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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Brown, is to advance Latino student success in higher education by promoting Latino student achievement, conducting analysis to inform educational policies and advancing institutional practices. Since 2018, the graduation rate for Latine/x students has increased from 24% to 34%. Santiago and Sarita E.

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6 ways leaders are rethinking their student affairs organizational charts in 2023

EAB

6 ways leaders are rethinking their student affairs organizational charts in 2023. Between a pandemic, a national racial reckoning, and increasing challenges to the higher education business model, student affairs leaders have spent the past few years looking for ways to innovate and collaborate more effectively across the cabinet.

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students. 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.

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Preparing Students for Future Work Using Narrative Approaches

The Scholarly Teacher

Educators, including student affairs professionals, can play important roles as career influencers as students embark on these considerations (Stebleton & Ho, 2023). Ho (2019) defined career influencers as “post-secondary professionals who informally provide career-related advice, guidance, and/or counselling” (p.

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Consolidating touch points for retention

Confessions of a Community College Dean

A more recent trend is consolidating student services related to academics or health and wellness into a larger office or building. Tutoring, library resources, academic advising and career services are smushed together, and counseling, disability services, medical centers and student care teams are sharing space more than ever before.

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Career-readiness initiatives are missing the mark (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

From skills assessment rubrics to soft skills microcredentials , this generic conception strips away critical information about how skills are defined, used and rewarded by actual human beings. or Seattle—an untenable dream.

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York College academic administrator won't leave students behind

Confessions of a Community College Dean

So we put up one barrier … and that is you have to talk to an academic adviser. Q: How do you and your office support undeclared students? But I think of them as our triage, in some cases, because they’ll hear a problem and they’ll be like, “OK, is this something that somebody in academics can help with?