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Healthy Youth Program Evaluation Resources

Provides a wealth of handbooks, newsletters, briefs, tutorials, and tools to assist through the twists and turns of program evaluation. Includes information for planning, data collection and analysis, and strategies to share results.

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Student Success: Building a Culture for Retention and Completion on College Campuses

Presents the results of an extensive 2014 survey, conducted by The Chronicle of Higher Education, showing how to improve retention and completion rates at colleges and universities. The report reviews the use of big data along with the frequency of five institutional approaches to support student success--comprehensive strategy, basic strategy, first-year strategy, graduation strategy, and academic strategy.

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URMIA Survey Shows Higher Education Institutions are Attempting to Manage Fraternity Risk

Presents the results of the University Risk Management & Insurance Association (URMIA) survey investigating whether a rash of negative news stories about misconduct in fraternities was having an effect on how colleges and universities view the risk associated with them.

News

The impact of the Second Chance Pell Initiative in prisons

Five years after the Department of Education launched the Second Chance Pell Experimental Sites Initiative (SCP), data highlights the impact of expanding postsecondary education programs in state and federal prisons.

News

Often overlooked in rankings, Hispanic-serving colleges embrace a new metric for success

Which schools deserve to top lists of the best colleges in the U.S.? That depends on what you mean by “best.” If “best” means the most prestigious and more selective admissions, then sure, current college rankings are doing what they’re meant to do. But if the point of higher education is to buoy economic mobility, those lists that make headlines every year aren’t showing the whole picture.

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Department of Education’s latest data on campus hate crimes

A new report from the U.S. Department of Education offers a detailed look at crime and safety at the nation’s schools and on college and university campuses. Data is presented on a wide range of indicators including hate crimes on college and university campuses.

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How much student housing does $1.4 billion buy?

State lawmakers are giving public colleges and universities $1.4 billion this year to build or renovate affordable dorms for students. The 25 projects across California range in size and price but are expected to make space for 7,300 students.

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Survey: Campus supports help save LGBTQ+ lives

New research by the Trevor Project shows that LGBTQ+ students are at significantly lower risk of suicide if their college offers mental health and LGBTQ+-specific resources.

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Three quarters of Wayne State students used to drop out. Now most graduate.

Eleven years ago, just one out of every four undergraduates who enrolled at Wayne State University graduated within six years. For Black students, it was barely one in 13. Those numbers have changed dramatically, thanks to the roll-out of several initiatives designed to support students from orientation to graduation.

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Utah women discuss the roadblocks they face in pursuing higher education

The Utah Women & Leadership Project released a new research brief discussing findings from in-depth interviews with women enrolled in college or graduate schools in Utah. The testimonials of these participants revealed common influences on their decision to pursue higher education as a woman – relationships and religious and cultural influences.