Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Necessary support is provided through GANAS (Gaining Access ’AND Academic Success), an innovative access and retention program that serves community college transfer students. Over the last five years, there has been an 11% increase in the four-year graduation rate for Latinx students. in the last two years.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2023

University of Maryland Global Campus Dr. Pam Carter University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC) offers a broad range of programs, primarily online. We have been doing online in some fashion for at least 25 years, so we have a lot of familiarity with various modalities.”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 6, 2023

What’s working: Koons attributes part of Kansas Wesleyan’s record retention numbers to the library’s first-year programming, because students who engage with their coaches have higher retention rates compared to their peers who don’t.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JUNE 21, 2023

Today on the Academic Minute: Erica Kosal, director of the life sciences first-year program and associate teaching professor of biological sciences at North Carolina State University, explains how important it is for students to learn how to think creatively.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The idea is if a student can set healthy habits early in their college career, they’ll be more successful later on. Over the past few decades, libraries have shifted attention from primarily instruction work toward purposeful collaborations in first-year programming.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

At my past institutions (particularly UNLV), encouraging student participation in [first-year experience] programs led both to increased persistence of students into their second year and to decreased time to complete a degree. First-year programs are not as common for graduate institutions.

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