Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 29, 2024

Jeff Strohl, director of CEW and lead author of “ Progress Interrupted: Evaluating a Decade of Demographic Change at Selective and Open-Access Institutions Prior to the End of Race-Conscious Affirmative Action.”

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Knack

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

At Knack, were proud to partner with institutions that are committed to making academic support equitable and accessible for all students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

For example, it found that stress, rising costs, and lack of academic support are higher education’s top concerns. GenAI could be the remedy to ongoing challenges from teacher shortages and crowded classrooms to democratizing access to higher education through lower-cost options, according to the survey.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The historic gains made in recent years resulted from colleges and universities across the country focusing on eliminating disparities in educational access and student access based on race, gender, and socioeconomic status. Many declined to enroll in the first place.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 27, 2023

This spring, these community college students from inland Southern California will receive academic support as they pursue medical education. The 37 students are part of the new state-funded California Medicine Scholars Program (CMSP), which seeks to diversify the field of primary care and address health workforce shortages.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Alexander oversees the legacy of the Academic Advancement Program (AAP) at UCLA, one of the longest running academic support programs for first-generation, low-income, and underrepresented students. Academic Advancement Program AAP is rooted in the purpose of public education, notes Alexander.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2024

Establish and maintain robust cross-sectoral partnerships with K-12, public housing, criminal justice, workforce development boards, and public health agencies to help lifelong learners access college however and whenever they need it. Provide additional academic support for students to address their reading and writing.

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Knack

JANUARY 24, 2025

As colleges and universities strive to enhance student success, one key strategy is increasing access to academic support services. However, even the most effective resources can go underutilized if they aren't convenient or accessible for students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 13, 2023

To help them, colleges are going beyond academic support. When campuses make these changes to the physical space, it makes things more accessible for all,” she said. These factors make it harder for first-gen students to function in institutions that were developed for elite whites.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 3, 2024

The first, the Educational Preparedness Program (EPP) , offers courses, academic support, and career-building resources to currently and formerly incarcerated (CFI) students. It is in service of the foundation’s goal to expand access to liberal arts education, she said.

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Knack

APRIL 17, 2025

Ten years ago, Knack was founded with a bold vision: to make academic support equitable and accessible for all students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Access to sports Growing up in Brooklyn, New York, Nzingha Prescod initially didn’t see many sports options, but at age 8 she found her way to The Peter Westbrook Foundation, which offered fencing to New York City kids. It also seeks to improve access to quality education for kids in under-resourced communities. years at St.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

About seven years ago, Columbia University welcomed its first HBCU Fellowship cohort, allowing students who had graduated from historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) to pursue select master’s degrees in the university’s School of Professional Studies (SPS), all the while getting financial, career, and academic support.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 13, 2023

“The resource centers serve as one-stops with many tailored supports that can help male students of color find a sense of purpose because it typically will include things like mentorship, academic support, career exploration, leadership development opportunities, and peer support networks,” says Jez.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The pandemic exacerbated long-standing education equity issues and could ultimately reverse decades of work on access and completion,” the report noted. “We Lower K-12 test scores extend back to elementary school and foretell heightened demand on academic support staff.

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Knack

JULY 9, 2024

At Knack, we understand the importance of accessing and analyzing tutoring activity data to enhance academic support services. This data export feature, accessible via SFTP, allows customers to seamlessly integrate Knack data into any systems they may be using which can automatically load from an SFTP server.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

Reducing the financial barriers to access doesn’t necessarily reduce the financial barriers to success,” said Dr. W. Even when you have access equalized, there are still so many other advantages in the schooling process than can build up and propel white students further than Black and Latino students.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Community colleges need to build a more dynamic understanding of local labor markets, embed students’ relationships to work and career ambitions into academic support systems, rather than see our institutions as simply a throughway,” said Dr. Karen A. Stout, president and CEO of ATD. Success rates have grown from 40 to 60% on average.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Approximately 80% of the students who access EAP are Latino. As you work with people closely, you know that you’re making a difference,” says Michael Heim, director of CAMP and of WSU’s Migrant Education Student Access & Support. It also added professional development for all the tutors and faculty.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas, partners with over 62 high schools across the state, facilitating college access for Latino, rural, and other marginalized communities. Partnering with high schools that serve predominantly Latino students reinforces accessibility. It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students.

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Timely MD

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The barriersranging from cultural stigma and financial constraints to limited access to tailored supportare significant and deeply rooted. Unclear systems: Overlapping or confusing systems for accessing resources can deter already overwhelmed students. Simplifying access and offering proactive guidance can make a huge difference.

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Knack

MARCH 6, 2025

Many juggle jobs, family responsibilities, and commutes that make accessing support services difficult. If colleges and universities want to help every student succeed, they need to rethink how academic support is delivered. But todays students are anything but traditional.

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Knack

DECEMBER 12, 2024

The University of New Hampshire (UNH) has long been committed to fostering student success through innovative academic support initiatives.

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Civitas Learning

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

In today’s higher education landscape, creating a successful student experience means seeing the whole student—not just their academic performance. Insights help teams create tailored support plans, but many institutions find it difficult to access quality data. So, how can schools access clean, usable data?

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Knack

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

At Knack, were proud to partner with institutions committed to expanding academic support for their students, and Valdosta State University (VSU) is a shining example. Since launching our partnership in Fall 2024, VSU has made tutoring more accessible than eversupporting all students in all courses.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

To encourage these students to apply for financial aid, it’s crucial to provide clear and accessible information. By creating a simplified application with flexible deadlines and clear instructions, schools make the process more accessible and user-friendly for transfer students.

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Student Minds

JULY 29, 2024

I was fortunate to have access to a very good therapist on campus. Universities often offer a range of support services that can be invaluable for students dealing with complex home situations, including free or low-cost counselling or academic support.

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Civitas Learning

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The Strategy: Using Institution-Specific Analytics to Provide Students with the Right Support at the Right Time To achieve improved student outcomes for all, SRU needs a way to easily access institution-specific student success analytics to uncover barriers faster and connect students to the most beneficial support.

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Civitas Learning

MAY 11, 2023

However, it’s no longer sufficient to focus solely on academic support to increase student retention. Empowering campus leaders with up-to-date institution-specific data in accessible formats they can easily segment and compare is crucial to evaluate which strategies and interventions yield the best results.

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The Counseling Geek

MAY 5, 2023

As a powerful language model, ChatGPT has the potential to revolutionize school counseling, providing students with a more accessible and efficient way to access the support they need. Programmatic Supports 1. That’s where ChatGPT comes in.

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The University Innovation Alliance

APRIL 20, 2023

With student access to easy answers, we reduced summer melt by about 30+%. Medley emphasized how non-traditional students appreciate the extra support: "Non-traditional students have an incredible variety of things in their way: childcare issues, accessing employer reimbursement programs, veterans' benefits.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

AUGUST 9, 2024

Academic Support: Additional tutoring and academic support services are often available to help international students succeed in their studies. Counseling and Advising: Dedicated counselors provide guidance on academic planning, college admissions, and personal well-being.

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Civitas Learning

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Graduation Plans and Enhanced Career Education for All Bearcat Promise is UC’s umbrella student success initiative to help students feel supported and part of the UC community. UC’s administrators invested in the Civitas Learning Student Impact Platform to support a holistic advising approach required to meet the goals of Bearcat Promise.

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Civitas Learning

MAY 23, 2024

Identifying Bottleneck Courses to Deliver Precise Academic Support Visibility into the impact individual courses have on persistence and graduation empowers provosts, academic deans, advising teams, and faculty members to identify and address barriers to student success in a clear, purposeful way.

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EAB

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

So, this actually squandered a flourishing landscape for incarcerated students to access higher education. The RAND Institute has conducted studies that estimate that there is a 28% lower chance of recidivism for students who access higher education. Definitely the material support, but also the emotional support.

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EAB

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

In the last 20 years, there's been this really big resurgence of community-based organizations that are, I would say, kind of called college access and success as a general bucket term. And I know that in the college access world, we use a lot of acronyms and vernacular that people aren't super familiar with.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 17, 2025

In a timely publication released Thursday, education experts outline concrete strategies to support Black student success in college amid growing national pressures on diversity initiatives and following the 2023 Supreme Court decision limiting race-conscious admissions.

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