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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.

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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.

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Leaning Into Best Practices

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In the early aughts, Renick says, it was standard practice for student support programs to address equity gaps and low graduation or retention numbers through the creation of targeted programs, like initiatives for first-generation students, and African American male initiatives.

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HBCU Advancement Teams: Don't Underestimate the Power of the Individual Donor

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They include those currently in our alumni databases, friends of the college/university who annually comprise the president’s Christmas card list, or perhaps they are associates of Board members. Once this is accomplished, the other valuable attributes become easy to achieve, like stewardship, recognition and retention, and results/outcomes.

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Building a Sustainable Model for School Wellness Initiatives

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Offering resources to help increase student retention is also beneficial for the financial health of the campus and local economy. Weiss, PhD, Mental Health Fund for Higher Education supports programs that improve student mental health and retention. And the impact on student engagement and retention is real.

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What does a data management platform actually do?

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A data management platform gathers data from your disparate campus databases and platforms—such as your LMS, your SIS, and your CRM—and then compiles and standardizes that data to establish a single, shared source of truth across campus. What is a data management platform? What might your institution do with all of that extra staff time?

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

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After undergraduate programming demonstrated improved retention and graduation rates, Watford was able to recruit students to Virginia Tech. I can go to conferences to build relationships with these students, creating a database, bringing it back, and sharing it with the department to do outreach,” Waller says.

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