IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

DECEMBER 12, 2024

We elevated evidence-based strategies that support degree completion and student success. Our team debuted the College Completion Comebacks film series featuring stories of students who returned to college after stopping out, and the strategies that supported their journeys to graduation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 20, 2024

“The aim for active listening to students, staff, faculty, community members, and UofL stakeholders anchors my work in making impactful connections, and my team’s efforts in student coaching and leadership development, cultural programming, and resource-sharing,” says Bennett.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 9, 2024

Colclough hatched an idea — what if they could develop professional learning environments easily accessible for all faculty in North Carolina’s community colleges, and what if that development could move the needle on student success? We’re faculty led, driven, and focused. We’re doing it because of them and with them.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2024

Cohort colleges will join other colleges new to ATD at the ATD Kickoff Institute, an annual event to welcome incoming Network colleges, which will be held June 12-14 in New Orleans.

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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 13, 2023

As part of the Student Success Collaborative, our partner institutions also gain access to decades of research, an EAB expert dedicated to their success, events designed to disseminate best practices, and a close-knit community of like-minded campus leaders.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 7, 2023

“I will continue to provide stewardship that empowers regional development, foster innovative strategies, and be proactive in working to understand the needs of our students and community.” The event took place Feb. His dedication to a collaborative campus culture, student success, and community engagement was lauded.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The historic gains made in recent years resulted from colleges and universities across the country focusing on eliminating disparities in educational access and student access based on race, gender, and socioeconomic status. Dr. Tammy Jordan Wyatt, is vice provost for student success at the University of Texas at San Antonio .

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 13, 2023

Besides letting first-gen students know that they are valued and that there is a place that represents them, campus centers can serve as a place for first-gen students to meet each other and to help each other with the challenges of college life. However, BU is an outlier for having a first-gen campus center at all.

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Civitas Learning

OCTOBER 10, 2024

As Inside Higher Ed notes, “Students often turn to their faculty members for advice and support outside of academics, including career advice and mental health support, so positive student-faculty relationships are a critical piece of student success.” It takes just five minutes to get up to speed.

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EAB

MAY 16, 2023

Podcast TSU's Systematic Approach to Student Success Episode 151. Raijanel Crockem and Naomi Lawrence-Lee from Texas Southern University join EAB’s Joanie Garcia to discuss their work to strengthen TSU’s approach to student success. And I know firsthand a lot of folks said this was such a highlight of the event.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Dr. Tiffany Beth Mfume, associate vice president for student success and retention, says her office is involved from the time a student is admitted to the university until he or she graduates. Disabled the Label provides a safe space for students with a diverse range of disabilities. That’s the Morgan legacy.”

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Civitas Learning

MAY 11, 2023

Those who’ve found the most success understand that financial stability requires investing in a student success model that supports students and fiscal health. To achieve this, we measured the impact of student success initiatives on student persistence at 48 partner institutions.

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Believe in Students

MAY 22, 2025

We’ve also created a course specifically focused on meeting the basic needs of parenting students – that phenomenally powerful 20% of college students who are most vulnerable to basic needs insecurity. 🦋 Previewing sneak peeks of the courses on our Bluesky account (@BelieveStudents).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2023

Slate’s technology helped build personal connections, making note of special events like birthdays, and tracked student interactions in both academic and student affairs. Although NSU had used a CRM in the past, their previous software was not customizable and did not offer retention or student success components.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 24, 2024

The human development she studied in her doctoral program opened her eyes to what was needed on the college level to ensure student success. She focused on single parents who deal with many variables, developing a model program that helped these students succeed and graduate.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 18, 2023

The three-day event is hosted by the UNCF’s Institute for Capacity Building, whose mission is to partner with HBCUs and Predominantly Black Institutions (PBIs) to help propel student success.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 16, 2024

It is a space to establish community, which is important for persistence and student success. When we needed to have important sensitive conversations and host events where we could all just come together and be ourselves and have fun, we used the resource center,” Robinson explains.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 26, 2023

“This is an important segment of the college-bound market and [GBC] continues to make inroads in successful recruitment of Hispanic students, especially with the expansion of the Goizueta Scholarship to now cover full tuition and in some cases room and board,” Eby said. The college also has two bilingual peer mentors.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 23, 2023

As colleges and universities are expecting more faculty, staff, and students to return to campuses (in person) this fall, there is an opportunity for student affairs and human resource professionals to plan college-wide [re]engagement activities. They plan out programs and activities to build community and extended family for students.

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Symplicity

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Symplicity is a global leader in supporting institutions in connect ing students with career opportunities. These capabilities empower our users to deliver more personalized experiences, optimize career services, and elevate student employability to meet the demands of today’s dynamic job market.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 8, 2023

“Now, OMD and CCC will be able to be proactive in pushing out services and supports that they know have gotten students to completion and retained in academics.” Aneesh Sohoni and City Colleges of Chicago Chancellor Juan Salgado participate in SxSW panel, How Diverse Students Access & Thrive in College.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 30, 2023

Sherrá Watkins The panel discussion – hosted by higher ed mental health provider Mantra Health and the Steve Fund, which focuses on mental wellbeing for youth of color – was centered around how a major part of student success hinges on mental health, and how some communities may not be getting equal access to the resources they need.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

At a time when the Latino population in the United States is growing and students are still facing daunting obstacles, Excelencia in Education is recognizing nine institutions for their clear and decisive commitment to Latino student success with the Seal of Excelencia. It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

While many PWIs have potential to build partnerships, there is a need to acknowledge the cultural components as assets and pursue long-term partnerships built around enhancing student success. Most universities and colleges continue to occupy large land bases and are maintained by taxing those stolen lands.

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Civitas Learning

APRIL 17, 2025

What features will help us be more proactive, scale support, and still create a student-centered environment? At the core of every institution is one goal: student success. Once teams are aligned on the vision and how the platform supports their work, professional development cant be a one-and-done event.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The event took place as part of University of Phoenix's Educational Equity Webinar Series. Higher education and education in general can benefit from artificial intelligence aid as well, such as with AI-assisted data analysis; translation assistance; automation of administrative tasks; or predictive systems for student success and attrition.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 7, 2024

The designation would be accorded to colleges and universities if they enroll a student body that’s at least 10% Black, or have at least 1,500 Black students, and that take various measures to support them, including drafting a Black student success plan (and allocating resources to the plan), fostering a robust African American studies program and (..)

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Reflections from our recent Postsecondary Value Community of Practice event By: Marián Vargas and Eleanor Eckerson Peters “ Postsecondary value is not just a framework, but a lens through which to see the world, [and] it must be infused into the DNA of our collective efforts.”

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Civitas Learning

JANUARY 9, 2025

Today’s most influential leaders recognize that student success goes beyond traditional measures like retention and graduation rates. A study of Civitas Learning partner institutions reinforces this wisdom, revealing that 39% of students experience a change in their likelihood to persist within a single term.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 20, 2023

HISPA fellows with New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy The main program is the HISPA Role Model Program in which role models speak to students at predominantly low-income, public middle schools with majority Hispanic student populations, sharing their stories and encouraging student success.

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EAB

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Student Success Collaborative Awards. This is the ninth year in a row that EAB has recognized outstanding achievements in student success. An institution that is on the leading edge when it comes to use of EAB Student Success technology. More on student success management. January 14, 2022.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2023

Now, CSU, the nation’s largest university system, with 23 campuses and nearly 460,000 students, is making a push to close these gaps with a new report making comprehensive recommendations on how the CSU can best promote Black excellence. We need to create an entirely new and holistic approach for supporting Cal State’s Black community.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Brown, Excelencia in Education has the stated mission to accelerate Latino student success in higher education. The intent is to bring attention to evidence-based practices that are making a positive difference for Hispanic students,” says Santiago, chief executive officer of Excelencia in Education. Santiago and Sarita E.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The four-day event connects educators, both in and outside Achieving the Dream’s (ATD) network of over 300 community colleges, working to close attainment gaps. ATD] staff and coaches will learn as much as we can about what you’re already doing around student success.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

JULY 28, 2023

After 18 years of dedication to our organization, Team IHEP is bidding a bittersweet farewell to a true champion of college access, student success and educational equity. Her determination to advance college access and success for first-generation, students of color, and students from low-income communities is an inspiration.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 30, 2024

For ACC, those strategies include its Ascendor program, which provides mentorship, community events, and other culturally relevant support services to first-year students hoping to earn a bachelor’s degree. Dr. Roberto Montoya is associate vice president of partner success at InsideTrack.

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