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

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The presidents of these institutions said these increases are testament to tireless and intentional effort from faculty, staff, and leadership. It was most pronounced from 2016 to 2020, where we dropped about 25% of our enrollment. When he became president of IRSC in late 2020, Moore brought business acumen to his new role.

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Community college Mental health Retention Students 253

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

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. Dr. Amanda Ellis joined CPE in 2020 as vice president of K-12 policies and programs. Currently 29 campuses, both public and private, engage in this. “We

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Timely MD

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The framework encourages decisionmakers to set data goals for implementing programs and practices and measuring impact that reflects change to the access, retention, completion, and/or workforce statistics for the employee and student groups. Pierce College (WA) is revamping its faculty hiring and tenure process.

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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. A successful balance between employee recruitment and student retention requires constantly evaluating strategies and implementing changes.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Cochrane is a member of the Faculty Academy, a statewide initiative that trains faculty in a pedagogy called “Real Talk,” created by Dr. Paul Hernandez, senior advisor to the president and CEO at Achieving the Dream (ATD), a partner network of over 300 community colleges working to equitize higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 1, 2022

noa’s Native Hawaiian population has grown tremendously since the 1990s, and doubled between 2007 and 2020, thanks to deliberate efforts to recruit and retain these students, said Dr. Willy Kauai, director of Native Hawaiian student services at UH M?noa. They’ve become one of our greatest modes of recruitment and retention,” said Kauai.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 8, 2024

Impact “As of 2020, students who live on campus, their [three-year] graduation rate is 4% higher than the students who do not live on campus,” says Andrew Morong, dean of enrollment management at CMCC. Their fall-to-fall retention rate between fall 2022 and fall 2023 was actually 11% higher than commuters.” versus 83.8%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2023

My first NASPA conference was focused on the lack of current research on minority student retention. Terrell said that he went on to co-edit a book with Dr. Doris Wright, a professor at Kansas State University titled , From Survival to Success: Promoting Minority Student Retention. This was in 1988 when I was 29,” he said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

Census Bureau’s 2020 Census. With a new federal grant that Chang and his fellow UConn faculty and staff members have secured from the U.S. Mental Health TEAS will bring aboard an additional full-time clinical therapist as well to help boost Asian American student retention and completion.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 26, 2023

Northern Arizona University (NAU) received HSI status in 2020, which Dr. José Luis Cruz Rivera, NAU’s president, said was very much intentional. This includes working on retention strategies that emphasize information on financial aid and mental health services as well as continuing to build a sense of belonging.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

In his sophomore year of college, Williams had begun to struggle academically and financially, but the leadership and faculty at Xavier gave him the opportunity to continue his education. We doubled diversity attraction, admittance, retention, and graduation during the time I was there,” he says. “We Dr. Dereck J. Rovaris, Sr.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 22, 2023

The development of the strategic plan began in January 2020 at a weekend gathering of board members as well as individuals from the local community. In addition to the pandemic, in May 2020, George Floyd died at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer. That was part of the strategic plan developed during his presidency.

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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. That data show that the students who attend the summer bridge program build great resilience skills, and resilience leads to retention. “The California legislature put some caveats. She asked many questions, which he gladly answered.

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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

OCTOBER 22, 2022

As a professor of sociology, Stokes’ academic interests and expertise lie in the areas of citizenship studies, international migration and political systems.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

Census Bureau’s 2020 Census. With a new federal grant that Chang and his fellow UConn faculty and staff members have secured from the U.S. Mental Health TEAS will bring aboard an additional full-time clinical therapist as well to help boost Asian American student retention and completion.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Sustainable recruitment and retention programs/plans for prospective/current scholars. In 2020, Jean moved to the office of the provost, where his work has focused primarily on limited income and first-generation students. Programming to include a nationwide collective of educators, administrators, and thought leaders. “We

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Civitas Learning

APRIL 4, 2024

The Challenge: Facing declining retention and cumbersome scheduling, JAX State needed to address barriers to enrollment. Students now enjoy the ease of auto-generating their best-fit schedules based on courses they must take, breaks, and preferences like a specific campus, section, or faculty member.

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#RealCollege Blog

JUNE 28, 2022

By: Traci Kirtley (she/her), Believe in Students In February 2020, the novel coronavirus began making its way into the US, creating one of the most dramatic and widespread emergencies of my lifetime. How We Responded Within days, we launched efforts to meet this need. Our inaugural program, the FAST Fund, was our starting point.

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EAB

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Colleges can make progress toward helping students feel they belong in the following ways: Hire diverse staff and faculty. They’ve leveraged their student success technology, Navigate, to recruit new, current, and former students to the program which has supported both their recruitment and retention efforts. Engage the whole family.

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Timely MD

APRIL 18, 2024

College faculty and staff have the second highest rates, following at 35%. Student Performance: Minor differences in student performance can lower overall school results, impacting student recruitment and retention. This ultimately leads to higher teacher retention rates and improved overall school performance.

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The University Innovation Alliance

MAY 21, 2024

In addition to improving the success rates of students, retention was also very high (just over 85%) for students retained in the fall after completing their summer Accelerator course. Process mapping sessions : Talk through the student experience step by step, noting all points of interaction with faculty and staff.

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Civitas Learning

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Unfortunately, many campuses are deeply compartmentalized, making it difficult for staff (and faculty) to collaborate on an intentional and unified approach to student success. By integrating the efforts of IR and Student Success, UTSA achieved a 16 percent lift in retention and a 14 percent lift in their overall four-year graduation rate.

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EAB

APRIL 14, 2023

While this is worth celebrating, it’s also important to look at short-term retention rates to understand who is leaving community colleges early on. Even though completion rates have improved, one-year retention rates have remained relatively flat for the past decade , with a 51.3% for students starting in fall 2020.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 26, 2023

of the full-time faculty in post-secondary education. As an unsettling synth beat plays, a quote from a recent study fades in: “Many institutions have recruited underrepresented scholars to join their faculty without attention to retaining and supporting the new recruits.” Dr. Candace N. We should be doing work to invest in it.”

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EAB

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

These researchers pioneered and popularized the idea that retention is driven by “ student engagement.” Metrics: First-year retention Student engagement efforts started organizing under the umbrella of a “ first-year experience ” during the 1990s and early 2000s.

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Timely MD

MAY 1, 2023

According to an annual survey by Inside Higher Ed, about two-thirds of presidents (65%) indicate that they plan to increase their institution’s capacity to meet the mental health needs of students, staff, and faculty members. I believe my staff would have probably told me, ‘This is too much.

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Timely MD

MAY 2, 2023

A 2020 study published in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence found that 82% of transgender individuals have considered death by suicide, and 40% have attempted suicide, with the risk being highest among transgender youth. Sadly, higher rates of stress, anxiety, and suicidality among TGNC youth are not new.

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EAB

JANUARY 5, 2023

In recent years, institutions have confronted historical legacies of oppression , invested in faculty diversity , and developed retention programs for Black and Latino men , among many other initiatives. Just 10% of provosts selected any activity within "enhancing the faculty experience" as most critical. Activities. Activities.

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EAB

OCTOBER 14, 2022

percent from 2010 to 2020. These scans typically address questions related to recruitment , retention, and revenue. Student Success and Retention. Faculty and Resources. Of course, you need the faculty and staff —including recruiters, advisors, marketers, and instructional designers among others—to deliver programs.

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EAB

JULY 28, 2023

The cohort of students who were taking algebra during their first year of high school in 2020-2021 will begin entering college in Fall 2024. Here are five speculations, although this is not a comprehensive list: Retention will likely be put under considerable pressure. Earlier cohorts may also be deeply impacted.

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EAB

JULY 28, 2023

The cohort of students who were taking algebra during their first year of high school in 2020-2021 will begin entering college in Fall 2024. Here are five speculations, although this is not a comprehensive list: Retention will likely be put under considerable pressure. Earlier cohorts may also be deeply impacted.

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Supporting Student Success

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

In just two months, while still performing their regular job functions in the new online environment, the Get Ryerson Ready team researched, developed, designed, and launched a robust, innovative, multi-disciplinary, and award-winning transition curriculum to support the success and well-being of the incoming class of 2020. The Context.

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Civitas Learning

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Unfortunately, many campuses are deeply compartmentalized, making it difficult for staff (and faculty) to collaborate on an intentional and unified approach to student success. By integrating the efforts of IR and Student Success, UTSA achieved a 16 percent lift in retention and a 14 percent lift in their overall four-year graduation rate.

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