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PSLF Could Soon Include All Early Childhood Education Workers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

If these educators can access PSLF, we can help our youngest children, their families, and their communities.” Public service jobs include public education, social work, and early childhood education — it’s already in the definition. Retention levels of those who received the grant were 96% across the state.

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Examples of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Also, that year the program’s retention rate of Latino students was 18% higher than the college’s general retention rate. Approximately 80% of the students who access EAP are Latino. The aims of the CAMP at Washington State University (WSU) are first-year completion, second-year retention and successful graduation.

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Pell Grant Increase Will Help Low-Income Students, But More is Needed

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

29, the new federal spending plan is set to increase the Pell Grant in 2023, allowing low-income students a chance to access up to $7,395 each year. In spring 2020, Black male retention at Whittier dropped to 30%. In spring 2020, Black male retention at Whittier dropped to 30%. With President Biden’s signature on Dec.

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How Pueblo College Supercharged Yield and Retention Efforts

EAB

How Pueblo College Supercharged Yield and Retention Efforts. EAB · How Pueblo College Supercharged Yield and Retention Efforts. Like many community colleges, you face some cross-campus communication issues, maybe had limited access to faculty during the summer and were attempted to generate more buy-in. Episode 126. Transcript.

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Native Son Propels Opportunities for Kentucky Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As indicated by several key metrics, over the past decade underrepresented minority (URM) students have made considerable progress in retention, graduation, and persistence rates. Working with our campuses, we’ve put in place high standards to raise their overall retention rates, overall graduation rates and overall attainment rates.”

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ASHE Conference Urges Humanization of Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Joy Gaston Gayles opened the 47th annual conference for the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) in Las Vegas with a call to disrupt the systemic oppression keeping marginalized populations from accessing higher education and burning out academics working toward greater diversity, equity, and inclusion. “If

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Measuring What Matters in Student Success

IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

Toward Convergence analyzed metrics and definitions used by institutional and state initiatives and specifications used in national data collections designed to assess institutional performance related to student access, progression, completion, cost, and post-college outcomes.