Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2025

She served as principal investigator on the National Science Foundation grant focused on Evidence-Informed Practices to Improve Climate (Project EPIC) to transform departmental cultures within STEM disciplines to improve the retention and advancement of women, particularly women of color.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 7, 2025

I think things through, I get information, I prepare myself for all outcomes. While Jackson notes that lack of confidence often impedes womens path to the presidency, Whitakers approach offers a different perspective. I dont really have fears, Whitaker told The Catalyst, an independent student newspaper at Colorado College.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

One of the first 10 questions that a student encounters in the FAFSA is ‘Who is your parent or guardian and what is their income information?’ Demographic information about the recipients was not available. A plan for mainstream colleges and universities has been laid out for intentional engagement in recruitment and retention.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Excelencia in Education works to advance Latino student success in higher education by promoting Latino student achievement, conducting analysis to inform educational policies and advancing institutional practices. That sends a powerful message to students and also the faculty that they’re valued, and it has led to retention and growth.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 22, 2025

The data deck also highlights concerning patterns in student retention. The Data Deck serves a dual purpose of informing the public of key trends in legal education while also providing evidence to support AccessLex Institute's ongoing work to improve access, affordability, and value in legal education," said Cochran.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 13, 2024

Though overall teacher turnover increased in districts that moved to four-day school weeks, morale and retention rates improved due to the reduced workweek, according to a new report from Keystone Policy Center. Our goal is to provide policymakers with the tools and information they need to navigate this complex issue."

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

Since joining ATD, Bellevue College has seen increased markers of student success and retention. Their dedication to using data-informed approaches to create meaningful opportunities for students and their communities serves as a powerful example for all institutions of higher education."

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Civitas Learning

JUNE 1, 2023

The Outcomes: An 8% increase in retention, improved advising efficiency, and more effective cross-functional collaboration. But dispersed student information across multiple systems made implementing an integrated and collaborative student success network challenging.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

It seeks to provide information about successful strategies, explore mentoring programs that enable the success of the young men, and to provide the latest research of the methods higher education institutions can employ to increase access, persistence, and retention and graduation rates.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 26, 2024

How many institutions are aware or have acted on this information? There are a variety of other indicators that prevent non-traditional students with successful retention. Colleges need to review academic schedules for barriers with retention. Are schedules designed with student retention in mind?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

As indicated by several key metrics, over the past decade underrepresented minority (URM) students have made considerable progress in retention, graduation, and persistence rates. Working with our campuses, we’ve put in place high standards to raise their overall retention rates, overall graduation rates and overall attainment rates.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2024

These skills have combined in her groundbreaking research around how students of color, particularly Black students, engage with institutional social media as a tool for recruitment or retention. They’re gathering information and trying to decipher if they’re a good fit,” says Lord. Students value hindsight information.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 26, 2024

Interested participants can expect narrative video content, data-informed best practices, reflection activities and self-assessments. The curriculum’s first course, “The Students We Have,” is currently available for free to colleges throughout the nation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Levine Issues include recruitment and retention, professional development, and the role of minority-serving institutions (MSIs). Not only that, but it will provide policymakers and practitioners with the information they need to make evidence-based decisions to support a diverse educator workforce.” Dr. Felice J.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Although 82% of institutions have a designated point of contact for student veterans (Department of Veteran Affairs, 2018), determining how students find the point of contact and what their experiences are can provide valuable information for recruitment and retention.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

For instance, ‘walking’ students had a 29% retention rate and a 7% rate of completion. But student who were even just one tier up, ‘speed-walking,’ saw retention rates jump to 53% and likelihood of completing to 26%. Most students who are ‘walking’ (71%) don’t even continue past their first year in college, according to the report.

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Civitas Learning

AUGUST 10, 2023

We discovered the key steps leaders and institutions are taking to strategically –and sometimes dramatically– improve their retention rates. 5 High-Impact Retention Strategies While institutions continue working hard to ensure their students graduate, initiative results often fall short of expectations. PP when misapplied.

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Civitas Learning

MARCH 7, 2024

Following the institute’s collaborative sessions, leaders gained fresh perspectives on addressing issues hindering student retention and success. Having one place to track information accessible to those who need it outside of individual teams ensures a seamless handoff, enhancing the impact and focus of student interactions.

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EAB

MARCH 10, 2023

Press Release EAB’s Navigate Platform Now Supports Student Recruitment and Retention EAB expands Navigate’s CRM capabilities to engage prospective students March 10, 2023 Tempe, Arizona (March 10, 2023) — EAB announced today an extension of its flagship student success technology, Navigate , to help colleges engage and enroll prospective students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

In the early aughts, Renick says, it was standard practice for student support programs to address equity gaps and low graduation or retention numbers through the creation of targeted programs, like initiatives for first-generation students, and African American male initiatives. The moment to really intervene is as soon as it happens.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2024

This exposure enables students to sharpen their data analytics skills, identify patterns, and make informed, data-driven decisions. By integrating marketable tech skills with students' existing interests and extracurricular engagements, higher education institutions can elevate student engagement, motivation, and retention rates.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2023

Scott Schirmeier The new Recruitment Management module improves Navigate’s customer relationship management capabilities and simplifies recruitment/retention for schools into one platform, allowing schools to implement coordinated communications strategies for prospective students.

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Civitas Learning

JULY 13, 2023

Our research into how institutions develop financially sustainable student success models reveals that the most effective models are living processes that intentionally knit together strategic decision-making, cross-functional collaboration, data-informed action, and consistent assessment of initiatives and outcomes.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 24, 2024

FIU and MDC share information on students interested in the program, and students are encouraged to apply to MDC once they complete the Connect4Success application,” said Porro. “It The program’s successes are clear in the data — C4S students have a higher rate of retention in both fall-to-spring semesters and fall-to-fall.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Moore made several leadership changes after his arrival, bringing in new chief information officer Dr. Timothy Marshall from Dallas College, where their local promise program was giving underrepresented minorities greater access to higher education. He met with local mayors and sent teams to each county to build an enthusiasm for learning.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Addressing the need Queensborough Community College (QCC), a two-year institution in the City University of New York system, conducted an equity audit that showed there were retention and graduation disparities for male students overall, with Black and Latinx male students disproportionately impacted.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Retention efforts Morgan State is currently number one in the United States in producing Black electrical engineers and civil engineers, Wilson notes. This requires thoughtful retention efforts. Once students transition out of that first-year format, the success and retention office continues to work with them through graduation. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Ford envisions him having an impact on recruitment and retention. Also, his research explores issues of equity, STEM identity, and classroom experiences among minoritized populations, which I think is crucial to informing what can be done to recruit more underrepresented students into STEM, particularly through math.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Her background as a professor of health sciences and founding director of the CSU Long Beach Center for Latino Community Health, Evaluation and Leadership Training and the community-based Centro Salud es Cultura, will inform her work in those areas at CSU Stanislaus. “As

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Civitas Learning

AUGUST 22, 2024

The Challenge: Delivering timely support to a diverse and sizeable student population to foster improved retention and completion rates. The Outcomes: Achieved significant improvements in persistence and streamlined processes through a data-informed approach and strong faculty partnerships.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 2, 2024

The accountability of those goals is held together by key performance indicators (KPIs) that create data points that inform the institution’s day-to-day operations. The critical element that brings these strategic objectives to life is the strategic goals that drive the objectives forward by declaring statements of action.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 20, 2023

At a time of declining enrollment and retention as well as other changes to higher education due to the pandemic, the report notes that it is essential to make informed decisions on how to improve student success and completion. “If The goal is to build and sustain a culture of data and measurement for institutions and states.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2024

“UNT went through an entire process of strengthening their data infrastructure and building data literacy across their campus, so the right people have access to the right data to inform their decision making,” said Voight. Mamie Voight, president and CEO of IHEP. The current iteration of the program, Insights 2.0,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 4, 2023

As she transitions into this new role, Gilliam said she had her sights on certain key matters, including student diversity, affordability, retention, and graduation rates. "I Then students [start] informing others, and they’re going to want to apply and come here.”

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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. This approach overwhelms advising and support teams and contributes to declining retention rates.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

How Pueblo College Supercharged Yield and Retention Efforts. EAB · How Pueblo College Supercharged Yield and Retention Efforts. Visit our podcast homepage for additional episodes, information on our expert contributors, and more. The post How Pueblo College Supercharged Yield and Retention Efforts appeared first on EAB.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

He added that many institutions do not have information that is easy to find, “especially for any minoritized students, like those that don’t have parents used to the system to point them in the direction of what to do.” Schools have all these different mechanisms to show you what they’re doing, but really—do they?” asked Byrd.

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