Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Despite the fact that faculty are so crucial to students’ academic lives, they are often underutilized as levers of institutional change. Moreover, institutions are grappling with faculty burnout, dissatisfaction, and resignations at growing rates.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 26, 2024

Every Learner Everywhere Every Learner Everywhere is a network of organizations with expertise in evaluating, implementing, scaling, and measuring the efficacy of education technologies, curriculum and course design strategies, teaching practices, and support services in blended and online learning environments.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Cochrane is a member of the Faculty Academy, a statewide initiative that trains faculty in a pedagogy called “Real Talk,” created by Dr. Paul Hernandez, senior advisor to the president and CEO at Achieving the Dream (ATD), a partner network of over 300 community colleges working to equitize 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

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The framework encourages decisionmakers to set data goals for implementing programs and practices and measuring impact that reflects change to the access, retention, completion, and/or workforce statistics for the employee and student groups. Pierce College (WA) is revamping its faculty hiring and tenure process.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The report, titled “Unblocking the Pipeline: Supporting the Retention, Progression and Promotion of Black Early-Career Academics,” was the culmination of a monthslong survey of Black ECAs by the Higher Education Policy Institute, a U.K. where harassment reporting mechanisms often fail to protect Black faculty. Neither does teaching.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 5, 2024

Across higher education, the desire for diversity among student populations is usually the responsibility of recruitment efforts but falls short in retention strategies. Students benefit tremendously from seeing themselves reflected in the faculty, staff, and student peers who make up the campus community. Dr. Merrill L Irving Jr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Using an interdisciplinary approach, Leyva’s research explores how interlocking systems of power, including racism and cisheteropatriarchy, impact classroom teaching and student support in undergraduate mathematics and STEM higher education. Ford envisions him having an impact on recruitment and retention. Congrats, colleagues!”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Nonetheless, the percentage of women STEM faculty remains disproportionately small. This lack of representation has long been blamed as a pipeline problem — that there are fewer women receiving STEM PhDs and therefore fewer candidates to teach. But as time has passed, that excuse has rung less true.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 30, 2023

So that current students can complete their programs, IWU has arranged teach-out agreements with William Penn University, Upper Iowa University, University of Dubuque, and Culver-Stockton College, with more being a possibility. This comes despite overall post-pandemic enrollment and retention growth. “We

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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. Mental Health TEAS will bring aboard an additional full-time clinical therapist as well to help boost Asian American student retention and completion. The search for the new hire is currently underway, according to Rola.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 22, 2022

During her 17-year tenure at Ohio State, she also served as associate dean of the graduate school, associate provost and director of the Center for Teaching Excellence. During this time, she co-directed a new nationwide program, “Preparing Future Faculty,” an initiative to stimulate the reform of doctoral education for the professoriate.

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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

MAY 28, 2024

Hudson Scholars, an innovative student support model, focuses on retention and improving student outcomes by scaling successful elements of national best-practice models, providing high-touch advisement, financial stipends, and early academic intervention. Dr. Liu is a graduate of William & Mary.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 10, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT can prove very valuable and promising in the realm of higher education but come with their own suite of issues that need to be considered, according to higher ed leaders and faculty who participated in a panel discussion on Wednesday. These new AI tools. are within that wider context."

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 27, 2024

In the context of education, particularly in mathematics, the significance of effective teaching cannot be overstated. Research consistently shows that teacher certification, subject matter knowledge, and teaching experience significantly correlate with higher student achievement.

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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

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. This includes integrating Latine epistemologies into teaching and advising practices.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 1, 2022

That’s very much a result of community awareness, but also faculty and student advocacy to say, ‘Hey, Native Hawaiians are underrepresented across the higher education playing field.’” noa faculty identify as Native Hawaiian, the largest representation of Native Hawaiian faculty ever seen at the campus. Just under 8% of UH M?noa

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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

APRIL 1, 2025

The strategic plan became a focus on coaching, teaching and learning, and data. 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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 3, 2023

You can teach students what it’s like to work at state or private institutions, but an HBCU is special. Some materials, like the faculty and student handbook, had to be created from scratch and then reviewed by KC’s Board of Trustees for approval. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave the commencement address in 1960.

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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

OCTOBER 23, 2022

She is responsible for developing and implementing strategies, programs and activities to enhance access, inclusion and retention of a diverse student body, faculty and staff. Prior to the University of Nebraska, Jenkins spent 14 years at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 24, 2024

Jenkins, who is Associate Provost for Faculty Development and a Professor of Higher Education at the University of South Carolina said that the power of Hip-Hop can't simply be reduced to music. In the opening keynote to the conference, Dr. In her powerful closing keynote, Dr. Toby S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 10, 2023

In 1998, he began teaching at the University of Alabama, and then joined the University of Cincinnati in 2002, where he rose to full professor, department head, associate dean for graduate studies and research, and ultimately dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Science. After receiving his B.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Smith says Claflin nursing faculty have gone above and beyond to offer psychosocial support to the students. She credits the faculty for creating an environment where students feel safe discussing their concerns while continuing their education with sustained quality. MacNeil School of Nursing.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

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. Latino faculty at UTA closely mentor the students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 23, 2023

As colleges and universities are expecting more faculty, staff, and students to return to campuses (in person) this fall, there is an opportunity for student affairs and human resource professionals to plan college-wide [re]engagement activities. The activities should center around team building and group activities to accomplish a goal.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Patterson-Stephens guided the development of CMU’s first strategic plan for diversity since 2012 and reinstated the Faculty and Staff of Color Alliance, which had remained inoperable since 2013. The Alliance works to support faculty and staff recruitment and retention at the university.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 16, 2024

They impact student performance and retention.” The government affairs department of Equality Texas has been surveying students and faculty at the Texas institutions impacted by SB 17 to gauge how it has been implemented. “We know there’s a real need for this, and these centers have such a big impact on students,” says Gooch.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

How Pueblo College Supercharged Yield and Retention Efforts. They also provided more hands-on training for faculty and students to spur wider adoption of the Navigate student success platform and improve communication during the registration process. EAB · How Pueblo College Supercharged Yield and Retention Efforts. Episode 126.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 31, 2024

“What we’re seeing is the ripple effect of those cumulative years of commitment these colleges have made,” says Stout, pointing out that ATD has a high retention rate among the participating schools. Most colleges that come into ATD, stay in ATD.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 27, 2023

To accomplish the goals that the fundraising will enable, she sees it as essential that the faculty, staff and board work collaboratively on the visioning for the university. This includes creating new means for retention. She oversaw a Campus Master Plan that reflected the institution’s core values, such as diversity and inclusion. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 22, 2023

We know that the quality of the residence halls is an important part of recruitment and retention.” While at Temple, he also served as adjunct faculty, teaching a municipal finance curriculum at the Beasley School of Law. “We’re going to every room, enhancing the lighting, painting, flooring, and furniture in many instances.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

Engaging with students was fulfilling, but Watford says she realized teaching was not her calling. 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.

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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. — Dr.

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