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Are you prepared to recruit ‘Gen P’?
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The top 5 ways prospective graduate and adult learners are finding your programs
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30 Student success priorities for the 2020s
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Most strategic plans fail to set useful goals. Why these mistakes make it impossible to meet institutional objectives.
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Higher Education Strategy Blog
How to explain facilities impacts at the institution level and obtain buy-in
How can we better explain impacts of facilities at the institutional, unit, and division level and obtain buy-in with executive leaders? As part of this evaluation, we identified several opportunities for success.
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Higher Education Strategy Blog
Strategies for improving graduate DEIJ enrollment pipelines
Graduate enrollment growth driven by increases among students from underrepresented minority groups is offsetting undergraduate enrollment declines. DEIJ will impact enrollment behaviors over the next decade, with a large percentage of prospective students citing a diverse student body as critical to their final enrollment decision, yet equity gaps for graduate students continue to lag behind.
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Higher Education Strategy Blog
Making an institution a “first choice” for underrepresented students
Institutional success and DEIJ initiatives are intertwined. Success warrants developing a clear, intentional, and personalized outreach strategy that makes an institution a “first choice” for underrepresented students. Recognizing existing gaps by race and ethnicity in recruitment, matriculation, retention, and graduation rates are essential.
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Higher Education Strategy Blog
Developing best practices for equitable faculty hiring
Common approaches to DEIJ training, such as workshops and on-line trainings, can be frustrating for many staff and faculty because the question is “What’s next?” This blog outlines an action plan for faculty hiring to ensure that DEIJ concerns were addressed.
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Higher Education Strategy Blog
Building a purposeful DEIJ infrastructure at Mercy College
In the last three years, higher education institutions have had to reckon with intensified conversations on race and criminal justice on one hand, and increased disparities in academic performance within the context of a global pandemic on the other. At Mercy College, we have observed how student performance demanded greater attention to these challenges, particularly in how we deal with widening achievement gaps that were closing prior to the pandemic.
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Higher Education Strategy Blog
Improve campus DEI responses through practice discussions
Following the murder of George Floyd, Drake University leaders facilitated virtual meetings for faculty, staff and students called "BLM@Drake." Through these discussions, it became clear that faculty, staff, and students were interested in improving their ability to address racially charged campus incidents. This blog explores how to prepare to respond to these issues in real time.
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Higher Education Strategy Blog
Rethinking the academic affairs organizational structure
There are some considerations for rethinking the academic structure: functional alignment, institutional priorities, strategic altitude, and provost’s individual priorities. The provost needs to need to balance functional alignment with institutional and individual priorities. There are of course many other considerations such as timing, change management, and communications.
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Higher Education Strategy Blog
How academic units can show alignment with and measure progress towards university goals
This blog explores how one of EAB's rising higher education leaders fellows created a strategic plan data model. This model was used to evaluate goal progression and produce succinct reports showing CCI’s alignment with university goals.
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Higher Education Strategy Blog
Fiscal literacy for department chairs
While management of financial resources is one of their top responsibilities, often department chairs who are charged with stewardship of a significant portion of the university’s resources are provided the least amount of training to do so.
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