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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Necessary support is provided through GANAS (Gaining Access ’AND Academic Success), an innovative access and retention program that serves community college transfer students. CSUSM gathers and analyzes disaggregated data pertaining to retention, unit completion and graduation. years, compared to the collegewide average of 5.2

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How to Achieve HSI Status: Intentionality

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This includes working on retention strategies that emphasize information on financial aid and mental health services as well as continuing to build a sense of belonging. Another support group, the Hispanic Organization for Growth, Advancement and Retention, has focused on family engagement.

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Fostering Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The tutoring and academic counseling were crucial to her success. We hire a lot of students to be peer mentors, peer counselors, peer learning facilitators, which are basically tutors,” he continues. That data show that the students who attend the summer bridge program build great resilience skills, and resilience leads to retention.

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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

There is tutoring and mentoring, and Espiritu designed a model in which second-year students mentor first-year students. One secret of our program’s exponential growth is retention,” says Espiritu. In the last three years EPW’s fall to fall retention ranges from 93% to 96%. “I I track them in retention.

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Promoting Help-Seeking Behaviors Among Underrepresented College Students

Timely MD

A recent nationwide survey by TimelyCare, higher educations most trusted virtual health and well-being provider, shows that 71% of college students experience mental health challenges like stress, anxiety, and depression. Why is help-seeking among underrepresented students important? Proffitt, M.A.,

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Redefining Student Success and Removing Barriers

Timely MD

Mental health, financial stress, academic preparedness, career readiness, and basic needs and security are just some of the obstacles students deal with while in college,” said Trevino. We know that just making one meaningful connection for a community college student, yields tremendous gains in our retention.”

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The 4 stages of an integrated lifecycle approach for community college student success

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While this is worth celebrating, it’s also important to look at short-term retention rates to understand who is leaving community colleges early on. Even though completion rates have improved, one-year retention rates have remained relatively flat for the past decade , with a 51.3% for students starting in fall 2020.