Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 11, 2023

Students from underrepresented backgrounds face considerable barriers when it comes to completing a community college program. Nationally, only 24% of African American, Latinx, and Native American students finish within two years. The support that DFC gives its students is not simply financial.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

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). That is something that identifies this institution for over 30 years.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

After the COVID-19 pandemic forced an emergency switch to online learning, students have embraced the modality for its flexibility and convenience. This is particularly true of community college students, who are more likely than others to have jobs and family commitments that make coming to a campus tough.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The first college in the U.S, Harvard University, founded in 1646, existed to educate white male landowners (and their progeny) in a classical curriculum focusing heavily on ethics, politics, and religion. Today, the California Community College System, with more than 1.8 Rogers is president of Contra Costa College.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2024

Additionally, Curry has secured millions of dollars for student success initiatives. It’s a testament that the college is thriving, thanks in large part to Curry, who has been the school’s most vocal cheerleader. It was a devastating blow to the college. I just don’t take none of this stuff personal. This is it.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 19, 2023

Community colleges serve the most diverse students in all of higher education. The KSU-CCLP is a unique program that prioritizes recruiting women and minorities as future leaders that reflect the demographics of community colleges. in community college leadership.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Miami Dade College (MDC), located in Miami, Florida and one of the nation’s largest Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) received the classification in 2015 and is one of a handful of community colleges across the nation to hold the designation.

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Civitas Learning

OCTOBER 10, 2024

As Inside Higher Ed notes, “Students often turn to their faculty members for advice and support outside of academics, including career advice and mental health support, so positive student-faculty relationships are a critical piece of student success.” It takes just five minutes to get up to speed.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

“It’s not just taking any GE class, we’re handpicking GE classes that focus on the Black experience,” said Wood, who noted that the college curriculum will be broadly influenced by Pan-African studies. It’s a specialized, accelerated, elite experience,” he said.

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Civitas Learning

AUGUST 8, 2023

The Strategy: First Year Course Advisory Committee looked deeper using course insights to better understand the course’s impact on persistence and graduation and identify potential opportunities to address barriers to student success. What they learned from their analysis was surprising.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 30, 2024

Arriving as a freshman at a predominantly white college, I was in for a culture shock. I did not see myself reflected in the curriculum, my professors, or the administration. Austin Community College District (ACC), for instance, was first recognized as an HSI in 2011, The designation is not, however, all that notable in and of itself.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2024

Dr. Elizabeth Béjar, provost at Florida International University (FIU), a public four-year HSI in Miami, that’s also Seal certified, said FIU began thinking seriously about how to help Latinx students “break through their own career glass ceiling” years ago.

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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. The intent is to bring attention to evidence-based practices that are making a positive difference for Hispanic students,” says Santiago, chief executive officer of Excelencia in Education. Santiago and Sarita E.

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Civitas Learning

APRIL 17, 2025

What features will help us be more proactive, scale support, and still create a student-centered environment? At the core of every institution is one goal: student success. A major driver of success has been the robust training program led by Hilda Gartke, Coordinator of Student Affairs Training.

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Civitas Learning

MARCH 7, 2024

Civitas Learning’s Texas Leadership Workshop recently brought together leaders from ten different institutions across Texas and beyond to discuss student success strategies for higher education. With a network of nearly 400 colleges and universities, this resource is invaluable for enhancing outcomes.

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Believe in Students

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Second, I had spent about fifteen years working to improve college success for first-gen, low-income students. And in all the hundreds of hours of conversations I’d had about student success, I had never once talked to or about faculty members as part of the solution. We believe in students.

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Civitas Learning

MAY 7, 2025

In response, they implemented several targeted strategies: Weekly instructor check-ins to align on content and assignments APA and writing workshops for students enrolled in ENGL 1301 Academic support referrals to help students build foundational skills These efforts led to a notable result: persistence rose from 59% to 70% in a single term.

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EAB

JULY 28, 2023

Blogs Attack of the “Math Shark”: Why Unfinished Learning Is a Lurking Threat to Student Success in the Late 2020s Students are no longer entering college with the same levels of academic preparation that we might have expected before the pandemic, one of the many ripple effects we face as a result of disruptions in high school learning.

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EAB

JULY 28, 2023

Blogs Attack of the “Math Shark”: Why Unfinished Learning Is a Lurking Threat to Student Success in the Late 2020s Students are no longer entering college with the same levels of academic preparation that we might have expected before the pandemic, one of the many ripple effects we face as a result of disruptions in high school learning.

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Civitas Learning

MAY 23, 2024

Identifying Bottleneck Courses to Deliver Precise Academic Support Visibility into the impact individual courses have on persistence and graduation empowers provosts, academic deans, advising teams, and faculty members to identify and address barriers to student success in a clear, purposeful way.

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COE

AUGUST 26, 2024

Patrick Lehman-Martin, a Student Support Services participant from Chememeta Community College, expressed how the experience deepened his understanding of Dutch politics and the importance of effective governance. The program’s impact on its participants was profound, as evidenced by their reflections.

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Civitas Learning

JULY 11, 2024

Once students enroll and begin classes, an institution’s work is far from over. Effective communication, guidance, and resources are foundational to an effective student success strategy. Every effort matters to keep students enrolled and persisting to graduation. Read the Blog 2.

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COE

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Both participated in the Upward Bound program at Palau Community College. He explained that he was in the second Upward Bound class at Palau Community College , which was then called Micronesian Occupational College. Whipps Jr. ,

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The University Innovation Alliance

JULY 18, 2023

Take Some "Me Time" Despite the tremendous, nonstop responsibility of running an institution, ensuring student success, and advancing the best possible vision for higher ed, everyone needs to step back from all the pressure with a little "me time." I realized that the curriculum was exactly the same as it had been 25 years earlier.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Additionally, he outlined his four-pillar strategy for Georgia State: research and innovation; student success; the college-to-career path; and identity and placemaking. Willis in 2020, she was leading Everett Community College through the crisis of COVID lockdown. Click here for the full audio.

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EAB

JANUARY 5, 2023

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

The topics covered included student success, budget models, change management, and more. Many tackled improving student success, retention, and equity at their institutions, while others focused on budget models and streamlining administrative processes.

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The University Innovation Alliance

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Additionally, he outlined his four-pillar strategy for Georgia State: research and innovation; student success; the college-to-career path; and identity and placemaking. Willis in 2020, she was leading Everett Community College through the crisis of COVID lockdown. Click here for the full audio.

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COE

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

This prestigious accolade, COE’s highest honor, recognizes individuals for their outstanding contributions to educational opportunity programs and their unwavering commitment to advancing access for low-income, first-generation students and students with disabilities. has devoted his career to advocating for TRIO students.

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Believe in Students

APRIL 1, 2024

Our focus for the year was on advancing the concept of “Faculty and Students Together,” taking all we learn in giving out emergency aid and equipping faculty and students to leverage that information for greater change. Last year brought the launch of the Changemakers Fellowship.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Terry O’Banion Community college students who are from lower socio-economic backgrounds, are first generation, and who have not been successful in high school are starving to death trying to find educational sustenance at the cafeteria curriculum.

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JULY 6, 2022

Two- and four-year colleges and branch campuses that identify as RSIs face common challenges, including: Inadequate broadband connectivity. For rural students, college can be a key part of the response to the mental health crisis occurring at colleges and universities across the country. Lack of public transportation.

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COE

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

He’s taken the research-based Caring Campus framework, which he called “transformational” for community colleges, to his Hispanic-Serving Institution of 4,845 students. “If If you’re doing everything you can by your mission and encouraging students’ voices,” Vela said, “you’re going to see tremendous results.

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COE

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Espaillat, representing a District known for its vibrant multicultural community, expressed his remarks with gratitude. Thank you, Stephanie,” he said, acknowledging Stephanie Kusi, an alumna of the Bronx Community College Upward Bound program and rising senior at New York University , who introduced him that morning.

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COE

OCTOBER 31, 2023

From there, I started visiting local high schools and community colleges, passionately advocating for STEM education. My journey of reaching out to kids began when I was an engineer at Lawrence Livermore National Lab, and as a GEM scholar, I got a fellowship for my graduate degree at UC Santa Barbara.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

There will be ongoing coverage of the end of affirmative action in admissions, says Dr. Stella Flores, an associate professor in the departments of Educational Leadership and Policy and Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2024

Some of the topics include literacy and math, advising Black male engineering majors, socio-emotional development, leadership, community college experiences, Black male veterans, athletes in P-12 and higher education, and the recruitment and retention of Black males in educator preparation programs. Hines & E.C. Fletcher (Eds.)

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