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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.

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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

First-year fellow Airele Muscetta, who is looking to do research in nutrition and food science, says the program offered her financial opportunity and the opportunity to “just get involved with research and getting used to the idea of higher education and academic success, of what my future looks like.”

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Improving Enrollment, Retention, and Graduation Rates: Learning from the Arrupe College Strategic Enrollment Model

The Change Leader, Inc.

Additionally, first-year students receive more one-on-one time with their academic advisers since each advisor only oversees 20 to 25 students, unlike other schools where advisors can be grouped with 500-plus students. In addition, to close the technology gap, all students receive a laptop and, since the pandemic, internet hotspots.

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Unleash the Chatbots! AI for Retention

Higher Ed Connects: Technology

When it determines that students could use specific help, it connects them to corresponding on-campus resources, like the financial aid office or the career center. Each department—whether it is academic, registrar, advising, career counseling, student services, student success, food service, housing—are separate fiefdoms.

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Alamo Colleges District Launches Pilot Near-Peer Coaching Program to Help More Underserved Texans Access and Complete College

College Forward

“Breaking the cycle of intergenerational poverty requires meeting the most basic needs of each learner—from mental and emotional health to food and housing insecurity,” said Gilberto Becerra , associate vice chancellor for advocacy, retention, and completion at Alamo Colleges District.

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Consolidating touch points for retention

Confessions of a Community College Dean

For decades, colleges have consolidated many of their admissions and enrollment services functions under a single umbrella office—including, but not limited to, the bursar, the registrar, the cashier’s office and financial aid.

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30 Student Success Priorities for the 2020s

EAB

Financial This grouping refers to how students pay for college and its associated cost. As might be expected, these conversations centered on longstanding concerns around tuition and financial aid, but often expanded into conversations around supporting the holistic needs of students, especially working students.