Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 2, 2023

Jennifer Sramek The student-led campaign is commendable, but the community college stigma doesn’t only affect students. Faculty members are sometimes questioned about their choice to teach at a community college rather than at other higher education institutions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Educators from a variety of community colleges shared how student success and sense of belonging is vital to meeting their local workforce needs, and how their unique geographic locations, demographic growth, and regional needs have influenced how they connect with big industry and small to mid-sized businesses.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 14, 2022

For this piece, we identify the function and effects of neoliberalism on the relationships among graduate students and faculty. In higher education, neoliberalism manifests through the not-new concept of students-as-consumers, who “shop” for the best collegiate experience. Dr. Cathryn B.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The award applauds promising and innovative proposals to improve student success and degree completion at master’s and doctoral levels while promoting inclusiveness, with the winner receiving a two-year, $20,000 matching grant. Its instructional curriculum is built on a series of four courses.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

To do so, she focused on long-standing issues like program development and student support services, and by the time the Coast Community College District Board of Trustees approved her permanent position, progress was tangible. Randall says faculty training in online teaching is a priority this year. I send out messages every week.

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Civitas Learning

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Faculty play a central role in building connections with students. Their regular interaction and academic and career guidance, especially within their areas of expertise, can significantly help students in their college experience.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Jerry Fliger Fliger is currently vice president for instruction at College of the Mainland. Previously, he has served as dean of arts and sciences at Alvin Community College and associate dean at Florida State College at Jacksonville. “Dr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

He incorporates student cultures and interests into his classroom as much as possible, whether it’s explaining probability using a pre-Columbian game or teaching trigonometry via hip-hop sampling. However, instructors needn’t extend themselves as far as Rubalcaba does to help minoritized students.

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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

MARCH 15, 2024

Without Higher Education Emergency Relief (HEER) funding, experts say many community college programs would have closed, faculty and staff laid off, and more students forced to stop out on their pathways towards accreditation. Most colleges want to keep the emergency aid given to students. The need became clearer.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

Smith Title: Associate Professor of Higher Education; Provost Faculty Fellow, University of Cincinnati Age: 39 Education: B.S., Smith Title: Associate Professor of Higher Education; Provost Faculty Fellow, University of Cincinnati Age: 39 Education: B.S., Everrett A. psychology, Middle Tennessee State University; M.S.,

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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. Perhaps most significantly, the committee recommended an increase in the recruitment and support of Black faculty and staff. Parham said that the committee focused on making the most of its chance to affect change.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 13, 2024

So, Ithaka S+R, a research organization that promotes student success and access to higher education, and the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) teamed up to compile standing research on postsecondary institutions and civic engagement to find out what is really going on behind the scenes.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 30, 2024

The attitudes of educators and administrators were often shaped by prejudices and low expectations, leading to a failure to recognize and support the potential of these students. The stigma associated with both race and disability often led to these students receiving inadequate support and being subjected to lower expectations.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2024

Additionally, Curry has secured millions of dollars for student success initiatives. How do we get those businesses to look at our curriculum and say, ‘this is what we’re looking for our future employees,’ and make sure that our faculty are connecting that to our curriculum.” I just don’t take none of this stuff personal.

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Civitas Learning

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Disjointed systems can lead to feeling like a pinballbeing bounced between financial aid, advising, faculty, and the registrar over a registration holdcausing confusion and frustration. This doesnt just affect the student experience, it also puts a strain on institutional resources and can negatively impact outcomes.

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Civitas Learning

AUGUST 22, 2024

The Strategy: Transition to a case management model that offers students proactive guidance and access to resources, and engages faculty to see a complete picture of their academic journey. Engaged Faculty It can be exceptionally hard for institutions of any size to engage faculty in student success efforts.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Originally from South Carolina, I came to California in 2021 as the Vice President of Instruction (VPI) at CCC and later served as Acting President for one year before becoming the permanent President in 2023. My former college in Massachusetts had a large population of Black students and steadily increasing numbers of Latine students.

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Civitas Learning

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Institutions shifting their focus from solely graduating students to developing their full potential are redefining what student success truly means. Across the Civitas Learning community, institutions continuously assess how well they meet students’ needs and remove barriers to success.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

Connecting Black students with each other made them feel stronger and more determined to support each other through the curriculum. “It It was a matter in many cases of asking the students, ‘What do you need?’” Lester has a network of teachers and guidance counselors that have their students apply for summer programs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Her previous roles included serving as president and CEO of the College Success Foundation in Seattle and Project GRAD Atlanta. She was a former faculty member and attendee of a historically Black college and university (HBCU) and served as a dean at Trinity Washington University, a predominantly Black and Hispanic-serving institution.

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EAB

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Blogs 30 Student Success Priorities for the 2020s All my attention over the last two years has been spent studying the future of students and student success as we emerge from the pandemic. Notably, I am monitoring three macro trends that will converge in the mid-2020s and reshape the student success landscape.

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EAB

JUNE 1, 2023

Best Practices Explore the 15 student success best practices that power the Moon Shot initiative. click here Will your school start recruiting incarcerated students? The delivery of high quality in-person experiences has required significant coordination of site visits and clearances for teaching faculty.

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Civitas Learning

AUGUST 10, 2023

But what makes some students persist to graduation and others not? In Civitas Learning’s most recent Student Success Impact Report , we examined a broad range of student success initiatives across 48 institutions. Investing in faculty development yielded a significant increase in persistence.

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EAB

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Blogs 30 Student Success Priorities for the 2020s All my attention over the last two years has been spent studying the future of students and student success as we emerge from the pandemic. Notably, I am monitoring three macro trends that will converge in the mid-2020s and reshape the student success landscape.

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Timely MD

MARCH 4, 2024

TimelyCare Student Success Coaching Q&A With Dr. Nicole Guerrero Trevino Vice President for Student Success LinkedIn Tell us about your career journey and dedication to student success in higher education. Why are we seeing a growing demand for student success resources in higher education?

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Civitas Learning

MAY 28, 2024

Austin Community College (ACC) is one of many institutions committed to student success amidst this enrollment uptick, especially among first-generation and underrepresented students. Engagement tracking ACC’s data confirms that students who engage with their advisors are more likely to persist and graduate.

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EAB

MAY 17, 2023

The early warning signs showed up most prominently in traditionally marginalized groups, with those students experiencing food and housing insecurity at higher rates than their peers – requiring more support to not only persist in their programs but also to live.

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EAB

JULY 28, 2023

Blogs Attack of the “Math Shark”: Why Unfinished Learning Is a Lurking Threat to Student Success in the Late 2020s Students are no longer entering college with the same levels of academic preparation that we might have expected before the pandemic, one of the many ripple effects we face as a result of disruptions in high school learning.

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EAB

JULY 28, 2023

Blogs Attack of the “Math Shark”: Why Unfinished Learning Is a Lurking Threat to Student Success in the Late 2020s Students are no longer entering college with the same levels of academic preparation that we might have expected before the pandemic, one of the many ripple effects we face as a result of disruptions in high school learning.

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The University Innovation Alliance

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The Accelerator Model as an Innovation for Student Success First-year students sometimes have difficulties adjusting to college’s academic demands, and Dr. Renick’s team noted that freshmen struggled even more during the pandemic. We connected each section with supplemental instruction, so a near-peer tutor was embedded.

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Civitas Learning

AUGUST 22, 2024

The Strategy: Transition to a case management model that offers students proactive guidance and access to resources, and engages faculty to see a complete picture of their academic journey. Engaged Faculty It can be exceptionally hard for institutions of any size to engage faculty in student success efforts.

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EAB

JANUARY 10, 2023

Higher Ed: Rewired : California State University produces this student-success-centric show featuring experts from inside and outside the CSU system. Recent episodes include conversations about the student housing crisis and redefining the value of the college degree.

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Civitas Learning

MAY 23, 2024

Identifying Bottleneck Courses to Deliver Precise Academic Support Visibility into the impact individual courses have on persistence and graduation empowers provosts, academic deans, advising teams, and faculty members to identify and address barriers to student success in a clear, purposeful way.

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Civitas Learning

AUGUST 10, 2023

But what makes some students persist to graduation and others not? In Civitas Learning’s most recent Student Success Impact Report , we examined a broad range of student success initiatives across 48 institutions. Investing in faculty development yielded a significant increase in persistence.

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EAB

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Efficiency audits help identify gaps in instructional capacity versus student demand at the course, program, and department levels. Elevate the student experience to improve overall retention: Current students can also fall victim to the treacherous tuition cycle, leading to stopouts.

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The University Innovation Alliance

MAY 21, 2024

Innovation in Action: Overview of the UIA’s Current Scale Projects Elana Tue, 05/21/2024 - 15:52 Black Student Success Initiative Student Success University Culture For ten years, the University Innovation Alliance (UIA) has aspired to be an effective force for change.

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