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Finding a Place at an HBCU

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“Technically, universities have commitments [to serve all students and make all students feel welcome].” Dr. Virginia Byrne, the Morgan State assistant professor of higher education and student affairs who nominated Hollingsworth, said the Ph.D. After she receives her Ph.D.,

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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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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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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). Near the end of the course, we ask students to reflect on the semester and what they gained from the course.

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The last two years, ASU has seen the highest retention rates of all students, but particularly Latino students. 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.

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Iowa prepares students to learn

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Then, a few weeks later, students complete an asynchronous “onboarding” course called Success@Iowa , which introduces students to the university, its campus and its resources, among other topics like personal development. How does your institution incorporate self-assessments into its student success efforts?