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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. Morales, president of CSUSB. This is a paid, on-campus internship for undocumented students at CSUSB. “The

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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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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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TSU’s Systematic Approach to Student Success

EAB

That is a very long title to say basically our office is responsible for institutional research, institutional assessment, as well as some components of academic technology. So for me, being an institutional research person, we're always saying, let's address the true problem.

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Boost Higher Ed Enrollment and Graduation Rates – The Power of Student Support and Belonging: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 148 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Elliot Felix

The Change Leader, Inc.

Notable examples include Johns Hopkins’ Imagine Center, where career planning, life design, academic planning, and academic advising are all integrated into one place. I’ll add to this that, so far, we’ve been talking about research, stakeholder engagement, and benchmarking to understand people.