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Fellowship Program Highlights the Work of Disabled Scholar-Activists

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Throughout the following 10 months, the fellows participated in meetings with their faculty mentors and optional monthly cohort-wide calls to discuss their progress. The schedule quickly proved taxing, overpacked with guest lectures and not inclusive of enough rest or rapport-building time.

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Fostering Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

We hire a lot of students to be peer mentors, peer counselors, peer learning facilitators, which are basically tutors,” he continues. The peer mentors are recruited from UCLA’s undergraduate student body and are usually former participants in AAP. With that kind of structure and those kinds of environments we create.

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas, partners with over 62 high schools across the state, facilitating college access for Latino, rural, and other marginalized communities. It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students. The dashboard is available through the Office of Student Success. “By

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Transfer Advocate Blog, Issue 32

Missouri State Academic Advising and Transfer Cent

Whether its a family member, a friend, or someone you mentor, you can help them become a Bear! Missouri State News Refer a Future Bear Know a high school or transfer student who would thrive at Missouri State? Submit a quick referral form, and our Admissions team will reach out to share everything MSU has to offer. Registration is encouraged.

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Mentoring FGLI Students with Empathy

Close the Gap Foundation

Becoming a mentor has always appealed to me. To me, being a mentor meant I had my life together. When browsing online, I saw an opportunity with Close the Gap to be a mentor, and it seemed to be a great way to give back! After applying and being accepted, it made me ponder what it meant to be a mentor.

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5 Retention Strategies You Might Be Missing

Civitas Learning

Student-Centric Degree Planning Our findings show that efforts to help students plan their schedules around responsibilities like work and caregiving significantly encourage persistence toward graduation. PP lift with easy course scheduling. Academic advising is a bedrock of any student’s successful persistence toward graduation.

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SUNY Broome Addresses Enrollment Declines with Data-Informed Approaches

Civitas Learning

To achieve these goals, it was imperative to improve access to student information and facilitate seamless communication and collaboration between teams – specifically faculty and staff who faced challenges sharing student information. The Strategic Enrollment Team needed a solution to streamline efforts and improve access to advisors.