Catherine Cronin

AUGUST 24, 2022

At the start of this summer, I gave a keynote at the annual AMICAL Conference titled ‘Critical digital literacies: Developing agency and sustaining hope in troubled times’ Yesterday, AMICAL kindly posted the videos from the conference, so I am sharing links to the keynote and to the conference here. AMICAL Conference 2022.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

JANUARY 17, 2025

Emphasize Your Schools Mission: Private and independent schools missions are rooted in equity, community, and academic excellence. For example, a Financial Aid Impact Night featuring speeches from students, families, and faculty whove witnessed the transformative power of financial support.

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EAB

JANUARY 30, 2023

Although these requirements are unavoidable burdens, I worked with faculty committees to identify data that would also be usable by them as they educated students. As the institutional research executive, I have frequently attended faculty senate to hear the frustrations, obstacles, and opportunities encountered by the faculty.

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Civitas Learning

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Civitas Learning is changing this by democratizing data and integrating actionable insights into intelligent workflow tools that faculty and staff need daily. Designed for ease of use regardless of data literacy, our platform helps team members at every level transform data into actionable information that targets individual students.

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EAB

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Now, schools must work harder to prioritize closing equity gaps and bringing these students back to campus. Colleges can make progress toward helping students feel they belong in the following ways: Hire diverse staff and faculty. Ensure your materials visually represent your student body, faculty, and staff.

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EAB

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Support your students from day one by making financial literacy a mandatory part of your orientation process. Financial Literacy: Virtual and in-person training is provided to students. Explore how one college retained more students and closed equity gaps with retention micro-grants and registration hold reform.)

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The wide-ranging bill, introduced by Senator Jerry Cirino, proposes several substantial changes to Ohio's public universities, including a ban on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives, restrictions on faculty strikes, and the introduction of a mandatory civics course.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

Many tackled improving student success, retention, and equity at their institutions, while others focused on budget models and streamlining administrative processes. Note: The views and opinions in the blog post are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of EAB.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Teachers can participate in coaching to further their own Giving Tuesday goals of accelerating equity in your district. Children’s Literacy Initiative: The Children’s Literacy Initiative (CLI) helps to ensure that low-income students are able to read at or above their grade level. Show Gratitude.

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EAB

MAY 1, 2023

Case in point In 2021, EAB hosted a focus group for an institution that hoped to understand why the equity dashboard they created wasn’t being utilized. Case in point Share the data, good and bad, in an open forum like a faculty meeting or training. If you hear: I don’t have the tools I need to access and understand data.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Other issues in the news will include diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Republicans and some Democrats aren’t happy with campus protests about the Israel/Hamas war, and many Democratic-leaning faculty don’t feel comfortable speaking up on issues if they work for red-state public universities,” says Kelchen. With the U.S.

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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. For Black males, academic success has traditionally been met with systemic barriers (i.e.,

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EAB

JULY 11, 2023

The most popular one right now is on financial literacy. So if I'm just being, but as a Black man, as a father of five, as someone who claims Philadelphia's home now, but originally from Harrisburg, and I can bring that experience as a faculty mentor on a trip with a 20-year-old from another part of the globe, right?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 4, 2025

It instructed the University to dismantle diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs under whatever name, and to cease any admissions or hiring practices that consider race, gender, or even proxies for race. And if we cannot teach, we cannot build the critical literacies that this moment demands. Weve seen this before.

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