Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 4, 2025

In the role, Pollock will serve as Browns senior officer with oversight of undergraduate programs, whose responsibilities include overseeing the Universitys student-centered Open Curriculum, academic advising, study abroad, undergraduate research opportunities and career exploration. He spent two years as a U.S.

Curriculum

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 15, 2025

Last fall, Tomaneng climbed a significant rung on the career ladder by becoming deputy chancellor of California Community Colleges, which has 2 million students. As deputy chancellor of California Community Colleges, she fosters policies and practice that support student success and college effectiveness. This high-profile No.2

Instruction

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 27, 2025

A Simple, Fallen Mathematician: The Humble Genius Behind Supersymmetry Former students praise Gates for the great level of personal investment that he makes in his students growth and success. I didnt quite make the final cut but got pretty close.

Mathematics

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Throughout his career, Burawoy held several prestigious positions, including serving as president of the American Sociological Association from 2003 to 2004 and leading the International Sociological Association from 2010 to 2014. It was in the people whose lives he changed.

Mentoring

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The Court has consistently held that diversity is a compelling interest and that race – not quotas, can be one of many factors in selecting a class of students. In the Students for Fair Admissions v. Bollinger decision in 2003. A college must consider each student’s application and experiences individually.

Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 30, 2024

Wade, who in 2003 led Marquette to the Final Four, is committing a portion of his gift to a future project to expand the university’s Athletic and Human Performance Research Center, which will include a new practice facility for the men’s basketball program. Wade Scholars will benefit low-income, high-achieving students.

Literacy

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

For comparison, Black students and white students saw decreases of 8.5% During the same time frame, Hispanic students have increasingly comprised more and more of the recipients of undergraduate engineering degrees, with a 94.3% On the graduate level, Latino students were 9.4% in 2003 – and 7.5% in 2003 – and 7.5%

Literacy

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

"As part of the coalition of wrestling organizations that has supported women's wrestling through the NCAA Emerging Sports for Women process, this is a huge milestone for our sport and for our NCAA women student-athletes,” he continued. “We

Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2024

Beasley’s example of exemplary leadership and public service will inspire our students, broaden their perspectives and enhance their international understanding.” Kennedy Profile in Courage Award in 2003. I’m thrilled to be engaged in making better lawyers, better law, and freer societies wherever our students go. “We

Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 11, 2024

Matthews in starting what was initially a monthly newsletter on Black Issues In Higher Education , we now know the power of pathways in helping Black boys like me go from being a nerdy high school student in Richmond, Virginia, to a tenured professor at a flagship state university where the governor once stood in the Schoolhouse Door.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 22, 2022

McNairy served from 2003 until her recent retirement on January 26. McNairy served as the chief executive officer with oversight of a $100 million budget, 1,000 employees, and 8,000 undergraduate and graduate students. The university has been nationally ranked as one of the top regional public institutions of higher education by U.S.

Communication

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The two cases, S tudents for F air A dmissions (SFFA) vs. U niversity of North Carolina (UNC) and SFFA vs. Harvard, were brought by a group led by a conservative activist on behalf of students who believe that they were unfairly denied admission to the undergraduate programs at those schools. In her majority opinion in Grutter v.

Counseling

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. We are not leaving our colleges in Florida behind, and most importantly, we’re not leaving our students in Florida behind.”

Low income student

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 6, 2024

“I remember riding the bus home from work one day and I saw someone with the Central Michigan University bumper sticker, and so I applied because I recognized the bumper sticker,” says Patterson-Stephens, who graduated in 2003 from CMU with a degree in sociology. Making sure that all students feel safe has been an essential part of her work.

Inclusion

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 22, 2024

Community colleges have the ability to not only put students on the right path, but most importantly, ensure that students begin on the right foot. Higher debt makes sense for some students but not for all. Now, I regularly tell students a potent fact: More than 65% of DCC students graduate with no student-loan debt.

Community college

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Despite the broad availability of AP courses, lower-income communities are still less likely to offer them than those in more affluent areas and Black students are consistently underrepresented even where availability is not an issue. This effectively prevented poor and working-class students from being able to attend college.

Curriculum

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 15, 2024

I remember seeing copies of Black Issues in Higher Education in various administrators’ offices at Albany State, the historically Black university where I was an undergraduate student journalist in the mid-1990s. Dr. Shaun Harper I was editor-in-chief of The Student Voice , ASU’s official undergraduate student newspaper for two years.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 3, 2023

Montgomery, who joined Northwestern in 2003, said she was also the first African American dean at the University of Kansas, serving in its School of Fine Arts. When I was a grade school student, music classes (i.e., Montgomery plans to step down from the role after 20 years as leader of Northwestern’s music programs.

Mentoring

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

“Macaulay can provide an elite education — or a model that exemplifies the best of what higher ed has to offer — but without elitist recruitment or admissions processes,” says Byrne, who has been a faculty member at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (part of CUNY) since 2003. Students meet with Macaulay Honors College Dean Dara N.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2024

But the numbers also told an important story about underrepresented minority enrollment at the booming university, which boasts a student population of more than 17,000. Black student enrollment, for example, went up 2.3% over the previous year, and there was a bump of 4.7% in Hispanic enrollment. “We

Retention

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Students organized Black student unions demanding more African American studies courses, Black faculty and staff,” says Canton. The other part is increasing the number of student majors through being more active on campus. Canton says he will assign his students to create a podcast on a topic from the class. Dr. David A.

Faculty

The University Innovation Alliance

OCTOBER 6, 2022

LeBlanc became President of Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) in 2003. From 1993 to 1996 he directed a technology start-up for Houghton Mifflin Publishing Company, was President of Marlboro College (VT) from 1996 to 2003. A Conversation With Paul LeBlanc, President, Southern New Hampshire University. Thu, 10/06/2022 - 06:00.

Leadership

Active Minds

DECEMBER 8, 2023

I founded Active Minds in 2003 , following the loss of my brother Brian to suicide. I was a college student, overwhelmed by both the stress of school and young adulthood and grieving the loss of my best friend.

Mental health

Scholarship America

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Our featured Scholarship America partner programs for November 2023 include the $40,000 Amazon Future Engineer Scholarship (which also offers 400 students the opportunity for a paid internship at Amazon), and the prestigious and generous Equitable Excellence Scholarship, providing $750,000 in awards to students all across the United States.

Scholarship

Mongoose

AUGUST 1, 2023

Gil Rogers, the host of FYI, is joined by Laurie Pulido , CEO of Ease Learning , which she founded in 2003. Her company provides learning design services and technology solutions that transform the learner experience. Ease Learning focuses on making learning flexible, inclusive, and scalable. ? Click here to listen to the full episode ?

Inclusion

Supporting Student Success

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Postsecondary educators have been increasingly focused on supporting positive student mental health over the past decades. Additionally, much of the difference in academic performance among students with marginalized sociodemographic identities was statistically explained by disparities in mental health. times that of their peers.

Mental health

Scholarship America

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Dr. Irving Fradkin, had a simple but profound idea: if everyone in his community gave just a dollar to a scholarship fund, it would be enough to help every student in the community attend college. 15,000 Student Support Award: Gettysburg Area Dollars for Scholars. In 1958, an optometrist in Fall River, Mass.,

Scholarship

The University Innovation Alliance

MARCH 15, 2023

But there are times in which the tables change and crisis emerges, something happens on your campus, something happens to a faculty member, something happens to a student, the world keeps spinning, and you can't stop. Sometimes you'll be able to take time off. You have to spin with it." Fellowship at Arizona State University.

Leadership

Scholarship America

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

are invited to apply for up to $20,000 from the Equitable Excellence Scholarship; and students living with inflammatory disease can earn up to $15,000 from AbbVie. Since 2016, the AbbVie Immunology Scholarship has been helping reduce the financial burden of college for students impacted by inflammatory diseases.

Scholarship

The University Innovation Alliance

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

We're going to redefine the student experience at the university. To me, that's the fun challenge on the student side, trying to design a set of programs that make people just completely thrilled with where they're headed in life. This is not a group of students that wants to be on screens. So we did something really basic.

Higher education

The University Innovation Alliance

MARCH 29, 2023

It was sponsored by the University Innovation Lab , the UIA's digital ecosystem designed to help higher ed professionals accelerate innovation in student success with a wide array of tools, trainings, resources, and community. The UIA was developed during Bridget’s tenure as an American Council on Education (A.C.E.)

Leadership

The University Innovation Alliance

MARCH 7, 2024

I had been president of the student body in high school, and then I became president of the student body at the University of Arkansas. Alan Sugg was an incredibly effective leader, very kind, very engaging, and everything came back to student success. The students are looking out. The president is the one responding.

Higher education

The University Innovation Alliance

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The Best Framing for the Best Ideas in Higher Ed When higher education leaders present their ideas and results at conferences, sharing perspectives on innovative practices and student success initiatives, the perceived value of their experience depends on how relevant it seems to their audience. Start with the problem. Do we share values?

Leadership

The University Innovation Alliance

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

She discussed what America needs most from higher education, the operational challenges and rewards for a major university system, how to best serve returning students, and humility and perspective as leadership attributes. Now you're trying to create a system that serves these students. million students? “We

Collaboration

The University Innovation Alliance

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

She discussed what America needs most from higher education, the operational challenges and rewards for a major university system, how to best serve returning students, and humility and perspective as leadership attributes. Now you're trying to create a system that serves these students. million students? “We

Collaboration

The University Innovation Alliance

APRIL 1, 2024

Being brave enough to open a charter school and figure out how to get more high school students early college experiences has been tremendous, and it's been so much fun to see students and parents get access to that kind of programming. “As a president, I'm incredibly proud of my campus and this community.

Leadership

The University Innovation Alliance

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Initially unfamiliar with the world of higher ed, President Stokes admitted that her leadership trajectory was unexpected: “I'm a first-generation student. Higher Ed Leadership Styles and Skills Educational institutions serve student bodies, regional communities, and areas of research. I hadn't thought about it.’

Leadership