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Our Advice for Making College Campuses Ready for Diverse Student Populations

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Across higher education, the desire for diversity among student populations is usually the responsibility of recruitment efforts but falls short in retention strategies. One of the most common mistakes that institutions make in their efforts to retain students is an overemphasis on tuition scholarships.

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$38 Million Grant to Support Native College Students

Insight Into Diversity

The grant, which totals $38,775,000, is the largest in the College Fund’s history. Known as “Culture at the Heart: An Indigenous Approach to Enrollment and Retention,” the programming funded by the grant seeks to increase enrollment, retention, and graduation rates of Indigenous students at 25 TCUs nationwide.

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Program Encourages Regional Native American Students to Pursue Health Sciences

Insight Into Diversity

The campus has a 50-year history of serving Native American and rural communities and ranks second nationally for graduating Indigenous physicians. Recruiting and retention efforts include scholarships covering full tuition, cultural support programming, and assistance in transitioning into medical or doctor of philosophy programs.

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NJIT Achieves HSI Status and Works to Increase Its Impact

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In 2020, NJIT created the Hispanic and Latinx Leadership Council, which is made up of students, faculty, staff and alumni as well as business and community leaders who work collaboratively to address recruitment, retention, engagement and persistence among Latinx students. Lim, hosted a campus celebration of the school’s HSI designation.

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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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Why liberal arts leaders should know STEM isn’t the enemy

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When STEM disciplines integrate the humanities and arts , learning outcomes include critical thinking, resilience, self-efficacy and other valuable traits, such as “recruitment, learning and retention of women and underrepresented minorities.”

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Promoting Higher Education for Native Americans in Minnesota

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

These are last-dollar funds, which means it covers a student’s remaining costs for tuition and fees after all other aid—scholarships, grants, stipends and tuition waivers—has been awarded, and it does not cover the cost of housing, food, transportation, books or supplies. There are 11 federally recognized American Indian tribes in Minnesota.