Insight Into Diversity

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

As a tenured full professor of political science, a former director of graduate studies and admissions, dean, and now vice president for diversity, I view the crisis of Black faculty and staff retention in the Academy as a quiet earthquake — slowly moving beneath the ground, embodying the terrors that make academic life untenable.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 23, 2023

My response included a statement that if offered the job, I would be willing to get into a dunk tank, sell tickets for student scholarships, and challenge my colleagues to join me in the activity. Human resources is responsible for engaging with employees to establish community and employee satisfaction.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 13, 2024

Education is a human right regardless of one’s background, and access and support should be readily available to those in need. Since 2020, our first-generation retention rate has increased by 7.2% For example, we have developed an integrated framework to decrease student debt and increase access to outside scholarships.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2024

in human development from The Pennsylvania State University. An independent assessment of the UCEM program found large, positive impacts on student outcomes, including much higher retention and graduation rates of participating Sloan Scholars than are observed nationally for underrepresented students.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 15, 2025

With the growing demand for contemporary online education, it is crucial to analyze instructional design – a systematic process that applies psychological principles of human learning to develop effective instructional solutions. In this way, microlearning has become so demanding in current online education.

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University Business

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Not a week goes by without new laments about the decline of the humanities and social sciences. 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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2024

in human development from The Pennsylvania State University. An independent assessment of the UCEM program found large, positive impacts on student outcomes, including much higher retention and graduation rates of participating Sloan Scholars than are observed nationally for underrepresented students.

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

MARCH 8, 2023

Establishing a Strong Higher Ed Admissions Strategy The student journey from application to enrollment and, ultimately, graduation is a long one, with setbacks and turn offs along the way that can threaten student retention. Critical Initial Conversations One-on-one conversations are a critical element of student retention.

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Edu Alliance Journal

APRIL 21, 2025

With about 2,000 undergraduates, Davidson remains committed to developing humane instincts and disciplined, creative minds through a personalized liberal arts education steeped in tradition, yet responsive to the challenges of a changing world. Signature programs include the Center for Civic Engagement and Humanities Seminars.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 31, 2023

Faculty wanted to support student retention and provide greater academic support through a day of just academic advising in the spring semester. Workshops covered topics like wellness, intercultural workplace competency, awkward human resources interactions, careers in athletics and illegal interview questions.

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Liaison International

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Key Takeaways: AI literacy is crucial for enrollment teams to understand, evaluate, and responsibly use AI to enhance recruitment, retention, and operations. By cultivating AI literacy, enrollment teams can enhance recruitment strategies, improve student retention, and streamline administrative tasks.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 2, 2024

TILT has cited several studies on its website that point to increased retention and completion rates for students as a result of increased transparency around academic work. Her primary research interests revolve around the scholarship of teaching and learning in online contexts in higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2023

Among the programs are accounting, business administration, health administration and services, finance, human resources, and marketing. In terms of retention, Carter says hiring supportive faculty is a huge component. “We Since then, the number of scholarships has significantly increased, which has brought increased diversity. “In

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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.

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Edu Alliance Journal

APRIL 14, 2025

Students complete a liberal arts core while pursuing majors in fields like engineering, agriculture, the sciences, business, and the humanities. These issues pose challenges for student recruitment and retention, especially in STEM disciplines. An engineering student on scholarship, he left Tuskegee in his senior year to pursue acting.

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Insight Into Diversity

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

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 work is grounded in scholarship, the importance of building and expanding partnerships, and a deep understanding of institutional priorities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2023

While many of the immediate concerns in postsecondary education arenas are centered on admissions policies and scholarship support, the potential damage of eliminating affirmative action extends to employees across higher education and beyond. This same ethos should be applied to the service and support of administrators.

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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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Faculty Focus

JUNE 2, 2024

TILT has cited several studies on its website that point to increased retention and completion rates for students as a result of increased transparency around academic work. Her primary research interests revolve around the scholarship of teaching and learning in online contexts in higher education.

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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. Students from underrepresented groups often experience gaps in access, retention, and graduation rates compared to their peers.

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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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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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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The result, according to Feldstein: these institutions “make the same research demands on faculty and incur expenses for building out facilities that are not focused on creating well-educated citizens, successful professionals and thoughtful human beings. ” So what should these broad-access institutions do instead?

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

The Higher Ed Gamma blog has provided a platform from which I’ve been able to share my opinions about such hot topics as the future of the professoriate, pedagogy, curriculum design, the humanities, campus activism, academic freedom, in loco parentis , and much more. Why, scholars have asked, did the Brown v.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

After undergraduate programming demonstrated improved retention and graduation rates, Watford was able to recruit students to Virginia Tech. Encouragement Watford inherited one pre-college program that already existed for seventh and eighth graders, providing information about electrical and computer engineering. It is now called Imagination.

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Creatrix Campus

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Importance of data-driven decision making in higher education Data-driven decision-making in higher education holds significant importance as it enables institutions to: Identifying at-risk students and enhancing retention. Efficient allocation of budgets and staff. Improving course offerings and design. Ensuring adherence to standards.

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

JUNE 5, 2024

Institutions provide detailed information about tuition costs, available scholarships, and financial aid options to ensure that all prospective students clearly understand the financial commitment involved. Explore the features above. Financial guidance plays a critical role in this stage.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 27, 2023

Nicole Grewling is an associate professor of German studies and of humanities at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland, where she has taught language, literature, and culture courses since 2011. Maynard is the director of the Teaching and Scholarship Hub at the University of Richmond. Katherine S.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 27, 2023

Nicole Grewling is an associate professor of German studies and of humanities at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland, where she has taught language, literature, and culture courses since 2011. Maynard is the director of the Teaching and Scholarship Hub at the University of Richmond. Katherine S.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

Projects addressed topics such as annual giving, student retention, professional and continuing education, academic program planning, and more. Many tackled improving student success, retention, and equity at their institutions, while others focused on budget models and streamlining administrative processes.

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University Business

OCTOBER 24, 2024

I also help facilitate the personal connections between our students and admissions reps that humanize this process and make applying early decision possible. These students have earned $184 million in grants and scholarships to 130 colleges and universities across the U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

We have something called the Arizona Teachers Academy, which will provide students a tuition-free teacher-prep degree, provided they commit to staying in the state and teaching in a school in the state for the same number of years that they get this scholarship. That gave us a different way to think about it.

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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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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

JUNE 12, 2023

Delgado Community College paid attention to the needs of its community and designed a human-centered program that sets single moms (26% of their school population) up for success beyond their academic agendas.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 21, 2023

He recently led a project to develop a data-driven metric for identifying rural-serving institutions (RSIs), and he has been invited to speak by a number of organizations, including the American Association of State Colleges & Universities, National Scholarship Providers Association, and the Oregon Community College Association.

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Higher Ed Marketing Lab

JULY 30, 2021

I do think there are those … You have to have the right group, and you have to understand just basic human dynamics and relationships. Just to give a flavor of the human side of who our students are. ” Same thing with us in enrollment, whether we have, for example, retention under our umbrella, officially or unofficially.

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