Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 9, 2023

On a Friday night in 2019, Gesy Duran prepared to dine at an Italian restaurant with her wife. Gesy Duran poses with her invention to solve wheelchair access issues when dining out. It’s accessible for me,” she said. She was excited for the special occasion. I didn’t do anything besides that. "How And I cried.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 24, 2024

Hardrick, who has been in the role since 2019, previously served as vice provost for access and success at Florida International University and assistant vice provost for academic affairs at Baylor University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 2, 2024

The Marie Fielder Medal for Social Transformation is an annual signature award bestowed by the Marie Fielder Center for Democracy, Leadership, and Social Innovation, recognizing lifetime achievements toward supporting educational access and success. "I I am humbled to receive this year's Marie Fielder Medal.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

Two new reports from The California Alliance for Student Parent Success (The Alliance) detail the challenges that student parents face at California institutions. Harnessing more data effectively is a critical first step in advancing student parent success.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2023

College and university student enrollment is down for the third straight year, 7% lower than it was in 2019. Still others, influenced by dangerous myths, are reluctant to attend an open-access institution like a community college. The institutions are open-access, affordable, and conveniently located. Dr. George R. attend them.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 19, 2024

Dr. Grace Alexis Stephens Generations College boasts a 120-year rich legacy of providing accessible and high-quality education to campus-based and online students from diverse backgrounds across 40 states. Generations College is dedicated to empowering single parents and breaking barriers through education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

At a time when the Latino population in the United States is growing and students are still facing daunting obstacles, Excelencia in Education is recognizing nine institutions for their clear and decisive commitment to Latino student success with the Seal of Excelencia. It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 7, 2024

Being in an environment that they know is inclusive and welcoming, that is culturally sensitive, helps in making that experience far more successful for them,” he said. There is great concern that African American student enrollment is reported to have declined by 29% from 2011 to 2019, representing a decrease of 600,000 persons.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Energy and excitement filled the McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago, as over two thousand community college leaders, faculty, and staff gathered to share stories of access, equity, and inclusion at the 2023 Dream conference. ATD] staff and coaches will learn as much as we can about what you’re already doing around student success.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Studies have uncovered various systemic factors that continue to impede equitable access to AP classes. In fact, studies have shown that there is little correlation between SAT scores and success in college or in life.

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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. For every 100 students who enroll in community college, 31 percent transfer to a four-year institution and just 14.6

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 27, 2024

When Dr. Ericka Armstrong Dunbar first got the call in 2019 to proofread scripts for accuracy in Julian Fellowes’ new series The Gilded Age on HBO, she was surprised. Many scholars addressed the Supreme Court’s ruling on affirmative action and whether or not it might have a negative impact on HBCUs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 21, 2024

The impact of DEI programs on student success Recent research continues to demonstrate the positive effects of diversity and inclusion initiatives on student outcomes. 2019) found that academic engagement and psychological capital resources were significant antecedents of academic performance among university students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 14, 2023

Community colleges play a critical role, providing affordable and accessible education for diverse populations. Gonzales The ability to recruit and retain a diverse and talented workforce is imperative to ensuring the success of a community college system. We have found the following strategies to be effective for our organization.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Brown, Excelencia in Education has the stated mission to accelerate Latino student success in higher education. It has done that with an 86% success rate for the 2022-23 academic year. Approximately 80% of the students who access EAP are Latino. One is a very high college success rate. Founded in 2004 by Dr. Deborah A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Homeless students Homeless youth face many barriers to academic success and degree completion in the post-secondary environment. They often arrive to college feeling out of place, questioning whether they belong or if they have what it takes to be successful. California is a microcosm of homelessness for community college students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Team NEO, in its 2019 Aligning Opportunities Report, zeroes in on the talent shortage facing three sectors of the economy — IT, manufacturing, and healthcare. Educators and employers often speak different languages, have different goals, and use different strategies to achieve success.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 30, 2024

In 2019, however, the system was awarded the National Seal of Excelencia by the nonprofit Excelencia in Education. By leveraging this important designation to create a more responsive environment that supports student success, colleges and universities can ensure they are not Hispanic-Serving Institutions in name only.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 2, 2022

After nearly 50 years of funding community colleges based on enrollment and outreach, the state of Texas is considering making the switch to outcome-based funding, rooted in metrics like retention, completion, and the successful transfer to four-year programs. So, the focus ought to become, ‘what about success?’”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

In 2019, following the 5000 Role Models of Excellence Project Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Scholarship Breakfast in Miami, I observed attendees gathering around one of the honorees, actor Danny Glover. However, my attention was drawn to the man accompanying him, Bob Moses, who went largely unrecognized by many.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 9, 2023

In 2019, Oglethorpe partnered with TheDream.US , a national scholarship program that helps provide access to a college education for immigrant youth who came to the country at a young age without documentation. Undocumented students make up nearly 10% of Oglethorpe’s degree-seeking student body. As the scholar advisor to TheDream.US

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2023

The University of Michigan reported that in 2019 one-quarter of students from underrepresented backgrounds said they did not feel they belonged at Michigan, a 66% increase over ten years earlier.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Justin Ortagus, an associate professor of higher education administration and policy and the director of the Institute of Higher Education at the University of Florida, examined over 40,000 student transcripts from a diverse, high-enrollment community college from between 2009 and 2019.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 10, 2023

Deborah Santiago, co-founder and CEO of Ed Excelencia, an organization promoting Latinx success in higher education and at Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs). Being an HSI gives institutions access to grants and funding that must be used to better support and serve Latinx students. 6 and 7, 2020 at a 5.8 magnitude and 6.4

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Department of Education’s 2019-20 National Postsecondary Student Aid Survey (NPSAS:20). Immigrant students and their descendants face many barriers that limit their access to and success within the postsecondary system. i In 2015-16, just 30% of students were immigrants or children of immigrants. for three or more generations.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 3, 2023

They collaborate on projects that improve access to graduate school for under-resourced students and students of color. Together, the two work to make organizational, leadership, and cultural changes that transform higher education into a welcoming space for marginalized populations.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

I am committed to making it more accessible and equitable for all students, regardless of their background. According to data from the National Student Clearinghouse, undergraduate college enrollment dropped 8% nationwide from 2019 to 2022, despite the return to in-person classes. That the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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NACAC's Admitted

OCTOBER 10, 2023

1] This preliminary analysis is part of a forthcoming study using the recently released 2019-2020 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:20). College Access Challenges Students of color and those from low-income families face a range of financial and academic barriers to college access. Source: U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Specifically, in comparison to 2019, the previous assessment year, average mathematics scores for grade 4 students were lower in 2022 for American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian, Black, Hispanic, students of Two or More Races, and white students (see [link] ).

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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. 2) Institution-Level Earnings Data.

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Purdue University Global

OCTOBER 14, 2022

In this video log (VLog), Purdue University Global Academic Success Center lead tutor Michele Paulsen and tutor Melinda Hall discuss the roles that metacognition and self-regulation play in learning. Michele and Melinda also share strategies that online learners can use to be successful in their courses. We hope you enjoy this VLog.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

MAY 31, 2019

In March 2019, Senators Grassley, Smith, and Ernst reintroduced the “Understanding the True Cost of College Act,” [3] which requires a standardized financial aid offer letter for all students who apply for financial aid. Leaders in Congress have taken note.

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Civitas Learning

DECEMBER 1, 2022

In 2019, its president rolled out the Bearcat Promise , a pledge that all students will leave the university with a degree in one hand and a career plan in the other. Through a consistent focus on student success that embraces its identity as an urban public research university, UC has achieved remarkable outcomes, including: a 15.8%

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EAB

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

As I discussed in the first blog post in this series , institutions need a sufficient technology infrastructure to facilitate curation, access, and retrieval of data. The 2019 Campus Computing Project survey of chief information officers and senior campus officials found the following (4): %. Executive leadership.

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EAB

MARCH 9, 2023

5 critical to dos for academic leaders to support student success 2. Access the resources The post 4 takeaways on combatting faculty burnout from our gathering of academic leaders appeared first on EAB.

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EAB

JANUARY 17, 2023

Why growing demand doesn’t guarantee success for cybersecurity programs. Market concentration, however, threatens most programs’ success. Considerations for a successful cybersecurity program. 2019 – Oct. The post Why growing demand doesn’t guarantee success for cybersecurity programs appeared first on EAB.

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EAB

JULY 21, 2023

the fact is our students are consumers, and the level of customer service from enrollment management and student service offices, as well as faculty, sends a direct message to students about how much we support their success." 81% indicated that a confusing enrollment process is enough to cause a new student to not enroll.

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