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Report and New Database Identify Successful Programming for Latinx Students

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The report offers a glimpse at the over 200 successful programs Excelencia has catalogued in its database, which is publicly available on their website, Growing What Works. Santiago acknowledged that “what works in Houston might not work in Little Rock,” but the database and report provide good places to start. Dr. Jimmy E.

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Two Scholars are Building Diversity Initiative Database for All

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The Academic Pipeline Exchange is an open access database charting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs in businesses, organizations, and institutions of higher education across the nation. While the full database is only in its initial stages, Drs. We do more than many people realize, both internally and externally.

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CSU Opens Up Access to Transfer Planner to All California Community College Students

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Technically, it is open to students not in the state or country as well, though in-state students will benefit the most, given that one of the tool’s main strengths is its access to the state of California’s ASSIST database. Liaison also helped create CSU’s application portal around eight years ago, Margitich said.

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SkillPointe Updates Help Community Colleges Bridge the Skills Gap

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SkillPointe’s career pages feature information about what specific jobs entail and opportunities for students to do more in-depth career exploration and discover the training required. The platform comprises a database of more than 60,000 training listings from community colleges and other training providers.

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A Fight Against Misinformation

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She is the project director of Critical Race Theory (CRT) Forward, a database that, she says, identifies, tracks, and analyzes governmental actions or legislation “that aim to restrict access to truthful information about race.” Alexander is a lecturer of law at the University of Southern California (USC) Gould School of Law.

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Creating a data-informed campus: part 2

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Creating a data-informed campus: part 2. The need for data-informed decision making in higher education continues to increase. Higher education leaders often overestimate the analytics, data, and information capabilities of the institution (2). Of campuses had reorganized information technology within the past 2 years. %.

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Leaning Into Best Practices

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The idea was, rather than waiting for students to self-identify their own problems and come to an advisor, let’s try to equip advisors with information on which students are struggling, so [the advisors] can target daily efforts where it would make the biggest difference,” says Renick.

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