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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In addition to support services that include financial aid and academic advising, an example of supporting Latinx student success is the CSUSB Impact Internship, developed by the university’s Undocumented Student Success Center. Morales, president of CSUSB. Currently, 60.1% of the Fresno State student population is Latinx.

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Community College: The Right Path and the Right Foot

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

colleges) for students who transferred from community colleges to “ most competitive” or “ highly competitive” institutions in Fall 2010 is 75%, and the rate for students who enrolled directly out of high school is 73% (The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation). The six-year graduation rate (a standard metric for four-year U.S.

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Based on data gathered, we increased support services such as Ram Pantry, counseling, technology availability, and academic advising,” he continues. CSULA combines those agreements with culturally affirming engagements, focusing on multiple support services and resources.

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Fostering Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

From 2010 to 2020, AAP had an exchange program with Vrije University in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, that targeted the exchange of low-income, first generation, and underrepresented students. Many students spent extra time engaging with higher education online, so interactions with professors and support services could not meet all needs.

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States are finding ways to raise postsecondary attainment

University Business

Alaska, Delaware, Nebraska, North Carolina and Iowa remain the only states without a higher education system in the alliance since it began in January 2010. North Dakota has become the most recent state to join the Complete College America Alliance, a bipartisan effort aiming to increase national postsecondary attainment rates.

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Holistic campus design strategies to combat loneliness 

University Business

Studies show that since 2010, students have experienced unprecedented rises in anxiety, isolation, and depression, and the COVID-19 pandemic only intensified these issues. The solution isnt just providing more student support services but creating environments that actively foster student connection, wellness, and mental health.

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From president "designee" to president in three years

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Two years later she led a task force that coordinated the institution’s academic support services into a one-stop Center for Academic Success, serving as its founding director and later becoming dean of academic services and then vice president for academic services.