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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. The California State University system is piloting direct admissions, in which students will not have to go through the traditional admission application process.

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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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Instructional Violence Must End: Keeping the Legacy of A. Wade Boykin Alive

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Regarding tests, it behooves me to share Janet Helms application of Boykins framework to test performance , and we discussed this in a special issue of the Journal of Negro Education (2012) entitled Testing and Assessing African Americans: Past, Present, and Future Problems and Promises.

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Parnell Named President of NASPA — Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Parnell begins her term July 1, succeeding Dr. Kevin Kruger, who has held the post since 2012. In this position, she oversaw multi-million dollar budgets, represented NASPA globally in speaking engagements and the media, and led analysis of applicable federal and state legislation and regulatory developments.

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Workforce Status Makes the Difference for Undocumented Graduates

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

But with DACA applications closed, more undocumented students are struggling to obtain workforce authorization and careers. The legal and judicial holds placed on the DACA program, effectively ending all applications in 2021, and the difficulty in receiving work authorization makes it more challenging for graduates to find traditional jobs.

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Report: Adult Community College Students Make Strides

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“Students could spend years in sequences of developmental education courses, using limited financial aid awards and personal resources without earning degree- and transfer-applicable credits and delaying enrollment in transfer-level courses— if they did not drop out first,” the brief noted.

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Higher Ed Stakeholders Look to Socioeconomic Status as Alternative to Race in Admissions

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“It is precisely because of our history of racial discrimination that factors such as family wealth and neighborhood environment will disproportionately benefit Black and Hispanic applicants.” This system issues scores on a scale of zero to 99.