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Direct linkHayes, Dianne – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2012
As a first generation immigrant born in Mexico City, academic coaching is one of the keys to success for Juan Arias, a 24-year-old junior at Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont, California. The community college transfer student was provided with his own personal coach during orientation who provided weekly visits or calls to guide him…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, School Holding Power, First Generation College Students, Minority Group Students
Elfman, Lois – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2010
Dozens of organizations around the country share the goal of improving Latino college student success, but there's been little progress in closing the educational-attainment gap. The desire to close the gap is there, but what has been missing, one education advocate believes, are vehicles for collective action. "Excelencia" in Education, a…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Graduation Rate, College Attendance, Public Agencies
Stuart, Reginald – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2010
According to the College Board's review of data from the Organization of Economic Co-Operation and Development, the U.S. ranks 12th out of 36 nations in terms of postsecondary attainment among citizens 25 to 34 years old. Completion is the mantra since President Barack Obama challenged higher education by setting an ambitious goal for 60 percent…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Academic Advising, Career Counseling, Graduation Rate
Feintuch, Howard – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2010
The author reports on Ohio's bevy of education initiatives that take aim at helping African-American male students succeed. The Todd Anthony Bell National Resource Center for the African American Male at The Ohio State University is one of several initiatives that help African-American men succeed in Ohio. All the programs focus on individual…
Descriptors: African American Students, Leadership Qualities, Males, Youth Programs
Hamilton, Kendra – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2005
It's all about the mission at Berea College. Founded on a Utopian dream, Berea has been doing diversity longer than any school in the South. Berea College isn't a product of the civil rights movement. Not even close. The school pre-dates Reconstruction. In fact, at 150 years old, the first integrated, co-educational school in the South pre-dates…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Graduation Rate, Family Income, United States History
Roach, Ronald – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2006
Many major corporations and national organizations have been pointing to the need for improved K-12 and collegiate opportunities for minorities since the early 1970s. They have argued that such an infrastructure would be necessary to provide Blacks, Hispanics, American Indians and others with the background to enter the science and engineering…
Descriptors: Corporations, Labor Force, Graduation Rate, Human Capital
