Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

“We used state data to identify high school and college pairs that had strong results for providing access to Black, Latinx, and low-income students, strong outcomes like course pass rates and going to college at high rates,” said Fink.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Students were unenrolling for “the wrong reason,” he says, like having performed poorly on a quiz but being unfamiliar with institutional resources that could help them. Renick’s team also discovered that certain courses did not pair well together, and students should be advised to take them successively instead of concordantly.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

The program – founded in 2008 as part of Breakthrough’s larger support model – works to support students as they face the encounters and challenges of postsecondary education, offering resources such as academic advising, tutoring, emergency student support funds, legal aids, and tax services, according to CCST Director Dr. Arelis Palacios.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 10, 2023

Throughout all of my higher ed positions — department head, dean, provost and now president — I have continued to be involved in research by advising graduate student thesis or dissertation work,” said Lim, who has been extensively published and presented at more than 100 conferences. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 2, 2023

Innovations Smith said a rebound in community college enrollment is largely due to dual enrollment, which allows high school students to take community college courses. But Trent said these students are often not low-income students and therefore accommodation should be made for students who don’t have the resources to pay.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 1, 2025

Her focus is student success initiatives, which include a lot of different focus areas, including guided pathways and holistic advising, developmental education reform, and a number of things that lead to increased student success, particularly with underserved populations, says Felder. These reforms can be broad-based.

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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. Thu, 12/15/2022 - 06:00.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

AAP emphasizes that their students have earned the academic right to be at UCLA and have shown the potential to excel and graduate. By example, the counseling/advising unit uses an intrusive model, monitoring students’ progress and regularly checking in on them.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The last two years, ASU has seen the highest retention rates of all students, but particularly Latino students. The university restructured to a centralized academic advising model for the first two years of college, ensuring that advising is consistent across all majors, particularly for the most vulnerable populations.

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Counselors' Corner

JANUARY 3, 2024

Some offer a postsecondary planning course that gives college advising about 12-15 hours of their time, but veteran counselors know that’s just enough information to know what you don’t know. Early introduction to college advising K-8 students don’t need college advising if their parents went to college.

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Civitas Learning

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Snow College assessed its advising program to determine if all students benefit equally from a one-on-one advising experience. Using Civitas Learning’s Initiative Analysis solution, leaders could identify which student populations benefitted most from emergency funding.

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The University Innovation Alliance

AUGUST 11, 2022

Innovating to Close Equity Gaps: The National Institute for Student Success. Student Success. These respected campus leaders are skilled in change management, and we look to them for spearheading and scaling student success initiatives at our member institutions. How to Improve Student Outcomes. Thu, 08/11/2022 - 06:00.

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COE

APRIL 7, 2023

Career services and career advising are available to most college students, but we know they are often under-resourced and under-utilized at most postsecondary institutions,” said Carolynn Lee , senior program officer at Ascendium.

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The University Innovation Alliance

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

We released two new playbooks to assist leadership teams in their practices of proactive advising and college-to-career transition. This group of dynamic presidents and chancellors from our member institutions embody our vision and commitment to success for low-income students and students of color. •

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The University Innovation Alliance

JUNE 12, 2024

Burns prefers sharing the UIA’s vision and work rather than her personal journey, she explained how her experiences helped inform the Alliance’s goals: “A lot of first-generation and low-income students get bad advice. We’ve done 10,000 student randomized control trials. It’s a highly competitive environment.

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The University Innovation Alliance

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

We released two new playbooks to assist leadership teams in their practices of proactive advising and college-to-career transition. This group of dynamic presidents and chancellors from our member institutions embody our vision and commitment to success for low-income students and students of color. •

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Student Research Foundation

AUGUST 7, 2024

However, they all claim to be doing the same thing: helping students gain admission to their dream school. Reputable advising companies like CollegeAdvisor have helped thousands of students apply and get into top colleges nationwide. Essay review is the cornerstone of any great advising company. Ready to learn more?

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The University Innovation Alliance

APRIL 26, 2023

The closest thing we have is advising or a help desk, but they're designed to tell the student how they can change their behavior to accommodate into our systems. What types of students dropped out? In many institutions, it's a low-income student. You can use it as an extension of advising.

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Scholarship America

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

As covered in Inside Higher Ed : “One particularly troubling enrollment trend exacerbated by the pandemic … is the decline of underrepresented groups—specifically Black, first-generation and low-income students. Free Tuition” to all in-state students from families with incomes under $67,000.

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NACAC's Admitted

AUGUST 10, 2023

What was the impact of testing policies on admission/enrollment outcomes for Black, Latinx, Indigenous, and low-income students during the fall 2020 cycle? In what ways have undocumented students and their families responded to test-optional policies for higher education institutions?

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Close the Gap Foundation

JULY 10, 2023

It gave me insight into the life of a first generation low-income student, or a student whose parent is an immigrant. TJ : I would definitely advise future mentors to focus on their individual fellow, their situation, and what they need at that moment. My experience with the fellowship was great!

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The University Innovation Alliance

JUNE 13, 2024

She encapsulated the UIA’s mission this way: “People describe us as the Ivy League of student success innovation. A group of college presidents and chancellors united around a shared sense of urgency that we were doing a bad job of graduating students, especially low-income students.

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College Planners of America

MARCH 26, 2024

Nevertheless, students and parents are advised to use rankings as only one of many sources of information. The best college for a student is the one that fits them best not by criteria set by publishers but by criteria that they set themselves. Economic Mobility Index Measure of economic status change for low-income students.

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College Planners of America

MARCH 26, 2024

Nevertheless, students and parents are advised to use rankings as only one of many sources of information. The best college for a student is the one that fits them best not by criteria set by publishers but by criteria that they set themselves. Economic Mobility Index Measure of economic status change for low-income students.

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The University Innovation Alliance

APRIL 1, 2024

President Sacks advises them: “Read. For the past decade, she has advised university presidents, system chancellors, and state and federal policy leaders on strategies to expand access to higher education, address costs, and promote completion for students of all backgrounds. And so that's been so lucky.”

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EAB

MAY 23, 2023

We also learned that students of color and low-income students are more likely to face insecurities and again, students with dependent children, and it just makes them harder to support their families and just improve the prospects for the future. So I think that advising piece is really important.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 6, 2023

Gerardo de los Santos noted that when his father was vice chancellor at the Maricopa Community College system, he made it a point that the schools had access to foundations and funders supportive of first-generation and low-income students, building pathways in higher education. “It

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College Planners of America

APRIL 28, 2023

The delay of the 2023 FAFSA launch from October 1 to December worries advocates of greater access to college for low-income students. Schools and financial aid offices have built their timelines on college advising and FAFSA help around an October 1 release date.

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Active Minds

AUGUST 21, 2023

The Active Minds Student Advisory Committee (SAC) is made up of fifteen young adult leaders who represent the Active Minds student voice nationally through media and other student forums. She even started her own nonprofit, Beyond Taiwan.

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