Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 14, 2024

In 2020, NJIT created the Hispanic and Latinx Leadership Council, which is made up of students, faculty, staff and alumni as well as business and community leaders who work collaboratively to address recruitment, retention, engagement and persistence among Latinx students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Anne Arundel Community College (MD) is creating ongoing opportunities and expectations for college employees to examine policies that result in adverse impacts for racially minoritized students, faculty and staff. Pierce College (WA) is revamping its faculty hiring and tenure process.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 13, 2024

Edward’s has been growing every year, and they are successfully pursuing their education with generous and collaborative partnerships including the Hector and Gloria López Foundation, Breakthrough Central Texas, and Con Mi MADRE. Since 2020, our first-generation retention rate has increased by 7.2%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Sachelle Ford became the first director of the DukeLIFE program at Duke University in January 2020, she brought with her the experience of being a first-generation college student. The office offers academic and financial support, faculty and resource connections, and peer mentorship.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Latinos are key when it comes the nation’s engineering and technology workforce, according to a new joint report from the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) and the Latino Donor Collaborative (LDC). workforce participation growth between 2010-2020, the report noted. are immense. trillion, despite comprising only 19.1%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 15, 2023

Barbara Jones Jones has served as the Lockhart Memorial Professor in Direct Social Work Practice, founding director of the Institute for Collaborative Health Research and Practice, and associate dean for health affairs at the University of Texas at Austin’s Steve Hicks School of Social Work.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Prestage, who taught at Southern University and was a renowned researcher, passed away in 2020). “I She encourages young faculty to focus on the stories they want to tell. Her distinct impact is valued by JCSU faculty and administration. “Dr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2024

Throughout the following 10 months, the fellows participated in meetings with their faculty mentors and optional monthly cohort-wide calls to discuss their progress. One of the fellows, Bowen Cho, had been attempting to complete their project since early 2020, but had struggled to find collaborators — as disabled scholars often do, they said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

In these early days, I am acclimating myself to the institution, evaluating the campus climate, establishing relationships with faculty, staff and students, and becoming more connected with the local community,” says Jaamal. This role requires a high level of collaboration,” he says. “My

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

In 2020, it ousted the co-leader of its Ethical AI team, a black woman, after she refused to retract a paper on potential ethical problems with AI language models , including that they could reflect biases. She is collaborating with faculty from other universities, around five of which she hopes will soon start similar programs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The Bronx is home to over one million people, 56% of whom are Latinx, according to 2020 U.S. There is power in being a role model, he says, and that’s why he wants to make sure undergrads and graduates can see themselves represented in Lehman faculty, staff, and administration. are white and only 21% are faculty of color.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2023

Faculty should be committed to teaching the diverse student body. “I Even though we’re a teaching institution, the nature of passion that a faculty member has for his, her or their research is important because that ignites some spark in students.” Fox praises faculty, some of whom were frontline workers, for their dedication.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

Dr. Amanda Ellis joined CPE in 2020 as vice president of K-12 policies and programs. She is currently engaged in working collaboratively with K-12, higher education, and business partners around dual credits. “We From there, she began to work with representatives — faculty and staff — from both two-year and four-year institutions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2023

The Steve Fund’s 2020 Crisis Response Task Force Report , Adapting and Innovating to Promote the Mental Health and Emotional Well-Being of Young People of Color: COVID-19 and Beyond , describes the pandemic’s disparate impact on students of color. Greater diversity also has numerous well-documented benefits for all students. Dr. Annelle B.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2023

In January 2020, he began serving as interim chancellor of MCCCD and was initially told that he would likely be in that role for six months until a permanent chancellor was named. But as the pandemic raged on and upended life for MCCCD students and faculty, Gonzales endeavored to stay focused on them. “I There, Gonzales earned an Ed.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 16, 2023

Morehouse is the most recent addition to the program, which has included Howard University since 2020 and Spelman College since 2022. In addition to the representational advantages, minoritized faculty may present material in a way to which students of color can more easily relate. The Lab is looking to change that.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 14, 2023

million credit and non-credit students for the 2021-22 academic year; the need to retain top talent among faculty and staff continues to grow. Restore competitive compensation In 2020, MCCCD’s Governing Board approved our multi-year Strategic Compensation Plan.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Montgomery, is there a way that we could collaborate so when we go back into the rest of the meeting [and] Ms. McPhail took helm of Saint Augustine after her husband Dr. Iving Pressley McPhail passed away in 2020 after contracting COVID-19. I said, 'Mr. she said “And he became postal acting, just very outrageously loud.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

This requires intentionality and assessing all aspects to safeguard what is best about higher education: students, faculty, and staff who are different but learning, disagreeing, and growing for the betterment of society and self.” Reflecting on the current landscape, it is evident that the emphasis on globalization has only intensified.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

Molloy University; and Dr. Leigh Patel, University of Pittsburgh Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty members: Find and develop a community of supportive colleagues and mentors. vice president for diversity, equity, and inclusion at Molloy University and a 2020 Emerging Scholar, in his letter nominating Means this year. “My

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 23, 2022

She is responsible for developing and implementing strategies, programs and activities to enhance access, inclusion and retention of a diverse student body, faculty and staff. Prior to the University of Nebraska, Jenkins spent 14 years at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In 2020, as interest grew and Black student enrollment increased, Sauvignon crafted a Black Studies curriculum and submitted it to the Massachusetts Department of Higher Education. The program got approval last spring. Massasoit officials agree.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

AAP staff works with students, faculty, and staff at those schools and at UCLA to create pathways. He endeavors to get innovative ideas funded and constantly meets with people within and outside the university who are interested in collaborating or seeking information and guidance about replicating all or parts of AAP.

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EAB

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Student Success Collaborative Awards. Students, faculty, and campus staff have become savvier with respect to combining both online and in-person student support services,” said EAB President of Technology, Scott Schirmeier. Collaborative Citizen Award: Ramapo College of New Jersey. Collaborative Citizen Award.

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Civitas Learning

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

A close partnership between traditional student success units and Institutional Research (IR) is one collaborative relationship that makes a real difference for students. This data-activated, collaborative approach is an incredibly powerful tool for Student Success teams to feasibly deliver proactive rather than reactive support.

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The University Innovation Alliance

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Between 2016 and 2020, the UIA conducted a randomized control trial study of proactive, predictive analytics-enabled advising for first-generation and Pell-eligible students across 11 campuses. Faculty and staff feel pressured to help but lack the resources to do so. Proactive Advising.

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Believe in Students

OCTOBER 10, 2024

I arrived at Believe in Students in April 2020, just as the pandemic was rocking the world and changing college campuses, in some ways permanently. And in all the hundreds of hours of conversations I’d had about student success, I had never once talked to or about faculty members as part of the solution.

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MARCH 7, 2024

Faculty and staff at colleges and universities have the second-highest burnout rate out of industry in the country, just behind K-12 workers, according to a recent Gallup Panel Workforce Study. Why are faculty and staff leaving their positions? in the 2020-21 academic year to 14.3% Normally faculty turnover is very low.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

The problem: Faculty and students alike are dealing with massive and varied post-traumatic stress issues due to the increase in gun violence on our campuses, the COVID-19 shutdown, and an increasingly divisive political environment.

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The University Innovation Alliance

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The Black Student Success Initiative Building on landscape assessment and groundwork begun in 2020, this year campuses participating in the UIA's Black Student Success Initiative (BSSI) began piloting new interventions designed to improve the outcomes and experiences of Black students.

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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. Identifying Barriers to Equitable Career Readiness.

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The University Innovation Alliance

MAY 21, 2024

Our strategies have included collaborative scale projects among member institutions. Successfully scaling innovations requires a total commitment to collaboration. Process mapping sessions : Talk through the student experience step by step, noting all points of interaction with faculty and staff.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

staff proximity, access) about redesigns Workflow Simplified processes (e.g., staff proximity, access) about redesigns Workflow Simplified processes (e.g.,

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EAB

MAY 16, 2023

The three share tips on collecting and using data to convince faculty and senior leaders to become enthusiastic partners in the effort. I enjoy engaging with the university community, how I could help collaborate across the campus in supporting our students. And even during the time of COVID, in looking at our 2020 cohort.

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The University Innovation Alliance

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The Black Student Success Initiative Building on landscape assessment and groundwork begun in 2020, this year campuses participating in the UIA's Black Student Success Initiative (BSSI) began piloting new interventions designed to improve the outcomes and experiences of Black students.

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Civitas Learning

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

A close partnership between traditional student success units and Institutional Research (IR) is one collaborative relationship that makes a real difference for students. This data-activated, collaborative approach is an incredibly powerful tool for Student Success teams to feasibly deliver proactive rather than reactive support.

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The University Innovation Alliance

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

We raised $5 million for cutting-edge collaborative innovation projects, and we welcomed new colleagues and partners to the digital ecosystem of our University Innovation Lab. We know that when universities collaborate, students win -- and when students win, our country's future is bright.

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