Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 8, 2024

million Acceleration Grant from the National Institute for Student Success. Dr. Kara Turner The institute collaborates with colleges and universities to identify obstacles to degree completion and implement proven solutions for student success. Morgan State University has been awarded a $1.5

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NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The primary goal is helping increase the number of Native students enrolling in MSU and successfully completing a degree at MSU,” says Leonard. One of the challenges for some of our students once they get to MSU is maintaining the ability to pay for tuition costs.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Dr. Keith Curry As an unapologetic community college president, I believe educational leaders must unapologetically focus our institutions on Black learner success and that we can significantly improve the waning college value proposition that cross-partisan majorities of all Americans perceive.

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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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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

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The primary goal is helping increase the number of Native students enrolling in MSU and successfully completing a degree at MSU,” says Leonard. One of the challenges for some of our students once they get to MSU is maintaining the ability to pay for tuition costs.”

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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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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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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

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

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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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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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

APRIL 20, 2023

Higher education leaders face an obligation to Kansas families to remove barriers to access and success and ensure that our system lives up to the ideal of equal opportunity for all. We need bold action now because we cannot continue to underserve these students and fail to build the talented workforce Kansas needs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 3, 2023

I believe that leadership renewal is crucial to the long-term, strategic success of any organization,” Cassidy wrote in a May 2 email to the campus community. “It Kim Cassidy will step down as president of Bryn Mawr College in June 2024, bringing to an end an 11-year tenure as the school’s leader, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. “I

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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

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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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Current ly, our data systems lack complete information regarding student pathways, especially those taken by transfer students. Transfer students make up less than 10 percent of the population at selective universities, and less than six percent at highly selective public institutions. Found in Dimpal, J., Herrera, A.,

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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. There’s a right fit student for you on your campus, no matter if you’re talking about Yale or a community college. The progress is tangible.

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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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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 misconceptions about middle-income students' financial needs and eligibility for resources. Thu, 12/15/2022 - 06:00.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2024

Additionally, Curry has secured millions of dollars for student success initiatives. Students are staying in classes because of the food resources,” says Curry, who is working with other community college leaders across the nation on replicating Compton’s successful model. “If Our job is to help build out that story.

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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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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

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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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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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

JULY 29, 2024

Thompson notes that students who participate in dual enrollment/credit — attending high school and a community college simultaneously — outperform other students when they get into college, but data showed there weren’t enough low-income and URM students entering that pipeline. His focus has not been strictly on people of color.

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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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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. Carter’s psychology background plays an important role in understanding and helping CGU bolster its student inclusion and success efforts, Jessup says.

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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. “Attending NAIS Thrive 2025 was a remarkable experience. Missed us at NAIS Thrive?

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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

MARCH 13, 2025

Higher Education must also prepare and develop students to reach their goals. A students journeyand how prepared they feel for life after collegedirectly impacts long-term success. This allows them to shape the student outcomes that matter most to them.

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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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