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Data and Collaboration are the Key to Preserving Higher Ed’s Hard-Fought Equity Gains

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Since the mid-1970s, the Latino college student population has increased fivefold, with one out of every five college students being Latino by 2017. Overall, learners who engaged with academic advising services have experienced an 8.1 During the same 40-year period, Black enrollment doubled. percentage point lift in persistence.

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Two ed-tech companies team up with hopes to improve transfer

Parchment

Government Accountability Office found in a 2017 report. Often faculty members are evaluating courses, academic advisers are guiding students and administrators are making the higher-level policy decisions. Transfer students, on average, lose 43 percent of their credits, the U.S.

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President Moves: Cornell leader steps down as hiring ramps up

University Business

The University Business Podcast : Why STEM needs the humanities—and vice versa In Pennsylvania, Albright College President Jacquelyn Fetrow has announced her resignation , effective May 31, after leading the small institution since 2017, WFMZ-TV reported. Who’s hiring? Elizabeth S. Interim president Susan C.

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TSU’s Systematic Approach to Student Success

EAB

What does academic advising look like at our institution? So when it comes down to my favorite about the data, we kind of, we celebrated in 2017 because we had at that time our highest enrollment in a decade. We were at over 10,000 students back in fall 2017. Let's get to the essence of the problem.

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Should conferences stay put or relocate? It's complicated.

Confessions of a Community College Dean

A 2017 law generally prohibited California public funds from being used to reimburse expenses for travel to states allowing for discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender residents. Past NASPA conferences have drawn some 4,400 event goers and exhibitors, according to the group.

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