Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 3, 2025

Caring Campus, developed by the Institute for Evidence-Based Change, intentionally equips staff and faculty with strategies and tools to create a welcoming, supportive environment for every student. Proactive Student Support Services Our Student Services Call Center plays a huge role in ensuring students feel seen and heard.

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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

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

These student-athletes were also interviewed about the support services that they needed. Seek out support services. Others mentioned that faculty made it hard for them or seemed only interested in earning a paycheck. Take classes that matter and that will transfer to a four-year institution. Recognize opportunity.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2025

This grant presents a transformative opportunity for institutions to expand academic support services, mentorship programs, financial aid assistance, mental health resources, and culturally relevant curricula that enhance the Black student experience, he says. This grant program represents the next step in his advocacy efforts.

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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

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

To do so, she focused on long-standing issues like program development and student support services, and by the time the Coast Community College District Board of Trustees approved her permanent position, progress was tangible. Randall says faculty training in online teaching is a priority this year.

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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 5, 2024

Administrators and faculty members are responsible for confronting these unjust behaviors head-on. Student Support Services : Establish support services for students from diverse linguistic backgrounds. Representation Matters : Increase the representation of linguistically diverse faculty and staff.

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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. These factors contribute to higher graduation rates and better opportunities for their graduates.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2024

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. Each college will have a fund of at least $1 million to support emergency aid for students.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Through Caring Campus , the IEBC has developed ways that faculty and professional staff can help make this essential connection with students right away. They should also support students to complete all of the necessary paperwork before the term begins. Connections with faculty are important.

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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

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. Dr. Erika D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 25, 2024

Rather, it's the natural result of diverse individuals coming together — students, faculty, and staff from different backgrounds, races, genders, religions, and socioeconomic statuses — sharing their experiences and perspectives, challenging assumptions, and advocating for a more just and equitable society.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 5, 2024

Students benefit tremendously from seeing themselves reflected in the faculty, staff, and student peers who make up the campus community. This contributes to their overall success and life development. Also important to this concept is the need for reflective representation.

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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. This report is about the entering student experience,” said Garcia.

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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. Dr. Sydney Freeman Jr. •

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JANUARY 11, 2023

Kristina Whalen Whalen is currently vice president of academic services at Las Positas College and vice president of the California Community Colleges Chief Instructional Officers Association.

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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

APRIL 1, 2025

Its not just the classroom; you need to have the support services, she says. At the same time, the deans are talking to their faculty about the data in the classroom that faculty are using. Stout cites the example of a community college in Washington state where faculty regularly look at their specific course data.

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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

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. They are taking a hard look at the diversity of their faculty, staff, and curricula.

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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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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. are Hispanic.

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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.'"

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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. It’s made it challenging to know what’s impactful,” said Santiago.

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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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University Business

APRIL 18, 2025

Students are, in fact, more worried than faculty or administrators that the technology is “short-cutting their learning” and they want more guidance, according to a new study and survey from plagiarism checker Turnitin. Students share some of the same concerns as educators do about the growth of AI on campus.

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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. The benefits of the choice to attend community college go far beyond the initial dollars involved.

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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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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

AAP staff works with students, faculty, and staff at those schools and at UCLA to create pathways. They’ll work with a faculty member and conduct research for six to eight weeks and then come back and give a presentation.” “The California legislature put some caveats. They’ll have a research question that they’ll take with them.

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JANUARY 31, 2024

Faculty from the College of Engineering and College of Sciences play an essential role. Faculty do it as part of their research and part of their service to the university and to the state.” Growing the diversity of the faculty is among the institution’s priorities, and CEED’s graduate student programming contributes candidates.

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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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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 3, 2025

Advising and Support Services: Enhanced advising systems that use data-driven approaches, like Georgia State Universitys model, can significantly improve retention and completion rates. Diversity and Inclusion: Institutions must prioritize diversity in leadership and faculty to foster inclusivity.

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

APRIL 9, 2025

Admissions counselors can contact students directly via emails, phone calls, or video meetings to answer their specific questions and address any issues they may have on topics such as financial aid opportunities, program lengths and delivery formats, and support services. Connect students with faculty and alumni.

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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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