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Focusing on Mental Health Challenges Facing Community College Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

If we can find a way to start understanding that at the very beginning when students come to the campus for the first time…we can connect them to resources or inform them of resources…so they feel cared for, noticed and that someone believes in them.” We’ll provide psychological information. Garcia, executive director of CCCSE. “If

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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Brown, is to advance Latino student success in higher education by promoting Latino student achievement, conducting analysis to inform educational policies and advancing institutional practices. These inform strategic decisions to address inequities and improve outcomes. … Santiago and Sarita E. Neufeldt, president of CSUSM.

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Creating a data-informed campus: part 3

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Blogs Creating a data-informed campus: part 3 Using data to facilitate institutional effectiveness The conversation around data-informed decision making in higher education continues to accelerate. A common component of accountability is an increased reliance on data to inform decision-making.

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Creating a data-informed campus: part 2

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Creating a data-informed campus: part 2. The need for data-informed decision making in higher education continues to increase. As I discussed in the first blog post in this series , institutions need a sufficient technology infrastructure to facilitate curation, access, and retrieval of data.

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‘An Invisible Tax’: Study Finds That Schools Lag in Utilizing Data

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According to “ Data blind: Universities lag in capturing and exploiting data ,” although colleges may have lots of raw information, many are “data poor” in terms of using it to their advantage or “data blind,” reluctant to discuss data governance. I see it in the more elevated role of institutional research.” Dr. Christine L.

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2022 Delphi Award Winners Share Practices to Support Part-Time Faculty

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These adjuncts, who teach at multiple institutions, were facing issues of not having their own space, lacking professional development, and job insecurity, Terry said. IPTFES provides part-time faculty with informative resource guides and staffed resource centers that come with lockers, computers, and copiers/printers.

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

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Encouragement Watford inherited one pre-college program that already existed for seventh and eighth graders, providing information about electrical and computer engineering. I’ve had other institutions ask me to come and visit, or they came to visit here to see what kinds of programs we have and how we implement them.”