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Report and New Database Identify Successful Programming for Latinx Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Excelencia in Education, an organization working for increased access and completion of Latinx students in postsecondary education, has released its latest report on programs that have qualitatively and quantitatively shown to improve and increase the success of Latinx students in higher education.

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Excelencia in Education Announces Finalists for 2023 Examples of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Latino student success organization Excelencia in Education has announced finalists for the 2023 Examples of Excelencia , highlighting U.S. higher ed programs that intentionally support Latino students with culturally relevant, evidence-based practices.

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Analysis: Degree Completion Gaps for Hispanic Students are Widening

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Latino student success in higher education is not where it needs to be, according t o findings from Latino student success organization Excelencia in Education. But according to the analysis, gaps between Latino and white students have grown over the last four years.

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Leaning Into Best Practices

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In 2018, when Dr. Tim Renick took on the role of senior vice president for student success at Georgia State University (GSU), the university’s demographics were rapidly changing. This work would eventually lead to GSU’s development of the National Institute for Student Success (NISS). These are students with real lives.

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Taylor Cupp “My calling was in supporting these students who felt so alone in engineering and who felt disenfranchised by a system that was not created to accept them and to support them,” says Watford, who left Clemson and returned to Virginia Tech to start CEED (originally called the Office of Minority Engineering Programs). “I

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Report: Parents of Prospective College Students Worry about Cost and Safety

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The parents surveyed came from EAB’s database. They want to know about career readiness and what we are doing to expose their students to career fairs, internships and job shadowing opportunities, and the connections their student can make.” Dr. Ernest Brevard Jr. Dr. Ernest Brevard Jr.,

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EAB Launches All-In-One Website for Students’ College Search

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Key features of Appily include the following: Search for Colleges: Students can search more than 4,000 college profiles to find ones that fit their criteria, making the search process more efficient and personalized.