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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? Course-pass rates are two percentage points higher after faculty have attended a Hub course.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Beyond the media smokescreen, Asian American and NHPI students face a diverse range of challenges on the road to college access and success. Asian American and NHPI populations, among the fastest-growing in the nation.

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APRIL 2, 2023

Students navigate housing and food insecurity, transportation issues, and other limitations to access. The purpose of community colleges is to increase access to higher education for the most vulnerable populations.” Achieving the Dream works with corporations, foundations, and other partners to support community colleges.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2024

I didn’t understand why everybody didn’t have access. And I was determined to have access,” says Williams. I made sure everyone had access, especially my Black classmates and friends,” says Williams. Tapping into access became a deliberate decision. He became what he calls “a student for everybody.” “I Dr. Dereck J.

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JANUARY 17, 2024

Dueñas’ scholarship addresses issues of equity and access in higher education with a focus on sense of belonging and experiences with imposter syndrome among Latinx students attending four-year colleges and universities. “My Dueñas says she uses both qualitative and quantitative methods to examine students in their higher educational spaces.

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OCTOBER 26, 2024

Attendees will also have the opportunity to get a glimpse of the curriculum content and sign up for access to the inaugural course. Keith Curry, President of Compton College and Christina Hasaan, a recent college graduate whose subject matter expertise is grounded in her lived experience as a parenting student.

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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. Williams, Texas A&M’s associate vice provost of student success and retention.

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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. That sends a powerful message to students and also the faculty that they’re valued, and it has led to retention and growth.” Hawkins Jr.

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OCTOBER 15, 2024

Also, that year the program’s retention rate of Latino students was 18% higher than the college’s general retention rate. It also added professional development for all the tutors and faculty. Approximately 80% of the students who access EAP are Latino. They’re creating safe spaces and a sense of belonging. are Hispanic.

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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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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. Since 2020, our first-generation retention rate has increased by 7.2% For example, we have developed an integrated framework to decrease student debt and increase access to outside scholarships.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Cochrane is a member of the Faculty Academy, a statewide initiative that trains faculty in a pedagogy called “Real Talk,” created by Dr. Paul Hernandez, senior advisor to the president and CEO at Achieving the Dream (ATD), a partner network of over 300 community colleges working to equitize higher education.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The presidents of these institutions said these increases are testament to tireless and intentional effort from faculty, staff, and leadership. Through carefully targeted programs and partnerships that remove barriers to educational access and success, these leaders hope their latest numbers portend future growth.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

· Diversifying faculty hiring and increasing retention of racially minoritized faculty so that they are as racially and ethnically diverse as the students they serve. Pierce College (WA) is revamping its faculty hiring and tenure process.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) and the Association of College and University Educators (ACUE) have jointly announced a network to give faculty and staff ways to improve student belonging and inclusion. When students know they belong, they stay and succeed, and ultimately go on to become the future leaders our country needs.”.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Retention efforts Morgan State is currently number one in the United States in producing Black electrical engineers and civil engineers, Wilson notes. This requires thoughtful retention efforts. At that time, they transition to either a professional advisor in their school or major or mostly to faculty advisement.”

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Civitas Learning

JUNE 1, 2023

The Outcomes: An 8% increase in retention, improved advising efficiency, and more effective cross-functional collaboration. Faculty and staff needed ways to easily communicate and access student data in one place so they had the shared context they needed to meaningfully help students.

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APRIL 4, 2024

IHEP identified these two institutions by using the Equitable Value Explorer , a free, publicly accessible site that analyzes data from colleges and universities across the country. Our program directors and faculty chairs work closely to match them to existing courses.” Students at LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City, NY.

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JULY 14, 2023

Community colleges play a critical role, providing affordable and accessible education for diverse populations. million credit and non-credit students for the 2021-22 academic year; the need to retain top talent among faculty and staff continues to grow. We have found the following strategies to be effective for our organization.

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JUNE 29, 2023

Strengthening a Diverse Leadership Pipeline Through Leadership Preparation and Development” is a partnership of faculty from five schools: Stony Brook, City College of New York, Fordham University, Hofstra University, and St. John's University.

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JULY 29, 2024

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 13, 2024

Though overall teacher turnover increased in districts that moved to four-day school weeks, morale and retention rates improved due to the reduced workweek, according to a new report from Keystone Policy Center.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The Academic Pipeline Exchange is an open access database charting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs in businesses, organizations, and institutions of higher education across the nation. There’s diversity happening among students, where the pipeline is slowing down is at the faculty level.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Faculty and staff serving Indigenous students at PWIs must be aware of the varying institutional contexts and how students navigate and experience their educational pathways. Funding from the Henry Luce Foundation and support of the American Indian College Fund have maintained the TCURJ as an open access journal.

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JULY 25, 2024

Rather, it's the natural result of diverse individuals coming together — students, faculty, and staff from different backgrounds, races, genders, religions, and socioeconomic statuses — sharing their experiences and perspectives, challenging assumptions, and advocating for a more just and equitable society.

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OCTOBER 13, 2023

Addressing the need Queensborough Community College (QCC), a two-year institution in the City University of New York system, conducted an equity audit that showed there were retention and graduation disparities for male students overall, with Black and Latinx male students disproportionately impacted.

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DECEMBER 1, 2022

“There’s a different kind of culture and opportunities that exist now from pre-K through grade 12 that has created the conditions for Native Hawaiians to now access higher education in higher numbers than we’ve ever seen historically,” said Kauai. They’ve become one of our greatest modes of recruitment and retention,” said Kauai.

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OCTOBER 1, 2023

Created in 2005 by Excelencia in Education, Examples of Excelencia is a national initiative that recognizes institutions and nonprofit organizations that identify, aggregate, and promote evidence-based practices that improve Latinx student access in higher education. The faculty and staff overseeing EPW know each student personally. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Title: Assistant Vice President for Diversity, Access and Inclusion; Associate to the President, University of Nebraska Jenkins has served as the University of Nebraska’s associate to the president and assistant vice president for diversity, access and inclusion since August of 2016.

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Civitas Learning

AUGUST 10, 2023

We discovered the key steps leaders and institutions are taking to strategically –and sometimes dramatically– improve their retention rates. 5 High-Impact Retention Strategies While institutions continue working hard to ensure their students graduate, initiative results often fall short of expectations. PP when misapplied.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Those barriers lead to a lack of access to quality education for our minority students and students from disadvantaged backgrounds.” Smith says Claflin nursing faculty have gone above and beyond to offer psychosocial support to the students. We’ve had to be vulnerable about our own burnout as faculty during COVID.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Pierre, a seasoned legal scholar, had been serving the Southern University Law Center in numerous roles since 1990, first as a faculty member and then as an administrator. I think you’ve heard it from faculty and others about the impression he has left on this campus in an interim (executive vice president) position.

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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. In her powerful closing keynote, Dr. Toby S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 10, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT can prove very valuable and promising in the realm of higher education but come with their own suite of issues that need to be considered, according to higher ed leaders and faculty who participated in a panel discussion on Wednesday. These new AI tools. are within that wider context."

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JANUARY 17, 2024

“We see how introductory courses like Calculus play a unique role as a gateway or barrier for racially minoritized students in terms of access to STEM majors and careers,” he says. “We Ford envisions him having an impact on recruitment and retention. He’s bringing innovative approaches. mathematics, Rutgers University; Ed.M.,

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The college will have its own dean of students, director, counselors, academic advisors, and outreach and support staff, and it will draw from existing faculty who have “a demonstrated record of success in teaching Black students,” said Wood. Wood — whose research focuses on racial equity in education — saw an opportunity.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Byrne to bring her commitment to access and equity to a new area of public higher education. From December 2016 to July 2022, when she left to begin her new position, she served as associate provost for undergraduate retention and dean of undergraduate studies. She concluded the fellowship and joined the faculty of John Jay.

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