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Tag: Student success: Page 4
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A Call for Multiculturalism in Higher Education
Higher education is at a crucial juncture. With the advent of a social climate that questions the validity of facts, scientific evidence and critical thinking, higher education has come under attack from a myriad of stakeholders.
October 9, 2018
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Study: Elementary School Student Support Reduces High School Dropout
Elementary school students who participated in a comprehensive support intervention in the Boston public school district had about half the odds of dropping out of high school as students not in the intervention, according to a new study in AERA Open, a peer-reviewed journal published by the American Educational Research Association. The 894 students who […]
October 3, 2018
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APLU, USU Provides Grants to Eight Schools to Promote Community-University Partnerships
The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) and Coalition of Urban Serving Universities (USU) have announced grants to eight public universities supporting the piloting and scaling of university-community partnerships focused on advancing student success. The Collaborative Opportunity Grants are part of an effort by public universities to develop new strategies to improve student success. […]
September 14, 2018
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Report: Guided Pathways are Working in Tennessee’s Community Colleges
Early indicators about the comprehensive guided pathways model implemented by the 13 community colleges in the Tennessee Board of Regents system show that it is helping the state’s students earn more credits, pass key courses and move towards graduation, according to a new report from the Community College Research Center (CCRC) at Teachers College. In […]
September 13, 2018
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Spelman and Ford Partner to Support First-Gen Students
First-generation students at Spelman College will receive support and mentorship under a new initiative with Ford Motor Company this year.
August 24, 2018
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How to Make Our Institutions More Accessible
While higher education is abuzz with goals of cultivating greater access and success for historically underrepresented groups, many institutions still engage in practices that work against these goals. If we are truly going to open our doors wider, we can’t do so without transforming our own policies and practices.
August 6, 2018
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Positioning Ourselves to Support College Success for Males of Color
If we are serious about improving the educational outcomes of males of color throughout the educational pipeline, then we need to change how we see and think about them, how we imagine, believe in and support their possibilities and how we work with them.
July 23, 2018
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Strayhorn Appointed to Leadership Post at LeMoyne-Owen College
Dr. Terrell Strayhorn, a prominent education researcher and author, has been named interim vice president for academic and student affairs at LeMoyne-Owen College, a private historically Black college in Memphis.
July 19, 2018
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Part II: Whose Responsibility Is It? The Role of Students in Their Journey to Academic Success
Every instructor, teacher and professor was once a student in a classroom. Yes, times have changed significantly, yet the fundamentals of the college experience and the goals for your teaching and student learning remain universal.
July 11, 2018
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Whose Responsibility Is It? The Role of Faculty in Student Success
As college professors, we hear it all the time, especially during the end of the semester, when it seems that’s the only time students decide to pay you an office visit. “Can you tell me how I’m doing in your class?”
June 26, 2018
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Study: Wide Racial Gaps Persist in College Degree Attainment
Compared to White adults in the United States, Black adults are two-thirds as likely to hold a college degree and Latino adults are only half as likely – with both groups attaining degrees at a lower rate in 2016 than White adults did back in 1990, according to a new report by The Education Trust.
June 18, 2018
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Promoting Diversity Using Motivation-Based Admissions Screening
Motivation is the most critical element to success. It is this highly valuable consequence of motivation that makes it a primary concern for managers, teachers, religious leaders, coaches, parents and others concerned with mobilizing others to act. Motivation is particularly valuable in education.
June 11, 2018
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