The PIE News

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

GAC has shown leadership and success in areas such as the most recent successful outbound mobility Global Skills Opportunity program , in collaboration with ESDC, and the recruitment and retention-focused International Student Program , in collaboration with IRCC. Looking for inspiration abroad is another.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 4, 2023

Coupled with the $400 increase in the 2022 fiscal year, this is the largest two-year increase ever in the history of the grant. In spring 2020, Black male retention at Whittier dropped to 30%. By January 2022, Black male retention jumped to 79%. The new total is a record high for the program, first created in 1972.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The first female president in the institution’s history, Larson returns to academic leadership after having served as the president of Adler Planetarium, a public museum for the past 12 years. The Illinois Commitment, a free tuition program that began in 2019, contributed to the university’s new enrollment record this past fall.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 27, 2023

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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

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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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2024

During the COVID-19 pandemic, he created an organization called Latinx in Marine Science, which connected Latinx researchers in the field during one of the most isolating periods of modern history. Wherever his future takes him, he will continue to improve the retention of diverse candidates as they break into the field.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 14, 2024

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

As indicated by several key metrics, over the past decade underrepresented minority (URM) students have made considerable progress in retention, graduation, and persistence rates. Working with our campuses, we’ve put in place high standards to raise their overall retention rates, overall graduation rates and overall attainment rates.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2024

For instance, partnerships with local community organizations can provide leadership development, internships, and scholarships tailored to Latine learners, while fostering a connection to space and place and bolstering a learner’s sense of belonging. This sense of belonging is critical for student retention and success.

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University Business

OCTOBER 3, 2024

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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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Just ask yourself: Without sufficient graduate-level training in sub-Saharan African history, how can a teacher effectively respond to student questions? At the risk of some hyperbole, one could argue that the framework (especially after the recent deletions) reflects the state of Black Studies and African American History circa 1980.

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Changing Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2015

In another sign of recognition of quality, 11 institutions now offer scholarships to students who successfully complete four StraighterLine courses. These students do unusually well when they come to WGU, and have year-to-year retention rates above 90%.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 27, 2023

Lieberman is the 18th president of La Verne and the first woman to lead in the university’s history. The second big challenge was we knew that if we were going to provide the scholarships that the students needed…we had to raise money for scholarships for our students,” Lieberman said.

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Insight Into Diversity

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Our newer faculty ranks are at their most diverse in UC history. Indeed, UC serves a high percentage of first-generation and low-income students who have some of the highest retention and graduation rates in the country. Our trajectories connect through the continually evolving scholarship of inclusion.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 29, 2023

The journalist, novelist, and playwright George Packer recently called our time “ a golden age of fatalism ,” and cited as evidence the host of historical scholarship consumed with the evils of this country’s past and the misguided myths that continue to distort Americans’ thinking and public policy.

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Today's Learner

MAY 30, 2024

It’s easier to recall new information when you learn it in a context similar to the one where you’ll be asked to remember it, and relating new information to real-world contexts that learners are already familiar with helps them create more robust mental frameworks for retention and recall. Learners in a U.S.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

The program exemplifies diversity, fosters inclusion, and encourages and supports the recruitment and retention of women and underrepresented students. Program goals include improving retention rates, supporting the development of STEM research and transferable skills, and increasing the number of neurodivergent researchers in society.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

American University Library (AUL) is a founding member of the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) Diversity Alliance, a program built on the commitment of participating libraries whose focus is strengthening the hiring and retention practices of underrepresented racial and ethnic groups in academic and research library positions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

There is a dual admission program with the Armour College of Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), which provides scholarships. One secret of our program’s exponential growth is retention,” says Espiritu. In the last three years EPW’s fall to fall retention ranges from 93% to 96%. “I I track them in retention.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Part of a $50 million investment focusing on recruitment, retention, and advancement of faculty who demonstrate a commitment to DEI excellence, the program will bring an additional 30 diverse scholars to JHU with a focus on STEM fields. JHSON has the largest percentage growth of underrepresented faculty among JHU’s nine academic divisions.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 24, 2022

Institutional and non-institutional scholarships that require students to maintain a minimum grade point average. history survey course, plagiarism occurs with some frequency even though students know that every written assignment goes through a plagiarism detector. The pressure to enter high demand, highly competitive majors.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

which traced its history to the union of Leicester Academy, founded in 1784, and the Becker Business College, which opened in 1887. It also was a serious loss for the Worcester region because of Becker College’s long and impactful history in the area and the prominence of several academic programs.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

What I find especially striking in his writing is his refusal to subordinate scholarship to ideology or partisan politics. It’s ultimately about scholarship, teaching, mentoring, and public trust in expertise and science. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. writ large.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

This past fall, we welcomed the largest first-year class in our history—at a time when college enrollment is dropping nationwide. Our Pillars Scholars program supports first-year African American students, including by providing scholarships and opportunities to engage in community-based, social justice opportunities.

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

AUGUST 7, 2024

A prospective student from a particular region might see testimonials from alumni in their area, while another visitor might see information on scholarships they’re eligible for. Higher Retention and Satisfaction: Personalization goes beyond enrollment.

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Navigating the Crossroads of Tradition and Modern Market Dynamics Colleges and universities have a long history of helping students transform their lives. This means tuition costs, but also available financial aid, scholarships, and potential earnings after graduation.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 25, 2025

Further, UAGC faculty are leaders in the scholarship of online teaching and learning, regularly publishing and presenting on the efficacy of its quality at scale model. Before the acquisition, Ashford followed the blueprint of one of the most notorious for-profit colleges in American history: the University of Phoenix.

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Insight Into Diversity

MAY 28, 2024

With a focus on expanding educational access for tribal students, the program addresses long-standing concerns around student loan debt by providing support to tribal students beyond other scholarships and grants, says Helen Faith, director of the Office of Student Financial Aid.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

There are 50 scholarships given out each year to students. According to Cassens, they award scholarships differently than your typical college esports program, because he believes in focusing on the whole student, not just their skill level. We raise money for our food bank or the children’s hospital and so on. Meet the players.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 13, 2023

I mention all this to introduce my key point—that we need to do a better job of recognizing scholarship that should drive public policy. When I was at the University of Texas system, it was widely recognized that UT campuses with similar demographics had radically different retention and graduation rates.

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SRHE

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Titles, status, hierarchy and contracts all have their history and the University’s constitution plays a decisive part. Cambridge still offers ‘Teaching and Research’ posts but more recently it has added ‘Teaching and Scholarship’ posts with the emphasis on teaching and their own Pathway.

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EAB

DECEMBER 19, 2022

We learned that students mental health may be the greatest threat to retention. For example, to help mitigate concerns about cost, the University of Michigan created the HAIL scholarship to provide tuition assistance to students from Michigan public high schools. Where and when grant-funded interventions can increase student retention.

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Higher Ed Marketing Lab

JULY 1, 2021

Obviously, it gets a little bit more complicated in how an institution applies it, using institutional aid or financial aid strategies to impact enrollment and retention and attracting students. Financial aid leveraging begins where you’re looking at data and say, “Hey, is this scholarship having an impact?

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JUNE 13, 2023

The results come from a study by the Lumina Foundation called “ The State of Higher Education: Breaking down the barriers to student enrollment and retention ” in partnership with Gallup. We don’t offer small scholarships or anything like that. We know from history that during recessions, enrollment goes up, right?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The current context of education is riddled with anti-Blackness that continues to find systemic ways to harm Black children and adolescents, ranging from the persistent surveillance and pushout from educational opportunities to anti-CRT legislation that prevents all students — not just Black youth — from learning about Black history and culture.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

She is the first woman to achieve this position in the university’s 100-year history. Kirk has a longstanding history with Concordia, which is her alma mater. Berger-Sweeney raised over $600,000 to create a new scholarship fund at the turn of the college’s 200th anniversary.

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