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Report Shows Small Changes in Post-High School College Enrollment

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center has released the 2024 High School Benchmarks report , which shows small improvements in college enrollment and persistence in public high school graduates. When it came to six-year college graduation rates, 2017 high school graduates from high minority schools graduated college at 31.5%

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

for students who entered in 2017. Faculty do it as part of their research and part of their service to the university and to the state.” His dissertation research was on the CEED summer programs. Taylor Cupp When Watford began CEED, the graduation rate for Black engineering students was around 25%. That rose to 61.2%

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Guiding Community Colleges Toward Mission Fulfillment

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I also started a program at Harford where we did qualitative research around focus groups, interviewing families and students who were not choosing Harford to understand why they were not choosing Harford. Its not just the classroom; you need to have the support services, she says. Eddinger joined ATDs board on Stouts request.

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Revising Code of Practice for Supervisors and Research Students: An exercise in collaboration

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Credit: Pixabay, Stocksnap, CC0 In this post, Susan Hunter, from Academic Services, describes the collaborative reviewing process behind the recently updated Code of Practice for Supervisors and Research Students… It had been a while since the University thoroughly reviewed its guidance for supervisors and postgraduate research students.

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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

And she used her visibility as a student leader to advocate for more support services for undocumented and low-income students. She was later promoted to basic needs coordinator in 2017, which she says was an acknowledgment of the growing needs of students and an expansion and evolution of efforts to address them.

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Using Tentacular Pedagogy to change the HE culture

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Furthermore, research suggests CA-HE is elitist ( Annetts 2018 ; Starkey 2013 ), racist ( Orr 2021 ; Tan 2021a ), and failing neurodivergent students and staff by not paying enough attention to their mental wellbeing (who are over-represented in CA-HE at around 30% in the student population, in Bacon and Bennett 2013 ; RCA 2015 ).