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Promoting Higher Education for Native Americans in Minnesota

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A plan for mainstream colleges and universities has been laid out for intentional engagement in recruitment and retention. There are definitely ways to strengthen these policies, including conducting extensive research on implementation, communication and student experiences accessing state funding.”

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A State of Affairs, the Underrepresentation of Minority Community College Trustees

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In fact, most studies concerning African Americans have focused on the retention of students or faculty (Wolfe & Dilworth, 2015). However, research has demonstrated a clear underrepresentation of minority community college trustees (Moltz, 2009) with no progress being made in hiring African American administrators (Levin, Walker et al.,

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Panel Takes On Higher Ed Burnout

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Permitting faculty and staff to rotate in-person work or to only come in on certain days might help with retention. Shomaker said that it was important for administrators to make faculty and staff feel appreciated, to acknowledge their hard work in an ongoing way. Panelists were also asked about more granular solutions.

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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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Bill to Codify Postsecondary Student Success Grants Met with Support and Criticism from Scholars and Advocates

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The PSSG – it was first funded in 2022 via the Consolidated Appropriations Act – recognizes and awards funds to institutions that propose to use the grant for evidence-based reforms and practices in pursuit of bolstering student participation, retention, transfer, and completion rates.

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Leveraging Grants for STEM Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Women now receive around 40% of STEM PhDs — far from parity but a definite improvement. Launch committees are groups of experienced faculty and administrators that will create programming for new faculty members to plan out their career trajectories, build rapports, and develop mentor relationships. Several facts stand out.

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How Pueblo College Supercharged Yield and Retention Efforts

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How Pueblo College Supercharged Yield and Retention Efforts. EAB · How Pueblo College Supercharged Yield and Retention Efforts. Secretly was hoping maybe we'd be at 1%, but we definitely were not gonna be at 10% down, but that is where we were. Episode 126. November 1, 2022. Welcome to the Office Hours with EAB podcast.