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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Updated regularly by the Office of Institutional Research, it incorporates evolving data sources, improving data quality and relevancy, and includes comprehensive training for staff and faculty. In particular, our Office of Institutional Research has developed detailed dashboards that reveal equity gaps at the course level.

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Jane Close Conoley In terms of data, administration analyzes persistence rates, graduate rates, enrollment yield rates, GPA levels, the average number of credits taken per semester, financial aid needs, technology needs, and housing and food insecurity needs. These include a food pantry and the basic needs food services and meal programs.

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The Dark Legacy of Elite University Medical Centers

Higher Education Inquirer

Support staffsuch as janitors, food service workers, custodians, and administrative assistantsare often invisible but essential to the functioning of these hospitals and research institutions. Similarly, food service workersmany of whom are Black, Latinx, or immigrantalso work in demanding conditions for low wages.

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The Policy, Research, & Practice Disconnect

Dr. Al Solano

For example, some university researchers have convinced themselves (and policy makers too) that counting words on college documents and websites is an effective methodology to make assumptions about practice. A recent research paper analyzed community college institutional research office mission statements.

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Shopping in the Freezer

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean You know how sometimes you forget about food that has been in the freezer for a while? ” Excellent idea, but this should already be done routinely by a given college’s IR (institutional research) office. That makes it harder to use elective status as a fig leaf.

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Advocacy in Assessment: An HBCU Perspective with Britt Spears-Rhymes, M.S.

Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

So I first started in the Office of Institutional Research and Assessment and have had a couple of different roles since I’ve been here. You work at an HBCU – what would you say is specific or different about your institutional context? I've been here for five years. what are we doing about that?

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Police Crackdown on Nationwide Protests

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

of] business operations as normal as it relates to institutions' research functions or their educational functions. Meanwhile, approximately $1 billion will go toward relief, food, medical supplies, and clean water in Gaza. “It's deeply hypocritical and counter-intuitive,” Davis said.

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