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New Ways to Support Community College Student Health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Yet these institutions try to fulfill their mission, putting more pressure on a small number of campus health professionals, adopting telehealth programs (despite a lack of much evidence that they work well for students), and expressing frustration with the difficulty in doing more.

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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. million research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas, partners with over 62 high schools across the state, facilitating college access for Latino, rural, and other marginalized communities. They must present evidence of effectiveness in institutional practices serving Latino students. It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students.

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Report Emphasizes the Importance of Professional Social Capital

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

We saw evidence that relationships were critical to fill in that missing variable to the completion and economic advancement equation,” said Michael Collins, JFF vice president and leader of JFF’s Center for Racial Economic Equity. “We We wanted to create a framework and supports for institutions.”

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Unleashing Economic Opportunity: Honoring the Legacy of the March on Washington

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Through cutting-edge research, faculty and students can work collaboratively with industry partners to develop pioneering technologies and solutions. On the 60th anniversary of the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, we stand at a pivotal moment in history. Inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Dr. Marcus A.

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HBCU Advancement Teams: Don't Underestimate the Power of the Individual Donor

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In all of the recent fundraising trainings I provide, I posit that HBCUs are literally “leaving money on the table” due to the lack of attention paid to cultivating individual donors and, over the course of a two-hour orientation training, I demonstrated how. billion and $516.65 billion in charitable giving, respectively. Dr. Roderick L.

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Report: Test-Optional Policies Result in Increased Student Diversity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I think it provides evidence and data to what we would've suspected, which is that the GMAT is not a particularly useful instrument for doing business school admissions,” said Harry Feder, executive director of FairTest, a national organization that focuses on issues related to fairness and accuracy in student test taking and scoring. "I