Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Educators from a variety of community colleges shared how student success and sense of belonging is vital to meeting their local workforce needs, and how their unique geographic locations, demographic growth, and regional needs have influenced how they connect with big industry and small to mid-sized businesses.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Over the last four decades, Latino and African-American students were among the fastest-growing demographics in higher education. Since the mid-1970s, the Latino college student population has increased fivefold, with one out of every five college students being Latino by 2017.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

Connecting Black students with each other made them feel stronger and more determined to support each other through the curriculum. “It It was a matter in many cases of asking the students, ‘What do you need?’” Taylor Cupp When Watford began CEED, the graduation rate for Black engineering students was around 25%. Watford says.

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The University Innovation Alliance

APRIL 26, 2023

Redesign Higher Ed for Student Success Dr. Burns explained how college was never designed around student success: "One of the many ways is that our data systems are not connected. The people who would need to know to tell students that they're off track wouldn't have that information. Innovating Through Failure.

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The University Innovation Alliance

MAY 4, 2023

There are a thousand student success strategies. No technology is ever going to be successful if you're not doing the why and the how properly, which is focusing on the goal and doing the work, day in and day out." And universities aren't searching for the what. Are we achieving the goals and working together effectively?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 24, 2023

His experience at Sac State played a role in his career focus on student success. He then moved on to Arizona State University, where he earned a master’s degree in Curriculum and Instruction in Early Childhood Education and a Ph.D. He became the first Black faculty member to be named a Distinguished Professor at SDSU in 2017.

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