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Focusing on Mental Health Challenges Facing Community College Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Elisabeth Lackner, director of institutional research at Queensborough Community College (QCC) in New York City, said the report reflects what QCC students experience. “We We also provide workshops in the classrooms,” he added. For example, we’ll do a test anxiety workshop or how to manage stress in college.

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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Additionally, ‘Siguientes Pasos’ workshops support Spanish-speaking students and families with the transition to San Francisco State.” The Conducting Equitable and Inclusive Workshop Search Series provides search committees with best practices to help their hiring efforts.”

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It goes back to CEED workshops where they gave us mentorship skills.” A current major effort is to build relationships with HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) and MSIs (Minority-Serving Institutions) to create mutual pathways. Now, I try to give back. by mentoring girls and young women to keep going in engineering.

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Highlights from the 2024 Assessment Institute: Collaboration, Inspiration, and Impact

Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

Attendees could participate in pre-institute workshops, which provided in-depth exploration of specialized topics such as equity-centered assessment practices and effective data storytelling. The conference had Rise-and-Shine 20-Minute Sessions to energize attendees at the start of each day, 7:00am!!!

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A data literacy workshop series offered each semester helps to foster a data-driven decision-making culture across the university. We offer faculty workshops on culturally sensitive teaching.” The recruitment and retention of Latino faculty is also an element of the Seal, and CSULB has the Latinx Faculty & Staff Association. “We

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How two-way texting aids in student support and retention

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The communications and marketing office began working with institutional research to launch a series of two-way text messaging pilot programs this past fall.

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Mini-series: Belonging in the new biology curriculum

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

To this end we plan to actively create and develop learning communities (Tinto 2000) using structured and heavily supported staff-mentored group-work on assessed, reflective and investigative tasks at weekly workshops throughout the semester. Journal of Institutional Research. Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 3(2), 180–208.