Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

APRIL 12, 2024

SAAL's Dynamic 1st Quarter: Progress, Initiatives, and Community Engagement The journey of the Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL) through 2024 has been nothing short of transformative and inspiring for me as President! SAAL President and the 2023-2025 SAAL Board Contact us Renée Delgado-Riley, Ph.D.,

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College Forward

MARCH 6, 2024

With warmth in their voices and appreciation in their hearts, our dedicated AmeriCorps members reached out to donors to personally say, “Thank you.” Each call became a moment to celebrate our shared commitment to creating opportunities for students to pursue their educational dreams.

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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

As CU Boulder looks to learn more about first-year students’ co-curricular experience and wellbeing, my office – the Student Affairs’ Office of Planning, Assessment, and Data Analytics – releases an annual, campus-wide survey to all first-year students. Faculty and colleagues ask, “Is this data statistically significant?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

In these early days, I am acclimating myself to the institution, evaluating the campus climate, establishing relationships with faculty, staff and students, and becoming more connected with the local community,” says Jaamal. The ambassadors will also help students recognize and respect cultural differences and similarities.

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SRHE

JANUARY 26, 2024

These facets can lead to extreme workloads, extreme discomfort, bullying and sometimes harassment routinely endured by members of both the academic community and the student body.

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Goucher DEI

MARCH 28, 2024

Current Exhibit and Public Programs Special Collections & Archives (SC&A) is currently hosting an exhibit through June 2024 that highlights the process of creating the land acknowledgement statement. We are in the beginning phases of discussing student assistance in exhibit interpretation.

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The Scholarly Teacher

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Further, CoPs provide opportunities for members to have a voice in determining how their small groups are organized and function (Drane et al., Transgressive learning communities: Transformative spaces for underprivileged, underserved, and historically underrepresented graduate students at their institutions. References Drane, L.,

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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

JANUARY 31, 2024

The purpose of the SAAL awards is to recognize the assessment work of members that advances the field of Student Affairs assessment and furthers the mission and values of SAAL. Nix has explored SAAL members’ experiences who have taken the SAAL open course, Applying and Leading Assessment in Student Affairs.

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EAB

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Unfortunately, these discussions tend to be dominated by the loudest voice in the room and raise questions that leaders cannot answer in public. Leaders typically use focus groups and town halls to gather qualitative data on the causes of low morale. These barriers might be holding your principals back. These barriers are probably why.

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Campus Sonar

APRIL 11, 2024

Now, it’s time to apply those insights on campus with strategies to help you begin rebuilding trust with prospective and current students, alumni, and the public at large. And these issues aren’t new as of the 2023–24 form changes—the U.S. Your mission and brand voice come into play here!

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Dhahan is a Doctoral Student in Counselor Education & Supervision at the University of Arizona Dr. Katie Mitchell-Dodge is a Doctoral Student in Counselor Education & Supervision at the University of Arizona “When I think of Black youth mental health, my first thought is that we don’t talk about it enough….And

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University Business

JUNE 7, 2023

With the pandemic accelerating higher education into the online space , colleges and universities have been forced to keep up with rampant student demand. Additionally, last year they acquired another popular edtech company edX, which one American business magazine listed as the third-most innovative education company of 2023.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

Blogs Trauma-informed practices in higher education: Building support communities from the top down August 9, 2023 Joanna Krueger Associate Professor of Chemistry, UNC Charlotte The views and opinions expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of EAB.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Graduate pipeline programs were created to level the playing field by providing students from historically excluded populations with the resources to be competitive in pursuing their graduate degrees. Many of these students come in without knowledge of research and lacking an understanding of graduate school and its application process.

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Campus Sonar

MARCH 29, 2023

When developing a strategy to enroll Black students your first step is to yield. Historically, the Black student experience is riddled with disparities and broken trust, but you can activate change by reflecting and acknowledging your institution’s history with Black students and having the hard conversations.

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SRHE

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

by John Donaghy At the SRHE International Conference in December 2023, I was delighted to have the opportunity to present an insight into my doctoral thesis: ‘ An Examination of University Paramedic Students’ Enculturation into the Ambulance Service.’

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SRHE

MAY 23, 2023

The intention of this Symposium Series is to bring together leading voices and space-based research from across the field to encourage critical discussion and debate with a view to generating and encapsulating key insights around contemporary landscapes of learning in HE. This blog was compiled and edited by Sinead Murphy.

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Creatrix Campus

JULY 20, 2023

Supporting Student Success in Higher Education: A Comprehensive Guide editor Thu, 07/20/2023 - 04:08 Higher education is an exciting and transformative journey, offering students a wealth of opportunities for personal growth and academic achievement. This is where Student Success in Higher Education peeps in.

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EAB

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

They weren’t given enough time to ensure students have what they would need to succeed in a fully online learning environment. The first step in the process is to identify the root causes of morale through a survey, collecting quantitative and qualitative data. Neal Dickstein: The first, obvious answer is COVID.

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EAB

APRIL 7, 2023

Your office spent weeks collecting data, building reports, and setting up a new dashboard for your colleagues. Or perhaps this sounds more familiar: You're in yet another meeting where one voice exclaims, "We need data!" only to have all other voices fall silent when someone asks for volunteers to actually investigate the data.

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CU Work-Life Balance

JANUARY 26, 2024

Two distinct character traits appeared again and again in Distinguished Professor Ruth Ellen Kocher’s nomination letters for the 2023 Excellence in Leadership Award: her capacity to connect with colleagues on a personal level and her ability to translate those colleague’s needs into practical, actionable plans.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 29, 2023

How the English department became responsible for freshman composition and whether students might be better served by different approaches to writing instruction. There was a time when a literary education was prerequisite for a voice in the public sphere. Or understand how readers process literature? An English B.A.

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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

MAY 2, 2023

Photo by Matt Bango on StockSnap The Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL) is 5 months into its newly formed leadership board. It is the people who have demonstrated these key foundations to ultimately best serve the needs of individuals engaged in Student Affairs assessment.

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EAB

AUGUST 21, 2023

Blogs Near-Term Strategies to Combat Transfer Decline As Fall 2023 classes shape up, many enrollment leaders once again face lagging transfer rates. More high school students are now opting out of college and instead choosing to enter the workforce directly. Transfer enrollments have declined by 13.5%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The current context of education is riddled with anti-Blackness that continues to find systemic ways to harm Black children and adolescents, ranging from the persistent surveillance and pushout from educational opportunities to anti-CRT legislation that prevents all students — not just Black youth — from learning about Black history and culture.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Top colleges often ignore AP scores and require students to take a placement test. Had the drafters included a wider range of voices in its concluding section, the framework would have been much harder to attack. Of course, the entire AP-pre-college industry is problematic. After all, there’s no shortage of supply.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2024

During the years she played high school basketball, Chayla collected NBA and NCAA men's basketball trading cards. Our research reveals that Black college women, like Angel, and countless unnamed others, encounter violence on and off campus every day and in ways that are socially acceptable (Haynes, Ward & Patton, 2023).

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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The section following this post outlines the changes the board would like to implement beginning on January 1, 2023. We believe it is in the best interest of our members to voice their opinion in one vote instead of having to submit multiple votes for every change. Below are six major changes outlined by the board.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

years in 2023. To address this fiscal crisis, the university resorted to program cuts and reductions in faculty, actions that have had a detrimental impact on both faculty and student morale. ACE respondents stated the average tenure was 8.5 years in 2006, 6.5 years in 2016, and 5.9 The decline in tenure is a cause for concern.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 4, 2023

It is exceedingly difficult, for example, to learn much about disparities based on race, ethnicity, gender, class, the experience of transfer students or employment outcomes, let alone the quality of the education that the institution offers. Issue 3: Student learning and employment outcomes.

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EAB

MAY 23, 2023

Podcast New Student Engagement Data Reveals Surprises Episode 152. May 23, 2023. They also offer advice to community college leaders on ways to make measurable improvements in student retention and enrollment. EAB · New Student Engagement Data Reveal Surprises Transcript [music] 0:00:13.0

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 12, 2024

However, although on state levels, it was decided that many entities could still pursue the need for the training, what it did was provide verbiage for what we are seeing in 2022/2023 with bills banning DEI efforts across the board.

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eLiterate

JULY 10, 2023

With changes like major demographic student switches, huge swathes of the economy being reconfigured, and profoundly impactful technologies popping up seemingly out of nowhere, companies need time to plan and implement appropriately significant responses. We have a handful of data points and endless surveys of student and work attitudes.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Ours is the golden age of creative nonfiction – a genre that recounts personal stories, memories, experiences, and observations using the literary techniques typically associated with fiction – voice, style, language, imagery, narrative, and more.

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EAB

MAY 1, 2023

Your office spent weeks collecting data, building reports, and setting up a new dashboard for your colleagues. Or perhaps this sounds more familiar: You're in yet another meeting where one voice exclaims, "We need data!" only to have all other voices fall silent when someone asks for volunteers to actually investigate the data.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

” She called out the overwrought warning labels strewn throughout the collection. Not only do their collections inequitably represent humanity’s artistic heritage, but their underpaid staff, too, isn’t especially diverse.

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SRHE

APRIL 20, 2023

by Phil Pilkington In March 2023 Nick Hillman, Director of the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI), wrote a review of Freedom of Speech in Universities: Islam, Charities and Counter-terrorism by Alison Scott-Baumann and Simon Perfect (both SOAS), covering freedom of speech, populism (of the left and right), ‘no platforming’, and students.

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