Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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Its stated goal was to enhance diversity and inclusivity through the recruitment and retention of an increasingly diverse population of faculty, administrators, staff and students.

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JANUARY 30, 2025

During his leadership, WMU set all-time records for online programs, graduation rates, and student retention. Under his administration, the university strengthened its academic programs while focusing on equity and student success. His announcement emphasized his ongoing commitment to ethical leadership and community engagement.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 29, 2024

He researches college student self-efficacy ; STEM research ; college retention ; school closing and massive resistance ; high school to college transition, spirituality among college students ; and psychological well-being of students and administrators in higher education.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

In this role, she has improved re-enrollment, retention, and graduation rates for the school. “Dr. For her work, Akey was Minnesota State System Academic and Student Affairs Administrator of the Year in 2021. in educational policy and administration from the University of Minnesota. Akey holds a B.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 23, 2025

Furthermore, the Black men that attend postsecondary institutions, reportedly have the lowest retention rates of all groups. Perhaps equally concerning is that policies at the state and potentially the federal level that champion the retention and persistence of Black men in higher education such as DEI are being eliminated.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Arguably, we're going to eventually see an impact on leadership in schools, because if we aren't creating enough teachers, we're also not going to be creating enough administrators,” said Pruitt in an interview with Diverse. “If Retention of teachers is increasing.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 10, 2023

Sharif El-Mekki This second session of the “How to Improve Educator Recruitment and Retention: Stories from the South” series took virtually on Tuesday. Dr. Terry Lamar Hearing from such teachers is central to addressing their needs and ultimately strengthening recruitment and retention, said Darcy Pietryka from EAC-S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 8, 2025

Prior to her role at MATC, Martinez Powless accumulated 17 years of higher education experience at Marquette University and MATC, working in administration, enrollment, student affairs, and multicultural outreach. In September 2023, she was promoted to interim vice president of enrollment and retention, reporting to King.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

A seasoned education leader with extensive experience in academic administration, college officials say that Mallory brings a proven track record of enhancing student success and developing workforce programs.

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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. Streamlined workflows that reduce administrative burdens and improve efficiencies to make holistic advising feasible. Increased collaboration, strengthened communication, and improved alignment across departments.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 13, 2024

Since 2020, our first-generation retention rate has increased by 7.2% Our responsibility as educators and administrators is to intentionally address their needs through a highly personalized holistic education plan tailored to their interests and goals. Edward’s “familia” or family of students, faculty, staff, and leadership.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Department of Education projects that the number of Asian American and NHPI students enrolling in college will grow by 12% in the next four years.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 8, 2024

Funds will target policies and practices that help improve student retention and graduation rates such as standardizing academic advising systems and protocols. Faculty and administrators must be more agile and flexible in addressing the complex needs of our students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2023

Dozens of panel and plenary sessions were offered at this year’s meeting of the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) including a panel titled, “Historic Role of University Presidents in Shaping Racial Policies and Practice,” and keynotes by David Hogg and Jaclyn Corin, co-founders of the March for Our Lives.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 7, 2024

Guillory will serve as a senior cabinet member and in the administrative office, next in line to Ford. As the chief academic and enrollment officer at Dillard, she is expected to manage academic offerings and faculty initiatives and lead the implementation of an institutional recruitment and retention strategy. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Our community was designed to reduce hierarchy and share power between faculty and administrators and was open to all who taught at UToledo. As a result, DFW rates declined and retention rates improved for students who took a course taught by an Equity Champion, with a sizable decrease in retention equity gaps.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Given that less than 1% of Americans have served in the military, administrative leaders across all education sectors often have a learning curve. Establishing processes that seek to understand the need of each military-connected learner from a holistic viewpoint can inform persistence and retention.

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Civitas Learning

MARCH 7, 2024

Following the institute’s collaborative sessions, leaders gained fresh perspectives on addressing issues hindering student retention and success. Additionally, it prevented advisors from having meaningful student interactions and made it harder for administrators to manage classroom space and class scheduling effectively.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. Dr. Roderick L.

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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. In 2016, he was tapped to lead the school’s law center, which was founded at the historically Black university (an HBCU) in 1947.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

So far, administrators have already set aside over 6,000 square feet of space to house the college. Wood — whose research focuses on racial equity in education — saw an opportunity. The end goal, he said, is to create a “system and network within institutions focused on creating the highest quality of access for Black students.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Back in September, Western Michigan University—a public research institution located in the southwestern corner of the state—released its fall 2024 enrollment and retention numbers, much to the delight of the school’s provost, Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig. Black student enrollment, for example, went up 2.3% in Hispanic enrollment. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 7, 2024

Guillory will serve as a senior cabinet member and in the administrative office, next in line to Ford. As the chief academic and enrollment officer at Dillard, she is expected to manage academic offerings and faculty initiatives and lead the implementation of an institutional recruitment and retention strategy. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 6, 2024

The Alliance works to support faculty and staff recruitment and retention at the university. Leach Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion award from the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA). She also prioritized the development of the Queer/Trans Alliance, a newly developed affinity space for faculty and staff.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 25, 2024

This document, a roadmap for the next conservative presidential administration, frames diversity and inclusion efforts as a coordinated attack on American values, advocating for a radical restructuring of federal education policy that would have devastating consequences for historically underrepresented students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 7, 2023

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 14, 2023

By embedding DEI in faculty, administrative and staffs’ roles throughout the campus, the work is not made a target for cuts. What’s more, campuses that have implemented the SEL approach become much more diverse in terms of hiring, promotion and retention of faculty and staff from diverse racial backgrounds.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 23, 2022

She is responsible for developing and implementing strategies, programs and activities to enhance access, inclusion and retention of a diverse student body, faculty and staff. She brings more than a decade of experience in higher education leadership roles that have required strategic planning and execution of diversity-related efforts.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2023

While there are many undergraduates and graduate students aiming for careers in banking or finance, there are also entrepreneurs, innovators, people interested in hospital administration, and others seeking positions at nonprofit organizations. In terms of retention, Carter says hiring supportive faculty is a huge component. “We

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EAB

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

How Pueblo College Supercharged Yield and Retention Efforts. EAB · How Pueblo College Supercharged Yield and Retention Efforts. The post How Pueblo College Supercharged Yield and Retention Efforts appeared first on EAB. Episode 126. November 1, 2022. Welcome to the Office Hours with EAB podcast. Transcript. So I think.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 3, 2023

Patrick Biddix, professor and program coordinator of the Higher Education Administration Ph.D. When we think about retention rates, especially with Black males—HBCUs are still significant. Lundy said it was Brown who reached out across town to connect with the University of Tennessee (UT) Knoxville.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2024

Briscoe said institutions need to “reassess how dismantling all these things are actively affecting recruitment and retention.” “How This suggests, said Shapiro, that these students were encountering other barriers to credentials, including fees or administrative holds.

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Active Minds

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Our hub offers workshop sessions where students can learn about topics like retention and recruitment for school clubs, how to build positive partnerships with school administration, and understanding the impacts of unhealthy relationships.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Artificial intelligence, if created and implemented responsibly, can help increase diverse, equitable, and inclusive recruitment and retention, DEI specialist Shayne Halls said during a University of Phoenix webinar Thursday. Everyone learns differently. Everyone does not retain information in the same manner. AI is here to address that.”

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