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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The university restructured to a centralized academic advising model for the first two years of college, ensuring that advising is consistent across all majors, particularly for the most vulnerable populations. These include a food pantry and the basic needs food services and meal programs.

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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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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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30 Student Success Priorities for the 2020s

EAB

Basic needs support: Expanding food pantries and related programs to support students who have minimal financial resources. Work-schedule flexibility: Making support services such as advising available to working students taking classes outside of normal business hours.

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30 Student Success Priorities for the 2020s

EAB

Basic needs support: Expanding food pantries and related programs to support students who have minimal financial resources. Work-schedule flexibility: Making support services such as advising available to working students taking classes outside of normal business hours.