Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 26, 2024

Legislators are looking to enshrine the Postsecondary Student Success Grant (PSSG) program, a student outcomes-centered federal effort, into law through new legislation this March. Faculty's working conditions are students' learning conditions,” Kezar told Diverse.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 8, 2024

million Acceleration Grant from the National Institute for Student Success. Its grant includes funding to support partnerships with Morgan State, North Carolina Central University, and Kennesaw State University over the next three years to implement recommendations with formal coaching support.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 30, 2023

A new study by Course Hero, an online learning platform for educators, suggests that a rise in job satisfaction among faculty has improved since the start of the pandemic. According to the American Association of University Women (AAUW) women make up the majority of non tenure-track faculty across institutions in higher education.

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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

OCTOBER 14, 2024

One Black British academic felt “discriminated against for promotion” while white colleagues with fewer high-profile publications or research grants were promoted instead. where harassment reporting mechanisms often fail to protect Black faculty. think tank. “The This parallels findings in the U.S., I’ve felt it,” says Patton Davis.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

I am also proud that these systemic CUNY changes and reforms were spearheaded by our academic leadership and faculty, and they exemplify our steadfast commitment to transforming the CUNY system to meet the current needs of New Yorkers. Matos Rodríguez. “I This leaves such students unable to make degree progress during that period.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Also, that year the program’s retention rate of Latino students was 18% higher than the college’s general retention rate. It also added professional development for all the tutors and faculty. The aims of the CAMP at Washington State University (WSU) are first-year completion, second-year retention and successful graduation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2023

Dr. Consuelo Wilkins The Vanderbilt Faculty Institutional Recruitment for Sustainable Transformation Program (V-FIRST) – funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) – will aim to accelerate hiring, promotion, and retention efforts for diverse, early-career investigators. American Indian, and 0.1% Pacific Islander.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 29, 2023

Strengthening a Diverse Leadership Pipeline Through Leadership Preparation and Development” is a partnership of faculty from five schools: Stony Brook, City College of New York, Fordham University, Hofstra University, and St. John's University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

With a new federal grant that Chang and his fellow UConn faculty and staff members have secured from the U.S. Katie Martin, an assistant campus director on the Hartford campus, serves as the grant’s other co-PI. As it stands now, Chang is the only faculty member who teaches Asian studies at the Hartford campus.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

My research examines the ways in which larger social processes affect students and their overall well-being while also addressing underrepresented and marginalized students in relation to retention and success,” she says. Dueñas says she uses both qualitative and quantitative methods to examine students in their higher educational spaces.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 26, 2023

Institutions that receive HSI designation are then eligible to apply for various federal grants in support of their programming. This includes working on retention strategies that emphasize information on financial aid and mental health services as well as continuing to build a sense of belonging. She notes it helps build community.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2024

However, for federal Pell grants specifically, Latino students appear to be receiving larger sums on average ($4,246) than other racial/ethnic groups, the only exception being Asians ($4,722). Yet it is institutions who admit, retain and award doctoral degrees that then make up the pool for future faculty and academic leadership.”

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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. The fact that we had an increase of 3% last year, we don’t take that for granted.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Addressing the need Queensborough Community College (QCC), a two-year institution in the City University of New York system, conducted an equity audit that showed there were retention and graduation disparities for male students overall, with Black and Latinx male students disproportionately impacted.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 8, 2024

Their fall-to-fall retention rate between fall 2022 and fall 2023 was actually 11% higher than commuters.” Campus housing could have a discernable impact on retention and graduation. By example, fall 2023 students with housing had a retention rate of 89.6% versus 83.8% for other certificate/degree seeking students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Pierre, a seasoned legal scholar, had been serving the Southern University Law Center in numerous roles since 1990, first as a faculty member and then as an administrator. I think you’ve heard it from faculty and others about the impression he has left on this campus in an interim (executive vice president) position.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2024

In many of our ACE programs, we grant academic credit. Our program directors and faculty chairs work closely to match them to existing courses.” Smatresk, and his leadership realized that students, faculty, and staff would benefit from a more robust and insightful data set that anyone could use or access at any time.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

million research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The faculty and staff overseeing EPW know each student personally. “I One secret of our program’s exponential growth is retention,” says Espiritu. In the last three years EPW’s fall to fall retention ranges from 93% to 96%. “I I track them in retention.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 22, 2022

Prior to joining the Ohio State faculty in 1979, becoming the university’s first African-American woman full professor, she served as professor of education at Case Western Reserve University and previously in positions as dean of students and dean of women at Fisk University and Albany (Ga.)

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2023

They conducted listening sessions and focus groups with more than 250 Black students, faculty, and staff. Another recommendation was that each school develop retention and persistence strategies for Black students using a personalized student support model, along with enhanced advising. It is monumental,” said Dr. Shaun R.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 2, 2023

There is the possibility of increasing enrollment with high-demand programs like nursing and other areas of healthcare, said Lee, but such programs are costly in order to ensure adequate skills labs and faculty. Lee said funding needs to be cultivated from hospital systems desirous of building their nursing workforce.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2023

In terms of retention, Carter says hiring supportive faculty is a huge component. “We We get students of color primarily through word-of-mouth and because of the fact that we have so many faculty members who are people of color,” Cummings says. We also have a lot of supports built into our curriculum,” she says. Online, 18.1%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

“Macaulay can provide an elite education — or a model that exemplifies the best of what higher ed has to offer — but without elitist recruitment or admissions processes,” says Byrne, who has been a faculty member at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (part of CUNY) since 2003. She concluded the fellowship and joined the faculty of John Jay.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 1, 2025

The metrics include course completion, retention, program completion and program completion with wage gains. At the same time, the deans are talking to their faculty about the data in the classroom that faculty are using. Stout appreciates her time coaching because it enables her to see the work on the ground in action.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 17, 2023

Students were paid a $15 per hour stipend for their training, and CHCP covered any gaps with grant money. The program will cover job training, job placement, and retention services, but not student stipends. The students in the cohort were largely non-traditional and reflective of the new majority learner.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

After undergraduate programming demonstrated improved retention and graduation rates, Watford was able to recruit students to Virginia Tech. Faculty from the College of Engineering and College of Sciences play an essential role. Grant proposals are written to support additional CEED projects. It is now called Imagination.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

With a new federal grant that Chang and his fellow UConn faculty and staff members have secured from the U.S. Katie Martin, an assistant campus director on the Hartford campus, serves as the grant’s other co-PI. As it stands now, Chang is the only faculty member who teaches Asian studies at the Hartford campus.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 22, 2025

After completing his doctorate in Curriculum and Instruction in 2016, Henry joined the faculty at the University of Arizona, where his understanding of race in America was enriched by exposure to border state dynamics and the intersection of Black, Indigenous, and Mexican communities. Remember why you got into this.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

MAY 1, 2024

Collaboration is Key Collaboration between faculty, advisors, support services, community-based organizations, employers, and students is also key to holistic support. One featured partnership between the City Colleges of Chicago and One Million Degrees is having a measurable effect on student retention and success.

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#RealCollege Blog

JUNE 28, 2022

The FAST Fund makes use of an under-utilized group on campus  — the faculty — to help them get funds to students and become agents of change on their campus. We knew that this was a model that could have tremendous impact, for the students we serve, the faculty and staff who support them, and their institutions.

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Thrive Alliance Group

MAY 16, 2023

But a week of gestures isn’t enough to help you build the confidence and competence of your staff, let alone solve the growing problem of teacher retention. They feel taken for granted and even maligned. Grow satisfaction and teacher retention. It’s a chance to recognize the contributions of staff members who may be undervalued.

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Civitas Learning

JUNE 13, 2024

The Strategy: Implement student success technology to generate actionable insights, improve visibility, and create workflow efficiencies to lift enrollment, retention, and graduation rates. However, like many institutions, it faced challenges in boosting enrollment, retention, and completion rates.

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Timely MD

OCTOBER 12, 2023

For TCC, focusing on student well-being is central to a broader strategy to boost engagement, retention, and completion figures. Access to mental health is something I think a lot of people take for granted. Faculty and staff also find comfort in knowing students have after-hours access to care as an extension of their campus team.

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EAB

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Colleges can make progress toward helping students feel they belong in the following ways: Hire diverse staff and faculty. They’ve leveraged their student success technology, Navigate, to recruit new, current, and former students to the program which has supported both their recruitment and retention efforts. Engage the whole family.

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EAB

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

King assembled a diverse and powerful coalition of individuals from various departments and disciplines, including academic staff, faculty, administrators, and students, all working together towards a common goal—improving retention and graduation rates for minoritized students. The results were nothing short of remarkable.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

Projects addressed topics such as annual giving, student retention, professional and continuing education, academic program planning, and more. Scroll down to read about each of the capstone projects in the fellows’ own words. The blog posts below are written by the participants to showcase their project and early outcomes.

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