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AB 705: Bold Policy, Implications for Equitable Student Success

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For example, the percentage of first-time students enrolling in transfer-level math and English courses within their first year of college rose dramatically between the fall 2015 and fall 2020 cohorts. Understanding the identities of students left behind is crucial to mitigating the unintended consequences of any policy.

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Student Success…. A Definition for the Very Few

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What does student success mean? Some colleges associate student success with high graduation rates, others focus on alumni achievements, and then other colleges emphasize test scores and grades. The data shows that, from 2011 through 2020, there was a 39% drop in Black male enrollment in colleges across the United States.

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Transforming Community Colleges for Equity

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Since its founding, Achieving the Dream has been focused on helping institutions deliver more equitable results in student success. A key focus to achieve these goals is incorporating race-conscious and equity-minded criteria into annual performance evaluations.

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Report: Looking at What Contributes to Student Success and Persistence Among Mexican Americans

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In San Luiz, Arizona, along the border of the state and Sonora, Mexico, there is Gadsden Elementary School District #32, where more than 99% of its more than 5,000 students identified as Hispanic in 2020. Within that school district lies Southwest Junior High (SJH), a school comprising mostly Latinx (96%) students.

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Gomez Named Provost & VP for Academic Affairs at Cal Poly Pomona

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She also served as a department chair and interim associate dean in the College of Education and Integrative Studies as well as an associate vice president for student success.

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How to Build a Sustainable Model for Student Equity and Increase Student Success

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How to Build a Sustainable Model for Student Equity and Increase Student Success. The pandemic and widespread civil unrest of 2020 forced institutions to acknowledge the impact new learning environments and sociocultural issues have on students.

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How will we measure student success in the 2020s?

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Blogs How will we measure student success in the 2020s? A review of how student success metrics have evolved over time—and where they might go in the future Before I studied student success, I studied evolutionary biology.