Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 19, 2024

In 2001, SLN launched the CollegeBound Initiative (CBI), placing 33 college counselors in schools in New York City, Rochester, and Buffalo. I get asked, ‘How come a school like Gettysburg College, which isn’t traditionally diverse, has such a repeat of students from your school going there, being successful, and graduating?’”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 31, 2024

Back in February, more than 1,000 practitioners from hundreds of colleges across the nation gathered in Orlando, Florida, to exchange evidence-based approaches to accelerating student success and equity. Lumina Foundation CEO Jamie Merisotis delivers a keynote address at the DREAM 2024 conference.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 1, 2025

Stout, recipient of the 2025 Diverse Champions Award, has focused her career on helping community colleges achieve outstanding student success. A transformative college president Prior to becoming the leader of ATD, Stout spent 14 years as the president of Montgomery County Community College in Pennsylvania, beginning in 2001.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Since 2001, the foundation has given over $270 million in advance grants to institutions and nonprofit groups in 41 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. These will include faculty demographics, promotion and tenure success rates, and median salary rates by field.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

Mental Health TEAS will bring aboard an additional full-time clinical therapist as well to help boost Asian American student retention and completion. Curriculum Alongside wraparound services and culturally competent faculty and staff, what’s taught in the classroom is also vital to bolstering student success, Chang says.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

Mental Health TEAS will bring aboard an additional full-time clinical therapist as well to help boost Asian American student retention and completion. Curriculum Alongside wraparound services and culturally competent faculty and staff, what’s taught in the classroom is also vital to bolstering student success, Chang says.

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