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Seal of Excelencia 2024

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In addition to support services that include financial aid and academic advising, an example of supporting Latinx student success is the CSUSB Impact Internship, developed by the university’s Undocumented Student Success Center. This is a paid, on-campus internship for undocumented students at CSUSB. “By

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New Tool to Measure DEI Efforts Introduced

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But this doesn’t give schools a comprehensive picture of their efforts, or a direct sense of how developed they are.

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Advocating Policy, Better Than Before

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And he is doing his part as director of policy and advocacy in California at The Institute for College Access and Success (TICAS), an independent, nonprofit research and policy organization.

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Report Finds That Affirmative Action Only Led to Incremental Progress

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The report is a retrospective analysis of the changing demographics at selective and open-access institutions from 2009 to 2019; researchers ended their analysis in 2019 to account for changing enrollment patterns that resulted, in part, from the COVID-19 pandemic. Supreme Court ruling in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc.

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Male Resource Centers Promote Success Among Men of Color

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“You can see that there are gender disparities across higher ed — outcomes, enrollment — and generally find that men have worse outcomes than women,” says Dr. Su Jin Jez, CEO of California Competes, a nonpartisan policy and research organization focused on identifying solutions to California’s most critical higher education and workforce issues.

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Report Examines Fragmented Reentry Services for Formerly Incarcerated Individuals Attending College

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There is a huge body of research on reentry…but so little of that work is focused specifically on where college fits into the picture,” said Dr. Ess Pokornowski, senior analyst, justice initiatives, for Ithaka S+R and author of the report. The next phase of this research will commence in 2025. This report was funded by ECMC Foundation.

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Report Shows the Shift Away from Tenured Faculty in the U.S. Academic Workforce

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Also, the number of graduate student employees increased 44% from fall 2002 to fall 2021. The report’s author, Glenn Colby, AAUP senior researcher, said it’s the most common question he receives. Paying tenured and tenure-track faculty may lead to cuts in other areas, for example student services.

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