Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 14, 2023

Williams-Goliday has been helping guide students for decades, first as an academic adviser for Eastern Illinois University’s Office of Minority Affairs beginning in 1998. There, she worked with students academically underprepared for college, she says. And from 2002 to 2006, she served as academic adviser for Temple University.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 31, 2023

Faculty wanted to support student retention and provide greater academic support through a day of just academic advising in the spring semester. And, as originally intended, faculty academic advisers were available by appointment to meet with students all day. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

At Goucher College in Maryland, officials are putting these opportunities together for undergraduates by tapping into the college’s alumni network. To start, Goucher piloted the program with its Alumni Association Board, offering 22 students micro-internships over winter 2020–21.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

One approach: Kansas Wesleyan University matches each of its incoming students to a student success coach, who provides one-on-one first-year engagement with the Student Success Center’s resources prior to their work with an academic adviser. The students also engage with the college’s alumni and professional network.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The university restructured to a centralized academic advising model for the first two years of college, ensuring that advising is consistent across all majors, particularly for the most vulnerable populations. The last two years, ASU has seen the highest retention rates of all students, but particularly Latino students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

In addition to students who find excellent jobs after graduating from a four-year institution, some EPW alumni are pursuing graduate studies. “I The students usually report back to us where they are employed. That’s the most satisfactory point of the work we do.”

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