Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Financial aid, retention, and faculty/staff representation are part of the Seal,” says Dr. Deborah Santiago, co-founder and CEO of Excelencia in Education, who says she is delighted to see institutions with intentional practices actively working toward increasing Latino representation in key positions. Hawkins Jr. Hawkins, Jr.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Blogs The 6 most in-demand topics for district leaders last year AskEAB's 6 most popular research requests in 2022-2023 Each year, EAB’s Dedicated Advisors pass hundreds of questions from district leaders and school administrators to our AskEAB team. This rise reflects districts’ post-COVID-19 concerns about student learning loss.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2023

The workgroup, made up of 16 administrators from across the CSU system, was led by Dr. Saúl Jiménez-Sandoval, president of Fresno State, and Dr. Thomas Parham, president of CSU Dominguez Hills. Black] instructional staff need to be seen in the classroom because they are symbols of possibility,” said Parham.

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EAB

MAY 17, 2023

Now in 2023, issues with academic readiness and social isolation are having meaningful impacts on retention and student success, including an entirely new phenomenon – “move-in melt.” Several partners have shared anecdotes of students arriving to campus, moving into dorms, and abruptly withdrawing upon re-entering more social settings.

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Timely MD

APRIL 18, 2024

But they need the support of school leaders, including principals, HR administrators, and superintendents, to prevent burnout and support their holistic well-being. This stress diminishes teachers’ effectiveness, negatively affecting the quality of their instruction, classroom management, and relationships with students.

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Civitas Learning

JUNE 13, 2024

The Strategy: Implement student success technology to generate actionable insights, improve visibility, and create workflow efficiencies to lift enrollment, retention, and graduation rates. However, like many institutions, it faced challenges in boosting enrollment, retention, and completion rates.

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EAB

JANUARY 20, 2023

Eager Although your institution may already have a policy in place, it is important to make intentional decisions that actualize the cost savings, talent retention, and productivity benefits of flexible work. To support institutions in these efforts, this toolkit offers seven tools that provide detailed, step-by-step instructions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

Early in her time as an administrator at Virginia Tech, she implemented the Black Engineering Support Team (BEST), having Black upperclassmen be peer mentors to freshmen. I stepped out of a tenure-track role and into an administrative position, where I could create programs to help students be successful.” It is now called Imagination.

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EAB

APRIL 5, 2023

Many states have third-grade reading retention laws , which require students to meet a reading standard before moving on to the next grade. Few prep programs, if any, include a curriculum conferring scientifically-based reading instruction methods or the five components of literacy. Low reading proficiency costs districts, as well.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Blogs Looking to the future of advising: 6 takeaways from the 2023 NACADA conference The academic advising profession faces shrinking budgets, expanding student and administration expectations, and increasing turnover—all of which make it harder for institutions to think strategically about advising structure and staffing to support student success.

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EAB

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Efficiency audits help identify gaps in instructional capacity versus student demand at the course, program, and department levels. Elevate the student experience to improve overall retention: Current students can also fall victim to the treacherous tuition cycle, leading to stopouts. Ready to find out more?

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EAB

JUNE 12, 2023

Specifically: “ Entities performing the functions of student recruiting and retention, the provision of software products and services involving Title IV administration activities, and the provision of educational content and instruction are defined as third-party servicers.” Are the Benefits of OPM Partnerships Worth the Risk?

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

Projects addressed topics such as annual giving, student retention, professional and continuing education, academic program planning, and more. The blog posts below are written by the participants to showcase their project and early outcomes.

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Civitas Learning

AUGUST 22, 2024

The Challenge: Delivering timely support to a diverse and sizeable student population to foster improved retention and completion rates. ACC faced several obstacles to fulfilling its goal of improving retention and providing students with the support they need to persist and graduate on time with a credential.

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Civitas Learning

AUGUST 22, 2024

The Challenge: Delivering timely support to a diverse and sizeable student population to foster improved retention and completion rates. ACC faced several obstacles to fulfilling its goal of improving retention and providing students with the support they need to persist and graduate on time with a credential.

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The Advisor That Cares

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Followed by a “ did this information help you ” survey to assess growth mindset messaging ‘s and support service referrals’ impact on retention/student success. … how vital the role of a strong advising relationship is to students’ retention and success. Vital Behaviors you are trying to change.

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The Advisor That Cares

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Followed by a “did this information help you” survey to assess growth mindset messaging ‘s and support service referrals’ impact on retention/student success. An example is an informational Tik-Tok campaign about the impact of dropping and currently available (live) resources/support services around significant drop deadlines.

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EAB

MAY 8, 2023

From interviewing and surveying 150+ district administrators, building leaders, and support staff, EAB surfaced three primary causes behind the recent spike in absenteeism, all of which districts are struggling to address, if at all. Instruct trusted adults to identify attendance challenges and connect students to support.

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EAB

JULY 28, 2023

Here are five speculations, although this is not a comprehensive list: Retention will likely be put under considerable pressure. It is hard to anticipate the degree to which this will affect retention rates or the demand it will put on academic support infrastructure, but it seems likely to be significant.

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EAB

JULY 28, 2023

Here are five speculations, although this is not a comprehensive list: Retention will likely be put under considerable pressure. It is hard to anticipate the degree to which this will affect retention rates or the demand it will put on academic support infrastructure, but it seems likely to be significant.

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EAB

OCTOBER 27, 2023

This trend will shape the composition of the students you serve while dictating the importance of retention to maintain enrollment. Developmental education: Implementing or expanding credit-bearing supplemental instruction models in anticipation of increased demand.

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EAB

OCTOBER 27, 2023

This trend will shape the composition of the students you serve while dictating the importance of retention to maintain enrollment. Developmental education: Implementing or expanding credit-bearing supplemental instruction models in anticipation of increased demand.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 6, 2024

In pushing back on the political DEI pushback, they should explain that DEIB—Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging—is about creating an institutional culture and climate that embraces the identities of all higher education constituencies : administrators, faculty, staff, students, and alumni.

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EAB

APRIL 18, 2023

We're in the Obama administration now, and we're just a couple of years past the Great Recession and the tremendous impact that that had on higher Ed. Because the Department of Education in the Obama administration, they came up with an exception to that incentive compensation ban from '92. The instructional design. DK: Helpful.

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EAB

APRIL 18, 2023

We're in the Obama administration now, and we're just a couple of years past the Great Recession and the tremendous impact that that had on higher Ed. Because the Department of Education in the Obama administration, they came up with an exception to that incentive compensation ban from '92. The instructional design. DK: Helpful.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2024

To this end, we provide P-12 educators; college/university faculty, administrators, and staff; and other education stakeholders a blueprint to collaboratively work with Black males through a culturally responsive lens. In this chapter, best practices focused on the areas of advising, engagement, instruction, and programing will be discussed.

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EAB

APRIL 4, 2023

Beth and David also offer tips on ways to eliminate administrative obstacles and on the importance of focusing your marketing messages around the expected return your students can expect to see on their education investment. And so by that, they prefer the mode of online instruction, but they also wanna network as well.

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Civitas Learning

JULY 11, 2024

Tailoring and implementing the right mix of initiatives for each institution is crucial to improving retention and graduation rates. This approach has yielded impressive results: an 8% improvement in retention from 2016 to 2021, and an overall retention rate of 80% from Fall 2021 to Fall 2022, surpassing their retention goal.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 13, 2023

million); the first-ever Native American Teacher Retention Initiative competition to help address the shortage of Native American educators ($2.75 million); the first-ever Native American Teacher Retention Initiative competition to help address the shortage of Native American educators ($2.75 Secretary of Education Dr. Miguel A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Efforts by the Biden administration to pass a rule on student loan forgiveness was a major story from 2023 that will again be front and center in the new year. Financial issues, along with enrollment, retention and graduation, will be newsworthy also. That rule will likely, immediately get challenged in court,” says Kelchen.

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