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Enhancing Understanding of Urban Community Colleges

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Smith Title: Associate Professor of Higher Education; Provost Faculty Fellow, University of Cincinnati Age: 39 Education: B.S., His research contributes to the understanding of the factors that influence financial, governance, and policy decisions in higher education. Everrett A.

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How Three Bronx Institutions are Intentionally Hispanic-Serving

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The school is now eligible for Title V HSI funds that can support student recruitment, education, sense of belonging, and completion. Interim Provost Dr. Rani Roy says the school has already applied for two HSI grants and will find out in October whether they’ve been accepted. You raise the quality of life for individuals by education.”

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Field of study not key to new academic program success

Inside Higher Ed

Image: The success rate for new academic programs at colleges and universities depends more on the type of institution launching them than whether a program is in the sciences or humanities, according to a new report identifying what sorts of programs fare better when it comes to growth. ” The study listed a failure rate of 39.4

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Faculty and Credit Transfer

Inside Higher Ed

Therefore, the ability to successfully transfer from a community college is particularly salient for addressing racial and socioeconomic inequities, such as gaps in transfer and completion rates, in postsecondary education. This work is supported by Ascendium Education Group.

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Training faculty to help students in mental distress

Inside Higher Ed

Harvard University recently created the Crimson Folders program—part of its We’re All Human health and wellness campaign—to give faculty and staff in each school the tools to “recognize, respond, refer and resource” students undergoing mental health challenges. (It

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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Doris Espiritu EPW was created by Dr. Doris Espiritu, Senior Advisor to the Provost, dean of the Center of Excellence for Engineering & Computer Science, City Colleges of Chicago. It began as a pilot program in 2015 and started in earnest in 2018 with 25 students after receiving a $1.68

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Alphabet Soup

Susquehanna President's Blog

. · ACAD - American Conference of Academic Deans – This group, supporting academic leaders “above department chairs and below presidents” provides professional developments and the exchange of best practices for academic leadership at the dean and provost level. Department of Education.