Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 13, 2024

Education is a human right regardless of one’s background, and access and support should be readily available to those in need. We are fully committed to first-generation students, but commitment is just the start. But we are not stopping our pursuit of even higher graduation rates for our first-generation students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2025

This structured approach makes complex psychological concepts accessible and immediately applicable to educational settings from K-12 through higher education. For each bias, Kizart presents a clear definition, self-assessment tools, realistic school-based scenarios, reflective questions, and concrete strategies for counteraction.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 24, 2024

In his speech titled, "From Mirage to Oasis: The Role of Higher Education in Advancing Opportunity for All," Baston noted that food and housing insecurity and access to the internet, are among the litany of challenges that continue to serve as barriers to student success. Dr. Michael A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 23, 2025

Aside from writing about the plight of Black men in higher education, in our scholarship, we have employed an anti-deficit approach to highlight critical factors that help to facilitate the access, retention, and persistence of Black men in college. This stifles Black student success and contributes to low graduation rates from high schools.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 26, 2024

Legislators are looking to enshrine the Postsecondary Student Success Grant (PSSG) program, a student outcomes-centered federal effort, into law through new legislation this March. It secures its place in federal education policy, making it less susceptible to annual budget fluctuations or shifts in administrative priorities.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2024

In kicking off the panel, Mathis recognized the likely diversity of, and respect for, varying contexts and cultures represented among participants, including community college trustees, senior administrators, and other state and association leaders from across the country. in press, p. Dr. Carl B. Dr. Terry A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2025

They needed long-term, data-driven, institutionally customized strategies to build financial resilience, promote academic innovation, and drive student success models that work for their institutions. DIVERSE : In addition to policymakers, faculty, and administrators, students play a major role in UNITE.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2025

According to Ess Pokornowski, Reintegrating students face a unique set of overlapping challenges: they are leaving a total institution where choice, communication, access to healthcare, access to technology, and opportunities for education and gainful employment are all dramatically limited.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

An example of where even completing a FAFSA—a requirement of North Star Promise—can clash with Native American culture is provided by Tiffany Gusbeth, vice president of student success services of the American Indian College Fund (College Fund). There are 11 federally recognized American Indian tribes in Minnesota.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 19, 2024

The Institute for College Access and Success (TICAS) has released its latest policy recommendations to make postsecondary education affordable and completable for all students. “It Can students get childcare, or food? Because you can’t have student success without those things.” Can they have healthcare?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Kristina Londy Kristina Londy has been named director of student success and inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility at MiraCosta College in Oceanside, California.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Aspen subsequently began two intensive fellowships that select senior administrators with the qualities of exceptional presidents and teach lessons from the field about how to achieve exceptional and equitable levels of student success.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Bridges’ expertise in areas including student engagement, learning environments at minority-serving institutions, and evidence-based strategies for student success will be an invaluable asset to the IHEP team,” said IHEP Board Chairperson Dr. Peter Nwosu. Dr. Brian K. AT UNCF, Bridges oversaw and led its Frederick D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

student affairs administration/higher education, Ball State University, Teachers College; Certificate, College and University Teaching, Ball State University, Teachers College; Ph.D., Sáenz is the associate dean for Student Success, Community Engagement & Administration at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 1, 2025

Stout, recipient of the 2025 Diverse Champions Award, has focused her career on helping community colleges achieve outstanding student success. Early inspiration In her first community college position, much of Stouts work focused on access and reaching as many stakeholders as possible. For 41 years, Dr. Karen A.

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Civitas Learning

JUNE 1, 2023

The Challenge: Deliver on the mission to provide holistic services that support the success of every student every day. The Strategy: Adopt an integrated and holistic student success management model and implement a unified student success platform to make personalized support feasible at scale.

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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

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

She has previously been dean of science, engineering, allied health, and mathematics at Bakersfield College and administrator at Lane Community College. “Dr. She is an innovator with a long and impressive track record of expanding opportunities for California’s students. Christian holds a B.S. from University of Kerala; an M.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2024

It is about taking a bold stance to break the old and create new systems and structures that support our students’ success. I’m ready to share my unapologetic Freedom Dreaming thoughts, the full realization of unapologetic leadership, put into practice, in the name of student success.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

As I moved from a faculty role into more administrative work, the words stayed with me though they no longer informed text selection, course design, or other personal pedagogical practices. Leaders and scholars of color, along with their allies, have sought access to the academy for themselves and for students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The end goal, he said, is to create a “system and network within institutions focused on creating the highest quality of access for Black students.” So far, administrators have already set aside over 6,000 square feet of space to house the college. I wake up every morning energized,” said Mosupyoe. “I

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Civitas Learning

OCTOBER 19, 2023

—Will Ballard, CEO, Civitas Learning 3 Ways Civitas Learning Helps Higher Education Solve Its Toughest Challenges Civitas Learning was founded to help colleges and universities translate their vast student data into actionable insights institutions need to help their students succeed.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 30, 2024

The results reveal that, even if students were not able to access a voucher or find housing, connection to the CHAP program improved their ability to get a job, their health, and their well-being. Instances of involvement with the criminal justice system diminished.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Some student populations are more likely than others to participate in these programs, however. To understand how to ensure better access and promote positive outcomes for all students in dual enrollment programs, community colleges need to understand the dual enrollment experience from the perspective of students themselves.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 19, 2023

Jessica Enders COD's leaders support staff development to ensure its faculty, administrators, and staff are up-to-date on issues and teaching and learning strategies. The professors come to the students for much of the face-to-face learning, thus making this program highly accessible to working adults.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 16, 2024

It really is a structural erasure of queer and trans individuals,” says Dr. Ángel de Jesús González, an assistant professor of higher education administration and leadership at Fresno State. It is a space to establish community, which is important for persistence and student success.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2024

On this January day, Curry — who grew up just a short distance from the college — greets the groundworkers and buttonholes administrative staff about the latest developments taking place across campus. Additionally, Curry has secured millions of dollars for student success initiatives. There is much to celebrate. This is it.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Sara Goldrick-Rab With their well-being undermined, students find it much harder to focus on learning — let alone graduate — which, combined with growing debt, puts them at risk of ending up worse off than if they didn’t attend college at all.

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EAB

MAY 16, 2023

Podcast TSU's Systematic Approach to Student Success Episode 151. Raijanel Crockem and Naomi Lawrence-Lee from Texas Southern University join EAB’s Joanie Garcia to discuss their work to strengthen TSU’s approach to student success. Student success is always changing with the landscape of higher education.

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Civitas Learning

MAY 11, 2023

Those who’ve found the most success understand that financial stability requires investing in a student success model that supports students and fiscal health. To achieve this, we measured the impact of student success initiatives on student persistence at 48 partner institutions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Institutions must identify and break down the countless sociocultural, financial, and bureaucratic barriers that can stand in the way of college access and completion. Investing in diversity among faculty, staff and administrators is a critical component.

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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

APRIL 2, 2023

For graduate students and professionals interested in an academic career, it is important to understand the differences between selective admission institutions, focused on research, publication, and the expansion of knowledge, and those that are open-access, focused on teaching and student learning.

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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

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

However, a new study offers a reason for caution: for Black, Hispanic, and low-income community college students, online courses only increase degree attainment when taken in relatively low proportions. But if a student has to take all their classes online, they miss out on this support, which might set back their progress.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 27, 2024

Those are the tough choices HBCU administrators are faced with every day of the week.” But despite funding complications, HBCUs put students first. Smith University (JCSU) in Charlotte, NC, students are able to receive one-on-one coaching through InsideTrack, a nonprofit helping students achieve their educational goals.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 30, 2024

I did not see myself reflected in the curriculum, my professors, or the administration. There is a profound indignity in rarely seeing a teacher, administrator, or institutional leader that looks like you. Dr. Roberto Montoya is associate vice president of partner success at InsideTrack. My story is a familiar one even now.

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