Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Financial aid, retention, and faculty/staff representation are part of the Seal,” says Dr. Deborah Santiago, co-founder and CEO of Excelencia in Education, who says she is delighted to see institutions with intentional practices actively working toward increasing Latino representation in key positions. Hawkins Jr. Hawkins, Jr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

As indicated by several key metrics, over the past decade underrepresented minority (URM) students have made considerable progress in retention, graduation, and persistence rates. He became executive vice president in 2013 and assumed the presidency in 2018. Offutt has been with CPE since 2018.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 27, 2023

of the students entering college in fall 2021 continued their studies in fall 2022, an increase of nearly one point from the previous year, and equaling the average rate for freshmen from 2016-2018. “It All underrepresented groups tracked in the report had persistence rates lower than in 2018. White students persisted at an 80.5%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Before the 2024 season, Ward emerged as the most sought-after quarterback in college football’s transfer portal, a mechanism created in 2018 that allowed student-athletes to switch schools and compete immediately without the previous requirement of sitting out a season.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2024

But PSU’s science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) cultural groups helped him become acquainted with research, and, in 2018, he received an internship with the National Science Foundation’s Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU). “It was very isolating, a culture shock for sure,” says Delgado.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Back in September, Western Michigan University—a public research institution located in the southwestern corner of the state—released its fall 2024 enrollment and retention numbers, much to the delight of the school’s provost, Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig. Black student enrollment, for example, went up 2.3% in Hispanic enrollment. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

In 2018, the University of Toledo joined the Student Experience Project (SEP) , which uses more than three decades of research into the impact of students’ psychological experiences to develop and implement practical approaches to creating more equitable educational outcomes.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 22, 2023

Smith University (JCSU) in January 2018, he brought his experience in law and investment banking as well as his experience in education that encompassed both K–12 and higher education. In 2018, Clarence D. We know that the quality of the residence halls is an important part of recruitment and retention.” When Clarence D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 7, 2023

In fact, most studies concerning African Americans have focused on the retention of students or faculty (Wolfe & Dilworth, 2015). In addition, gender and racial gaps among community college trustees continue to be a reality (ACCT, 2018).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2023

In terms of retention, Carter says hiring supportive faculty is a huge component. “We Elliott says the retention rate for online is over 96%, which she attributes to the stellar faculty and flexibility. In 2018, Larry and Beth Gies gave $150 million. We also have a lot of supports built into our curriculum,” she says.

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EAB

JANUARY 26, 2023

After losing over 10% of two-year students during the pandemic, both due to declines in new students and to a national dip in retention, this enrollment recovery was a welcomed reprieve. While this is worth applauding, it’s also important to look at retention rates to understand trends in students who are still leaving community colleges.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

It began as a pilot program in 2015 and started in earnest in 2018 with 25 students after receiving a $1.68 One secret of our program’s exponential growth is retention,” says Espiritu. In the last three years EPW’s fall to fall retention ranges from 93% to 96%. “I I track them in retention. I track them in graduation.

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The Advisor That Cares

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

how vital the role of a strong advising relationship is to students’ retention and success. CSLE2COVA, 2018). 2018, August 8). Care about program and state requirements. Care about policies. Ultimately, care about changing lives. … What motivates our advisors to come and guide students? I want to help revolutionize advising.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

After undergraduate programming demonstrated improved retention and graduation rates, Watford was able to recruit students to Virginia Tech. Waller joined Virginia Tech in 2018 as director of Graduate Student Programs. It is now called Imagination. Expanded focus Further advancement came when Dr. Tremayne O.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

“I had an opportunity to be around greatness and to aspire for greatness,” says Prescod, the first Black woman to win an individual medal at the Senior World Championships as well as a team gold medal at the 2018 World Championships. “It Also, collegiate athletic departments have stepped up their efforts toward retention and student success.

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Purdue University Global

OCTOBER 14, 2022

For comparison, other online programs have dropout rates that fluctuate between 40 and 80% (Hobson & Puruhito, 2018), so we’re doing well overall. Online students struggle with motivation because we have a limited number of options to engage learners (Alkis & Taskaya Temizel, 2018). It is not a constant in someone’s life.

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The Advisor That Cares

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Followed by a “ did this information help you ” survey to assess growth mindset messaging ‘s and support service referrals’ impact on retention/student success. … how vital the role of a strong advising relationship is to students’ retention and success. CSLE2COVA, 2018). 2018, August 8).

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EAB

JULY 7, 2023

According to LightCast, there has been 22% growth in job postings for Leadership Annual Giving Officer positions from June 2018 – May 2023. Donor acquisition and retention – at any gift level – requires new investments in both staff and resources. Meaning more competition for talent for your advancement team.

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The University Innovation Alliance

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Between 2018 and 2020, seven University Innovation Alliance institutions utilized change management and human-centered design principles to identify and deconstruct barriers to successful career readiness for first-generation and low-income students.

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Timely MD

MAY 1, 2023

In addition to helping them provide better care to students, providing faculty and staff with additional support services can help stem the tide and improve retention of employees. “A A year ago, retention of counselors was huge, a huge problem. But it has really helped us with retention, and it’s really helped morale.”

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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. You cannot just wait until the next chancellor comes along to keep them moving."

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EAB

MAY 16, 2023

Today we welcome leaders from Texas Southern University who share what they learned through their efforts to get people processes and technology working together at TSU to improve student retention and boost enrollment. I know Naomi, you had just mentioned since 2018, there's been a lot of changes, even before that, right?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 4, 2023

These decreases are especially concerning because of how popular a path community colleges have been for these groups: 44% of all Black undergraduates and 57% of all Native undergraduates attended community colleges in 2018. They discussed their ideas Thursday at a panel co-sponsored by CCEAL and the Association of Community College Trustees.

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EAB

APRIL 25, 2023

The survey explores topics such as talent retention, carbon neutrality efforts, deferred maintenance, space utilization, and computerized maintenance management systems. So, they actually set it to get it by a goal of 2020, they beat that goal by two years, so very ambitious, but they hit it in 2018.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

From 2018 to 2021, the racial group that saw the largest increase in suicides among people 10-24 years old was Black individuals, with an increase of 37%. recruitment, admissions, retention, milestone navigation, etc.). From 2000 to 2020, Black youth ages 10-19 also experienced the largest increase in suicide rates, a shocking 78%.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 29, 2023

HACU provides student scholarships, internships, retention and advancement programs, as well as career development opportunities for educators. Parham, who began his presidency at CSUDH in 2018, is a veteran leader in higher education — he previously served as vice chancellor for student affairs at UC Irvine.

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