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Report Shows Small Changes in Post-High School College Enrollment

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

At the country day school, in addition to school resources students’ parents would utilize private tutors and other outside support services. When it came to six-year college graduation rates, 2017 high school graduates from high minority schools graduated college at 31.5% and those from low minority schools at 48.5%.

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

for students who entered in 2017. Colucci-Chang’s story illustrates the “beauty of the pipeline,” says Sanders, whose current role involves ensuring Virginia Tech has a concerted, broad effort to reach out to underrepresented communities to make sure students are prepared for higher education. That rose to 61.2%

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Guiding Community Colleges Toward Mission Fulfillment

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Shes known for her transformational work in higher education, says Dr. Theresa B. Its not just the classroom; you need to have the support services, she says. In 2017, Stout was named the American Association for Women in Community Colleges Woman of the Year. Shes helping colleges implement evidence-based reforms.

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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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Study analyzes why college students in counseling withdraw

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Factors ranging from financial stress to participation in extracurriculars can influence whether a student receiving services at their university’s counseling center will voluntarily withdraw from the institution, according to new research from Pennsylvania State University’s Center for Collegiate Mental Health.

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Colleges hire directors to tackle student basic needs

Confessions of a Community College Dean

She’d spent seven years as a part-time student at Los Angeles Pierce Community College after graduating from high school and struggled to earn money and find financial aid to pay for a four-year education. “All of those intersectionalities opened my eyes to a lot of inequity in higher education,” Mora said.

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Together we thrive: Co-designing Peer Support for Master’s students

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

Success at undergraduate does not guarantee success at post-graduate (Hussy & Smith 2010) and study at postgraduate taught (PGT) level can be affected by difficulties in understanding expectations, and fewer opportunities (or time) for developing community and sense of belonging (McPherson, Punch & Graham, 2017). link] McPherson, C.,