Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

NATAP is a collaborative effort between MSU’s Native American Institute, Office of Admissions, Office of Financial Aid, University Outreach and Engagement and the Office of the Provost. Collectively, each team is working to get the word out to as many prospective students and families as possible.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

To address this challenge, private K-12 schools can proactively implement strategies to ensure equitable access to financial aid. Simplified Application: Streamline the financial aid application process to minimize the burden on families. Key Strategies for Equitable Access and Promoting Diversity 1.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 11, 2023

At DFC, every student gets a scholarship of some amount, and the average student cost is under $3,000. DFC students receive a free laptop, textbooks, a bus pass, and 10 meals a week. DFC’s] success is driven by the level of personal care and support that we can provide our scholars.” Staff were everywhere.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2025

According to Ess Pokornowski, Reintegrating students face a unique set of overlapping challenges: they are leaving a total institution where choice, communication, access to healthcare, access to technology, and opportunities for education and gainful employment are all dramatically limited.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

OCTOBER 30, 2023

By Elenaor Eckerson Peters Last week, IHEP joined Results for America to highlight promising postsecondary student success models in Colorado and Massachusetts. The program supports students who stopped out of postsecondary education to return and complete a degree.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

NATAP is a collaborative effort between MSU’s Native American Institute, Office of Admissions, Office of Financial Aid, University Outreach and Engagement and the Office of the Provost. Collectively, each team is working to get the word out to as many prospective students and families as possible.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

DECEMBER 12, 2024

We elevated evidence-based strategies that support degree completion and student success. Our team debuted the College Completion Comebacks film series featuring stories of students who returned to college after stopping out, and the strategies that supported their journeys to graduation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 15, 2024

In their study, “ Inside the Black Box ,” researchers discovered that algorithms used to predict student success produced false negatives for 19% of Black and 21% of Latinx students, incorrectly calculating these percentages of students would fail out of college. All the algorithms can see and learn,” said Anahideh.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 24, 2024

Katy Hall, requires that universities expand “student success and support” initiatives once targeting historically marginalized groups to include all students regardless of race, ethnicity and other "personal identity characteristics." Katy Hall Such prohibited practices include diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

An example of where even completing a FAFSA—a requirement of North Star Promise—can clash with Native American culture is provided by Tiffany Gusbeth, vice president of student success services of the American Indian College Fund (College Fund).

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

APRIL 23, 2024

Earlier this month, IHEP joined Results for America to highlight promising postsecondary student success models in Colorado and Massachusetts. The program supports students who stopped out of postsecondary education to return and complete a degree.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Earlier this month, IHEP joined Results for America to highlight promising postsecondary student success models in Colorado and Massachusetts. The program supports students who stopped out of postsecondary education to return and complete a degree.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 3, 2023

“Her collaborative leadership has raised Bryn Mawr’s enduring commitment to academic excellence, global engagement, and student success within a vibrant, inclusive community to new heights,” said Cynthia Archer, chair of Bryn Mawr’s board of trustees.

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The University Innovation Alliance

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Completion Grants: Innovative Financial Aid for Today's Students. Student Aid. The University Innovation Alliance (UIA) was honored to partner with The Chronicle of Higher Education for its September 29, 2022 panel discussion on innovative financial aid for today's students. Completion Grants.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 26, 2023

Department of Education (DOE), at least 25% of full-time equivalent students enrolled must be Hispanic. These two-year and four-year institutions must also enroll a significant number of students who require needs-based financial aid. Obviously, the number one thing is student success,” she continued.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 20, 2023

We are implementing proven, promising practices to improve access and graduation rates for all students. One of the first significant initiatives the board undertook to improve student success was the development of a systemwide general education framework.

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Civitas Learning

JUNE 1, 2023

The Challenge: Deliver on the mission to provide holistic services that support the success of every student every day. The Strategy: Adopt an integrated and holistic student success management model and implement a unified student success platform to make personalized support feasible at scale.

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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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Civitas Learning

MAY 16, 2023

To kick off Season 2 of Next Practices, Patti digs deep into the strategies behind building a student success model that also supports the financial health of an institution. 5:24] – It is easier and less expensive to retain a current student than to recruit a new one. [7:35] A strategy is a living process. [20:11]

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 22, 2023

Rossilli said many of her students come from a lower socioeconomic status. Just under three quarters of students receive some kind of financial aid. Fifty-five percent of the students at HCCC are Latinx and 13% are Black. The Social Justice Advocacy option and certificate really ‘live’ both of these priorities.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

We really want them to increase student success by really increasing the evidence base there." The guide offers schools guidance from multiple fronts, including what kinds of partnerships to form; what data to measure and examine; how and when to give out completion grants; and what to communicate to students.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

DECEMBER 20, 2021

By providing financial and social supports for students throughout the transfer process, four-year institutions can promote a transfer-receptive culture that welcomes and nurtures transfer students’ success. Higher education: Students need more information to help reduce challenges in transferring college credits.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2022

We don't just have a handful of counseling faculty and advisors for the Black students at Compton. All employees see themselves as student success advocates. And while it is true that one in three Black college students nationally lives in poverty, our meal program isn't just for Black students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 1, 2024

Department of Education confirmed that 8% of students experiences homelessness. Colorado’s Department of Higher Education frames its basic needs efforts with a “ social determinants of student success ” lens and the California Community College System uses a “ social determinants of education ” framework.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Seventy percent or so of our students get financial aid, and they, with our help, can succeed and go on and get productive careers,” says Randall, who has worked in California community colleges for about 25 years. “In People recognized pretty quickly that she had a skill level that we had been needing,” he says.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 21, 2024

She enjoys being able to see how budgets function, how admissions and financial aid operate, and how campus security is run. Jo Allen, the retiring president of Meredith College, enjoys the administrative part of higher ed. She enjoys being able to understand how higher ed works beyond just the academic parts. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 19, 2024

Since then, the team has helped over 23,000 students successfully navigate the path to college and helped them secure over $1 billion in scholarships and financial aid. In 2001, SLN launched the CollegeBound Initiative (CBI), placing 33 college counselors in schools in New York City, Rochester, and Buffalo.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

MARCH 5, 2025

Sessions on innovative approaches to financial aid and tuition modeling provided administrators with new strategies to make financial aid more accessible and efficient. Thats where School and Student Services (SSS) comes in. Product Marketing Manager, VenturEd Solutions. Missed us at NAIS Thrive? Lets connect!

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The University Innovation Alliance

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The University Innovation Alliance's Three Playbooks for Student Success. The University Innovation Alliance (UIA) operates as a multi-campus laboratory for student success innovation. The unique needs of transfer students. Thu, 12/15/2022 - 06:00. College to Career. Completion Grants.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Sara Goldrick-Rab With their well-being undermined, students find it much harder to focus on learning — let alone graduate — which, combined with growing debt, puts them at risk of ending up worse off than if they didn’t attend college at all.

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Civitas Learning

JANUARY 9, 2025

Today’s most influential leaders recognize that student success goes beyond traditional measures like retention and graduation rates. A study of Civitas Learning partner institutions reinforces this wisdom, revealing that 39% of students experience a change in their likelihood to persist within a single term.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2024

Additionally, Curry has secured millions of dollars for student success initiatives. Sometimes you ruffle feathers when you’re really doing this equity work and when you focus on student success,” he says. “I I focus on what is important and that’s our students, because for some of our students, we’re the last hope.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Black, Hispanic or Latino, American Indian or Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander students are also more likely to attend public two-year colleges than Asian American and White students. How can data support student success?

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

And with those assets, she has sought to improve student success at CGU and help coach rising student affairs leaders amid issues of turnover and fatigue in the field. These skills have proven to be a good fit to CGU’s trans-disciplinary approaches to problem solving, she continues. Len Jessup and the Board of Trustees.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Gonzalez, associate dean for student success in the College for Education and Engaged Learning and a professor of education at Montclair. The overall enrollment nationwide at Title IV institutions (schools that process federal financial aid) is 8% Hispanic males and 5% Black males.

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Civitas Learning

MARCH 13, 2025

Powerful Predictors for Informed Decision-Making: Identify the key factors influencing each predicted outcome, helping institutions understand what drives student success and where to focus efforts for maximum impact. Helping them implement more effective interventions at scale. Interested in Learning More?

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