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Looking to the future of advising: 6 takeaways from the 2023 NACADA conference

EAB

At NACADA, many institutions shared how they have built success teams with roles to supplement advisors’ work, with titles like retention manager, success coach, and student support specialist. It said no—advising requires a human touch and an understanding of students’ needs on a deeper level than AI can comprehend.

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Rising higher ed leaders tackle campus challenges in EAB’s fellowship

EAB

Our second cohort concluded in December 2021, our third cohort wrapped up in spring 2022, our fourth occurred in fall 2022, and our fifth occurred in spring 2023. Projects addressed topics such as annual giving, student retention, professional and continuing education, academic program planning, and more.

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Lafayette dept. heads, program chairs raise governance concerns

Inside Higher Ed

” The second point said that “Dean positions are created and filled before dean positions are defined[;] input is requested only after key decisions are made.” “Lafayette has a major retention problem among faculty and among staff and among administration,” she said.

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MEGA Symposium to Build Pipelines that Bring Black and Latinx Men to College

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It’s launching its Male Education and Graduation Alliance (MEGA), a workgroup charged with developing strategies for the recruitment and retention of Black and Latinx males. In fall 2021, the Brooking Institution, a nonprofit public policy research organization, found that males make up four out of every ten college students.

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What to Do Before More Campus Colleagues Head for the Door

Insight Into Diversity

Universities and colleges work hard to ensure diversity among faculty and staff, so when a valued employee from an underrepresented group enters a human resources office for their exit interview — and that’s the first time a supervisor learns the individual has been dissatisfied in their job — alarm bells should start ringing.

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5 higher ed thought leaders we are following

EAB

Thought leaders to follow Anant Agarwal Anant Argarwal ’s mantra is direct: “education is a human right–everyone should have access to it like the air we breathe.” We asked EAB’s top experts for recommendations on who to follow for new perspectives on higher ed’s latest trends. Here are a few people we are following. James Erika H.

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Why Do Universities Lie About Program Information?

Higher Ed Ethics Watch

The  lawsuit  — filed earlier this month by the human resources manager at Rutgers' business school — alleges that the school spent at least $400,000 placing seven graduates into "sham" positions between 2018 and 2019. The former dean of USC education school directed administrators to omit information from its U.S.