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Black Males in a State of Emergency

Outreach efforts at The Ohio State University result in the increased retention of Black male students.

Diversity Themes Feature Prominently at 30th Annual NISOD Conference

“We’re an open-door institution, but not enough African-American men are finding that door,” said Dr. Stephanie Bulger, explaining to NISOD Conference attendees about an ambitious plan the Wayne County Community College District has launched to enroll 1,000 Black men within the next five years.

Recruitment & Retention

Task Force Presents Report on Iowa Universities and Minorities

Officials at Iowa’s public universities want to close the graduation and retention gap between white and minority students.

New Report Highlights Schools That Make Minority Student Success a Priority

The causes of poor college graduation rates among low-income, first-generation and minority students have pervaded the pages of academic publication for years, while the instances in which African-American students have outperformed their White counterparts in the same area have gone largely undocumented.

Community Colleges

PUTTING FIRST-GENERATION STUDENTS FIRST

Faced with a growing population of first-generation students, many colleges are undertaking unique initiatives to recruit and retain these students.

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Professional Appointments

DR. G. WAYNE CLOUGH, president of the Georgia Institute of Technology, has been named secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. He will step down from his post at Georgia Tech on July 1. Clough received a bachelor’s and master’s from Georgia Tech and a doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley. DR. ELIZABETH […]

DIVERSIFYING FACULTY IN ILLINOIS

A revamped initiative aims to increase minority faculty numbers throughout the state.

Student Input Helps Community Colleges Improve Overall Experience

Focus groups find out what works in the classroom, on campus.

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Golden State Responds to Shortage of Health Care Professionals

With the lowest number of registered nurses in the nation, a California program aims to fill gap through a number of diversity initiatives.

Colleges Encouraged to Improve the Student Experience By Using Identified Best Practices

Jackson State University discovered through a student survey that students were not feeling engaged at the institution, and despite problematic academic probation and retention rates, were not taking advantage of the support services available.

Native Americans

Study Reveals Low Retention Rates for Nevada’s American Indian Students

A study presented to the Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents shows that only 57 percent of American Indian freshmen at Nevada colleges and universities continue on to their sophomore year, according to an article in University of Nevada, Las Vegas’s student newspaper, The Rebel Yell. The rest either transfer to an out-of-state […]

A New Retention Tool: Personal Coaches For Students

For years, Northeastern University¡¯s School of Professional and Continuing Studies was losing its students at a disturbing rate.

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