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. Brown, is to advance Latino student success in higher education by promoting Latino student achievement, conducting analysis to inform educational policies and advancing institutional practices. Santiago and Sarita E.

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APRIL 4, 2025

Dr. Monica Parrish Trent, Chief Program and Network Officer at Achieving the Dream, an organization focused on creating student success and equity at community colleges, says that students with disabilities often face administrative hurdles in accessing accommodations, as well as social and sensory barriers in classrooms.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Educators from a variety of community colleges shared how student success and sense of belonging is vital to meeting their local workforce needs, and how their unique geographic locations, demographic growth, and regional needs have influenced how they connect with big industry and small to mid-sized businesses.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

According to university officials, the Center for Early Literacy and Responsible AI will focus on "harnessing the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to transform early literacy instruction for culturally and linguistically diverse learners in kindergarten through second-grade classrooms across the nation." The Center will be led by Dr. X.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 9, 2024

Colclough hatched an idea — what if they could develop professional learning environments easily accessible for all faculty in North Carolina’s community colleges, and what if that development could move the needle on student success? Stout’s speech hit Jaeger and Colclough in their hearts.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Jerry Fliger Fliger is currently vice president for instruction at College of the Mainland. Previously, he has served as dean of arts and sciences at Alvin Community College and associate dean at Florida State College at Jacksonville. “Dr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The previous two versions of the “Pickens Playbook” 7 College Readiness Moves to Make for Student Success and Year One at Tennessee State University (TSU) covered the journey of George Pickens during his last year at Miami Northwestern Senior High School and first year at Tennessee State University (TSU).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 9, 2024

The California State University (CSU) announced it will provide all instructional faculty, librarians, counselors, and coaches with a 5% general salary increase. But we must also operate within our means to protect the long-term success and stability of the university, our students, and our faculty.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 7, 2023

The consortium invites select higher education leaders to serve as judges who evaluate a national pool of 30 highly successful programs deemed Bellwether Finalists and choose three Bellwether Award winners. won a 2023 Bellwether Award for its submission, Hudson Scholars, in the award category of Instructional Programs and Services.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Department of Education (ED) to distribute grants for new campus buildings, broadband expansion, and research and instruction equipment at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and qualifying minority-serving institutions (MSIs). Congress must act now.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Meridith Randall GWC Academic Senate President Damien Jordan, an associate professor of counseling, says Randall built trust among the faculty while serving as vice president of instruction, which readily translated when she became interim president. The sometimes tedious, but necessary, explanation of a thought process,” he notes.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 19, 2023

Corequisite instruction allows students to take a college-level and credit-bearing course while also receiving supplemental support to ensure their success. Past studies have found that corequisite instruction improves retention, completion, and graduation rates for students regardless of their socio-economic background.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Davis-Ganao said she had been wanting to incorporate online instruction for almost a decade, but it wasn’t until COVID that she finally had the opportunity to push her department into the option. NCCU partnered with Webex by Cisco, an online conferencing software that offers high-tech ways to implement instruction, like digital whiteboards.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 16, 2024

The program includes 320 clock hours of classroom instruction and hands-on, real-world simulated lab hours. Willis said the endeavor is part of the college’s goal for workforce development as an anti-poverty, anti-racism catalyst for success among all Howard County residents. "We Dr. Daria J.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 13, 2023

Qua’Aisa Williams, associate director for instructional design, First Scholars Initiatives, at the Center for First-generation Student Success. Williams counted only 25 at the schools that partner with the Center for First-generation Student Success. However, BU is an outlier for having a first-gen campus center at all.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 26, 2023

We’re looking forward to his leadership, his work with the entire community and his ability to lead this instruction for the success of his students, faculty and staff,” said Robert Gilbert, chair of the HCC board of trustees. Timmons holds a doctorate in higher education administration from Bowling Green State University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

“Institutions and educational technology providers need to evaluate how to integrate GenAI equitably in a manner that can enrich human instruction and enable more personalized, captivating learning experiences that expand access and success for all students.” The survey finds that “rising costs weigh heavily” across the board.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 28, 2024

Eligible community colleges were past Bellwether award winners who demonstrated five or more years of evidence-based success, scalability, and replication. The success of this program led to an increase in student enrollment and additional resources for the college, strengthening their relationship with clinical partners. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The award — named after former American Association of State Colleges and Universities president, Dr. Mildred García — honors exemplar commitment to advancing access and success of the Latinx population in higher education. in curriculum and instruction from the Pennsylvania State University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 28, 2022

During his time at SUNY Old Westbury, Butts presided over a period of tremendous success and growth, highlighted by the introduction of the highest admissions standards on record for the College, enrollment growth of more than 1,800 students (more than 56 percent) and the introduction in 2004 of graduate instruction at the College, which now boasts (..)

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 22, 2023

How can faculty with demonstrated instruction to 21st Century students improve our classrooms? How can an institution discern when opportunity, activity, and integration to readdress the mono-cultural instructional histories of its faculty is needed?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 4, 2024

Williams has demonstrated proven success in strategic planning, community engagement, legislative advocacy, and fundraising, according to Board Chair Lynn Parman. “Dr. I’m inspired by the rich history and look forward to leading us to even greater achievements.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Bennett As a team, we are a recent doctoral graduate, now administrator, and a faculty member, formerly a mentor and now colleague, to the first author; we have collaborated via mentorship, co-instruction, and co-research. Many institutions are returning to in-person or maintaining high-flex instruction.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 27, 2024

The intersection of strong math skills and success in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) career fields presents an opportunity not only for individuals but also for the overall economic development of our communities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

To study the elements causing success—or failure—in gateway math courses, a team of researchers at Education Equity Solutions (EES), an organization focused on higher ed policy reform, examined records for over 22,000 students at four California community colleges. There’s an opportunity to really change student success rates.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

We must now redouble our efforts, regaining the ground lost during the pandemic and charting a new path toward even greater student success for all learners. We learned long ago that there is no one-size-fits-all playbook for student success, and it’s a lesson that continues to help us better serve all learners on our campus.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Based on their responses, employers seemed to value higher ed’s capacity to teach students how to think independently and apply ideas hands-on more than anything else, with 59% and 56% of employers, respectively, saying that those characteristics, in a well-rounded education, help ‘a great deal’ for workforce success.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 14, 2023

Model state legislation has been written — and if passed, would prohibit colleges from hiring DEI officers, spending money on DEI, and bar trainings that instruct staff/faculty to identify and fight against systemic racism. We’ve identified Shared Equity Leadership (SEL) as the approach for making true progress that creates culture change.

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Civitas Learning

OCTOBER 10, 2024

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.” You are the experts.’”

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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 Every student is a success story,” says Curry.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 2, 2023

The campaign, initiated by the student international officers of the college honor society Phi Theta Kappa, uses evidence-based statistics and first-hand success stories to spread the message that community colleges offer a smart option for individuals to achieve their educational goals.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 11, 2023

School counselors can serve as a gateway to providing all students with opportunities that will help them toward academic success, socio-emotional development, and college and career readiness. It bewilders us that the priority seems to be for policing not protecting, for sanctioning not supporting.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Her previous roles included serving as president and CEO of the College Success Foundation in Seattle and Project GRAD Atlanta. CCA has moved from a start-up feel, to a much more accelerated growth in terms of activities, success, budget, and staff size,” says Ansell. “I Yolanda went to Spelman.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 23, 2024

Eighty percent of new Gen Z classroom teachers said the instruction they received lacked in some capacity. Regardless of pathways, however, the U.S. faced declining numbers of those preparing to be teachers from 2012-2020, the report noted. That’s not to say that the preparation provided by these routes is sufficient either.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Originally from South Carolina, I came to California in 2021 as the Vice President of Instruction (VPI) at CCC and later served as Acting President for one year before becoming the permanent President in 2023. If Governor Gavin Newsom signs SB 1348 into law, CCC will seek status as a Black Serving Institution (BSI).

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Good Tutors Finder

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

How a Tutor Can Help a Student With Dyslexia: Empowering Success Through Specialized Support Dyslexia affects millions of students worldwide, influencing how they process language and making tasks such as reading, spelling, and writing more challenging. The negative feelings that result can hinder their willingness to try new challenges.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

As a result, I made it my purpose through my experiences in working with Black students, as well as through my research, to ensure that all educators and all stakeholders understand how to prepare students for academic success and postsecondary readiness. Curriculum and instruction must be rigorous and relevant.

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