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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In 2022-23, over 350 students were awarded close to $772,000 in Graduate Initiative Grants. Of the students awarded GIGs, 80% were Latinx, leading to 1,154 Latino GIG recipients graduating from CSUSB over the last five years. In academic year 2021-22, 45.1% in 2022-23. of degrees were awarded to Latinx students.

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Profiling Some of the Institutions With the Most Minority Business Graduates

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Seven students have recently been hired to be the first cohort of the Edward Jones Career Pathways partnership, a joint initiative between Webster and the financial services company. In the fall 2022 semester, 65.82% of undergraduate students in the Landon Undergraduate School identified as Hispanic and 7.94% as African American.

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Success coaching retains first-year students

Confessions of a Community College Dean

What’s working: Koons attributes part of Kansas Wesleyan’s record retention numbers to the library’s first-year programming, because students who engage with their coaches have higher retention rates compared to their peers who don’t. Nationally, retention is a bit higher; about 66.4

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How your future students’ needs are changing in 5 big ways

University Business

An ever-increasing range of competing interests drawing the attention of prospective students is increasing the pressure of institutions to fill their classrooms and residence halls, says the 2022 National Prospective Student Survey by Hanover Research. Communication preferences.