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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

By example, the counseling/advising unit uses an intrusive model, monitoring students’ progress and regularly checking in on them. The tutoring and academic counseling were crucial to her success. Then, you see the successes.” Alexander is studying the success and impact of various programs within AAP.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Dr. Keith Curry As an unapologetic community college president, I believe educational leaders must unapologetically focus our institutions on Black learner success and that we can significantly improve the waning college value proposition that cross-partisan majorities of all Americans perceive.

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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. strategies that directly support Black student success; 2.) Dr. Thomas A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

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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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

MARCH 26, 2024

Legislators are looking to enshrine the Postsecondary Student Success Grant (PSSG) program, a student outcomes-centered federal effort, into law through new legislation this March. Although the effort has received support generally, some higher ed scholars and advocates have levied some criticisms and concerns about it.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

However, the Minority Male Success Initiative (MMSI), a three-year project from the North Carolina Community College System (NCCCS) and Watermark, an ed tech company, has offered a glimmer of hope: students who received success coaching using an online platform were 22.4% Success coaches seek to be as involved as necessary.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 10, 2024

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Champions stepped into roles as allies, advisers, and leaders for the program and took more active roles in supporting their departments and the institution in improving equity of outcomes for our students. Working together, faculty reflected on their Ascend data and identified SEP resources to support the constructs they wished to improve.

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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. Why This Matters Time and ease of use are critical for users balancing teaching, advising, and administrative tasks. That’s why were excited to introduce one of our latest innovations Canvas LTI Integration.

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Civitas Learning

MAY 9, 2025

At Civitas Learning, were continually evolving our platform to better support student success teams. Our latest innovation AI Notetaker brings the power of generative AI directly into advising conversations, helping your team work smarter, not harder. What Is AI Notetaker? Ready to Learn More? Lets make every conversation count.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

DECEMBER 12, 2024

We elevated evidence-based strategies that support degree completion and student success. We also partnered with the Department of Education for the Attaining College Excellence and Equity Advising Summit. We will continue connecting research and policy in ways that enhance the value students receive for their postsecondary investment.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 24, 2024

Department of Education (ED) and the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP) held the Attaining College Excellence and Equity Summit: Holistic Advising and Wraparound Services in Washington, D.C. Speakers addressed evidence-based practices, collaboration, access, and advising. Secretary of Education Dr. Miguel A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

He was so successful, in fact, that by the time he graduated from high school, Williams had achieved access to the same country club that barred him due to his race. Williams found great success in business, but at the same time, felt the effects of imposter syndrome. Everyone didn’t feel that way.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 31, 2023

“In addition to re-imagined career advising, the new center will spur significant growth in support from our extended Brown community of alumni and families. They play a vital role in contributing both their job opportunities and their experiences as mentors, opening new paths for successful lives and careers for our students.”

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Timely MD

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

We know students want help , and there are strategies that colleges and universities can provide to help students overcome these challenges and find success both inside and outside of the classroom. 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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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

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Community colleges have transfer advising and articulation agreements, but these agreements evolve and change. Several of New Jersey’s public four-year institutions have a presence on the BCC campus and are available to advise students. The data shows having a plan increases the likelihood of successful transfer.

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College Aid Consulting Services

DECEMBER 3, 2022

We have another financial aid success story to share. We started advising this family on the FAFSA and CSS Profile forms for financial aid in the beginning stages of their daughter’s college pursuit. by The post Financial Aid Success Story appeared first on College Aid Consulting Services.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2024

Hollingsworth – who has also taught and advised students at Johns Hopkins University – anticipates that she’ll graduate next May. We know that this community-building is essential for student support, success, and happiness,” Byrne says. That’s a lot of labor to ask of students, unpaid.” After she receives her Ph.D.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Higher education leaders and states can take a number of additional steps to bolster academic success, reenrollment, and degree completion for students who started college but never finished. According to " From Setback to Success: Meeting Comebacker Students Where They Are " – research done as part of the CaliforniaAttain!

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

OCTOBER 30, 2023

By Elenaor Eckerson Peters Last week, IHEP joined Results for America to highlight promising postsecondary student success models in Colorado and Massachusetts. In addition to financial aid, it includes wraparound support services that have proved successful in other programs and around the country.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 11, 2023

Previously, he was dean of the School of Social Policy & Practice and senior adviser to the provost on Diversity at Penn ; junior fellow in Harvard University’s Society of Fellows; and assistant professor of cultural anthropology at Duke University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 20, 2023

Higher education leaders face an obligation to Kansas families to remove barriers to access and success and ensure that our system lives up to the ideal of equal opportunity for all. Although these actions are helpful, they have not moved the needle toward closing access and success gaps. Structural change is needed.

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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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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 8, 2024

The strategies that CCA is suggesting—notably a semester-by-semester education plan for each student as well as providing academic and basic needs support—could further increase student success and completion rates. The report also advocates tuition reductions as a student success intervention that requires institutional support.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 7, 2023

Program participants get access to early advising from their college of choice, academic counseling, and financial aid, while not having to face specific tests or transfer application fees. SAU will also offer scholarships to Bridge to Bachelor’s students. “I

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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. Sustaining success Retention rates have steadily increased.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

The IIT-Wright Engineering Program is an open-ended multi-year agreement that reflects the commitment of both institutions to support the successful transfer of community college students to complete four-year degrees in STEM and related fields. Espiritu says EPW creates a sense of belonging in the engineering program and in the profession.

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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. In higher education, successful implementation often means rethinking long-standing processes, habits, and team dynamics.

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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

This work is necessary for advancing higher education, student success, and our economy.” Working in communities of practice, campus teams will utilize specific levers of institutional change, such as holistic advising, work-integrated pedagogies, and digital credentials and resources, to guide implementation strategies.

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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. It has done that with an 86% success rate for the 2022-23 academic year. One is a very high college success rate. This is year 19 for Examples of Excelencia, an annual recognition given by Excelencia in Education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

In 2018, when Dr. Tim Renick took on the role of senior vice president for student success at Georgia State University (GSU), the university’s demographics were rapidly changing. 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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