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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Over the past two years, retention strategies have expanded, including access to experiential learning opportunities by way of service learning, internships, field experience, study abroad, research and other high impact practice opportunities. These provide students with valuable skills and connections.

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Success Story: Saint Anselm College

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An “ancillary benefit” to using Via, she says, is it also allows her to quickly share data with Saint Anselm’s institutional research office for various initiatives, such as identifying study abroad trends among students. . Saint Anselm study abroad students in Mendoza, Argentina. Via is very easy to use.

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Programs include the university’s “earn and learn,” which provides funding for off-campus internships, undergraduate research, study abroad, service learning, and cohort programs that serve particular student groups. Also, the Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Program connects students with faculty in their field of study.

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Boost Higher Ed Enrollment and Graduation Rates – The Power of Student Support and Belonging: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 148 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Elliot Felix

The Change Leader, Inc.

I’ll add to this that, so far, we’ve been talking about research, stakeholder engagement, and benchmarking to understand people. There’s so much there. Either students often don’t know about it, they may not be comfortable using it, it might be in the wrong place, or it might be offered at the wrong time.