2, 2017

Fast forward to 2017 and user experience design, learning analytics , BYOD, machine learning/artificial intelligence , predictive data dashboards, digital learning systems, and myriad social media have all been assembled into coherent elements of a high tech, high touch environments. That was way back in 2004.

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The University Innovation Alliance

JUNE 9, 2023

She is a 2017 Cohort Fellow for the Thomas Lakin Institute for Mentored Leadership and was featured in the December 2017 issue of Diverse: Issues in Higher Education. Dr. Willis began her educational career in 2007 teaching at Florida A&M University before transitioning to Tallahassee Community College. She earned a Ph.D.

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