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Profiling Some of the Institutions With the Most Minority Business Graduates

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

While there are many undergraduates and graduate students aiming for careers in banking or finance, there are also entrepreneurs, innovators, people interested in hospital administration, and others seeking positions at nonprofit organizations. At the graduate level there are eight graduate degree programs and 10 stand-alone certificates.

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How your future students’ needs are changing in 5 big ways

University Business

What colleges should do : Administrators must consider alternatives to the traditional weekday schedule to recruit the increasing number of prospective students who want more flexibility. Inclusive messaging, robust support services, and strong orientation and first-year programming assure students they will get the support they need.

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Librarians target incoming students, collaborative measures

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Over the past few decades, libraries have shifted attention from primarily instruction work toward purposeful collaborations in first-year programming. An older model among libraries is coming into classrooms like an English 101 course or a first-year seminar to share information.

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Your Most Powerful Tool For Improving Outcomes May be Hiding in Plain Sight: Student-Centered Course Scheduling

Higher Ed Connects: Student Success Blogs

For years, my only perspective on scheduling came from my own experience as a faculty member, and then head of an academic program. When I moved into administration—like so many academic leaders—I accepted the inherited wisdom of how things were done.

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Chief academic officer on the value of investing in student success

Confessions of a Community College Dean

A: All of my academic roles have incorporated student success, whether as a faculty member teaching and mentoring students or as an academic administrator. First-year programs are not as common for graduate institutions. At Claremont Graduate University, we developed programs to help students at different points.