Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 24, 2024

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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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 6, 2023

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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Higher Ed Connects: Student Success Blogs

JANUARY 15, 2020

Course scheduling is a critical function at every institution of higher education, but is often given precious little strategic thought. Or more accurately, I accepted the practices that had accreted through years of habit. By Lisa Hunter. The full article is available only to CHEL members as premium content.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2023

“We have been doing online in some fashion for at least 25 years, so we have a lot of familiarity with various modalities.” FIU is one of the largest Minority Serving and Hispanic Serving Institutions in the country. “We

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

At my past institutions (particularly UNLV), encouraging student participation in [first-year experience] programs led both to increased persistence of students into their second year and to decreased time to complete a degree. First-year programs are not as common for graduate institutions.

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