Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) and the Association of College and University Educators (ACUE) have jointly announced a network to give faculty and staff ways to improve student belonging and inclusion. The network will start early Spring 2023 – online pre-registration opens this week.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Dr. Roberta Rincon “The ADVANCE program has been a game-changer for higher ed,” says Dr. Travis York, director of inclusive STEMM ecosystems for equity & diversity at the American Association for the Advancement of Science. STEMM” adds medicine to the standard abbreviation.) Bringing that to light is critical.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

He expressed deep disappointment and concern, worried about losing his job entirely, and felt disillusioned by his institution's wavering commitment to diversity and inclusion. This involves sharing data on positive outcomes of DEI work, such as improved student retention, enhanced campus climate, and a more robust learning environment.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 29, 2024

There are a lot of different groups that deserve different approaches if we want equity,” said Chin, a computer science major. In addition to benefiting UCLA students directly, Yoo sees the program as part of a broader effort towards “inclusive excellence” across the University of California system.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 20, 2024

Its stated goal was to enhance diversity and inclusivity through the recruitment and retention of an increasingly diverse population of faculty, administrators, staff and students.

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EAB

MARCH 10, 2023

Press Release EAB’s Navigate Platform Now Supports Student Recruitment and Retention EAB expands Navigate’s CRM capabilities to engage prospective students March 10, 2023 Tempe, Arizona (March 10, 2023) — EAB announced today an extension of its flagship student success technology, Navigate , to help colleges engage and enroll prospective students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 29, 2024

In concert with Rhode College’s commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging as well as affordability, the Office of Admission strives to identify, recruit, and enroll domestic students who are underrepresented in higher education, including first-generation college students, low-income students, and students of color.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2023

Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) and Vanderbilt University (VU) are launching a $17-million diversity, equity, inclusion, (DEI) and belonging program for the biomedical research community.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2024

Student success experts have prescribed potential solutions to declining Black student enrollment and retention numbers in California’s public universities in a recent report published by The California State University (CSU) Office of the Chancellor. strategies to cultivate a systemwide infrastructure and inclusive campus climates.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2024

This sense of belonging is critical for student retention and success. By valuing and leveraging the rich cultural epistemologies of Latine communities, holistic coaching becomes vital in cultivating a truly inclusive and supportive educational environment.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

Aaron Thompson, president of the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE), participated in the Attaining College Excellence and Equity Summit put together by the U.S. Working with our campuses, we’ve put in place high standards to raise their overall retention rates, overall graduation rates and overall attainment rates.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 7, 2023

In fact, most studies concerning African Americans have focused on the retention of students or faculty (Wolfe & Dilworth, 2015). Research revealed that all but one of these award-winning colleges had a board-influenced diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) mandate. These recommendations include: 1.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 26, 2024

There are a variety of other indicators that prevent non-traditional students with successful retention. Colleges need to review academic schedules for barriers with retention. Are schedules designed with student retention in mind?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

For colleges and universities to close these equity gaps, they must address the core of the student experience: the time that students spend in the classroom. Recognizing the key role of faculty in this work, we established the Equity Champions (EC) , a faculty community of practice intentionally designed to build relationships.

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EAB

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Blogs How Change Leadership Propelled University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Journey to Equity Change leadership acts as a vital bridge between intent and action. Create a Sense of Urgency UWM recognized the pressing need to address equity gaps in student success. What does effective change leadership look like in practice?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Financial aid, retention, and faculty/staff representation are part of the Seal,” says Dr. Deborah Santiago, co-founder and CEO of Excelencia in Education, who says she is delighted to see institutions with intentional practices actively working toward increasing Latino representation in key positions. Hawkins Jr. Hawkins, Jr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

This past summer, the Campaign for College Opportunity released a brief under their Affirming Equity, Ensuring Inclusion, Empowering Action initiative that sheds light on the college preparation, access and success trends for multiple groups within the U.S. Asian American and NHPI populations, among the fastest-growing in the nation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Yet another noticed anti-Black racism increase at their institution when the university publicly declared its commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). think tank. says Patton Davis. academy.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Leshchinskaya is part of a team from Brooklyn College and the University of Florida looking to change that with the creation of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Institutionalization (DEII) assessment, a new instrument that allows colleges and universities to measure their DEI work at the institution level.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Ford envisions him having an impact on recruitment and retention. One of Leyva’s active research projects is Transformative Inclusion in Postsecondary STEM (TIPS). He’s bringing innovative approaches. For example, one of them is his focus on intersectionality.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

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. Dr. Amer Ahbed, vice provost for diversity, equity and inclusion at the University of Vermont. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2023

As institutions grapple with this shift, they must adopt innovative strategies to maintain their commitment to diversity and inclusion, honor their espoused values, and care for the broad constituencies they serve and support. grade point average (GPA), retention rates, and persistence rates) and socio-emotional concerns (e.g.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 14, 2023

As chancellor of Arizona’s most extensive community college system, the Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD), with nearly 140,000 students, paired with 10,000 faculty and staff members, my leadership philosophy is that we all play a role in the recruitment and retention of our students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Back in September, Western Michigan University—a public research institution located in the southwestern corner of the state—released its fall 2024 enrollment and retention numbers, much to the delight of the school’s provost, Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig. Equity has long been a part of Western Michigan University’s DNA.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

In his three years there, he created the Office of Diversity, Inclusion, and Community in Emory’s Graduate School and the Emory Diversifying Graduate Education (EDGE) program. We doubled diversity attraction, admittance, retention, and graduation during the time I was there,” he says. Our discipline is hard. And it’s always been hard.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 22, 2022

Title: Associate Provost for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion; Distinguished Full Professor, Saint Joseph’s University Stokes is the inaugural associate provost for diversity, equity and inclusion at Saint Joseph’s University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 17, 2023

The financial assistance portion of the program works partially as a retention tool by helping students through financial emergencies and needs that might prompt them to drop out, Sohoni said. Working with OMD has improved retention rates for participating students to approximately 85%, Sanders said. “That is the power of what we do.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 9, 2024

As we delve into these disparities, it becomes clear that targeted interventions and policy changes are essential to bridge this gap and foster a more inclusive educational environment. This can result in feelings of isolation, discrimination, and alienation, which negatively impact academic performance and retention rates.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Joy Gaston Gayles opened the 47th annual conference for the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) in Las Vegas with a call to disrupt the systemic oppression keeping marginalized populations from accessing higher education and burning out academics working toward greater diversity, equity, and inclusion. “If

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 14, 2023

Numerous state legislatures are in the news recently, asking their campuses to report budgets and resources devoted to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts, and for a list of the programs, services and efforts focused on DEI. In SEL, equity becomes everyone’s work and not the work of a Chief Diversity Officer or DEI office.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The plan was designed to both elevate Black excellence and address the continuing decline in Black student enrollment, retention, and graduation rates across the 23 CSU universities. Wood — whose research focuses on racial equity in education — saw an opportunity.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 9, 2024

We were not reducing equity gaps,” said Stout, recalling her Dallas Herring Lecture, an annual event at the Belk Center. “I Across all the [Hubs], we deal with AI, universal design for learning and retention of students, how do you talk to your students, how are you inclusive and welcoming.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 31, 2024

Back in February, more than 1,000 practitioners from hundreds of colleges across the nation gathered in Orlando, Florida, to exchange evidence-based approaches to accelerating student success and equity. Lumina Foundation CEO Jamie Merisotis delivers a keynote address at the DREAM 2024 conference.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 1, 2023

“We saw evidence that relationships were critical to fill in that missing variable to the completion and economic advancement equation,” said Michael Collins, JFF vice president and leader of JFF’s Center for Racial Economic Equity. “We We wanted to create a framework and supports for institutions.”

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DECEMBER 15, 2023

Inclusive care delivery can help break down these barriers and provide students with the resources they need to thrive. There has never been a greater need for inclusive care delivery that embraces diverse backgrounds, intersecting identities and lived experiences, and the time to course-correct is now.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 2, 2024

By assessing these environmental impacts on your students, your institution is better prepared to develop a plan to fund long-term resources to address these barriers impacting enrollment, persistence, retention, and program completion. According to the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2024

Kaleb Briscoe, an assistant professor of adult and higher education at the University of Oklahoma, these gaps could be indicators of the real impact of anti-diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) legislation in states that have ended programs directly serving and connecting with minoritized populations.

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