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Here’s where enrollment is booming across the South

University Business

Our mission—now more than at any time in our history—is to open our doors as wide as possible to more and more students, who will shape the future of this state,” University of Kentucky President Eli Capilouto said in a press release. first-year retention rate as to why its overall enrollment has increased by 4.9%, Forbes reports.

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Arizona State turns to YouTube to reach learners on the margins

Inside Higher Ed

Crash Course, an educational YouTube channel with more than 14 million subscribers, once prompted Wired magazine to ask, “ Why isn’t school this cool? history and human communication. The same is true about retention efforts. million subscribers. Indeed, a viewer would be hard-pressed to fall asleep.)

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A Long History of Recognizing Inclusive Excellence

Insight Into Diversity

The Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award, established by Insight Into Diversity magazine in 2012, was created to recognize and celebrate the exemplary work of colleges and universities committed to advancing DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) principles.

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Eye to the Future

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Retention efforts Morgan State is currently number one in the United States in producing Black electrical engineers and civil engineers, Wilson notes. This requires thoughtful retention efforts. Once students transition out of that first-year format, the success and retention office continues to work with them through graduation. “We

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Financial aid, retention, and faculty/staff representation are part of the Seal,” says Dr. Deborah Santiago, co-founder and CEO of Excelencia in Education, who says she is delighted to see institutions with intentional practices actively working toward increasing Latino representation in key positions. Hawkins Jr. Hawkins, Jr.

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Tribal Colleges and Universities as Conduits for Intellectual and Political Sovereignties

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

These potential collaborations and partnerships offer PWIs an opportunity to account for the histories that led them to occupy their current lands and waters and take steps toward reconciliation and a future grounded in Tribal sovereignty and nationhood.

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Leadership program offers support for underprivileged students

Inside Higher Ed

Image: A program at the University of California, Irvine, ensures first-generation or underprivileged students are prepared for their lives after college, with a 100 percent graduation rate among its 630 scholars in the program’s 24-year history. ” While SAGE wasn’t conceived as a retention program, it has become one.