Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 29, 2024

A new report from the Center for Community College Student Engagement (CCCSE) details mental health challenges that students face and how they can be better supported. We’re hoping that there is an increased awareness of how mental health and well-being can impact academic success,” said Garcia.

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Steve Keating

JANUARY 12, 2025

Becoming a more persuasive communicator involves mastering techniques that help you influence others effectively while at the same time building trust and respect. Heres a handful of ideas to help you improve your persuasive communication skills. Be trustworthy: Be honest, consistent, and fair in your communication.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Undergraduate LAs operate as part of an instructional team, supporting both students and faculty to create more inclusive, learner-centered classrooms that improve student and faculty success. The Colombia native has plans to practice medicine in underserved communities around the globe.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The academy's curriculum aligns with Professional Standards for Educational Leaders (PSEL) and covers essential competencies including district operations, budgeting, board relations, communications, and community engagement.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The second goal of the program is to help build a community and culture at the institution that is attractive to prospective Native staff, faculty, and students. The primary goal is helping increase the number of Native students enrolling in MSU and successfully completing a degree at MSU,” says Leonard. Language matters,” she says.

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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

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

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

In my 30-year journey as a university president, I learned that successful leaders are not those who simply speak quickly, but rather those who learn to listen carefully and ask thoughtful questions. In these challenging times, I focused on maintaining clear communication and providing strong support systems for our university community.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Communication is key on how the funding works to benefit students.” An example of where even completing a FAFSA—a requirement of North Star Promise—can clash with Native American culture is provided by Tiffany Gusbeth, vice president of student success services of the American Indian College Fund (College Fund).

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Steve Keating

MARCH 19, 2023

There are a lot of ways a leader, people in general actually, can cause communication to go sideways. Perhaps the biggest is simply not communicating often enough. Assuming people know what you’re thinking and therefore you don’t need to communicate much, is often the fatal flaw of what could have been a successful leadership tenure.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 6, 2024

Well before the first college lecture, however, newly enrolled college students should consider a couple questions and a few simple steps that can lower barriers to college success. He is the author of How to Solve A Problem: Insights for Critical Thinking, Problem-Solving, and Success in College. The who and the what ?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2025

But this gives us an opportunity to do that by inviting all communities to come and celebrate a meaningful event, such as the King week celebration. Partnering with the city of Knoxville, Vaughn added, has proven successful. So, we are excited to host it here, and really it's been a great partnership.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2025

According to Ess Pokornowski, Reintegrating students face a unique set of overlapping challenges: they are leaving a total institution where choice, communication, access to healthcare, access to technology, and opportunities for education and gainful employment are all dramatically limited.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2024

While some individual campuses have emerged as success stories around college completion, growth in the nation’s college completion rate has stalled at 62.2%, according to a new report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Many adult learners must prioritize earning a living and caring for their families.

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Steve Keating

JANUARY 23, 2025

Accountability is what we dont want; its also what we most need if we want massive success in our lives. They know that a culture of accountability is key to good leadership and lasting success. Document and Communicate: Clearly outline expectations in writing to eliminate ambiguity.

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Steve Keating

DECEMBER 21, 2023

There are so many challenges in life that have their origins tied to poor communication that it would be almost impossible to list them all. Relationships have ended and businesses destroyed by misunderstandings caused by poor communication skills. Every relationship you have will be stronger when you improve your communication skills.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The second goal of the program is to help build a community and culture at the institution that is attractive to prospective Native staff, faculty, and students. The primary goal is helping increase the number of Native students enrolling in MSU and successfully completing a degree at MSU,” says Leonard. Language matters,” she says.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2025

Layla has an extensive background in System-wide leadership and advocacy, and intimate knowledge of local colleges operations, student success goals and challenges.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Harper is a highly principled and energetic academic leader, with a well-established track record of innovation, student success and inspiring faculty engagement and productivity,” said Dr. Jolene Koester, CSU interim chancellor. “He

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 8, 2023

Nwosu Nwosu is currently provost and senior vice president for academic affairs and student success at Herbert H. His deep-rooted record in higher education … combined with his commitment and belief in student success, equity, access, community engagement and economic development, and shared governance resonated with our university community.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

He served as vice president for student success at Ivy Tech Community College in Indianapolis, Indiana. Clasemann holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism and mass communication from Creighton University, a master’s in organizational management from the University of Phoenix, and a Ph.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 12, 2023

Now, the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP), a nonpartisan nonprofit promoting post-secondary access and success, is publishing lessons learned from its ongoing attempts to build a better, more equitable transfer system. Establish[ing] relationships is really, really helpful and necessary for the success of some of these pathways.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 11, 2023

Jackson – an urban researcher, media ethnographer, anthropologist of religion, and theorist of race/ethnicity – is currently the dean at Penn’s Annenberg School for Communication and serves as the Richard Perry University Professor and is on the faculty at Penn’s Center for Experimental Ethnography. Jackson, Jr. Jackson holds a B.A.

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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. The event gathered hundreds of state and system leaders, researchers, and fellow student success champions and practitioners to discuss how holistic advising and wraparound supports can promote college excellence and equitable outcomes.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 3, 2024

The community organizations would really benefit from learning more about college students’ needs reentering, but on the flip side the colleges aren’t always thinking about their own reentering students.” That is a fact and we see it all the time with our own students when they return to community (P2CP began in 2011).

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Thrive Alliance Group

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Students succeed with parent-teacher communication & partnerships We know it takes a village to raise a child. Start with student-centered parent communication. Let’s take a look at why communicating with parents is more challenging than ever, and why it’s worth the effort to build relationships. Poor quality communication.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Fliger holds a bachelor’s in interpersonal and public communication from Purdue University Fort Wayne; a master’s in speech communication from Miami University; and a Ph.D. Working in partnership with the campus community, I look forward to the many possibilities that await.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

The essential competencies for effective presidential leadership are trust building, demonstrating resilience, communications savvy, crafting a cabinet and team building, emotional intelligence, leading with courage, data acumen and resource management. This study looks at aspects of leadership qualities necessary in today’s climate.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 30, 2024

This underscores the importance of improving the translation and communication of expectations within specific job roles,” said Spires. CEW emphasizes that institutions must continue to improve the rates of successful transfer and also think about how to give students who take general studies courses a better return on their investment.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 12, 2024

The same skills in critical thinking, effective communication, conflict resolution, and love of learning that research has shown prepares on-campus Humanities students for successful lives and careers are sure to be uniquely valuable for UPEP learners who are preparing for futures after their incarceration ends,” said Dr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 25, 2024

Two new reports and an online dashboard from the Community College Research Center (CCRC) at Teacher’s College, Columbia University, are part of an ambitious effort to tell the story of transfer students. That’s why statewide transfer programs have a better track record of success.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 3, 2024

Much of the chaos with this year’s FAFSA rollout could have been minimized – although not entirely avoided – if there had been more open communication from the ED to the financial aid community,” said Desjean. Others agreed, calling for the FSA and ED leadership to overhaul in favor of communication and transparency.

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College Aid Consulting Services

DECEMBER 3, 2022

We have another financial aid success story to share. Because we felt the school was alluding to an offer that was forthcoming, and since we thought that it can be improved, I advised the parent on certain factors and how to communicate with the college in increasing the student’s financial aid consideration for gift aid.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 11, 2024

The second report, “ Making Assessment Reports More Meaningful for Students & Families ,” offers guidance on how schools can better communicate the results of students’ federally required annual tests so parents can be better informed about how their students are doing in school and work with educators to get appropriate supports.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 25, 2023

“Under his leadership, Amarillo College became one of the top community colleges in the nation. His focus on student success and his deep understanding of what students need to succeed is evident in his remarkable tenure, and it’s what will take ACC into the future.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2023

Slate is a highly customizable software that automates time-consuming practices, improves communication, and de-siloes student information. The program’s second phase put additional focus on the platform’s ability to influence student retention and success.

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Steve Keating

JANUARY 15, 2025

Things like, failure shows youre trying and failures are just stepping stones to success. Lets be really clear about this absolute truth regarding failure success beats failure every single day. If Im successful then I dont need any damn stepping stones. Its not the opposite of success; its part of the journey.

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