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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Early in her time as an administrator at Virginia Tech, she implemented the Black Engineering Support Team (BEST), having Black upperclassmen be peer mentors to freshmen. I stepped out of a tenure-track role and into an administrative position, where I could create programs to help students be successful.” That rose to 61.2%

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Guiding Community Colleges Toward Mission Fulfillment

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Its not just the classroom; you need to have the support services, she says. Stout has created a new model around scaling advising redesign and has developed a zero textbook degree initiative using open education resources and holistic student support systems. Eddinger joined ATDs board on Stouts request.

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Boosting employee job satisfaction may be simpler than you think, report shows

University Business

Since CUPA-HR began tracking employee turnover in 2017-18, this year’s Higher Education Employee Retention Survey (ERS ) shows that the higher education retention rate isn’t improving. More from UB: Your support services are vital to student belonging. and 15.2%, respectively.

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Colleges hire directors to tackle student basic needs

Confessions of a Community College Dean

And she used her visibility as a student leader to advocate for more support services for undocumented and low-income students. College administrators nationwide were already starting to tackle the issue in recent years but homed in on it after the pandemic revealed stark economic disparities among students.

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From president "designee" to president in three years

Confessions of a Community College Dean

” Lau and Ramage, both veteran administrators at the institution in Champaign, Ill., She won an Emerging Chief Academic Officer Award from the National Council of Instructional Administrators in 2017. Administrators, faculty and staff members tend to stay at the institution and work their way up, according to Lau.

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Universities are ousting their mental health directors

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Rando had worked at Wright State for 24 years; in 2017 he received a lifetime achievement award from the Association for University and College Counseling Center Directors (AUCCCD). Wright State dean of students Chris Taylor announced Rando’s termination in a one-paragraph email to the Division of Student Affairs staff on Feb.

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These 2 colleges avoided closings in March by merger, acquisition

University Business

Students will continue their classes on the same campus, have access to its support services and programming and receive a Seattle University degree. The pandemic occurs, steepening downward trending enrollment and shortening administrators window to adjust operational strategy. Lower enrollment breeds lower tuition revenue.