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Leaning Into Best Practices

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In 2018, when Dr. Tim Renick took on the role of senior vice president for student success at Georgia State University (GSU), the university’s demographics were rapidly changing. Historically, GSU had been a predominantly white institution (PWI). Dr. Tim Renick “Today, we’re over 80% nonwhite,” says Renick.

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Waller joined Virginia Tech in 2018 as director of Graduate Student Programs. I can go to conferences to build relationships with these students, creating a database, bringing it back, and sharing it with the department to do outreach,” Waller says. Expanded focus Further advancement came when Dr. Tremayne O.

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How to stay ready for donors who “aren’t ready yet”

EAB

Grow your donor database You can’t reach potential donors if you don’t have their correct contact information. Are you spending a ton of time cleaning up your donor database? Once you reach these contacts where they are, you can de-duplicate who’s in your database, ensuring your tailored messages are actually being received.

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Creating a data-informed campus: part 2

EAB

A deep knowledge of database management, statistical analysis, and research techniques are generally necessary skills for an analytics team. A role that exists in most institutional research offices today, the data analyst role focuses on retrieving and analyzing datasets from the data warehouse and other campus data resources. Krawitz, M.,

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Preparing for a government shutdown

John Hopkins University Student Well-Being Blog

Given past experience, including the 35-day shutdown in 2018, the work of most faculty, students, and staff should not be seriously hindered, and patient care will continue without interruption. We continue to monitor events in Washington, but a compromise that would keep the government operating appears increasingly unlikely.

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Parents Hire Their Children to Help Pay for College

College Planners of America

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2018 (TCJA) enables the last two of these benefits. Business owners hire their children for sound reasons such as instilling a strong work ethic, teaching responsibility, encouraging entrepreneurship, reducing taxes, and saving for a college education.

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Student Resource Guide: Fall 2022

Scholarship America

If you don’t fill it out, you might be leaving money on the table – like more than 661,000 students did in 2018. The FAFSA has been streamlined, simplified and connected to the IRS database for tax info, so it’s easier to complete than ever. The good news?