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Report Details How Titles III and V of the Higher Education Act Could Better Serve Students of Color and Low-Income Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The last time it was amended was in 2008. … This report is intended to inform policymakers and legislators about legislative and administrative changes needed to prioritize the success of institutions that serve underserved students. Dr. Dwayne L.

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Empowering Community Colleges Through AI: A New Era of Access and Economic Mobility

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Combined with the Apple App Store, which first debuted in 2008 with 500 phone applications, in less than 20 years, technology has revolutionized how the average consumer communicates, entertains themselves, and obtains information.

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An Open Letter to HBCU Graduates

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Thanks to the active engagement and voter turnout of college students of all races, ethnicities, genders, and social classes, Barack Hussien Obama, was elected America’s first Black president of the United States of America in 2008 and reelected for a second term in 2012. When we vote, we honor those lives and carry on this quest.

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On a Mission: Damon L. Williams Jr., Takes on the World

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Those lectures became a fundamental first step into his career in higher education, and in 2008, he became special assistant to the director of the TRIO programs at GSU, a series of federally funded programs that assist low-income, first-generation, or otherwise minoritized students attend and graduate college. He said, ‘Kentucky?’”

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Dr. Nancy Lynne Westfield, Wabash College

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Known for her pedagogical and administrative vision and creativity, Westfields dynamic leadership focuses upon teachers who want to improve their teaching and have a more balanced teaching life. Nancy Lynne Westfield is director of Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning Theology and Religion.

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Voting Rights Are on the Ballot in the 2024 Election

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If Barack Obama’s presidential victory in 2008 is a barometer of white backlash, we can expect that states controlled by Republican Party supermajorities will pass more restrictive laws in response to the Harris campaign. It gives standing to Trump’s election denialism , even proposing to prosecute state and local election administrators.

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Strategic Revival, The Numbers Behind Dr. David Thomas’s Morehouse College Success Story

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

When he took the reins of the men-only historically Black college in 2018, the institution was still struggling with declining enrollment that began with the 2008 recession. He also holds a Master of Organizational Psychology from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Administrative Sciences from Yale College. He holds a Ph.D.

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