Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Success coaching goes beyond the advising that many college students are offered. Lawrence Scott, an assistant professor in the College of Education and Human Development at Texas A&M University, San Antonio called “quite unique” and said could catch fire among other schools looking to improve retention for minority students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 10, 2024

Through campus partnerships, support programs, and academic interventions, she has led advances in student retention, persistence and graduation with the goal of eliminating equity gaps for our most vulnerable students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 5, 2024

Across higher education, the desire for diversity among student populations is usually the responsibility of recruitment efforts but falls short in retention strategies. It is the institution’s responsibility to ensure long-term success and retention. However, there is an oversight that continues to happen.

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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. is facing a severe shortage of teachers, and the need is particularly present for certain populations of color, said Dr. Donna Elam, senior adviser for EAC-S.

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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. To advise students effectively, we needed to see the whole picture.” Before we had the Civitas Learning platform, we could only see part of a student’s experience. It was like seeing a student in a profile.

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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

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. “My Sustaining success Retention rates have steadily increased.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2024

Student success experts have prescribed potential solutions to declining Black student enrollment and retention numbers in California’s public universities in a recent report published by The California State University (CSU) Office of the Chancellor.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 8, 2024

The grant is expected to serve the Morgan State’s Division of Enrollment Management and Student Success, which provides support to guide students through enrollment and academic processes like managing financial aid and academic advisement.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Also, that year the program’s retention rate of Latino students was 18% higher than the college’s general retention rate. Therefore, the program works closely with other departments of the college, particularly admissions and advising, to identify students who would benefit from EAP. “We WSU’s CAMP was founded in 2006.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 14, 2023

Williams-Goliday has been helping guide students for decades, first as an academic adviser for Eastern Illinois University’s Office of Minority Affairs beginning in 1998. And from 2002 to 2006, she served as academic adviser for Temple University. There, she worked with students academically underprepared for college, she says.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

MAY 1, 2024

Department of Education and IHEP convened the summit focused on holistic advising and wraparound support services. One featured partnership between the City Colleges of Chicago and One Million Degrees is having a measurable effect on student retention and success.

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Civitas Learning

JANUARY 9, 2025

Today’s most influential leaders recognize that student success goes beyond traditional measures like retention and graduation rates. This approach fosters proactive, collaborative support by enabling the coordination of services such as academic coaching, advising, financial aid, and career guidance.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

In the early aughts, Renick says, it was standard practice for student support programs to address equity gaps and low graduation or retention numbers through the creation of targeted programs, like initiatives for first-generation students, and African American male initiatives.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

One secret of our program’s exponential growth is retention,” says Espiritu. In the last three years EPW’s fall to fall retention ranges from 93% to 96%. “I I track them in retention. Rueda-Acedo says the service learning is extremely beneficial in retention as well as the students’ personal connection to this profession.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Retention efforts Morgan State is currently number one in the United States in producing Black electrical engineers and civil engineers, Wilson notes. This requires thoughtful retention efforts. At that time, they transition to either a professional advisor in their school or major or mostly to faculty advisement.”

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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. 27:48] – Landon describes the outcomes and their impact on student retention. [30:00]

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 8, 2024

The goal of virtually all colleges and universities is to increase retention and completion. While performance-based funding has brought increases in retention and completion, it has not had the desired effect. Typically, the current funding model involves receiving funding after the institution shows improvement.

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Civitas Learning

AUGUST 10, 2023

We discovered the key steps leaders and institutions are taking to strategically –and sometimes dramatically– improve their retention rates. 5 High-Impact Retention Strategies While institutions continue working hard to ensure their students graduate, initiative results often fall short of expectations. PP when misapplied.

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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. These coaches bridge success and retention efforts, aiding students in accessing campus resources and conducting exit interviews.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

We doubled diversity attraction, admittance, retention, and graduation during the time I was there,” he says. “We On his drive back home, an advertisement on Pandora radio advised him that the Speed Art Museum was adjacent to the University of Louisville campus, and, as an avid art lover, Williams decided to stop by.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

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. Working together, faculty reflected on their Ascend data and identified SEP resources to support the constructs they wished to improve.

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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

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

How Pueblo College Supercharged Yield and Retention Efforts. EAB · How Pueblo College Supercharged Yield and Retention Efforts. That we've been working on intentionally for this past year, is the relationship between advising and our success coaches and the faculty. Episode 126. November 1, 2022. Transcript.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 20, 2023

We are also working together to place dedicated college advisors in Kansas high schools through the Kansas State College Advising Corps. Common recommendations included improved advising services, guided pathways for students, and proactive, targeted financial aid and completion grants.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The creation of a sense of family, and intrusive advising that comes not just from counselors but all touchpoints a student experiences, is crucial to student retention and student success, leaders told Youngblood. Many TCU leaders are focused on creating a familial environment on campus.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 28, 2024

Hudson Scholars, an innovative student support model, focuses on retention and improving student outcomes by scaling successful elements of national best-practice models, providing high-touch advisement, financial stipends, and early academic intervention.

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Civitas Learning

MAY 13, 2025

From emergency response during Hurricane Helene to long-term improvements in retention and graduation rates, Regine and Lynne share how their partnership and use of technology have strengthened the student experience at UNC Asheville. Their largest year-over-year retention increase to date. The result?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 10, 2024

AI has promise in terms of recognizing student patterns and how they relate to student persistence and retention, said panelist Dr. William J. McKinney, senior director of higher education initiatives for the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Completion grants should not be handled by financial aid offices alone but should instead involve other valuable campus stakeholders, Perkins said, which the guide also advises. I feel like. a theme that's going throughout all of these recommendations is really, 'Are you utilizing all of your data resources that are available to you?' 'Are

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2024

This sense of belonging is critical for student retention and success. This includes integrating Latine epistemologies into teaching and advising practices. By meaningfully weaving itself within the community, an eHSI can create a supportive environment for Latine learners.

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Civitas Learning

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Learn more about how advising appointments, notes, and outreach efforts impact student persistence at Civitas Learning partner institutions. The post Advising Impact Report 2023 appeared first on Civitas Learning.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2024

AI, Equity, and Affordability: A Primer for Higher Education Leaders and Educators " a report produced by Whiteboard Advisors and created in partnership with the Harvard-MIT Axim Collaborative, details the ways in which AI can be used to assist colleges and universities with student support, data organization, enrollment, and retention.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 26, 2024

The PSSG – it was first funded in 2022 via the Consolidated Appropriations Act – recognizes and awards funds to institutions that propose to use the grant for evidence-based reforms and practices in pursuit of bolstering student participation, retention, transfer, and completion rates.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 1, 2023

As many Black learners, particularly first-generation, don’t persist beyond their first year in higher education, retention efforts are essential. The report also notes requiring ongoing career advisement and formalizing the mentorship experience. This includes peer-to-peer mentoring as well as connection to alumni.

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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. So, it requires AI scientists and people who are experts in whatever the domain is that you're working in."

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Missouri State Academic Advising and Transfer Cent

MARCH 3, 2025

Lawrence Excellence in Advising Award Recipients Announced Dr. Rhonda Stanton, Azaria Hogans, and Karmen Brewer will be recognized as the recipients of the 2025 Curtis P. Lawrence Excellence in Advising Awards at the Kathy J. Brewer serves as a Senior Academic Advisor in the Business Advisement Center.

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