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Seal of Excelencia 2024

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The path to higher education success has many obstacles and barriers for Latinos across the U.S. Brown, is to advance Latino student success in higher education by promoting Latino student achievement, conducting analysis to inform educational policies and advancing institutional practices. Santiago and Sarita E.

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Community College Innovation Exemplars Honored at the Community College Futures Assembly

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Eligible community colleges were past Bellwether award winners who demonstrated five or more years of evidence-based success, scalability, and replication. The success of this program led to an increase in student enrollment and additional resources for the college, strengthening their relationship with clinical partners. “We

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Spaces of Belonging: Schools Look to Design to Help First-Gen Students

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Qua’Aisa Williams, associate director for instructional design, First Scholars Initiatives, at the Center for First-generation Student Success. Williams counted only 25 at the schools that partner with the Center for First-generation Student Success.

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Survey: Majority of Employers Express Confidence in Higher Ed

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Based on their responses, employers seemed to value higher ed’s capacity to teach students how to think independently and apply ideas hands-on more than anything else, with 59% and 56% of employers, respectively, saying that those characteristics, in a well-rounded education, help ‘a great deal’ for workforce success.

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Data and Collaboration are the Key to Preserving Higher Ed’s Hard-Fought Equity Gains

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We must now redouble our efforts, regaining the ground lost during the pandemic and charting a new path toward even greater student success for all learners. We learned long ago that there is no one-size-fits-all playbook for student success, and it’s a lesson that continues to help us better serve all learners on our campus.

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Looking to the future of advising: 6 takeaways from the 2023 NACADA conference

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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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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

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I stepped out of a tenure-track role and into an administrative position, where I could create programs to help students be successful.” As successful programming became established, the programs were replicated for women and other underrepresented minorities. Data from the participants helps shape advising and accountability measures.

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