Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Williams was raised Catholic and attended private institutions—he was often the only Black student in his class, or one of the few. He became what he calls “a student for everybody.” “I It’s why, in his late twenties, he chose to volunteer at Georgia State University (GSU), speaking to young college students about his successes.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Former collegiate athlete Yusuf Sabree was a standout student-athlete who currently holds the position of district dean of student services at Wayne County (Mich.) These student-athletes were also interviewed about the support services that they needed. Community College. Engage in relationship building. Recognize opportunity.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Dr. Daniel Diermeier Dr. Daniel Diermeier, the university's chancellor, announced the university’s commitment to offering full-tuition scholarships to admitted students of families whose annual income is $150,000 or less. “We For example, for families in the income range of $150,000 to $175,000, the median annual award is $62,650.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

On the panel, “Selecting Evidence-Based Advising Strategies to Improve Student Outcomes,” Thompson spoke about equity being a top priority, noting that, if higher education does not serve its most disenfranchised populations, then it is failing. Department of Education and the Institute for Higher Education Policy.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The dynamic education leader, who also made Diverse ’s “25 To Watch” list in 2009, has Washington insiders tuned into the issues that impact college access, minority students, and success in postsecondary education. Since taking the helm of IHEP in 2008, Cooper’s been out front influencing national education policy.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 4, 2024

Smith in North Carolina, and she accepted the presidency at Shaw University in 2009. While I am humbled to accept this award, it is in no way a testament to my individual efforts, but I accept it on behalf of the collective sacrifices of the Oakwood University administration, faculty, staff, students, and alumni.” The Dr. Dorothy C.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Tallahassee Community College (TCC) recently received recognition from Achieving the Dream , an organization and network founded to close achievement gaps and accelerate student success nationwide by guiding institutional change, influencing public policy, generating knowledge, and engaging the public. 19-22, in Orlando, Florida.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 11, 2024

Earning a college degree is still a sound investment, although the rate of economic return varies across college majors and student demographics, according to a new American Educational Research Association (AERA) analysis of 5.8 It relied on 2009–2021 data from the U.S. million Americans.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

After the COVID-19 pandemic forced an emergency switch to online learning, students have embraced the modality for its flexibility and convenience. This is particularly true of community college students, who are more likely than others to have jobs and family commitments that make coming to a campus tough.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 10, 2023

For most of its 50-year history, the Pell Grant has not covered summer classes, with two brief exceptions: 2009-2011 and 2017 to the present. Liu found clear advantages for the students who got summer money. Liu believes that the long-term benefits come because summer Pell incentivizes students to study full-time in order to qualify.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Tallahassee Community College (TCC) recently received high honors from Achieving the Dream , an organization and network founded to close achievement gaps and accelerate student success nationwide by guiding institutional change, influencing public policy, generating knowledge, and engaging the public. 19-22, in Orlando, Florida.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 9, 2023

Endowed Scholarship Fund for minority medical students in 2009. He also performed the world’s first successful implantation of an automatic heart defibrillator in 1980; founded the annual Johns Hopkins Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration in 1982; and helped fund the Levi Watkins, Jr., who was a pastor at his family’s church.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 15, 2023

Jackson was a 2009 recipient of the Dr. John Hope Franklin Award but was recognized at this year’s American Council on Education (ACE) annual meeting in Washington, D.C. regrettably, the award ceremony was cancelled in 2009. Jackson did that by co-founding the Black Student Union.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Shai Reshef Reshef founded the online, tuition-free University of the People, which now has 137,000 students globally. For me personally, it is a recognition that the work I've done over the years," said Reshef, an Israeli businessman who founded the online university in 2009 with the goal of providing access to higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 13, 2023

But that sanction was later changed to termination after student paper The Daily Northwestern published a player’s account of sexualized hazing. he was an offensive lineman 2005-2009 – has also come forth with allegations and claims of sexual and racist hazing. Former Northwestern football player Ramon Diaz Jr. –

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 23, 2024

After months of delay, an independent access agreement between North Carolina State University and law firms representing sick clients will allow independent testing to be conducted within Poe Hall to determine the levels and kinds of PCBs present in building materials that may have caused former workers and students to become ill.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 15, 2025

Throughout my career in higher education, I have been a strong proponent of student achievement," said Hargrove in a statement following his appointment. "I From 2002 to 2009, he chaired Morgan State University's Department of Industrial, Manufacturing and Information Engineering.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Pass this on to your students and prioritize their mental and emotional wellbeing rather than trying to instill a strict work ethic. Mark enrolled at the New School, where he earned a master’s degree in international affairs in 2012. “I learn a ton from my students.” The students keep me hopeful. When he returned to the U.S.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 25, 2023

Since 2009, she’s been engaged in research relating to health services and health equity, she said. “My I want to influence people, especially international students and scholars, and really help and support them, lift them up to help them pursue their dreams.” She has spent the better part of 14 years in this field.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 25, 2024

Pass this on to your students and prioritize their mental and emotional wellbeing rather than trying to instill a strict work ethic. Mark enrolled at the New School, where he earned a master’s degree in international affairs in 2012. “I learn a ton from my students.” The students keep me hopeful. When he returned to the U.S.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 19, 2024

Brice says he has fielded calls from over 250 people, including former students, staff, faculty, and administrators who spent time in Poe Hall and have since become sick with cancers or other illnesses. Masier spent hours within Poe Hall as a graduate student and assistant between 2009 and 2013.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 22, 2022

From January 2005-2009, Rice served as the 66th secretary of state of the United States, the second woman and first African-American woman to hold the post. billion annual budget and the academic program involving 1,400 faculty members and 14,000 students. Rice also served as President George W.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 23, 2022

She leads all strategic planning for the conference, working closely with the 12 full-time member institutions and an associate member along with the board of directors and staff to support the advancement of student athletes , and managing 14 CIAA championships.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 7, 2023

In fact, most studies concerning African Americans have focused on the retention of students or faculty (Wolfe & Dilworth, 2015). Smalls In a perfect world, governing boards and leadership demographics would mirror the student population (Higgs, 2014).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Stout, president and CEO of ATD, welcomed attendees and praised the increases in completion rates for Black students at community colleges. Achieving the summit doesn’t just support the student on their way to a degree but also the community they live in. Dr. Karen A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Nevertheless, as Dr. Bettina Love asserts to Black students, which is also applicable to Black scholars, let us remember that “Anti-Blackness is not bigger than Blackness.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

These are the four pillars of transformation, ingredients critical to the mission of Complete College America (CCA), the advocacy organization working to improve college graduation rates since 2009. She was able to say, ‘CCA has done great work, and at the same time, students got left behind.’” Dr. Dhanfu E. Representation matters.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Like many students across the country, Coleen began her journey to a four-year degree at a community college. While t ransfer pathways can offer students like Coleen an affordable and accessible route to earning a four-year degree, they too often fall short of delivering on this promise. By: Janiel Santos.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Ray Martinez III To build the new model, Martinez says Texas’s higher education stakeholders and policy makers have come together to ask, “What do we need to do as a matter of state policy to ensure that students have the support they need, the scaffolding to ensure they can be successful in completing a post-secondary credential?”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

Starting with programs for middle and high school students, through supports for graduate students, the Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity (CEED) at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) has provided inspiration, insight, encouragement, and community for engineering students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

“The main way that we can help prepare athletes for college is to [make them] really good gymnasts, which means they are focused, and they understand hard work — all of the things that help them become good students,” says former rhythmic gymnast Wendy Hilliard, who established the Wendy Hilliard Gymnastics Foundation (WHGF) in 1996.

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EAB

JANUARY 26, 2023

These six trends will have long-term impacts on how community colleges interact with students and getting ahead of them now will position you for success in the future. 4% enrollment , and these gains were driven completely by the recovery of dual-enrolled high school students (+11.5%) and 18- to 20-year-old students (+1.4%).

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Active Minds

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Since 2009, the Active Minds Speakers have provided mental health outreach for students and young adults nationwide, sharing their personal stories regarding mental health struggles and resilience. Brandon Bond Brandon Bond is the mental health and well-being student advocate at the University of Michigan.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Institutions have a critical role to play in recruiting and admitting a more diverse student body and creating the supports necessary for all students to complete. These widening gaps are the result of attainment rising for everyone, but rising more rapidly for students in the highest income quintile. Full-time students only.

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EAB

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Indeed, during the 2008-2009 recession, giving fell along with the economy, and it took three years for philanthropy to start growing again. Understandably, fundraisers don’t want to seem tone-deaf to the possible financial hardships or fears of their constituents. But there are also significant risks to halting solicitations altogether.

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EAB

APRIL 14, 2023

Blogs The 4 stages of an integrated lifecycle approach for community college student success How EAB’s Navigate helps community colleges at every stage There is encouraging data showing that six-year completion rates have been rising across all community colleges, with a.9% rate for students starting in fall 2009, compared to 52.4%

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The Advisor That Cares

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

I cannot help but reflect on my personal why (TEDx Talks, 2009). Caring about others drives me to make a difference for frustrated students and advisors. Advisors serve as guides or coaches while students research advising resources, university websites, and support services relevant to their issues and concerns. TEDx Talks.

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