Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 1, 2025

At the same time, the deans are talking to their faculty about the data in the classroom that faculty are using. The faculty get this sense of curiosity and personal reflection that helps them to improve course design that then improves outcomes for more students. This made a huge difference for parenting students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

This continues after graduation when students attending four-year institutions mentor second-year EPW students. Wright College, part of the City Colleges of Chicago, is home to an engineering cohort program that has grown from nine students at its inception to 550. Latino faculty at UTA closely mentor the students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

to make it a lot more seamless in terms of helping students transfer from community college without taking a lot of time to fulfill requirements.” As AAP builds its high school partnerships, it looks to high schools with low rates of college enrollment. Many have had experiences like the students with which they’re working.

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The University Innovation Alliance

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Completion grants are an emerging form of student aid. million) to low-income students facing modest financial hurdles to degree completion as they neared graduation. Students currently receive limited guidance on how to gain the skills and experience required to achieve career goals.

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Believe in Students

OCTOBER 10, 2024

I was overjoyed to have the concrete example of what these educators were willing to do for their students, for free (and often putting their own money in), in the midst of their own upended lives. Second, I had spent about fifteen years working to improve college success for first-gen, low-income students.

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The University Innovation Alliance

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Lack of adequate career preparation can be especially harmful to students from low-income backgrounds seeking to expand their career options and increase their lifelong earning potential through college education. These key student needs catalyzed innovative career readiness solutions that were pilot tested on each campus.

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The University Innovation Alliance

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

We raised $5 million for cutting-edge collaborative innovation projects, and we welcomed new colleagues and partners to the digital ecosystem of our University Innovation Lab. We know that when universities collaborate, students win -- and when students win, our country's future is bright.

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The University Innovation Alliance

MARCH 19, 2024

Our mission is nothing less than transforming higher education through the kind of effective collaboration that accelerates innovation. When people outside the UIA fully engage with us, they comment about the higher-quality experience they have with us versus what they see in other collaboratives.

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The University Innovation Alliance

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

We raised $5 million for cutting-edge collaborative innovation projects, and we welcomed new colleagues and partners to the digital ecosystem of our University Innovation Lab. We know that when universities collaborate, students win -- and when students win, our country's future is bright.

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COE

APRIL 16, 2024

As experienced McNair program directors – Miroslava as the faculty director and Yvette as a former associate director – we understand the daunting task of unmasking the ‘hidden curriculum’ of successfully applying to graduate school. Hamm Support Us If you are a student support services professional, thank you.

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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. It's not that people are lazy, don't care, or don't want to help students.

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The University Innovation Alliance

JUNE 13, 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: “My experience in higher ed as a student was very telling about what has to change. It's not that people are lazy, don't care, or don't want to help students.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Society was capable of showing more creativity, collaboration, and innovative leadership. Children’s Literacy Initiative: The Children’s Literacy Initiative (CLI) helps to ensure that low-income students are able to read at or above their grade level. CLI provides materials, workshops, and coaching.

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EAB

MAY 23, 2023

DG: And so CCSSE's mission, which really supports that story that I just told, we're here to deliver those aha moments about the student experience based on insights that matter to the community college. There are things like active and collaborative learning, student faculty interactions, student effort, support for learners and so on.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 17, 2025

This is in addition to the disastrous decision to dismantle the Department of Education, an agency created to provide access for students no matter where theyre from, including low-income students, those with learning disabilities, and students of color. Students have organized in states with anti-DEI directives.

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