Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 26, 2024

Every Learner Everywhere Every Learner Everywhere is a network of organizations with expertise in evaluating, implementing, scaling, and measuring the efficacy of education technologies, curriculum and course design strategies, teaching practices, and support services in blended and online learning environments.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 20, 2024

Amanda DiDonato, senior associate director of academic support services at Seton Hall University, a Division I institution that is not in either NCAA tournament this year but has previously sent teams to both the men’s and women’s NCAA tournaments, said the school utilizes a structured study hall for freshmen and transfers.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Delta’s Guiding Pillars: Equity and Completion Led by Gavin, the Delta faculty and staff are focused on two key pillars: equity and completion. Shelly Raube “So, whether you’re staff, whether you’re faculty, whether you’re a student, we want to be that place for our community for them to come in and see themselves here,” adds Raube.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2024

It is about taking a bold stance to break the old and create new systems and structures that support our students’ success. Provide academic and student support services to evening and weekend students online and in person. Ensure all community college campuses have robust childcare services for student parents.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Other principles in the toolkit call for efforts such as providing holistic supports for students, designing pedagogy to be aware of and center students’ lived experiences and backgrounds, incorporating input from faculty, staff, and students, and partnering with local communities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 29, 2024

At the median, selective institutions spend more than twice as much on student services and academic support per student and have more full-time faculty per student than open-access colleges,” said Nyhof. It comes less than a year after the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 25, 2024

Ivory Toldson While some proposals within the document, such as increased support for career and technical education, might resonate with a broad audience, the relentless "war on woke" framing serves to divide rather than unite, ultimately hindering progress toward a more equitable, inclusive and innovative higher education system.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 5, 2024

Students often find themselves struggling to locate familiar foods and essential services like cultural hair care or religious accommodations that support their needs. Institutions need to offer holistic services that assist diverse student populations. This contributes to their overall success and life development.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Financial aid, retention, and faculty/staff representation are part of the Seal,” says Dr. Deborah Santiago, co-founder and CEO of Excelencia in Education, who says she is delighted to see institutions with intentional practices actively working toward increasing Latino representation in key positions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

This new legislation presents a formidable barrier that hampers the ability of Black people (students, faculty, and staff) to flourish and thrive in their academic pursuits. And targeting of faculty by groups such as Idaho Freedom Foundations does not provide a campus environment where Black people feel safe.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The focus on English skills needed in an academic setting and tailored support services through the Academic Literacy & Language (ALL) Center have proven beneficial. In 2016, EAP reduced the number of courses in its course sequence, increased tutoring services and added embedded tutoring.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

Some programs are for academic preparedness, but other programming helps students find their way — building relationships and learning about available support services. From there, she began to work with representatives — faculty and staff — from both two-year and four-year institutions. A framework was built.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

There is power in being a role model, he says, and that’s why he wants to make sure undergrads and graduates can see themselves represented in Lehman faculty, staff, and administration. are white and only 21% are faculty of color. Delgado is himself a child of immigrants and a first-generation college-goer.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

One suggestion is for student support services to work closely with instructors, such as including information about student support along with a course syllabus. Another possibility is for faculty to invite advisors to their courses, said Garcia. Our four-year partners are literally in that environment.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 22, 2024

For a great number of learners, the support they receive from faculty and staff at a community college can empower students to successfully acquire the navigational capital necessary to complete a bachelor ’ s degree. For public four-year entrants it ’ s nearly $20,000. For those starting at for-profit colleges, it ’ s $13,000.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

She has previously been dean and associate vice chancellor of instruction, enrollment management and instructional support services at City College of San Francisco and director of forensics and assistant professor at California State University, Chico. “As

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 30, 2024

For ACC, those strategies include its Ascendor program, which provides mentorship, community events, and other culturally relevant support services to first-year students hoping to earn a bachelor’s degree. Changes in demographics mean it is not uncommon for a predominantly white institution to inadvertently become an HSI.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

On the topic of academic success, schools should keep an eye out for dips in single-term GPA – instead of just cumulative GPA – to use as early warning signs of a struggling student and provide early guidance through faculty and advisers accordingly, the report recommended. What students heard was, 'You need to go.'" As we say, life happens.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 2, 2023

Santiago argued that HSIs should endeavor to hire faculty that look like the students they teach. You can have identity as an HSI in your C-suite, but if it doesn’t permeate to faculty and students, then it doesn’t resonate, it doesn’t sustain,” she said. Sometimes, it’s really about how to tell the story,” she said. she said. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 8, 2024

Its goal: to break down barriers around mental health, discuss what it means to be Black, Brown, and male in today’s world, address and acknowledge the burdens young men carry, and discover best practices for how to best support students (and professionals) on their academic and healing journeys. “My Representation matters.” Dr. Milton A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

Such support has grown over the last three decades. Connecting Black students with each other made them feel stronger and more determined to support each other through the curriculum. “It Faculty from the College of Engineering and College of Sciences play an essential role. Watford says. It is now called Imagination.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

They participate in department and faculty meetings and go above and beyond staying for office hours. And as they increasingly make up the majority of your institution’s faculty workforce , their pay, benefits and job security continue to sour. Nearly two-thirds of faculty wish they were full-time.

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Blackboard Higher Education

MARCH 21, 2022

The past few years have seen a complete shift in not only the delivery of higher education courses, but also student services. This has been notably hard for students, as well as faculty and staff members. Clarity on data to drive improvements in service. On average, our Tier 1 solutions can handle 85% of incoming questions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

This is achieved through thoughtfully coordinated and proactive programs and services. AAP staff works with students, faculty, and staff at those schools and at UCLA to create pathways. “I What things I should be preparing myself for, and honestly it was a lot of emotional support as well.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 6, 2023

Online-only students were also less likely to use support services like tutoring or skill labs and were less likely to have engaged in service-learning activities or field experiences. T he consequences are clear, a ccording to Dr. “What resources are we presenting [faculty] with to better connect with students?

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EAB

JANUARY 30, 2023

Blogs Two ways to improve support services for adult learners with learning disabilities In our new survey , 100% of university presidents and provosts identified graduate and adult learner enrollment as a priority. This blog will outline steps your university can take to best support this population.

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Great College Advice

AUGUST 30, 2023

Are individual faculty members in your major people whose interests align with yours What health and mental health resources are available for students? What academic support and advising services are available for students? How available are these services? Is it difficult for students to access these resources?

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Great College Advice

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Look at the college’s website Colleges and universities maintain comprehensive websites that contain information for staff, faculty, and students, in addition to providing information for prospective applicants. One source of information that can help reduce the uncertainty — in some respects — are college admissions counselors.

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University Business

MARCH 12, 2024

“When administrators make poor decisions, students and faculty often suffer the consequences—and this can impact administrators’ ability to implement future initiatives due to lack of utilization by key stakeholders,” the report reads. They say confidence comes from a belief in one’s ability to apply knowledge.

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University Business

JANUARY 10, 2024

Campus is a hybrid community college attempting to reimagine affordability and student support and double the typical completion rates for community college students, all the while ensuring its staff are working at a competitive wage. Secondly, Campus snuffs the digital divide by paying for each student’s Chromebook laptop and WiFi.

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Higher Ed Talent

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

With the high cost of turnover and the need to retain faculty and staff in a highly competitive environment, orientation programs that address the “employee value proposition” for working at an institution have gained increasing attention. The post Six Missed Opportunities in Faculty and Staff Onboarding appeared first on HigherEDTalent.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 31, 2023

What’s the need: The idea to cancel classes came from faculty in October, says Tomomoi “T” Horning, the executive director of the center. Faculty wanted to support student retention and provide greater academic support through a day of just academic advising in the spring semester. Share here.

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University Business

MAY 28, 2024

One challenge has to do with the lack of built-in institutional support in higher education settings. Many universities also have Centers for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) which are geared towards supporting and enhancing the technology and pedagogical skills of faculty members.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

b of these principles, the manual states, in part: Effective governance includes clearly defining the roles and responsibilities of the governing board, administration, and faculty and ensuring that each of these groups adheres to their appropriate roles and responsibilities. We know now that any earlier concerns were more than justified.

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University Business

MAY 1, 2024

More from UB: The 3 presidents facing faculty backlash for stamping out protests Disproportionate admission rates at selective colleges White and Asian American students comprised 73% of the share of selective college enrollment despite the fact they only made up 60% of the college-age population. The post Was affirmative action overrated?

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University Business

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

More from UB: DeSantis’ ‘Stop WOKE’ law draws concern from university faculty What Walters and DeSantis seem to not understand—or simply ignore—is that DEI’s sole purpose isn’t focused on propagating critical race theory and compelling white students to feel shame for wrongs they did not commit. “As Last week, Allison D.

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

OCTOBER 17, 2023

As the needs of students change, universities must alter their recruitment and retention strategies to make sure that their messages resonate with diverse student prospects, and that they provide the right support services to meet these students’ needs. Provide diversity training for faculty and staff.

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