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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“Financial aid, retention, and faculty/staff representation are part of the Seal,” says Dr. Deborah Santiago, co-founder and CEO of Excelencia in Education, who says she is delighted to see institutions with intentional practices actively working toward increasing Latino representation in key positions. Dr. Erika D.

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Don Hossler named to Edu Alliance Group Advisory Council

Edu Alliance Journal

Hossler has received career achievement awards from the American College Personnel Association, the Association for Institutional Research, the College Board, and the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators.

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Pursuit of R-2 status can expand opportunity (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Towson, like many institutions, identifies a set of institutional peers. Given our recent stated goal, all 20 TU peers are R-2 public institutions, though many only recently became R-2s: of those 20, only seven were classified as R-2 in 2015, a figure that rose to 12 in the 2018 classification and to 20 in the 2021 classification.

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Guide To Assessment

Higher Ed Connects: Assessment

by Kristen Lee You jump from one meeting to the next—strategic planning, curricular committee, program decisions, faculty evaluations, and so forth—only for you to have the “A” word crop up on your radar as the next meeting you must attend. Pros Cons Custom fit for your institution. Faculty engagement and involvement.

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Statistical Standards vs. Student Support: The 'Good Data' Dilemma

Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

Faculty and colleagues ask, “Is this data statistically significant? While quantitative data typically receives greater acclaim in research and assessment, collecting qualitative, or mixed-methods data is often key towards understanding our smaller populations of interest (Hernández, 2015). What Is “Good” Research?