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How Data Drives Student Success

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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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How to Move Latinx Students into High-Paying Jobs

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economy, said Eloy Oakley, president and CEO of College Futures Foundation, a California-based organization supporting higher education for all. That’s why Excelencia has issued four new reports in its continuing investigation into the relationship between institutions, Latinx students, and the workforce.

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Generation Hope Offers National Certification to Recognize Student Parent Support Efforts

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Nicole Lynn Lewis The FamilyU Seal approval process involves assessing how higher ed institutions student parent support efforts align with the FamilyU technical assistance framework, said Nicole Lynn Lewis, founder and CEO of Generation Hope. Additionally, one institution will be awarded $25,000, and one nonprofit will get $15,000 award.

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How Three Bronx Institutions are Intentionally Hispanic-Serving

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Data gathered by Excelencia in Education, a nonprofit organization working to improve and accelerate Latinx student success in postsecondary education, showed that in 2021, there were 401 emerging HSI institutions across 43 states. are white and only 21% are faculty of color. The 2021 Latinx population in the U.S.

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DREAM Conference Marks Milestone

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DREAM — the signature annual event of Achieving the Dream — a nonprofit organization that works to close achievement gaps, has become the go-to convening for community college educators and policymakers interested in institutional change.

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Higher Ed Prepares to Celebrate the Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Center for Nonviolent Social Change, a nonprofit organization founded by King’s widow, Coretta Scott King, as a living memorial to King’s philosophies and dedication to progress. Higher education institutions are the engines of change in our society, premier hubs for knowledge production," said Graves. Dr. Vicki L.

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First Doctoral Program at a TCU Will Contribute to Native Sovereignty

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He has nurtured the faculty, programming, and pedagogy of his institution and has watched it grow from a two-year technical school into a research university. Its master’s degree program in Diné Culture, Language, and Leadership required the institution to hire new faculty members and save money for a research library.

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