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HBCU Leaders Unite to Address Threats to Black Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The summit was framed by the Southern Education Foundation's " Miles to Go" report, which documents persistent opportunity gaps facing Black students nationwide. Wallace, who shared innovative approaches to recruitment, retention, and campus transformation. Ingram described her institution's holistic support strategy.

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Report: California Community College Leadership Growing More Diverse But CEOs Face Shorter Tenures

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Those are the findings included the Community College League of California's 11th biennial CEO Tenure & Retention Study. However, the report also documents significant progress in diversifying leadership: Black/African American CEOs now make up 17.3% years over the past two years, down from a 5-year average over the past decade.

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Miami Dade College: A Hispanic Serving Institution Documenting “Servingness” through Community Engagement

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In addition, community engagement as a High Impact Practice contributes to the retention and graduation rates of students, especially Latinx, and any HSI who embraces the serving part of their designation will find it a useful and meaningful tool for institutional transformation and continuous improvement.

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How Project 2025’s War on Higher Education Diversity Threatens Our Global Competitiveness

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This document, a roadmap for the next conservative presidential administration, frames diversity and inclusion efforts as a coordinated attack on American values, advocating for a radical restructuring of federal education policy that would have devastating consequences for historically underrepresented students.

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Integrated Approach to Student Success Leads to 8% Retention Lift at Northwest Missouri State University

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The Outcomes: An 8% increase in retention, improved advising efficiency, and more effective cross-functional collaboration. To achieve an integrated and holistic student support network, leaders understood that faculty and staff needed one place to easily document their student interactions and access important student data.

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Leading With Vision

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

These skills have combined in her groundbreaking research around how students of color, particularly Black students, engage with institutional social media as a tool for recruitment or retention. She is finishing her Ph.D. candidacy in the field of higher educational organizational change at UCLA, under the mentorship of Allen.

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Report: The Advantages that AI Brings to Higher Ed

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AI, Equity, and Affordability: A Primer for Higher Education Leaders and Educators " a report produced by Whiteboard Advisors and created in partnership with the Harvard-MIT Axim Collaborative, details the ways in which AI can be used to assist colleges and universities with student support, data organization, enrollment, and retention.

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