article thumbnail

Where is the Love? Compassionate Pedagogy is Needed Now More Than Ever Before

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

To implement a sense of compassion, educators must be committed to a flexible process facilitated through positive communication and transparency. Specifically, school counselors are trained to identify barriers to optimal educational success by reviewing data to develop a plan to address opportunity gaps.

article thumbnail

They Don’t Really Care About Us? Ensuring a Better Connection Between Research, Policy, and Practice to Ensure Success for Black Men in Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Aside from writing about the plight of Black men in higher education, in our scholarship, we have employed an anti-deficit approach to highlight critical factors that help to facilitate the access, retention, and persistence of Black men in college. This stifles Black student success and contributes to low graduation rates from high schools.

professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Five Questions That College Leaders Should Be Asking to Improve Student Success in 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

To better serve these learners, institutions must build programs for the busy adults and first-generation students who make up significant and growing shares of today’s college population. Institutions must respect this reality by maximizing flexibility for learners and structure their programs to promote student success.

article thumbnail

A Scholar’s Fight for Community Power - Dr. Jonathan D. Gomez

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

For example, he founded and facilitates the Culture Counts Reading Series, a bi-weekly poetry reading, writing and discussion workshop featuring works by San Jos poets. He also facilitates a leadership retreat for Chicanx/Latinx Student Success Center, also known as Centro.

Teaching 252
article thumbnail

A Scholar’s Fight for Community Power - Dr. Jonathan D. Gomez

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

For example, he founded and facilitates the Culture Counts Reading Series, a bi-weekly poetry reading, writing and discussion workshop featuring works by San Jos poets. He also facilitates a leadership retreat for Chicanx/Latinx Student Success Center, also known as Centro.

Teaching 240
article thumbnail

Q&A: UNCF's Ed Smith-Lewis on the UNITE Convening and HBCU Transformation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

They needed long-term, data-driven, institutionally customized strategies to build financial resilience, promote academic innovation, and drive student success models that work for their institutions. In the last few years, we've had somewhere between 2-3% of students attending. Student success is the second pillar.

article thumbnail

Promoting Higher Education for Native Americans in Minnesota

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

An example of where even completing a FAFSA—a requirement of North Star Promise—can clash with Native American culture is provided by Tiffany Gusbeth, vice president of student success services of the American Indian College Fund (College Fund). It’s a game changer for many of our students,” she notes.