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Report Shows Small Changes in Post-High School College Enrollment

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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%. Bring together all the stakeholders,” said Dofat.

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Experts Gathered to Discuss Challenges Facing Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Connecting Black students with each other made them feel stronger and more determined to support each other through the curriculum. “It for students who entered in 2017. Students, she says, felt isolated in engineering because they were often the only Black students in some of their classes. Watford says. That rose to 61.2%

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Report: Pandemic Dealt a Blow to Internationalization

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. This includes partnerships with overseas institutions, faculty with international background and expertise, and curriculum.

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Dougherty Family College’s Investment in Student Success Pays Off

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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Lessons for Higher Ed Leaders of Color

The University Innovation Alliance

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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Just Knowledge: my GO-GN Fellowship project

Catherine Cronin

ATU’s Centre for Sustainability aims to “embed sustainability and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as core guiding principles across all activities” in ATU with a particular focus on curriculum, campus management and operations, community engagement, collaborative research and culture. GO-GN Workshop 2017, Cape Town.

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