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How Data Drives Student Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Our program directors and faculty chairs work closely to match them to existing courses.” Smatresk, and his leadership realized that students, faculty, and staff would benefit from a more robust and insightful data set that anyone could use or access at any time. Students at LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City, NY.

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These finance leaders outline how investing in tech is helping drive down costs

University Business

The rate of finance leaders reporting that their institutions are increasing tech spending is higher than 59% of the other 200 nonprofit organizations Rabin measured. But with emergency aid all but gone, finance leaders identified a new primary set of strategies they’re using to retain employees.

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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Created in 2005 by Excelencia in Education, Examples of Excelencia is a national initiative that recognizes institutions and nonprofit organizations that identify, aggregate, and promote evidence-based practices that improve Latinx student access in higher education. The faculty and staff overseeing EPW know each student personally. “I

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Amid pushback, U.S. delays guidance on outsourcing

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Education Department’s recent guidance expanding the definition of what it means to be a “third-party servicer” for institutions that receive federal financial aid funds put online program management companies, or OPMs, squarely in the center of the bull’s-eye. So no one was remotely surprised that the U.S.

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The Next Frontiers in the Battle Over CRT and DEI

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Young, a program director at PEN America, the free expression nonprofit organization, thinks that even states that are less stereotypically conservative could become battlegrounds. In North Dakota, House Bill 1446, which would have allowed college presidents to dismiss tenured faculty, was defeated in part because of these fears.

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Statehouses support foster youth with college

Confessions of a Community College Dean

“I’ve observed the level of bipartisan support for these issues increasing over the last couple of years, which is really promising,” said Rodd Monts, director of state policy for SchoolHouse Connection, a national nonprofit organization that works to help young people overcome homelessness through education.