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Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 1, 2023
Image: Locksley Knibbs, lead academic adviser for students studying the natural sciences at Florida Gulf Coast University, knows that advisers take on different roles to serve the whole student: mentor, advocate, mediator, coach. “We advise you based on the curriculum or the degree that you have declared on your record.
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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 4, 2023
When I first left home at age 17, I had little interest in pursuing higher education. My interest led me to pursue a career — and an education — in nursing. We need a more generous and flexible system of higher education that better accommodates and supports student caretakers and their busy lives.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
APRIL 27, 2023
Lena Walton, dean of Alabama A&M’s College of Education, Humanities, and Behavioral Sciences. We have an academic adviser. We also have an academic coordinator who coordinates daily activities. Once we received funding from the state, I was able to collaboratively develop the program,” Strachan said. “We
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 9, 2023
Excelencia in Education works to advance Latino student success in higher education by promoting Latino student achievement, conducting analysis to inform educational policies and advancing institutional practices. It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students. At orientation, bilingual sessions are offered.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 1, 2023
Created in 2005 by Excelencia in Education, Examples of Excelencia is a national initiative that recognizes institutions and nonprofit organizations that identify, aggregate, and promote evidence-based practices that improve Latinx student access in higher education.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 31, 2023
What it is: UD Sinclair Academy was started to address barriers in transferability of credits and affordability of higher education, says Julia Thompson, director of student success for community college partnerships at UD. Smoothing out the creases: Working across institutions has created challenges in data sharing, Thompson says.
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