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 that support faculty and staff in support of Black student success; and 3.)

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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). where harassment reporting mechanisms often fail to protect Black faculty. think tank. This parallels findings in the U.S., I’ve felt it,” says Patton Davis. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 14, 2024

In 2020, NJIT created the Hispanic and Latinx Leadership Council, which is made up of students, faculty, staff and alumni as well as business and community leaders who work collaboratively to address recruitment, retention, engagement and persistence among Latinx students. Since 2022, Dr. David E.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2024

This involves fostering partnerships between institutional leaders, students, faculty, staff, community organizations, and elders. This sense of belonging is critical for student retention and success. Champion Policy Changes: Advocate for institutional and systemic policy changes that promote equity and inclusion for Latine students.

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Civitas Learning

JUNE 1, 2023

The Outcomes: An 8% increase in retention, improved advising efficiency, and more effective cross-functional collaboration. Faculty and staff needed ways to easily communicate and access student data in one place so they had the shared context they needed to meaningfully help students.

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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

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

This leadership position enables her to further her commitment to inclusive excellence. The chance to work with the community to form a culture that exudes belonging and inclusion was irresistible.” Britt Rios-Ellis has immersed herself in Warrior culture, becoming acquainted with the local communities of California’s Central Valley.

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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. Additionally, more than four dozen faculty will be V-FIRST mentors. American Indian, and 0.1% Pacific Islander.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 25, 2024

This document, a roadmap for the next conservative presidential administration, frames diversity and inclusion efforts as a coordinated attack on American values, advocating for a radical restructuring of federal education policy that would have devastating consequences for historically underrepresented students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

While MCC’s own equity audit showed that the college was taking significant steps to promote inclusivity in learning, the audit found a perceived lack of infrastructure that formally institutionalizes systems, processes, communication, programming, and accountability metrics for diversity, equity, and inclusion.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

For institutions looking to measure their DEI efforts, the tool of choice has typically been campus climate assessments, surveys of groups like faculty or students that provide an aggregate picture of the impact of a college’s endeavors. The instrument also revealed that some basic DEI practices were less common.

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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. There’s diversity happening among students, where the pipeline is slowing down is at the faculty level.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 29, 2024

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. Such a dual designation, he added, reflects the university's broader goal to support diversity and equity across the student body, faculty, and campus culture.

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AUGUST 1, 2023

Infographic 3 Reasons Why Faculty and Staff Leave Their Jobs Due to Climate How higher ed institutions can foster inclusive interactions with leaders, managers, and colleagues This infographic outlines ways that institutions can foster an inclusive campus climate among leaders, managers, and colleagues.

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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. Black student enrollment, for example, went up 2.3% in Hispanic enrollment. “We

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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. CDOs should actively seek allies across their institutions, including faculty, staff, and student groups who share a commitment to DEI. Dr. Harrison Davis, Jr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 14, 2023

million credit and non-credit students for the 2021-22 academic year; the need to retain top talent among faculty and staff continues to grow. MCCCD remains a national leader due to its deliberate focus on fostering a supportive and inclusive environment. We have found the following strategies to be effective for our organization.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

As indicated by several key metrics, over the past decade underrepresented minority (URM) students have made considerable progress in retention, graduation, and persistence rates. 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

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

JULY 7, 2023

There is considerable research generated about African Americans in higher education, specifically faculty. In fact, most studies concerning African Americans have focused on the retention of students or faculty (Wolfe & Dilworth, 2015). These recommendations include: 1. Dr. Carl B.

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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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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

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

In his sophomore year of college, Williams had begun to struggle academically and financially, but the leadership and faculty at Xavier gave him the opportunity to continue his education. We doubled diversity attraction, admittance, retention, and graduation during the time I was there,” he says. Dr. Dereck J. Rovaris, Sr.,

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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

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Title: Assistant Vice President for Diversity, Access and Inclusion; Associate to the President, University of Nebraska Jenkins has served as the University of Nebraska’s associate to the president and assistant vice president for diversity, access and inclusion since August of 2016.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 24, 2024

PHILADELPHIA— Despite the ongoing attacks to diversity, equity and inclusion within higher education, more than a thousand educators gathered in-person and virtually late last week to share strategies and brainstorm ways to center equitable outcomes for the students who attend their institutions. In her powerful closing keynote, Dr. Toby S.

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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. These groups are also crucial for administrators collaborating with faculty and other staff with shared interests.

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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

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. mathematics, Rutgers University; Ed.M., mathematics education; and Ph.D.,

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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

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Retention efforts Morgan State is currently number one in the United States in producing Black electrical engineers and civil engineers, Wilson notes. This requires thoughtful retention efforts. At that time, they transition to either a professional advisor in their school or major or mostly to faculty advisement.”

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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. Their goal? To identify and cut DEI in higher education. Can SEL fully shield DEI from attacks?

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

AUGUST 27, 2024

IHEP: If you had to recommend one or two sense of belonging interventions for all faculty members to implement in their courses, what would you suggest and why? Dr. Knottenbelt: For faculty to understand belonging and foster a culture of growth in their class, they must develop a consistent communication strategy.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The college will have its own dean of students, director, counselors, academic advisors, and outreach and support staff, and it will draw from existing faculty who have “a demonstrated record of success in teaching Black students,” said Wood. Wood — whose research focuses on racial equity in education — saw an opportunity.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

AAP staff works with students, faculty, and staff at those schools and at UCLA to create pathways. That data show that the students who attend the summer bridge program build great resilience skills, and resilience leads to retention. “The California legislature put some caveats. She asked many questions, which he gladly answered.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 1, 2023

The report notes that the implementation of peer mentoring, paid work-based learning, building partnerships for intentional and inclusive hiring, and elevating career services and DEIB (diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging) to be organizational priorities. This includes peer-to-peer mentoring as well as connection to alumni.

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