Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 12, 2025

A new study reveals alarming trends among college students nationwide, with seven in ten considering taking a break or dropping out entirely due to mounting pressures. The survey, conducted by higher education virtual health provider TimelyCare, highlights the significant challenges threatening student success across American campuses.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 26, 2024

What does student success mean? Some colleges associate student success with high graduation rates, others focus on alumni achievements, and then other colleges emphasize test scores and grades. This decline should be alarming and open our eyes to a deeper issue within our educational system. Dr. Merrill L.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 21, 2024

As a first-generation college student, a Black woman, and the child of immigrants, I have witnessed firsthand the transformative power of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs in higher education. These projects argue that DEI programs promote "division" and "anti-American ideologies."

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OCTOBER 9, 2023

Mott Community College (MCC) has received $156,000 to implement an initiative aimed at better supporting immigrant, refugee, and first-generation students, The County Press reported. Mott Community College MCC’s initiative is called Pathways to Success: Empowering Immigrant Futures (EIF).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 26, 2024

Legislators are looking to enshrine the Postsecondary Student Success Grant (PSSG) program, a student outcomes-centered federal effort, into law through new legislation this March. Although the effort has received support generally, some higher ed scholars and advocates have levied some criticisms and concerns about it.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The path to higher education success has many obstacles and barriers for Latinos across the U.S. The mission of Excelencia in Education, founded in 2004 by Dr. Deborah A. There must be deliberate and continuous assessment to identify and implement strategies that improve Latino student achievement.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 20, 2023

HISPA fellows with New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy The main program is the HISPA Role Model Program in which role models speak to students at predominantly low-income, public middle schools with majority Hispanic student populations, sharing their stories and encouraging student success.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Jorge Silva-Puras, the Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Student Success at Lehman College, which is part of the City University of New York (CUNY), noted that the six-year completion rate at Lehman is around 51%. Over 80% of the student body at Lehman are individuals of color.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2024

Moving the needle on graduation rates might be the most pressing challenge for today’s higher education leaders. To better serve these learners, institutions must build programs for the busy adults and first-generation students who make up significant and growing shares of today’s college population.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 11, 2023

Thomas in Minnesota, where almost all the students are minoritized and nearly three-quarters are first-generation, has managed to buck this trend. DFC has graduated an average of 56% of its students since its formation in 2017. By smothering its students with support. How has the college pulled this off?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2025

Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, CCA is a bold national advocate for dramatically increasing college completion rates and closing equity gaps by working with states, systems, institutions, and partners to scale highly effective structural reforms and promote policies that improve student success.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 23, 2024

For this study, Trejo interviewed 10 students who formerly attended SJH and were – at the time of the interview – either attending or had graduated from college, asking them about their hardships, their motivations, and the preparation SJH provided them. She then offers a series of recommendations that other schools can take to improve.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2024

Jones Maurice Jones has been appointed chief executive officer at The Center for First-Generation Student Success, an initiative of NASPA—Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education and The Suder Foundation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 13, 2023

Over half of undergraduate students in the U.S. are the first in their family to attend an institution of higher learning. These first-generation students are likelier than their peers to be from minoritized backgrounds, to face economic challenges, and to juggle jobs and families in addition to school.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 26, 2024

Sara Goldrick-Rab, is providing faculty, staff and managers with actionable strategies to address college students’ basic needs. “How the new majority of students attends and experiences higher education is poorly understood by the American public and constantly given short shrift by mainstream media,” said Goldrick-Rab.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 20, 2023

Higher education is one of the most powerful assets our state has to uplift families, support businesses, and create prosperity. A credential earned after high school changes an individual’s career trajectory and typically leads to higher wages and more stable employment. And it is not just about a job.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2022

“Black and undocumented students are socially and politically left out of the conversation,” said Hall, an assistant professor of higher education administration at Kent State University in Ohio. Dr. Kayon Hall, assistant professor of higher education administration at Kent State University in Ohio.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

When it comes to equity in higher education, Dr. Tammeil Gilkerson has been a leader. Her work around students’ basic needs, supporting undocumented and mixed-status students, and achieving social justice through focused racial equity efforts has made her a rising star in community college leadership.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government and higher education institutions have fed the public a steady diet of bad enrollment news. Public health concerns increased responsibilities to care for and educate school-aged children and disrupted jobs and industries. But we need to look closer at the data.

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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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 24, 2024

Studying the data, intentional collaboration, and asking students what they need are keys to improving outcomes. Department of Education (ED) and the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP) held the Attaining College Excellence and Equity Summit: Holistic Advising and Wraparound Services in Washington, D.C.

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COE

OCTOBER 2, 2023

From Humble Beginnings to Leading Higher Education Advocacy: My Journey October 2, 2023 — by Kimberly Jones Becoming COE president, I strive for educational equity, inspired by my parents’ resilience and belief in transformative education for all. Recognizing her potential, they urged her to pursue higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 31, 2024

Back in February, more than 1,000 practitioners from hundreds of colleges across the nation gathered in Orlando, Florida, to exchange evidence-based approaches to accelerating student success and equity. Lumina Foundation CEO Jamie Merisotis delivers a keynote address at the DREAM 2024 conference.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Between June 2004 and June 2020, almost 12,000 institutions of higher education closed their doors. Some of those institutions closed in an orderly fashion—students, faculty and staff were given ample warning, and arrangements for continuing a student’s education at another institution, teach-out plans, are made.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Terry O’Banion Community college students who are from lower socio-economic backgrounds, are first generation, and who have not been successful in high school are starving to death trying to find educational sustenance at the cafeteria curriculum.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2024

That’s why Excelencia has issued four new reports in its continuing investigation into the relationship between institutions, Latinx students, and the workforce. She said that many first-generation, Latinx students do not have the tacit knowledge of the professional ecosystem and the steps and connections it might take to become employed.

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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

MAY 26, 2023

Achieving HSI status Larry Eby Larry Eby, executive director of advancement at Goldey-Beacom College (GBC) in Delaware, said several years ago the college’s admissions office saw there was a rising number of Hispanic students pursuing higher education. SHSU has done focus groups asking students the supports they desire.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 22, 2024

First-generation college graduate Dr. Ronald S. Rochon “I am honored to join the Titan community and excited to work alongside the university’s talented faculty and staff to further support the success of its dynamic and diverse student body,” said Rochon of the California State University Board of Trustees appointment.

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EAB

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Blogs How will we measure student success in the 2020s? A review of how student success metrics have evolved over time—and where they might go in the future Before I studied student success, I studied evolutionary biology.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

Means Title: Assistant Professor, School of Education, University of Pittsburgh Age: 39 Education: B.A., counselor education (student affairs), Clemson University; and Ph.D., My interests in higher education are focused on access,” Means said. “I sociology and political science, Elon University; M.Ed.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

In 2018, when Dr. Tim Renick took on the role of senior vice president for student success at Georgia State University (GSU), the university’s demographics were rapidly changing. But part of the challenge, he says, “is that 80% of our students self-identified as having minoritized backgrounds, and 60% were Pell students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 6, 2023

In a precedent-setting career in higher education, the late Dr. Alfredo de los Santos Jr. De los Santos, a posthumous recipient of a 2023 Diverse Champions Award, is remembered by colleagues as a great friend, an outstanding mind, and a determined educator who placed access and equity at the center of his work. Richardson Jr.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

African American and Latino students were less likely than white students to mark earning credit toward a four-year degree as a reason for participating in dual enrollment.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Data gathered by Excelencia in Education, a nonprofit organization working to improve and accelerate Latinx student success in postsecondary education, showed that in 2021, there were 401 emerging HSI institutions across 43 states. Delgado is himself a child of immigrants and a first-generation college-goer.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Elston is currently the longest serving staff member at CCA, and he says that the organization’s increased focus on minority serving institutions (MSIs), marginalized populations, and first-generation, low-income, and rural community college students began under Watson Spiva’s leadership. Everyone is steeped in the details.

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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. Understanding how students may use their completion grant funds. The unique needs of transfer students. College to Career.

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