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Building a Foundation that Positively Impacts Los Angeles

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Having served as vice president for student affairs at Cal State, Fullerton, from 2012–19, Eanes was familiar with the Cal State system. We also have to continue to foster healthy discourse that speaks to our free expression, safety and access for all.

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Access Must be Front Burner for Community Colleges

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Students navigate housing and food insecurity, transportation issues, and other limitations to access. The purpose of community colleges is to increase access to higher education for the most vulnerable populations.” Achieving the Dream works with corporations, foundations, and other partners to support community colleges.

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Law School's Enrollment Crisis? Looking Past the Headlines

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Tuition dependence increases as law school selectivity (and resulting salaries and job opportunities) decrease: private schools with the lowest selectivity (those with a median LSAT score of 152 or less) received an average of 95% of their revenue from tuition in 2012-13. This puts law schools in a bind.

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Fuentes Earns the AAHHE Mildred García Founders' Award

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Mildred García — honors exemplar commitment to advancing access and success of the Latinx population in higher education. Dr. David Fuentes Fuentes is associate dean in the College of Education at William Paterson University, where he began his career in higher education as an assistant professor of teacher education in 2012.

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Report: Student Interest in Pursuing Careers in Education on the Decline, But Enrollment in Intro Teaching Courses Rises

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Megan Boren The report – created in partnership with Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College of Education – examines responses from teachers-in-training and available student data to discern how members of Generation Z – those born between 1996 and 2012 – view careers in education. South, the worst still being Louisiana with 3.7%

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Pomona College to Preserve Archival Collection of Civil Rights Leader Myrlie Evers-Williams

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

She went on to run for Congress; help launch the National Women’s Political Caucus; hold civic roles in Los Angeles; win the conviction of her husband’s killer; be elected chair of the NAACP in 1995; become the first woman and first layperson to give the invocation at a presidential inauguration in 2012. I have learned so much.

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Love is the Critical Ingredient for Black Men

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

High school graduation rates for young Black men have improved in the last decade — since 2012, U.S. Having access to healthy food, having access to good health care, [these are] education issues. graduation rates increased overall by 4%, while Black students saw a 14% increase in graduation. asked Jackson.

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