Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 27, 2024

Bridging the gap in access to digital tools, skills training, and a cutting-edge curriculum is essential for empowering underrepresented groups to participate in the tech landscape. Collaborative efforts could include tutoring programs, curriculum development, and targeted interventions designed to improve student outcomes in mathematics.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

With a new federal grant that Chang and his fellow UConn faculty and staff members have secured from the U.S. The TEAS project is approaching the need to support its significant Asian student body from multiple angles, seeking out what would be the most beneficial: mentorship, mental health, and curriculum.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 25, 2024

Rather, it's the natural result of diverse individuals coming together — students, faculty, and staff from different backgrounds, races, genders, religions, and socioeconomic statuses — sharing their experiences and perspectives, challenging assumptions, and advocating for a more just and equitable society.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 10, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT can prove very valuable and promising in the realm of higher education but come with their own suite of issues that need to be considered, according to higher ed leaders and faculty who participated in a panel discussion on Wednesday. These new AI tools. are within that wider context."

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The college will have its own dean of students, director, counselors, academic advisors, and outreach and support staff, and it will draw from existing faculty who have “a demonstrated record of success in teaching Black students,” said Wood. It’s a specialized, accelerated, elite experience,” he said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

My research examines the ways in which larger social processes affect students and their overall well-being while also addressing underrepresented and marginalized students in relation to retention and success,” she says. Dueñas says she uses both qualitative and quantitative methods to examine students in their higher educational spaces.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 22, 2022

As a professor of sociology, Stokes’ academic interests and expertise lie in the areas of citizenship studies, international migration and political systems.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 1, 2022

That’s very much a result of community awareness, but also faculty and student advocacy to say, ‘Hey, Native Hawaiians are underrepresented across the higher education playing field.’” noa faculty identify as Native Hawaiian, the largest representation of Native Hawaiian faculty ever seen at the campus. Just under 8% of UH M?noa

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

With a new federal grant that Chang and his fellow UConn faculty and staff members have secured from the U.S. The TEAS project is approaching the need to support its significant Asian student body from multiple angles, seeking out what would be the most beneficial: mentorship, mental health, and curriculum.

Mentoring 130

Mentoring Mental health Curriculum Teaching 130

Civitas Learning

AUGUST 8, 2023

The Outcomes: Results of the study sparked cross-functional strategic conversations aligning institutional policy and course curriculum to improve success throughout the student experience. But many faculty-raised alerts indicated something wasn’t working as intended.

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Civitas Learning

AUGUST 20, 2024

To amp up their retention efforts, leaders at NDSU developed a framework for enrollment and retention that focuses on student success, from recruitment to graduation and beyond. How easy is it for students to get through their curriculum? How can we improve advising? What do persistence rates look like?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

Connecting Black students with each other made them feel stronger and more determined to support each other through the curriculum. “It After undergraduate programming demonstrated improved retention and graduation rates, Watford was able to recruit students to Virginia Tech. Watford says. It is now called Imagination.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2023

In terms of retention, Carter says hiring supportive faculty is a huge component. “We We also have a lot of supports built into our curriculum,” she says. We get students of color primarily through word-of-mouth and because of the fact that we have so many faculty members who are people of color,” Cummings says.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

The faculty and staff overseeing EPW know each student personally. “I We design the curriculum individually to students’ needs. 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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 10, 2023

Venture capitalist John Martinson is donating $3 million to NJIT to broaden and deepen the curriculum and real world experiences for top scholars at the Albert Dorman Honors College and throughout the university. Applications and enrollment are at record highs as is the diversity of the student body. Research activity is ahead of last year.

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EAB

AUGUST 25, 2023

How to effectively manage people: Faculty, staff, and school leadership Independent school leaders are responsible for a host of management duties, including faculty recruitment, professional development, performance evaluations, and determining compensation, so it’s no surprise that people management was our most requested topic.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 22, 2023

We know that the quality of the residence halls is an important part of recruitment and retention.” While at Temple, he also served as adjunct faculty, teaching a municipal finance curriculum at the Beasley School of Law. “We’re going to every room, enhancing the lighting, painting, flooring, and furniture in many instances.

University 318

University Higher education Curriculum Retention 318

EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

It has been well established that Academic Advisement services have a positive impact on student success and retention, but the structures and approaches vary widely across institutions and at times, even within an institution. Varied approaches to proactive communication— with some areas still functioning in an outdated reactive model.

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Timely MD

APRIL 18, 2024

College faculty and staff have the second highest rates, following at 35%. Complicating matters further, many states face contentious political debates over their K-12 curriculum, affecting educators’ relationships with parents and families. The pandemic exacerbated these challenges and introduced new ones. Chris Balow, Ph.D.,

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Teaching Mental health Instruction Retention 52

EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

Projects addressed topics such as annual giving, student retention, professional and continuing education, academic program planning, and more. Many tackled improving student success, retention, and equity at their institutions, while others focused on budget models and streamlining administrative processes.

Retention 52

Retention Higher education Student success Equity 52

EAB

JANUARY 5, 2023

In recent years, institutions have confronted historical legacies of oppression , invested in faculty diversity , and developed retention programs for Black and Latino men , among many other initiatives. Just 10% of provosts selected any activity within "enhancing the faculty experience" as most critical. Activities. Activities.

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EAB

JULY 28, 2023

Here are five speculations, although this is not a comprehensive list: Retention will likely be put under considerable pressure. It is hard to anticipate the degree to which this will affect retention rates or the demand it will put on academic support infrastructure, but it seems likely to be significant. The time to get ready is now.

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EAB

JULY 28, 2023

Here are five speculations, although this is not a comprehensive list: Retention will likely be put under considerable pressure. It is hard to anticipate the degree to which this will affect retention rates or the demand it will put on academic support infrastructure, but it seems likely to be significant. The time to get ready is now.

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Student success Success Placement Developmental education 52

Supporting Student Success

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

In just two months, while still performing their regular job functions in the new online environment, the Get Ryerson Ready team researched, developed, designed, and launched a robust, innovative, multi-disciplinary, and award-winning transition curriculum to support the success and well-being of the incoming class of 2020. The Context.

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Timely MD

JULY 6, 2022

There is a struggle at many rural community colleges to fill faculty and staff positions, and many rural college leaders find that their concerns are not always reflected in the national conversation on higher education issues. Lack of public transportation. Limited access to affordable childcare.

Mental health 52

Mental health Students Low income student Access 52

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 6, 2024

In pushing back on the political DEI pushback, they should explain that DEIB—Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging—is about creating an institutional culture and climate that embraces the identities of all higher education constituencies : administrators, faculty, staff, students, and alumni.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

“Macaulay can provide an elite education — or a model that exemplifies the best of what higher ed has to offer — but without elitist recruitment or admissions processes,” says Byrne, who has been a faculty member at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (part of CUNY) since 2003. She concluded the fellowship and joined the faculty of John Jay.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Jacob Easley II Growing student diversity contributes to opportunities for cultural knowledge acquisition and unique ways for supporting students and improving their enrollment, retention, and completion rates. To meet these objectives, DEI must be a wholesale commitment. DEI must be central to institutional strategic planning.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2024

To this end, we provide P-12 educators; college/university faculty, administrators, and staff; and other education stakeholders a blueprint to collaboratively work with Black males through a culturally responsive lens. We acknowledge that more work needs to be done to right the many wrongs imposed on Black males. & Alexander, L.D.

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EAB

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Are students on your campus repeating College Algebra and still not progressing through the curriculum successfully? retention, tutoring appointments) impacts of your campaign. Blogs Our partners implemented strategic advising campaigns at 40 schools in 27 states. Here’s what we learned. Are your sophomore athletes falling behind?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Recommendations for Training Programs Integrate Black joy and homeplace as a part of the training curriculum. As a part of integrating Black joy and homeplace in the training curriculum, incorporate Black histories that reject deficit narratives and center the full humanity of Black youth and their assets. Collaborate.

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Civitas Learning

JULY 11, 2024

Tailoring and implementing the right mix of initiatives for each institution is crucial to improving retention and graduation rates. Northwest’s student success model relies on collaboration between faculty, advisors, and student support units, such as diversity and inclusion, the registrar’s office, and the athletics department.

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COE

JULY 17, 2023

Brown’s extensive experience in higher education spans more than two decades, during which he served in various roles, including associate dean for student development and achievement, first-year experience instructor, director of the Academic Success Center and TRIO Student Support Services, and chair of retention and completion committees.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 29, 2023

Despite opposition from student groups and after a number of faculty and staff resignations, the replacements have taken place. HACU provides student scholarships, internships, retention and advancement programs, as well as career development opportunities for educators. Our renewal rate for membership is 96%.”

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COE

MAY 31, 2024

Wolanin was a faculty mentor of Stoner’s at the University of Wisconsin, and Stoner has been involved in supporting all five cycles of the internship program thus far. Nearly a million low-income students and students with disabilities each year receive college access and retention services through our member colleges and agencies.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

When applying for the Carnegie Classification for Community Engagement, MDC emphasized the large numbers of faculty involved with community engagement, including their having formal leadership roles in deepening and expanding community engagement across the curriculum.

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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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