Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Approximately 70% of the student body identifies as Latinx. “We We are very intentional in how we recruit, retai Dr. Jose Fierro n and support completion to our diverse student body,” says Dr. Jose Fierro, president. “We The program began in Spring 2023 with 153 students, 87 of whom were Hispanic.

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Marketing and Communication Services Computers and Informational Technology Development and Fund Raising Financial Aid 325

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2024

“Technically, universities have commitments [to serve all students and make all students feel welcome].” Dr. Virginia Byrne, the Morgan State assistant professor of higher education and student affairs who nominated Hollingsworth, said the Ph.D. Hollingsworth’s career in higher ed has already been extensive.

Academic Advising 324

Academic Advising Student Union Higher Education Administration Student Affairs 324

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2023

“The more students who get in the better. The first wave of the program tackled the enrollment funnel, simplifying the application process from initial recruitment to enrollment. Using Slate, institutions could track a student’s application and nudge both the student and enrollment manager on its status.

Enrollment Management 299

Enrollment Management Recruitment Management Student Affairs 299

Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

JUNE 30, 2023

Frontrow: Jennifer Lowman, Amy Pilcher, Britt Spears-Rhymes, Ciji Heiser, Renee Delgado-Riley, and Shae Robinson) Last month, ACPA and its Commission for Assessment and Evaluation hosted their Student Affairs Assessment Institute in Chicago, IL. Gavin Henning and Anne Lundquist, leaders in student affairs assessment.

Student Affairs 81

Student Affairs Social Justice Faculty DEI 81

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

We’ve seen a rise in hate,” says Dr. Bridget Kelly, an associate professor and student affairs & diversity officer at the University of Maryland’s College of Education. She was hired by SIUE in 2020 as part of a cluster hire designed specifically to recruit faculty members of color.

Faculty 358

Faculty Student Affairs Recruitment Research 358

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

When prospective students take the campus tour, they are shown the buildings where they will learn, eat, and live. Inferior campus facilities impact the ability to both recruit and retain students as well as attract the best faculty, and the evidence is apparent across the entire higher education landscape. Dr. Adriel A.

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Development and Fund Raising Alumni Education Facilities Management 328

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Scholars agree that institutions should use this data as a starting point to ask themselves the important questions about how many of their students are completing and what they need to do to help everyone cross the finish line. Smith, assistant professor of higher education and student affairs at Auburn University in Alabama. “If

Student Affairs 264

Student Affairs Higher Education Community College Recruitment 264

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 6, 2024

“Many believe, including college administrators, that students will come forward and self-identify and ask for help and support. This student population is very difficult to recruit and engage. In my experience, this has not always been the case,” said Geiger.

Financial Aid 340

Financial Aid Student Affairs Food Recruitment 340

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2024

Lord’s educational background is an intriguing mix of marketing communications, business, research, and student affairs. These skills have combined in her groundbreaking research around how students of color, particularly Black students, engage with institutional social media as a tool for recruitment or retention.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

They get additional financial supports such as assistance with fees, stipends each semester, and campus “flex dollars” to spend on food and at the bookstore, says Zelon Crawford, SPS’s senior associate dean of student affairs, who oversees the fellowship program. Graduate and undergraduate degrees are expensive,” Crawford says.

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Student Affairs Admissions DEI Food 312

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 28, 2022

It’s launching its Male Education and Graduation Alliance (MEGA), a workgroup charged with developing strategies for the recruitment and retention of Black and Latinx males. For students, it’s really about finding ways to connect with the meaning, the value of education, beyond this goal of, ‘I want to get a college degree.’”

Student Affairs 264

Student Affairs Higher Education Administration Recruitment 264

Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

As a student affairs assessment leader on my campus, I see it as my responsibility to provide professional development that builds staffs data identity ANDmake it fun. This winter, our division is hosting Division of Student Affairs Loves Data, a Valentines Day-themed event focused on data and assessment professional development.

Professional Development 59

Professional Development Student Affairs Consulting Recruitment 59

EAB

OCTOBER 24, 2022

5 Tips to Recruit and Enroll Latine/x Students in Your Community College. Prospective Latine/x college students in the U.S. Now, schools must work harder to prioritize closing equity gaps and bringing these students back to campus. This doesn't just mean hiring multilingual advisors or admissions recruiters.

Recruitment 95

Recruitment Community College Marketing and Communication Services Admissions 95

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

ASU has added several Spanish language marketing materials, including an En Espanol section on the university’s website, a comprehensive admissions piece, Spanish campus tours, and multiple recruitment pieces for academic programs. It has also worked to remove barriers for transfer students. Dr. Erika D.

Marketing and Communication Services 336

Marketing and Communication Services Financial Aid Faculty Recruitment 336

Dr. Josie Ahlquist

MARCH 3, 2022

The spring is usually a heavy recruitment season for entry-level positions in student affairs. Chances are high that multiple articles have come across your feed about the great resignation, staff morale, or employee disengagement. But this year, there are openings all across the board.

Student Affairs 100

Student Affairs Recruitment IT 100

Supporting Student Success

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Key overall findings from our pre- and post-surveys 3 include: The majority of students felt more prepared, more confident and clearer about their academic and community responsibilities as Ryerson students as a result of participating in Get Ryerson Ready. What We Learned. Rachel Barreca (she/her), B.A.,

Athletics and Campus Recreation 130

Athletics and Campus Recreation Computers and Informational Technology Student Affairs Recruitment 130

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 22, 2024

“Parents and caretakers are always concerned about educational costs, degree competition and job placement, and if a safe and healthy campus environment is provided for their students,” said Dr. Davida L. Haywood, vice president for student affairs and enrollment management at Johnson C. Smith University (JCSU).

Marketing and Communication Services 182

Marketing and Communication Services Safety and Security Enrollment Management Financial Aid 182

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 16, 2023

“He loved training brilliant young minds to serve with excellence and compassion, and that was his greatest joy,” added Drew Ivie of her father who taught Black Howard University medical students to be surgeons and chaired the department there until his death in April 1950. Dr. Barbara Ross-Lee, the first African American woman to lead a U.S.

Medical 246

Medical Healthcare Social Justice Recruitment 246

University Business

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Robinson has led several initiatives focused on student recruitment and success, such as a college preparation program for underrepresented student groups, restructuring the Division of Student Affairs and a $10 million scholarship for first-generation and low-income students.

Title IX 95

Title IX IT Student Affairs Recruitment 95

Supporting Student Success

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Additionally, we as educators and student affairs practitioners must deeply engage the voices of learners with marginalized identities, and ensure those voices are guiding our actions to begin to reduce the disparities highlighted in my research above. Within student affairs, representation in programming offered (e.g.

Research 130

Research Utilities Student Affairs Recruitment 130

Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Prior to this, I was the director of a summer bridge program here at SLCC … housed under Student Affairs, specifically the orientation office. We can also serve students but also increase our faculty and recruit and retain more faculty of color who have a cultural response and lens pedagogy related to this work.

Education 97

Education Student Affairs Career Services Community College 97

EAB

JANUARY 26, 2023

As students cast a wider net when considering their options, it’s critical that community colleges make early, meaningful interactions with students, follow up with inquiries, and create a recruitment communications strategy that will allow them to stand out against the other options the student might be considering.

Community College 105

Community College Marketing and Communication Services Recruitment Financial Aid 105

The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 8, 2025

Todd Benson: Well, like a lot of folks that work with academic affairs, I stumbled into it. I actually started out in higher ed working in student affairs. So I spent about 11 years living on campus in residence life with students, mostly freshman students. We don’t expect to end up here.

Faculty 52

Faculty Higher Education Marketing and Communication Services Government 52

Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 21, 2023

Lisa Lattuca, director of the University of Michigan’s Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education, said some undergraduate programs may be approved with an expectation of a slow ramp-up to better recruit new students rather than transfers. She noted that a review leading up to a launch may take two years.

Engineering 103

Engineering Recruitment Higher Education Research 103

Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

We have not undertaken these changes lightly, but deem them to be relevant and necessary given the state of our organization and the field of student affairs assessment. Thank you for your commitment to student affairs assessment and this organization. Wishing you all the best for the remaining time this year!

Student Affairs 40

Student Affairs Marketing and Communication Services Government Professional Development 40

University Business

APRIL 19, 2023

” Before North Texas had any analytics software suite, the administration’s only way to assess future recruitment and enrollment trends was by backtracking minute details and analyzing the only results they had – the ones that had already happened. This is the most data-informed they’ve ever been in their entire lives.”

Recruitment 59

Recruitment Administration Institutional Research Community College 59

Via's

JUNE 15, 2023

When she became the inaugural assistant dean and director of global education at Oglethorpe University in August 2018, Marisa Atencio, EdD, inherited six file drawers of papers and historical ways of recruiting and communicating with students about study abroad.

Study Abroad 52

Study Abroad Student Affairs Recruitment Management 52

EAB

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Meeting this challenge requires a campus-wide mental health strategy, something that has traditionally been the domain of student affairs and centered on the counseling center. Our LGBTQ students’ lives and well-being are at risk—here are 5 things campus leaders can do to help. What we can do about it. December 2, 2022.

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Budget and Finance Management Fundraising Health Services Student Affairs 75

University Business

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Institutions that embrace a holistic and collaborative approach that integrates the efforts of multiple departments are more likely to benefit from improved work culture, better enrollment outcomes, and higher student success rates.

Enrollment Management 52

Enrollment Management Management Career Counseling Student Services 52

EAB

MAY 17, 2023

Several partners have shared anecdotes of students arriving to campus, moving into dorms, and abruptly withdrawing upon re-entering more social settings. At the start of our event series, we shared views into the road ahead and focused on the near-term pain of managing turnover and recruitment.

Budget and Finance Management 105

Budget and Finance Management Marketing and Communication Services DEI Finance 105

Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

JUNE 5, 2023

Staff are turning over left and right and without consistent leadership, recruitment efforts are dying on the vine. What about student success metrics , you think, that’s got to be positive. No one has been tracking the student progress. All good , you think. Easy-peasy. Then you look at the data.

Mining 90

Mining Research Recruitment Student Engagement 90

EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

Cooper Medical School of Rowan University Fostering sense of belonging among Black undergraduate students Melissa McGuire, Ph.D., Cooper Medical School of Rowan University Fostering sense of belonging among Black undergraduate students Melissa McGuire, Ph.D.,

Budget and Finance Management 52

Budget and Finance Management Marketing and Communication Services Enrollment Management Higher Education 52

Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

JANUARY 31, 2023

Eight years ago, in 2015, SAAL put out a call for volunteers to compile topical resources to aid student affairs assessment pros. This work took place through 2016. We collaborated with Colorado State to hire the initial instructors and launch the first iteration of the course in spring term of 2017.

Management 52

Management Professional Development Student Affairs Consulting 52

EAB

JANUARY 13, 2023

Connect with us to gain more insight on your score as well as next steps you can take to modernize your institution’s student experience. More on modernizing your student experience. 6 ways leaders are rethinking their student affairs organizational charts in 2023. Student Success Collaborative Awards. Get started.

Community College 52

Community College Student Affairs Recruitment Industry 52

Supporting Student Success

MAY 6, 2021

In 2008, I was recruited to run a grant with the purpose of connecting adult learners with data to inform their college choices so they didn’t need to depend on marketing hype from lead generation websites. I invite you to come with me on the journey my why has taken, as it has grown from seed to sapling to sturdy tree.

Higher Education 130

Higher Education Computers and Informational Technology Education Hospitality 130

Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 11, 2023

The issue can be a lack of a centralized, cross-departmental office that acts as a one-stop shop for all career-related issues on campus, limited coordination between career offices and other student-facing units like academic advising or student affairs, or both.

Marketing and Communication Services 107

Marketing and Communication Services Career Services Higher Education Faculty 107

The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 23, 2024

A Possible Solution: Strategic Enrollment Management (SEM) Strategic Enrollment Management (SEM) is a comprehensive process that involves more than just recruitment and admissions. It requires a deep understanding of the institution’s mission, the unique value proposition of its programs, and the specific needs of prospective students.

Enrollment Management 52

Enrollment Management Management Marketing and Communication Services Recruitment 52