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Our Advice for Making College Campuses Ready for Diverse Student Populations

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Students often find themselves struggling to locate familiar foods and essential services like cultural hair care or religious accommodations that support their needs. Institutions need to offer holistic services that assist diverse student populations. This is how we can start keeping our students.

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California's Community Colleges See the Benefits of Student Housing

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

So that’s when he and other leadership at IVC began exploring the idea of student housing. Through a pilot program that offered 12 housing insecure students homes in RVs, Johnson said IVC learned a lot of lessons about the difficulties and triumphs of residential management, how to support students, and how to build community.

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HBCUs take note: 4 ways to sustain enrollment following post-pandemic boom

University Business

Social media is talking about all the celebrities sending their students to HBCUs. Additionally, Alabama A&M University’s partnership with Google landed one of its students a full-time position on their software development side. After a $5.2 “You got Chris Pual repping HBCU jerseys when he’s warming up for games.”

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How Gross Inequalities in Institutional Wealth Distort the Higher Education Ecosystem and Shortchange the Vast Majority of Middle- and Lower-Income Undergraduates

Confessions of a Community College Dean

I’m not referring here to faculty salaries or reduced teaching loads or class size or breadth of programs or extensive support services—all of which are good things (within limits). Statements like those help perpetuate the illusion that their students are uniquely gifted and talented. They’re not.

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Listening and responding to the Student Voice: A new model for student support

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Student Advisers, Wellbeing Advisers, and Cohort Leads were appointed within Phase 1 schools, each with the responsibility to provide support across different aspects of student life – responding to day-to-day questions, providing wellbeing and pastoral care, and supporting academic success.

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Listening and responding to the Student Voice: A new model for student support

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Student Advisers, Wellbeing Advisers, and Cohort Leads were appointed within Phase 1 schools, each with the responsibility to provide support across different aspects of student life – responding to day-to-day questions, providing wellbeing and pastoral care, and supporting academic success.

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Leadership Strategies for Rebuilding Trust on Campus: Part 2

Campus Sonar

Campus leaders need to thoroughly assess, streamline, and reprioritize these efforts to ensure all students are aware of and have access to support services and preparation resources and that the teams doing the work can collaborate efficiently and effectively. Emphasize “doing” more than “telling.”