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BEAMS

(2003-2008)

Building Engagement and Attainment for Minority Students (BEAMS) fostered data-driven campus change initiatives at more than 100 of the nation's four-year minority-serving institutions (MSIs)—Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Hispanic-Serving Institutions, and Tribal Colleges and Universities—in order to increase student engagement and learning. BEAMS was established to support the important role MSIs play in facilitating minority students’ participation in and completion of higher education.  

The BEAMS project helped participating MSIs enhance their capacity to collect and use data for institutional decision making and accountability, creating a “culture of evidence” in which research and data help drive campus change. The data capacity building process and best practices adopted by BEAMS campuses can be replicated at other institutions. 

For more information about this initiative, contact institute@ihep.org.

Publications

  • Student Support Services: A Practice Brief Based on BEAMS Project Outcomes
  • Cultivating Generative Connections, Commitment, and Engagement Among Campus Constituencies:
  • Purposeful Co-Curricular Activities Designed to Increase Engagement

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News

  • Five-Year, Data-Driven Program at Minority-Serving Institutions Yields Significant Success in Student Learning and Participation (Mar 13, 2008)
  • 2007 Summer Academy Draws Some of the Nation’s Leading Colleges and Universities to Address Access and Success for Students of Color (Jan 17, 2007)
  • Alliance will Manage BEAMS Project (Apr 19, 2005)

Events

  • 2008 Summer Academy Cultivating Student Access & Success: Strengthening Institutions to Improve National Competitiveness (Jul 20, 2008 to Jul 24, 2008)
  • BEAMS Regional Meeting (Mar 13, 2008)

Policy Priorities

  • Access & Success
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  • Critical Communities & Institutions

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Lumina Foundation

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