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Are you meeting students’ basic needs?

EAB

Like many of our students, I was a first gen, low-income college student who had periods of housing, food, and transportation insecurity. I remember working food service jobs so it would be easier to eat, needing to move constantly as rent got too high, and scrounging to afford my bus pass.

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

ASU has added several Spanish language marketing materials, including an En Espanol section on the university’s website, a comprehensive admissions piece, Spanish campus tours, and multiple recruitment pieces for academic programs. These include a food pantry and the basic needs food services and meal programs.

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Improving Enrollment, Retention, and Graduation Rates: Learning from the Arrupe College Strategic Enrollment Model

The Change Leader, Inc.

Exacerbating this, higher ed is facing significant headwinds to recovering enrollments, including the demographic cliff, reduction of public funding, and a robust job market. And with each of these “nontraditional” students, there comes a greater level of support needed. Realistically, this number is probably 20-30%.

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Drive Enrollment Growth with First-Gen Pathways to Success: Changing Higher Education Podcast 167 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Marielena DeSanctis

The Change Leader, Inc.

Colleges must also help communicate the ROI for getting a post-secondary degree. These supports must be implemented at the K-12 level so higher ed can monitor the progress of prospective students. So you think about particularly how quickly the labor market landscape has been changing over the last 10-15 years. We have a DJ.

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New Student Engagement Data Reveals Surprises

EAB

One month later after that, in that same first semester, James, his tone has changed, even the way he communicates. We have the Community College Service Student Engagement called CCSSE that's administered in our spring term. And he says, college is kind of hard, but he's gonna stick through it. So the first one I said was data.

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30 Student Success Priorities for the 2020s

EAB

Basic needs support: Expanding food pantries and related programs to support students who have minimal financial resources. Work-schedule flexibility: Making support services such as advising available to working students taking classes outside of normal business hours.

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30 Student Success Priorities for the 2020s

EAB

Basic needs support: Expanding food pantries and related programs to support students who have minimal financial resources. Work-schedule flexibility: Making support services such as advising available to working students taking classes outside of normal business hours.