Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2025

Clarence Vaughn,director of the Office of Access and Community Connections at UT and a member of the MLK commission, said that the partnership not only increases student participation at the events, but also gives residents in the surrounding community the opportunity to support the university and visit campus.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Communication is key on how the funding works to benefit students.” 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).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The report, funded by The Kresge Foundation, "Supporting Minds, Supporting Learners: Addressing Student Mental Health to Advance Academic Success" explores the data of the 2023 Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE) for returning students and the 2023 Survey of Entering Student Engagement (SENSE) for entering students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Postsecondary education provides graduates with greater access to job opportunities and higher earning potential throughout their lifetimes. But higher education isn’t the only provider of communal uplift. But broadband access varies across regions, states, and even towns. 95% of households have access to broadband.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 24, 2024

Excelencia in Education, an organization working for increased access and completion of Latinx students in postsecondary education, has released its latest report on programs that have qualitatively and quantitatively shown to improve and increase the success of Latinx students in higher education. Dr. Jimmy E.

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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

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

In my 30-year journey as a university president, I learned that successful leaders are not those who simply speak quickly, but rather those who learn to listen carefully and ask thoughtful questions. It’s about showing genuine care and respect for others, regardless of their backgrounds or beliefs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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 When that happens, they’re more willing to reach out.”

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Steve Keating

JANUARY 12, 2025

Becoming a more persuasive communicator involves mastering techniques that help you influence others effectively while at the same time building trust and respect. Heres a handful of ideas to help you improve your persuasive communication skills. Be trustworthy: Be honest, consistent, and fair in your communication.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 28, 2023

On July 1 st , incarcerated Americans will re-gain access to Pell grants for the first time in nearly 30 years. These students are therefore not eligible for Pell grants, making it exceedingly difficult for them to access higher education. These are things that are critical to successful re-entry and to decreasing recidivism.”

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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. Leonard understands the power of word-of-mouth in the Native community, and he plans to speak with the United Tribe of Michigan group about NATAP. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 12, 2025

Kellie Sims Butler, Superintendent President, Solano Community College: Lessons from Failure to Leadership As I reflect on my path to the presidency, I am reminded of the words of Maya Angelou, Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.

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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. Although the effort has received support generally, some higher ed scholars and advocates have levied some criticisms and concerns about it.

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Steve Keating

JANUARY 23, 2025

Accountability is what we dont want; its also what we most need if we want massive success in our lives. They know that a culture of accountability is key to good leadership and lasting success. Document and Communicate: Clearly outline expectations in writing to eliminate ambiguity.

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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. His deep-rooted record in higher education … combined with his commitment and belief in student success, equity, access, community engagement and economic development, and shared governance resonated with our university community.”

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

However, the cost of tuition can be a barrier for families considering private school options, limiting access to these institutions. To address this challenge, private K-12 schools can proactively implement strategies to ensure equitable access to financial aid. Key Strategies for Equitable Access and Promoting Diversity 1.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 12, 2023

Now, the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP), a nonpartisan nonprofit promoting post-secondary access and success, is publishing lessons learned from its ongoing attempts to build a better, more equitable transfer system. Unified communications, IHEP found, lend a sense of credibility to the pathways that they are promoting.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 3, 2024

The community organizations would really benefit from learning more about college students’ needs reentering, but on the flip side the colleges aren’t always thinking about their own reentering students.” That is a fact and we see it all the time with our own students when they return to community (P2CP began in 2011).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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? Stout’s speech hit Jaeger and Colclough in their hearts.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2023

Scott Schirmeier The new Recruitment Management module improves Navigate’s customer relationship management capabilities and simplifies recruitment/retention for schools into one platform, allowing schools to implement coordinated communications strategies for prospective students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 16, 2024

“These spaces were created out of a demand to recognize our existence in these spaces, to serve us, provide us the resources that we need to be successful in our educational trajectories, and, in doing so, be successful overall. It is a space to establish community, which is important for persistence and student success.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

It was clear that social mobility is increasingly important, but the best ways that colleges can help students achieve it and the best ways that it can be measured and communicated were less certain. A school might be offering access to a great many low-income students, but not graduating many of them. Or vice-versa.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

By working together, CDOs and their allies can develop comprehensive strategies addressing resistance, promoting inclusivity, and fostering a sense of community, ultimately strengthening the institution’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Communicate the Value of DEI. Adapt to Changing Circumstances.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 4, 2023

Even with these successes, the long-term viability of many HBCUs remains precarious if we don’t take advantage of this moment to create lasting, systemic changes to advance the ways HBCUs operate and provide more Black Americans with access to the distinct educational opportunities these historic campuses offer.

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Active Minds

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Active Minds has had another successful internship semester with the 2024 Fall class, and as this intern cohort finishes up their semester with us, we want to take a moment to reflect on their incredible contributions to mental health advocacy. He/Him) Graphic Design Team Where do you (or did you) go to school, and what is/was your major?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Gasman credited the success of HBCUs in part to their ability to link humanities education to larger societal issues. “My My belief is that this success is due largely to faculty members’ ability to provide rich context in humanities courses and majors and link them to larger societal issues,” she said. In 2022, women earned 62.4%

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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

JANUARY 19, 2023

in community college leadership. The professors come to the students for much of the face-to-face learning, thus making this program highly accessible to working adults. between departments) and take the initiative in undertaking outreach activities that positively impacted the COD community.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Higher Education has Slowly and Surely Increased Access to All Citizens, and We Will Continue to do So We assert that higher education is committed to the success of our students and to serving as a compass for the employees and the communities we serve. This statement itself is a result of a coalition of concerned leaders.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 13, 2023

Williams counted only 25 at the schools that partner with the Center for First-generation Student Success. When campuses make these changes to the physical space, it makes things more accessible for all,” she said. However, BU is an outlier for having a first-gen campus center at all.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 12, 2023

Sense of belongingness has been found to impact everything from academic success to graduation rate. Maybe the student has come from an area with less access to resources and didn’t learn the same material as everyone else, so they aren’t as prepared and feel it every day. But how do we do that?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

These programs waive tuition and connect students with academic counseling to ensure their success. Through deliberate, intentional efforts to bring in students from traditionally underserved populations, WVC’s dual enrollment programs are not only building opportunity and access but impacting enrollment as well. Dr. Karen A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 20, 2023

This program – for students from historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) – will take those selected to Charlotte for leadership, communication, and media relations workshops over three days and New York City for a boot camp on competency areas such as executive presence, finance, operations, influence, and business acumen.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

Each grounded in a social justice mission, we collectively seek to build communities that work for everyone—fighting to alleviate poverty, providing relief for food and housing insecurity, creating solutions to address public health concerns, and ensuring a high-quality education is accessible and possible for all.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The recent Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies report on the steep enrollment declines of Black male students at community colleges is a stark reminder that our sector must accelerate the crucial work to ensure the academic success of Black male students. Francesca I.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

To study the elements causing success—or failure—in gateway math courses, a team of researchers at Education Equity Solutions (EES), an organization focused on higher ed policy reform, examined records for over 22,000 students at four California community colleges. There’s an opportunity to really change student success rates.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 30, 2024

These criticisms ranged from accusations of political indoctrination and concerns about affordability and value to questions about graduates' readiness for the workforce and persistent gaps in access and success. King's training and experience became invaluable as he was called upon to lead the Montgomery Improvement Association.

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