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Why Data Alone Won’t Improve Retention

Faculty Focus

Data has become the cornerstone of decision-making and institutional strategy in today’s higher education landscape. From tracking retention rates to measuring academic performance, data offers a clear, quantifiable view of how students and institutions are progressing.

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International Women’s Day: Black Women Shaping the Future of Academia

HEPI

Women in higher education and industry leadership, especially in Engineering and STEM, have reshaped academia and industry through groundbreaking contributions. These figures underscore the persistent barriers that hinder progression into leadership roles in academia and industry.

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The Slow but Steady Rise of Women in Higher Education Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

W Kim Lee and Dr. Carolyn Stefanco hen the American Council on Education launched its Moving the Needle initiative over a decade ago to raise awareness about gender parity in higher education or lack thereof only 23% of college presidents or chancellors were women. in the majority white college town in the Mountain region.

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How Faculty Diversity Drives Enrollment: The PhD Project’s 90% Success Model: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 236 with host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guests Dr. Jeffrey Robinson and Blane Ruschak

The Change Leader, Inc.

The discussion centers around the PhD Project's remarkable 30-year journey in diversifying business school faculty, creating systemic change in higher education through faculty representation, and building a sustainable pipeline of diverse academic talent.

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Talking the talk: language for learning in higher education

SRHE

Despite this compelling evidence, similar strategies have been underexplored in higher education. So, if students are themselves noticing a need for academic language, why are we so behind in the higher education context? Moreover, the skills developed through such training are highly transferable beyond academia.

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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The path to higher education success has many obstacles and barriers for Latinos across the U.S. The mission of Excelencia in Education, founded in 2004 by Dr. Deborah A. CSUSM gathers and analyzes disaggregated data pertaining to retention, unit completion and graduation. Santiago and Sarita E.

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ASHE Conference Urges Humanization of Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

LAS VEGAS-- Dr. Joy Gaston Gayles opened the 47th annual conference for the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) in Las Vegas with a call to disrupt the systemic oppression keeping marginalized populations from accessing higher education and burning out academics working toward greater diversity, equity, and inclusion. “If