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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As of fall 2023, 69% of the student population at CSUSB identified as Hispanic or Latino. In addition to support services that include financial aid and academic advising, an example of supporting Latinx student success is the CSUSB Impact Internship, developed by the university’s Undocumented Student Success Center.

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It may be time to rethink the college minor (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Academic minors are typically a secondary area of specialization for students. Sometimes, the minor is related to the college academic major; other times, the academic minor is in a different discipline altogether. The research on college minors and their effects on student outcomes is scant if not nonexistent.

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Career-readiness initiatives are missing the mark (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Dannels found that in engineering firms, professionals value communicators who can translate technical jargon to nonspecialists, an essential skill given the growth of cross-sector team projects in the field. Darling and Deanna P.

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Team Growth: Get to Know Cassie and Ahmed

Campus Groups

In addition to being passionate about Higher Education and Student Affairs, Cassie, like many of our team members, loves to cook and travel. Based out of the Palestinian city of Ramallah in the West Bank, he holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from Birzeit University. London is her all-time favorite city !

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What’s the Deal with Comprehensive Learner Records?

Parchment

Rodney Lee Parks (00:26.106) This will be the sixth time in January that I’ve climbed Kilimanjaro and the 13th time that I’ve done the Inca Trail with students over Thanksgiving. So I’m one of those registrars, you know, a little bit of student affairs, a little bit of teaching, a little bit of registrar work.

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Advising, Counseling, Mentoring and Teaching Black Males in Secondary and Postsecondary Settings

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Some of the topics include literacy and math, advising Black male engineering majors, socio-emotional development, leadership, community college experiences, Black male veterans, athletes in P-12 and higher education, and the recruitment and retention of Black males in educator preparation programs. Chapter 3: Ford, D.Y.