Moving the Needle on the College Presidency
Confessions of a Community College Dean
APRIL 13, 2023
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Moving The Needle On Tuition Revenue
Credo Higher Ed
AUGUST 31, 2023
Credo’s Moving the Needle MTN partner institutions experience increases in both first-time, full-time student retention and graduation rates. Transforming Institutional Viability Through Student Success MTN drives participant tuition revenue by cultivating a thriving student success culture.
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President moves: Administrators prove popular picks as next leader on the job
University Business
APRIL 19, 2024
Three college administrators—including one president—will be coordinating goodbye parties at their current institutions as they prepare to move on to bigger opportunities elsewhere. Stephenson is currently the president of Northwest Florida State College, a community college. Lisa Coleman – Adler University (Ill.)
Moving The Needle on Retention: The Pathways Student Success Report
Credo Higher Ed
JUNE 6, 2023
"My Experience Wasn't What I Expected" Findings from the 2022 Moving The Needle Pathways To Student Success Survey highlight that meeting student expectations is a critical factor in determining whether a student plans to return next fall.
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“Move-in melt” is on the rise: Why it’s happening and 3 strategies to fight it
EAB
JULY 17, 2023
Blogs “Move-in melt” is on the rise: Why it’s happening and 3 strategies to fight it “Summer melt" is a familiar challenge for enrollment and student success teams across the country. But as the enrollment landscape evolves, new behavioral trends have emerged, including a phenomenon that we are calling “move-in melt.”
How Can You Move The Needle on Student Success & Retention?
Credo Higher Ed
AUGUST 27, 2021
It’s a deep dive into these questions that forms the core of Moving the Needle (MTN). Students enrolling for the first time or transferring to a new institution have a wealth of options to choose from on their higher education journeys. But those numbers only tell part of the story.
Decolonizing Higher Education Syllabi: Beyond the Aesthetics of the Syllabus
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
The first move is to begin by addressing colonialism and how it has shaped the structure of the syllabus today. Moreover, the syllabus speaks to the course structure, description, assessment and grading, resources, learning objectives and outcomes, and legal and administrative information. Dr. tavis d. Dr. tavis d. How do we do this?
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HEER Funding Kept Community Colleges Open and Students Enrolled
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 15, 2024
Community colleges were able to persevere through the pandemic thanks to the emergency relief funding passed through Congress. That’s the conclusion of the latest research from the Accelerating Recovery in Community Colleges Network at the Community College Research Center (CCRC) at Columbia University. Dr. Karen A. That’s a concern,” said Stout.
Lincoln University President Placed on Paid Leave Following Suicide of School Vice President
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 12, 2024
Moseley agrees those issues should be examined and has volunteered to go on leave during the review so that it can move forward in a fully independent way.” Lincoln University President Dr. John B. Moseley has been placed on paid leave voluntarily while personnel and mental health concerns are externally reviewed following the Jan.
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Five Questions That College Leaders Should Be Asking to Improve Student Success in 2024
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 26, 2024
Moving the needle on graduation rates might be the most pressing challenge for today’s higher education leaders. Rather, the blame often lies with the institutions, which remain stuck in a previous era and have not evolved to meet the needs of most working learners. Have we created programs that limit the need for child care ?
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AFT Calls on Colleges to Respect Freedom of Speech and Fight Hate on Campus
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
Randi Weingarten The move stems from a unanimous AFT executive council resolution on Nov. The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) is calling for people to respect intellectual and academic freedom and speech, and combat antisemitism, Islamophobia, and other racist hate on college campuses.
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Strategies for Speaking Out
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
APRIL 22, 2024
I feel the calling in my bones. My family is deeply Jewish, with both Sephardic and Ashkenazic roots, and taught me the core lessons of tikkun olam (repair the world), tzedakah (create justice), g’milut chasadim (engage in loving kindness), pikuach nefesh (life matters), and ometz lev (courage). 7) Take walks. 7) Take walks. Feed yourself.
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Seven Best Practices in 40 years of Reporting on Diversity in Higher Education
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
APRIL 11, 2024
Celebrating those “On the Move.” 11, 2007), has now published his seventh book and moved into administration at The University of Texas at Austin. What does Diverse: Issues In Higher Education mean to you? That might depend on what type of reader you are or your line of work. Thanks to the foresight of co-founders Bill Cox and Frank L.
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A 40th Anniversary Love Story: About My Favorite Magazine
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
APRIL 15, 2024
Perhaps as impactful as the front covers were announcements I read in the “On The Move” section over the years. I remember seeing copies of Black Issues in Higher Education in various administrators’ offices at Albany State, the historically Black university where I was an undergraduate student journalist in the mid-1990s.
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Clarence Avant, ‘Godfather of Black Music’ Dies at 92
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
AUGUST 14, 2023
Born in South Carolina in 1931 before moving to New Jersey, Avant went on to found Sussex Records and served as a manager and promoter for many artists including Michael Jackson. I can’t count the moves he made happen that I was personally involved in. I can’t count the moves he made happen that I was personally involved in.
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ABA Proposes Increased Job Protections for Untenured
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 5, 2024
The change would move legal writing, bar preparation, and other untenured faculty roles toward similar hiring rules and protections as clinical legal professors. An American Bar Association plan to strengthen job protections for untenured law faculty has been received positively by legal writing and clinical professors.
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Unapologetic Leadership Thought: Freedom Dreaming
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 28, 2024
It acknowledges that, as we move forward, there will most certainly be intense push-back. During the presentation, Garcia talked about Dr. Robin D. Kelley’s notion of the “ Freedom Dream ,” an invitation to imagine an educational space that is grounded in racial equity, social justice, and collective liberation.
Report and New Database Identify Successful Programming for Latinx Students
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.
Doing More with Less: HSIs and the Recipe for Upward Mobility
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 4, 2024
How HSIs Promote Upward Mobility. Dr. Marybeth Gasman, executive director of the Center for MSIs (CMSI) at Rutgers University. Dr. Marybeth Gasman, executive director of the Center for MSIs and her research team representing MSI-focused academics from across the country, have been working on the report since 2019.
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Biden Calls for Greater Support of HBCUs, HSIs, and MSIs
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 11, 2024
President Biden addresses Congress on March 7. When President Biden addressed over 32 million viewers for the annual State of the Union (SOTU) last week, he used the occasion to issue a full throttle support for higher education. The speech] was very fiery,” said Dr. Pietro A. Dr. Royel M.
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Clemson University Bans TikTok on Campus Networks
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JULY 10, 2023
The move to protect the “integrity of information and resources connected to the Clemson network,” according to Clemson officials, was announced to the campus last week. The move to protect the “integrity of information and resources connected to the Clemson network,” according to Clemson officials, was announced to the campus last week.
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Century-old Liberal Arts College to Shutter in Northeast Ohio
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 4, 2024
We are all saddened by the need to make this decision, but rest assured that as we move forward, we are doing everything we can to ensure a smooth transition for our students to continue their education,” said NDC Interim President Dr.
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City College of San Francisco to Rehire Faculty Laid Off Last Spring
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JUNE 6, 2023
Last May, the school reportedly laid off 38 full-time faculty , a move met with protests and arrests of teachers and students. The move as a whole resulted in concern and uncertainty over the school and its community. She said that the move constituted a first step in righting a wrong by the previous board.
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A Different, Ongoing ‘AI’ Problem?in Colleges and Universities
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
SEPTEMBER 25, 2023
A cluster of sophisticated societies, the products of the indigenous populations, merit no mention in the lessons presented to students as they move through their pre-collegiate schooling mechanisms. Dr. William B. This huge distortion regarding the development of the American society is aptly represented in the “Columbus myth.”
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Partnership Focuses on Enhancing Student Success Coaching Program
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
UMGC coaches will learn how to better assess a student’s situation, decide which topics to focus on in their coaching, and plan to get the student moving forward. The University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC) is looking to enhance its student success coaching program as its student demographics change. They may be caring for children.
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West Virginia State University Launches First Doctorate Degree Program
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 23, 2024
The program uses a cohort model, in which a group of students moves through the program together, taking all classes in sequence as a group. WVSU President Ericke S. Cage The Doctorate of Education in Leadership Studies would be the first doctoral degree conferred at the historically Black university.
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University of Houston Rescind Vest Policy for Theater Students After Police Incident
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 31, 2023
The University of Houston (UH) has retracted a policy requiring theater students to wear vests while rehearsing scenes outdoors, a move put in place after campus police drew a gun on a Black student while he was rehearsing, the Texas Tribune reported. UH police had received a report Nov. I’m terrifyingly aware that the gun was meant for me.
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Wentworth Institute of Technology to Drop Pre-Calculus Admissions Requirement for STEM Programs
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
These are students that have great potential and that really want to move into a STEM career,” Donovan said. “So The Wentworth Institute of Technology is dropping its pre-Calculus admissions requirement, opening its doors to a wider range of students looking to pursue STEM degrees there. She joined the Boston school in 2022.
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UT Austin Reinstates Standardized Test Scores in Admissions
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 10, 2024
The move follows four years of test-optional undergraduate admissions at UT Austin, which suspended the standardized score requirement in the spring of 2020 due to limited testing availability during the COVID-19 pandemic. The University of Texas at Austin plans to return to its standardized testing score requirement.
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Pomona College to Preserve Archival Collection of Civil Rights Leader Myrlie Evers-Williams
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
But it was Pomona College, it was the teachers here who helped me move ahead and come out of this feeling of drowning … And it was my being here at Pomona with the instructors here and the other people who did not smother me. “But The collection will be handled by The Claremont Colleges Library. They gave me space. Gabrielle Starr.
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Brown University Adds Caste Protections to its Nondiscrimination Policies
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 6, 2022
This makes Brown one of the latest schools to make such a move and the first Ivy League school to mention casteism in its general policy, according to Dalit civil rights organization Equality Labs. “If People are going to have to get trained about it. They have to make an announcement. It prompts people to think more and learn more.”
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Dr. Tracy Cook Appointed Interim President of Alcorn State University
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JULY 4, 2023
Cook will keep the university moving forward and building on its rich heritage," said Alfred McNair, president of the Mississippi Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning. Cook Cook is currently vice president for student affairs and enrollment management at Alcorn State.
Princeton African American Studies Chair Dr. Eddie Glaude to Step Down
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
APRIL 13, 2023
With this move, he said he would be staying at Princeton and returning to full-time research and other responsibilities, such as “trying to help the nation imagine itself differently when it comes to race matters.” Dr. Eddie S. It’s just time,” Glaude said. It’s time for a new leader, younger energy.”
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Saint Augustine's Plans Lawsuit After Denied Accreditation Appeal
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
Burgess said the university will move quickly to file a lawsuit against SACSCOC seeking an injunction that, if granted, will allow it to remain accredited with SACSCOC on Probation for Good Cause until the litigation process concludes. The commission’s appeals committee, on Feb. Dr. Marcus H. Burgess, interim president of Saint Augustine’s.
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Broward College President Gregory Adam Haile Resigns
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
But in a letter, he said it was time to move on. Broward College President Gregory Adam Haile has resigned early from his position, but the school’s Board of Trustees is holding off on accepting the resignation until they learn the reasoning behind said departure, The Miami Herald reported.
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The Importance of Listening to Student Needs Emphasized at Department of Education Summit
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
APRIL 24, 2024
Studying the data, intentional collaboration, and asking students what they need are keys to improving outcomes. On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) and the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP) held the Attaining College Excellence and Equity Summit: Holistic Advising and Wraparound Services in Washington, D.C.
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MEGA Symposium Tackles Trauma and Healing
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 8, 2024
My family moved 12 times before I graduated high school. We were homeless, and I had to move in with family members. Montclair State University The energetic, clear sounds of bomba drums called the room to attention as window screens lowered to shield the audience from the bright blue sky and Manhattan skyline.
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Achieving the Dream Releases New Equity Toolkit
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 11, 2023
It's a comprehensive toolkit that goes beyond just looking at data and moves the understanding of data into action and insights. And it gives the tools to move into action," said Dr. Karen Stout, president and CEO of ATD. The road to institutional equity is not straight but does require resiliency, the report stated.
Life: Navigating Unanticipated Adversities
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 8, 2023
Students enrolled in doctoral studies are often working adults. As one example, the average age of doctoral students in the Kansas State University Community College Leadership Program (CCLP) is 51 years old. I am witness to the strength of character of these students and their core values of persistence and care.
Biden Declares HSI Week
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
SEPTEMBER 12, 2023
It also touted the Biden administration’s educational policy moves that have benefited Hispanic students, including $11 billion of funding through the American Rescue Plan, increases in the Pell grant, and the introduction of SAVE student loan repayment plans, which reduce monthly payments to 5% of discretionary income.
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TICAS Policy Agenda Tackles the Flaws in the Higher Ed System
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
APRIL 19, 2024
The Institute for College Access and Success (TICAS) has released its latest policy recommendations to make postsecondary education affordable and completable for all students. “It TICAS “traced out all the different pieces that we would need to have a vibrant, acceptive, equitable higher education system,” said Gadkaree. Can they have healthcare?
Taliban Government Suspends University Education for Female Students in Afghanistan
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 21, 2022
also condemned the move, with State Department spokesperson Ned Price saying that the act will “have significant consequences for the Taliban and will further alienate the Taliban from the international community and deny them the legitimacy they desire.” This represents part of the increasing oppression on Afghan women’s rights.
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Leaders Call for Active Resistance Against Anti-DEI Measures
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
APRIL 13, 2024
NEW YORK – At the National Action Network (NAN) Convention in New York City, social justice leaders gathered to discuss the impact of anti-Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) legislation introduced or signed into law in states like Texas, Florida, and Alabama. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. NAN has chapters all across America.
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University of California Lifts Ban on Online Degree Programs
Confessions of a Community College Dean
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
University of California Lifts Ban on Online Degree Programs Lauren.Coffey@… Tue, 02/27/2024 - 03:00 AM Even as the debate on online courses continues, the UC move is creating concern about shared governance between faculty and university leaders. Byline(s) Lauren Coffey
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