Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 26, 2024

Bermea Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) may be models for how institutions can organize to effectively serve and advise students, according to a new report from Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions. It provides tips for effective advising and includes strategies to help ensure students receive needed support.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 8, 2024

million Acceleration Grant from the National Institute for Student Success. Dr. Kara Turner The institute collaborates with colleges and universities to identify obstacles to degree completion and implement proven solutions for student success. Morgan State University has been awarded a $1.5

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 10, 2024

Dr. Terri Gomez Gomez’s “deep understanding of our campus’ strengths and opportunities; her student-centered approach to leadership; her dedication to faculty and staff excellence; and her unwavering commitment to the success of our diverse students,” said President Dr. Soraya M.

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Timely MD

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Organize, plan, prioritize Learning how to organize, plan, and prioritize time wisely can help students manage their stress and stay on top of their workload. This is a skill that you can build into the learning experience, both from the student success lens and in the academic classroom setting.

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Civitas Learning

APRIL 29, 2025

At Civitas Learning, we’re always looking for ways to make student success tools more accessible and intuitive. With the Canvas LTI integration, faculty and staff can now access key Civitas Learning features without leaving the familiar Canvas environment. Together, lets impact the student outcomes that matter most.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

On the opening day, academics shared findings on student success at Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs), while others tackled issues of pay inequity in internships. Youngbull studied TCU concepts of student success by interviewing leadership and faculty at five different institutions in New Mexico, Arizona, and North Dakota.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Lynn Pasquerella “We are grateful to Lumina Foundation for recognizing the essential need to support faculty in identifying authentic connections between curricular goals and career preparation,” said AAC&U President Dr. Lynn Pasquerella. This work is necessary for advancing higher education, student success, and our economy.”

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Civitas Learning

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Faculty play a central role in building connections with students. Their regular interaction and academic and career guidance, especially within their areas of expertise, can significantly help students in their college experience.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 21, 2024

I like being able to work with students, faculty, and colleagues in a different kind of way [that] made me more aware of the community of higher education and not just a department, class, or advising relationship with a student. She enjoys being able to understand how higher ed works beyond just the academic parts. “I

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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

OCTOBER 9, 2023

At a time when the Latino population in the United States is growing and students are still facing daunting obstacles, Excelencia in Education is recognizing nine institutions for their clear and decisive commitment to Latino student success with the Seal of Excelencia. It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 1, 2025

Stout, recipient of the 2025 Diverse Champions Award, has focused her career on helping community colleges achieve outstanding student success. To have an institutional-wide approach to student success. At the same time, the deans are talking to their faculty about the data in the classroom that faculty are using.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

MAY 1, 2024

To elevate strategies that ease the strain of those challenges to support student success and completion, the U.S. Department of Education and IHEP convened the summit focused on holistic advising and wraparound support services.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Data gathered by Excelencia in Education, a nonprofit organization working to improve and accelerate Latinx student success in postsecondary education, showed that in 2021, there were 401 emerging HSI institutions across 43 states. Demographic changes have led to an increasing number of Latinx students attending higher education.

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Civitas Learning

MAY 30, 2023

Subscribe: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Youtube Rethinking strategies can be challenging, but with the many changes we see in higher education post-Covid, redesigning systems could be the key to student success. 17:08] – The first step was getting faculty and staff’s buy-in, which might take some time. [19:06]

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Civitas Learning

APRIL 17, 2025

This approach empowers institutions to uncover hidden gaps and drive outcomes like improving retention, scaling advising, and strengthening cross-campus collaboration. What features will help us be more proactive, scale support, and still create a student-centered environment? Are You Enabling for Impactor Just Implementing Tools ?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Previously, he was president of Framingham State University, president of Kutztown University; and vice chancellor for student affairs at the University of Massachusetts; chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UMass; and faculty adviser to the provost at UMass.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Being Black-serving means we don't boast of programs that serve a finite number of Black students. It means the institution changes how we develop faculty and advise students – where all 6,662 Compton college students benefit. All employees see themselves as student success advocates.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

On the panel, “Selecting Evidence-Based Advising Strategies to Improve Student Outcomes,” Thompson spoke about equity being a top priority, noting that, if higher education does not serve its most disenfranchised populations, then it is failing. The ongoing goal is to keep building pipelines for students. A framework was built.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Brown, Excelencia in Education has the stated mission to accelerate Latino student success in higher education. The intent is to bring attention to evidence-based practices that are making a positive difference for Hispanic students,” says Santiago, chief executive officer of Excelencia in Education. Santiago and Sarita E.

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Civitas Learning

JUNE 27, 2023

Joining today is Landon Peterson, Director of Academic Advising at Snow College, Julia Carlo, Executive Director of Advising at Northeastern State University, and our own Rob Friedhoff, Vice President of Community Development at Civitas Learning. 13:03] – The students that need to be seen the most are often the least engaged. [14:59]

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Civitas Learning

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

As higher education continues to shapeshift to meet the changing needs of students, many leaders are asking what role each department plays in supporting student success. Everyone is responsible for student success” is easy to say but harder to do. But this is a missed opportunity.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Dr. Tiffany Beth Mfume, associate vice president for student success and retention, says her office is involved from the time a student is admitted to the university until he or she graduates. Our students have a professional advisor on my team who works with them until they earn 24 credits with a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.0

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Civitas Learning

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Disjointed systems can lead to feeling like a pinballbeing bounced between financial aid, advising, faculty, and the registrar over a registration holdcausing confusion and frustration. This doesnt just affect the student experience, it also puts a strain on institutional resources and can negatively impact outcomes.

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The University Innovation Alliance

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The University Innovation Alliance's Three Playbooks for Student Success. The University Innovation Alliance (UIA) operates as a multi-campus laboratory for student success innovation. Proactive Advising. MAAPS demonstrated the value of an accessible, coordinated approach to advising. College to Career.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

Smith Title: Associate Professor of Higher Education; Provost Faculty Fellow, University of Cincinnati Age: 39 Education: B.S., Smith Title: Associate Professor of Higher Education; Provost Faculty Fellow, University of Cincinnati Age: 39 Education: B.S., Everrett A. psychology, Middle Tennessee State University; M.S.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2023

Although NSU had used a CRM in the past, their previous software was not customizable and did not offer retention or student success components. At NSU, Alexander said the new CRM improved the enrollment team’s workload and made their workflows smoother.

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EAB

MAY 16, 2023

Podcast TSU's Systematic Approach to Student Success Episode 151. Raijanel Crockem and Naomi Lawrence-Lee from Texas Southern University join EAB’s Joanie Garcia to discuss their work to strengthen TSU’s approach to student success. Student success is always changing with the landscape of higher education.

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Civitas Learning

AUGUST 22, 2024

The Strategy: Transition to a case management model that offers students proactive guidance and access to resources, and engages faculty to see a complete picture of their academic journey. They also required insights into classroom performance and whether students used recommended support resources to complete their degrees.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2023

They conducted listening sessions and focus groups with more than 250 Black students, faculty, and staff. Another recommendation was that each school develop retention and persistence strategies for Black students using a personalized student support model, along with enhanced advising.

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Civitas Learning

JULY 11, 2023

Subscribe: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Youtube | Full Transcript In this episode, I’m talking with Allison Chase Padula, Assistant Provost for Student Success at Roger Williams University. Their innovative approach ensures that all students are successful while also ensuring faculty aren’t stretched too thin.

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Civitas Learning

MAY 11, 2023

Those who’ve found the most success understand that financial stability requires investing in a student success model that supports students and fiscal health. To achieve this, we measured the impact of student success initiatives on student persistence at 48 partner institutions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 12, 2023

[Partnerships] are critical to creating clear programmatic pathways for students and for strengthening advising. When you do these things in partnership, you get a holistic view of transfer students’ experiences and pathways.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2024

Dr. Elizabeth Béjar, provost at Florida International University (FIU), a public four-year HSI in Miami, that’s also Seal certified, said FIU began thinking seriously about how to help Latinx students “break through their own career glass ceiling” years ago.

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Civitas Learning

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

While many institutions are eager to leverage their data to improve student outcomes and achieve their goals, several obstacles stand in their way: Lack of Stakeholder Buy-In — Department leaders must align on using data to drive decisions. In comparison, high-performing students saw only a 3% improvement.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

DECEMBER 20, 2021

By providing financial and social supports for students throughout the transfer process, four-year institutions can promote a transfer-receptive culture that welcomes and nurtures transfer students’ success. Higher education: Students need more information to help reduce challenges in transferring college credits.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

Connecting Black students with each other made them feel stronger and more determined to support each other through the curriculum. “It It was a matter in many cases of asking the students, ‘What do you need?’” Lester has a network of teachers and guidance counselors that have their students apply for summer programs.

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