Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 26, 2024

Efforts implemented by awarded institutions in prior years have included services such as counseling, tutoring, childcare, community-building activities, targeted outreach, financial assistance, technology provision, and transportation. “By Faculty's working conditions are students' learning conditions,” Kezar told Diverse.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

There is power in being a role model, he says, and that’s why he wants to make sure undergrads and graduates can see themselves represented in Lehman faculty, staff, and administration. are white and only 21% are faculty of color. Delgado is himself a child of immigrants and a first-generation college-goer.

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Civitas Learning

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Faculty play a central role in building connections with students. As Inside Higher Ed notes, “Students often turn to their faculty members for advice and support outside of academics, including career advice and mental health support, so positive student-faculty relationships are a critical piece of student success.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2023

Cargas said that food insecure students often feel isolated, so addressing food insecurity will require a louder, more prominent acknowledgement by institutions, faculty, and staff. Faculty] have to make it known that [food insecurity] is a problem, talk about it in our classes, put it in our syllabi,” said Cargas. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 19, 2024

Additionally, a local middle school math teacher was hired to teach geometry, and the church provided one of its tutors to assist. The initiative will also seek to grow its roster of teachers and tutors. Almost all of the parents of the high schoolers later reported that their children earned A’s in their fall semester math course.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

At that time, they transition to either a professional advisor in their school or major or mostly to faculty advisement.” We monitor and follow up with all of those faculty alerts.” If a student is not meeting certain milestones, someone from Mfume’s office will reach out to the student and help arrange tutoring or other services.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The tutoring and academic counseling were crucial to her success. AAP staff works with students, faculty, and staff at those schools and at UCLA to create pathways. We hire a lot of students to be peer mentors, peer counselors, peer learning facilitators, which are basically tutors,” he continues.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

There is tutoring and mentoring, and Espiritu designed a model in which second-year students mentor first-year students. The faculty and staff overseeing EPW know each student personally. “I Latino faculty at UTA closely mentor the students. “I feel like I have found a place in the engineering and computer science community.

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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

MARCH 20, 2024

Student-athletes meet with their advisor or tutor, creating individualized study plans when needed. “We Even when student-athletes are no longer having regular meetings, individuals with academic support services touch base with faculty and coaching staff. “It

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 27, 2024

Collaborative efforts could include tutoring programs, curriculum development, and targeted interventions designed to improve student outcomes in mathematics. Professional development opportunities for high school teachers and college faculty can enhance the effectiveness of math instruction.

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Knack

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Higher education thrives on connection—between students and faculty, among peers, and within the broader campus community. At the heart of this strategy lies the potential to transform peer tutoring into a recognized high-impact practice (HIP) , empowering students to engage deeply in their learning while building meaningful connections.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 5, 2024

PCC’s Community Excellence Grants program allows faculty, staff, and students to propose ideas in service of the school, its diverse campus, and its nearby communities. And through the latter, students can gain on-campus employment, mentorship from faculty or staff, and job skill development.

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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 Students can go for tutoring, writing support and other things at no charge. 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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Students are getting validation from a Berklee faculty member who’s produced hundreds of professional artists out there, in some cases our professors have won a lot of notable awards and know people who are heroes to those kids,” said Moyes. These classes offer a chance to formalize the creative experience and offer direction.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 6, 2023

Online-only students were also less likely to use support services like tutoring or skill labs and were less likely to have engaged in service-learning activities or field experiences. Trying to figure out how to have the feeling of connection between student and faculty member and between students, I think it’s just really hard,” she said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

Related to student success, CEED has a robust center that includes tutoring, mentoring, and advocacy for students to ensure they are on the path to achievement and graduation,” adds Dr. Karen Eley Sanders, associate vice provost for College Access. Faculty from the College of Engineering and College of Sciences play an essential role.

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Civitas Learning

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Initial data showed their tutoring program boosted overall persistence by 2%, but deeper analysis revealed even more significant gains for specific student groups, such as males of color, who experienced a 4-5% increase. There is a tremendous opportunity to get faculty more involved in student success efforts. Listen to the Episode 4.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 27, 2023

For nearly 300 graduate students, undergrads, faculty, and staff, Witherspoon’s statue had to come down. Witherspoon tutored free Blacks while at Princeton. And he didn’t believe in immediate abolition, chairing a committee that recommended that the state of New Jersey take no action on freeing slaves in 1790.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Faculty and staff who are aware of their own potential biases and the societal biases embedded in the data are better equipped to use these models to support rather than hinder equity in student outcomes. IHEP: How can institutions build data literacy among faculty and staff to ensure that predictive models are used responsibly?

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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. A unified platform provides a complete view of each students journeytracking their interactions with support services, extracurriculars, faculty, and more.

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Civitas Learning

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The Challenge: Enhancing Student Engagement and Scaling Proactive Support A business request to improve tutoring usage revealed that students not only consistently underutilized tutoring but also struggled to engage with DeVry’s many support services. Driving Student Awareness: Tutoring awareness increased by 500 basis points.

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Timely MD

DECEMBER 18, 2024

A lack of diverse counselors, advisors, and faculty can prevent students from utilizing available resources. Ensure counseling centers, academic support teams, and faculty include professionals who reflect the diverse identities of your student body. Increase representation in support resources Representation matters.

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Civitas Learning

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Instead, campuses primarily tap traditional student success services like advising, academic coaching, and tutoring. Unfortunately, many campuses are deeply compartmentalized, making it difficult for staff (and faculty) to collaborate on an intentional and unified approach to student success. But this is a missed opportunity.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Mentorship and Support Programs: Academic Support: Provide academic support services, such as tutoring and counseling, to ensure the success of financial aid recipients. Early Payment Discounts: Provide incentives for families who pay tuition in full or in advance.

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Student Research Foundation

JANUARY 9, 2025

As you progress through high school, its also important to build strong relationships with teachers, faculty, and other mentors in your life. Resources like practice tests, test prep books, and tutoring services can help you excel. If there isnt a club that aligns with your interests, consider starting your own.

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EAB

MAY 16, 2023

The three share tips on collecting and using data to convince faculty and senior leaders to become enthusiastic partners in the effort. DC: And I'll add on to that, even more so with the faculty component. Students may, you know, they're going to see their faculty more than they see their academic advisor. Learn more.

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EAB

JUNE 8, 2023

Provide every student with personalized AI tutors Studnt, an AI-powered tutor that offers personalized one-on-one tutoring and real-time guidance to students, is now available to students at a slew of Canadian universities.

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Civitas Learning

AUGUST 28, 2023

Leveraging initiative analysis capabilities within the Student Impact Platform, administrative leaders partnered with teams across campus to accurately measure the impact of support initiatives and programs like orientation, tutoring services, and more. A common challenge UTA faculty face is knowing which students need engagement and when.

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Purdue University Global

MARCH 29, 2024

The Academic Success and Science Center encourage students to attend these webinars and join us in promoting awareness and acceptance and celebrating the differences that make us all unique!

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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

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Instead, campuses primarily tap traditional student success services like advising, academic coaching, and tutoring. Unfortunately, many campuses are deeply compartmentalized, making it difficult for staff (and faculty) to collaborate on an intentional and unified approach to student success. But this is a missed opportunity.

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EAB

JUNE 8, 2023

It can enable personalization at scale, develop intelligent and accessible systems, and boost efficiency in administrative tasks for faculty, staff, and students. For example, AIs might generate sample texts that students fact-check, critique, and improve or tutor students in ways adapted to individual needs.

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Timely MD

MAY 3, 2024

“Whether that be RA checks in the residence halls…as well as peer mentors, that we might have in some of our first-year experience courses and then, the first year experience, staff or faculty leading that particular course.” Faculty and staff are encouraged to co-create experiences with students. “We

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EAB

JULY 28, 2023

Strengthen your math tutoring and academic support. This doesn’t just mean investing more in tutors and math labs, although this is likely to be necessary at many schools. Doing so requires intense cooperation between faculty, advising, and tutoring powered by an effective early alert and referrals system.

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EAB

JULY 28, 2023

Strengthen your math tutoring and academic support. This doesn’t just mean investing more in tutors and math labs, although this is likely to be necessary at many schools. Doing so requires intense cooperation between faculty, advising, and tutoring powered by an effective early alert and referrals system.

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Civitas Learning

AUGUST 1, 2024

Creating a comprehensive inventory goes beyond traditional academic support like tutoring and advising and requires engaging with all campus departments to uncover less obvious resources and events that also have a strong influence on student persistence. They should also define the activity, participants, and time frame for measurement.

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