Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Six years ago, the university transitioned from a quarter to a semester system, significantly streamlining the path to degree completion. Coupled with enhanced academic flexibility it has led to improved graduation rates. Since 2018, the graduation rate for Latine/x students has increased from 24% to 34%.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 21, 2023

He is lead author of How College Affects Students: 21st Century Evidence that Higher Education Works, Volume 3 (Wiley, 2016); has published more than 80 articles in peer-reviewed journals; and has received over $20 million in grant funding. It may be time to rethink the college minor. This shift in thinking is not new.

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EAB

JANUARY 30, 2023

Blogs Creating a data-informed campus: part 3 Using data to facilitate institutional effectiveness The conversation around data-informed decision making in higher education continues to accelerate. All too often, however, the question of how to capture these data and use them to positively affect the institution remains.

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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. They must present evidence of effectiveness in institutional practices serving Latino students.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

As I discussed in the first blog post in this series , institutions need a sufficient technology infrastructure to facilitate curation, access, and retrieval of data. Analytics programs are most successful when various constituents – institutional research, information technology, functional leaders, and executives – work in partnership" (6).

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Symplicity

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

In fact, in a 2016 study by the Institute of Education Sciences , only 13 percent of students with a disability disclosed. Ensuring that students with a disability, whether they choose to disclose it or not, experience a sense of belonging is critical to the longevity of an institution.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 4, 2023

There is that conjectural concern that as universities become more research-oriented, or move “up” in Carnegie classification, seeking R-2 (high research activity) or R-1 (very high research activity) status, they become less focused on students, more exclusive and less responsive to their communities’ needs.

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