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Report and New Database Identify Successful Programming for Latinx Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Excelencia in Education, an organization working for increased access and completion of Latinx students in postsecondary education, has released its latest report on programs that have qualitatively and quantitatively shown to improve and increase the success of Latinx students in higher education.

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Profiling Some of the Institutions With the Most Minority Business Graduates

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“We have been doing online in some fashion for at least 25 years, so we have a lot of familiarity with various modalities.” There are many students from South Florida, but there is also global interest in the master’s degree programs. Hardin estimates that 80% of current graduate students are employed while pursuing their education.

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Success coaching retains first-year students

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The success coach is responsible for helping to ease the student’s transition into college, most directly through resource education and connecting students to the success center. The goal is to “intentionally get in front of students from the beginning,” Koons explains.

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Engaging with Hope and Beyond

Hope College Network

My first year was marked by my significant involvement in Hope’s Phelps Scholars Program, which is a first-year program that helps students develop the tools needed to navigate our multicultural world. and the various extracurricular activities that I was a part of helped to make Hope feel more like home.

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Librarians target incoming students, collaborative measures

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Academic library professionals across the higher education landscape are championing student success initiatives within their own spaces, particularly to equip new students for their academic careers. Many even have dedicated student success librarians, solely focused on collaborative, resource-focused programming.

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

University Business

. “Prospective students are shrewd consumers, and the factors that influence their choice in postsecondary education have grown more diverse,” says Amir Rasool, Hanover Research’s senior managing director. Communication preferences.

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Chief academic officer on the value of investing in student success

Confessions of a Community College Dean

These included general education courses as well as upper-division and graduate courses. Program faculty then reviewed the course content and worked on course redesign, making changes in delivery and/or course assignments while keeping program outcomes the same. First-year programs are not as common for graduate institutions.