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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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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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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

for students who entered in 2017. Being present at these conferences helps raise the profile of Virginia Tech’s graduate programs as well as awareness of CEED’s support services. “I 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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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

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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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.