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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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While community colleges play a crucial role in providing accessible and affordable education to diverse student populations, many still struggle to fully accommodate students with disabilities, according to insights from community college students, faculty, and higher education experts.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2024

“Complete College, America: Harnessing the Power of Higher Education to Renew American Democracy” examines actionable steps that colleges and universities can take to prepare students to be ready for today’s workforce and be active, informed citizens. Unfortunately, access to higher education is often limited by cost.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The second goal of the program is to help build a community and culture at the institution that is attractive to prospective Native staff, faculty, and students. “As I think this makes MSU much more accessible than ever before,” adds Leonard. Does it mirror your student enrollment? That’s huge for many in our community.

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JULY 9, 2024

Colclough hatched an idea — what if they could develop professional learning environments easily accessible for all faculty in North Carolina’s community colleges, and what if that development could move the needle on student success? That trend is experienced across all student groups, not just in certain demographics.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 15, 2025

I look forward to working with the Board, faculty, staff, students, alumni, and the Rock Hill community to expand access and research, elevate student success, and position Clinton College as a bold, faith-driven institution for the future."

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 25, 2025

There can be no question that this reflects a growing infrastructure to support belonging for all faculty, staff, and students in higher education. But whats much less clear is how to facilitate, engender, or boost belonging for all students, using theory as a blueprint. Sense of belonging model as a blueprint BELONGING 1.0

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DECEMBER 6, 2023

Undergraduate LAs operate as part of an instructional team, supporting both students and faculty to create more inclusive, learner-centered classrooms that improve student and faculty success. At FSU, the program has also worked to increase access to STEM majors. “My The concept is quite simple.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 14, 2024

Six individuals have been recognized in The California State University’s (CSU) first-ever Black Student Success Scholarship Program.

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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

APRIL 1, 2025

The announcement comes at a pivotal moment for the Durango, Colorado, college, which continues to grapple with its history as a former federal Indian boarding school while working to advance its commitment to student success, equity, and community engagement.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 24, 2024

In the opening keynote to the conference, Dr. 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.

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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. Edward’s “familia” or family of students, faculty, staff, and leadership.

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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. It brings together presidents, provosts, faculty, funders, policymakers, and industry leaders to address big questions facing HBCUs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Delta’s Guiding Pillars: Equity and Completion Led by Gavin, the Delta faculty and staff are focused on two key pillars: equity and completion. Shelly Raube “So, whether you’re staff, whether you’re faculty, whether you’re a student, we want to be that place for our community for them to come in and see themselves here,” adds Raube.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 3, 2025

Caring Campus, developed by the Institute for Evidence-Based Change, intentionally equips staff and faculty with strategies and tools to create a welcoming, supportive environment for every student. These efforts signal to students that we care about their success even before they set foot on our campus.

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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. Faculty's working conditions are students' learning conditions,” Kezar told Diverse.

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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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DECEMBER 8, 2024

Diversifying representation sends a signal to students, faculty, and other stakeholders that leadership is attainable, and education serves as a gateway to socio-economic gains for communities and the citizens they serve. Establishing a cultural inclusivity and equity function on the board will illuminate these values.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (AGB) has launched a digital toolkit to help higher education governing boards proactively oversee equitable student success. When I started at AGB, the Board of Directors, staff, and I incorporated student success into the association’s vision.

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DECEMBER 1, 2022

The detrimental ripple effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on higher education won’t be going away any time soon, and student mental health is becoming an increasingly urgent issue, according to a recent EAB report. We found that student success leaders should anticipate at least five more years of elevated student needs,” the report noted.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 2, 2023

Jennifer Sramek The student-led campaign is commendable, but the community college stigma doesn’t only affect students. Faculty members are sometimes questioned about their choice to teach at a community college rather than at other higher education institutions.

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OCTOBER 26, 2024

On Monday, October 28, Believe in Students is hosting a webinar at 2 p.m. EST to share insights on student success and rising college costs, expressing the urgency of the curriculum. The most recent data from the National Student Clearinghouse shows that more than 40 million students in the U.S.

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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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FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Educators from a variety of community colleges shared how student success and sense of belonging is vital to meeting their local workforce needs, and how their unique geographic locations, demographic growth, and regional needs have influenced how they connect with big industry and small to mid-sized businesses.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The second goal of the program is to help build a community and culture at the institution that is attractive to prospective Native staff, faculty, and students. “As I think this makes MSU much more accessible than ever before,” adds Leonard. Does it mirror your student enrollment? That’s huge for many in our community.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2024

Daysha Jackson-Sanchez Through my conversations with other providers, as well as faculty and institutional leadership at colleges and universities across the country, I am increasingly optimistic that we are well-equipped to handle these shifts. Take the example of the courseware we deliver to students in gateway classes.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Texas A&M University-San Antonio has received a $3 million grant to address economic issues and expand technology access for its student population. Texas A&M University-San Antonio The money – in the form of a “Caminos Hacia el Éxito” (Pathways to Success) grant from the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2025

Project aims to diversify the business world by increasing the number of Black, African American, Latinx, Hispanic American, and Native American faculty members in business schools. This scenario parallels Elphaba's struggle inWicked, as she battles against systemic forces that seek to marginalize and suppress. Founded in 1994, the Ph.D.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2022

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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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

JUNE 8, 2023

Nwosu Nwosu is currently provost and senior vice president for academic affairs and student success at Herbert H. My career has been and will continue to focus on student success, and what struck me at SUNY Oswego was the energy around campus to create opportunities,” Nwosu said. “My Dr. Peter O. Lehman College.

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MAY 6, 2025

Historically Black Colleges and Universities play a critical role in student success. million Black students found that those who initially enrolled at an HBCU were nearly 15 percentage points more likely to graduate than those who attended other types of postsecondary institutions. College, in other words, is worth it.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Since its founding, Achieving the Dream has been focused on helping institutions deliver more equitable results in student success. Pierce College (WA) is revamping its faculty hiring and tenure process.

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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

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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