Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 5, 2024

Across higher education, the desire for diversity among student populations is usually the responsibility of recruitment efforts but falls short in retention strategies. Colleges typically use a variety of assessments such as standardized tests, essays, and GPA to determine a student's readiness for life in academia.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 9, 2024

As we delve into these disparities, it becomes clear that targeted interventions and policy changes are essential to bridge this gap and foster a more inclusive educational environment. This can result in feelings of isolation, discrimination, and alienation, which negatively impact academic performance and retention rates.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Gaston Gayles directly addressed the toxicity of the constantly productive, highly competitive environment in academia. Many TCU leaders are focused on creating a familial environment on campus. While TCUs are not a monolith, she found similarities in methodology.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 8, 2025

Elevating Engagement Engagement is an important factor driving retention in online classrooms; furthermore, dynamic environments capture the attention of students, ensuring greater dedication to learning. Social Presence in Technology-Rich Learning Environments: How Real We Are Feeling Connected and How Does It Matter for Learning?

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University Business

MAY 23, 2023

Without proper guidance from family members, men who are first-generation college students may not be able to visualize success in academia truly. There’s an anti-intellectual environment that’s gotten worse. This three-year study examined minority male retention rates over three years when assigned a success coach.

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HEPI

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

We have also held different managerial positions within academia. By doing so, they identified ecocentric transformational marketing strategies that consider not only the business environment but also the natural environment, including ecological and natural sciences. Over the past numerous years, we—Adam Lindgreen and C.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

She credits the faculty for creating an environment where students feel safe discussing their concerns while continuing their education with sustained quality. She also encourages nurses of color she meets at various events and offers to mentor individuals who are considering entering academia.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 16, 2022

My background is in Educational Neuroscience, applying how the human brain learns to improve teaching environments. Preview: the results were really promising, with several significant boosts in female retention.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 27, 2025

By implementing predictive analytics and student success initiatives, such as proactive advising, they have boosted retention and graduation rates, especially among underserved populations. Higher education operates within a complex regulatory environment influenced by local, state, and federal policies.

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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Throughout 2022, Ball State University has made significant progress on its five-year Inclusive Excellence Plan, which aims to advance broad DEI goals across the university, including campus culture, policies and infrastructure, and recruitment and retention. Grant Supports Inclusive Teaching, Student Retention — Colorado School of Mines.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 29, 2025

He also acknowledged that his impatience for change, developed during his years in industry, had to be balanced with the collaborative culture of academia. Driving change requires a blend of strategic impatience and deliberate consensus-building, especially in environments where stakeholder ownership is deeply ingrained.

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Insight Into Diversity

MAY 28, 2024

As music education continues to embrace DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) principles, those at every level in the field are pushing for greater representation and exposure of music beyond the boundaries of the classical, Caucasian-centered curricula typical of academia. Washington University (WashU) in St.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

From December 2016 to July 2022, when she left to begin her new position, she served as associate provost for undergraduate retention and dean of undergraduate studies. Photo Credit: Macaulay Honors College Finding a lack of diversity Access to higher education has been an important theme in Byrne’s life in academia.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

From 2021–22, the Pillars Scholars program helped increase Dominican’s retention of African American students by 30 percent. All the academia fades away in that moment to one prevailing thought: this moment is the beginning. Q: Hope was important for you in your higher education journey.

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SRHE

DECEMBER 19, 2022

As the REF puts it we should be “illustrating the benefits research delivers beyond academia, including how it brings tangible changes to aspects of society and life, and the public value it delivers”. Part of our role as universities is to produce (and facilitate the production of) knowledge.

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University Business

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Colleges and universities are always actively seeking ways to boost their retention and persistence rates. Student engagement far outside the classroom Most professionals may only associate edtech with helping students purely in academia. “When students know they own it, they use it,” he says.

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SRHE

APRIL 10, 2024

It is also well evidenced that poor mental health of students is strongly related to poor academic outcomes such as achievement and retention ( Pascoe et al , 2019 ; Thomas et al , 2021 ). Academia has changed substantially even within the 23 years I have been working. But what do we know about academic mental health?

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Creatrix Campus

JULY 11, 2024

This blog reveals how cutting-edge CMS solutions are transforming campus operations, tackling soaring higher ed issues, and creating a more flexible and student-focused learning and teaching environment in place of obsolete traditional ways. Important courses in academia usually consist of: 1.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

MAY 4, 2023

Mr. Magliozzi described why a campus might choose Mainstay as a technology partner: "We're the only platform consistently proven to move the needle on enrollment, retention, and academic success. Let's do it for year-to-year retention.' 'We We increased year-to-year retention three percentage points, that's awesome.

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SRHE

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Mooney (2016), for example, criticizes the fact that hospitality management takes a ‘dispassionate’ attitude toward casually employed students, failing retention. Labour process analysis identifies the structural constraints that make such workplaces toxic and exploitative environments.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 19, 2023

It’s easy to fall into the trap of constant connectivity, especially in the high-pressure environment of higher education. Leaders in academia carry the responsibility to create a culture conducive to the growth and well-being of the people they lead (staff and faculty). People say that all the time. 00:15:48] Drumm: Yeah.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 9, 2024

Understanding the trends, challenges, risks, and opportunities discussed should be an addition to strategic planning and risk mitigation for institutions aiming to stay ahead in a technology-driven educational environment. About Our Podcast Guest Phil Hill , publisher of Phil on EdTech Blog and partner at MindWires LLC.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

And of course, when they do that well, that makes a huge difference to student retention. ” [00:32:04] Catherine: I think you are absolutely right, Drumm, and in academia more than anywhere else, we’re probably used to thinking about peer review. And so it’s that’s, that makes a huge difference. Am I crazy?

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 21, 2023

Before joining the faculty at ASU, he was a faculty member at Texas Tech, and prior to working in academia, Dr. Koricich spent several years as a software development manager at a large insurance company prior to his career in academia. Elliot and his team have significantly impacted institutions’ enrollment and retention.

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Echo Delta

OCTOBER 7, 2021

” If we’re talking about enrollment, “What’s your recruitment strategy or retention strategy?” Then it sort of keeps going, depending on what happens in your environment. I did all the time, when I was in academia full-time. That, in a short version, is sort of the cycle. I frustrate people.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 26, 2023

It’s a perfect rejoinder to the grim tone of just seconds earlier and an eloquent statement of the film’s purpose: to offer an alternative to the negativity that can pervade discussion of the Black experience in academia and to reflect the beauty that can grow when faculty of color are supported and support each other. It’s spectacular.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 29, 2023

South Dakota is just one example of Republican-led states taking action against diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in academia. I think it’s really important for all of higher education to be really in tune with this social and economic environment,” said Crazy Bull. Our renewal rate for membership is 96%.”

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 20, 2023

If you’re going to ban DEI as an office, does that mean you are banning support, retention, and recruitment programs in which underrepresented minorities are being recruited or are there retention efforts specifically for women in STEM?” It’s such a broad topic that general threats to ban it alarm practitioners, he says. “If

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 13, 2022

“They often serve as the only and primary contact for students and can play a vital role in student retention and attainment. If we trained all the faculty, I can assure you, we would have a better environment, but [we would] not solve the larger environmental problem deeply entrenched in our organization.”

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 9, 2022

This principle is concerned with how faculty plan, organize, create, and demonstrate understanding of the materials to increase students’ learning and retention (CAST, 2018; Harris et al., The UDL framework guides HyFlex course design to embrace inclusion which produces a broad-spectrum of learning environments.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Many Black women also suffer intersectional discrimination out in the world, which can lead to trauma, mental health challenges, and “racial battle fatigue,” even before they step foot into academia. Rather, schools can still do better to support their people and create more welcoming and equitable environments," he added.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 8, 2025

Learn how higher ed leaders can turn faculty survey data into strategy, improve shared governance, and increase retention and leadership trust. Faculty Retention and Morale: What the Data Actually Shows COACHEs Faculty Retention and Exit Study offers comparative insights into why tenure-line faculty choose to leave.

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