Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

2015; Harper & Davis, III, 2012). Programs like The Office of Black Male Student Achievement, in the Minneapolis School District, which centers equity in its approach, offer valuable models for engaging and supporting Black males.

Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2025

This downgrade is not an isolated incident; instead, it is the culmination of destabilizing factors, including funding cuts and the dismantling of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, which are transforming the environment surrounding U.S. higher education.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 18, 2025

Stout has led Achieving the Dream since 2015 and under Stout’s leadership, ATD’s network now includes more than 300 community colleges and 33 Tribal colleges and universities, and its work has reached more than 500 open access colleges. Stout In a news release, Achieving the Dream (ATD) announced that Dr. Karen A.

Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2025

So, as I read the latest reports on DEI policy rollbacks and watched institutions quietly walk back their commitments to equity, I am reminded of the many times I sat in rooms where justice was treated as optional. We are now watching the unraveling of decades of equity work.

Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 24, 2025

Whether it was the 1970 Syracuse football team protest or the 2015 Missouri football team protest, or other student-athlete protests in history, these young people possess immense power to impact the bottom line money which is what historically moves the needle on anything related to justice.

Scholarship

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2023

Since the 2015 launch of Graduation Initiative 2025, a state-backed project to improve graduation rates, the California State University system (CSU) has made significant progress, with students from all groups earning degrees at higher rates. The report drew praise from higher ed equity experts. “It But disparities persist.

Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 24, 2023

More state higher education systems should train boards on how to hire excellent presidents and how to partner with them to improve student outcomes and close equity gaps.

Leadership development

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 27, 2023

It is an honor to be recognized along with other activists who build community and opportunity through race and equity work,” Crazy Bull said. Cheryl Crazy Bull, a member of the Sicangu Lakota Nation and president and CEO of the American Indian College Fund, was one of six U.S. Crazy Bull chose The American Indian College Fund.

Equity

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. Stout, who has led the organization since 2015. There was also a robust focus on the humanities.

Low income student

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

If approved by NCAA members, women's wrestling will become the sixth sport to earn NCAA championship status through the Emerging Sports for Women program, established in 1994 based on a recommendation from the NCAA Gender Equity Task Force.

Equity

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). Research revealed that all but one of these award-winning colleges had a board-influenced diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) mandate. Equity is a clear part of the vision and mission of the college.

Community college

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The December-published study, " The Role of Minoritized Student Representation in Promoting Achievement and Equity Within College STEM Courses ", examined the effects of having URM and first-gen students in undergraduate STEM classes. Mary Murphy, a professor of psychological and brain sciences at Indiana University Bloomington. "I

First generation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 21, 2024

Parnell has been with the organization since 2015 and will bring deep industry and organizational knowledge to her new role. Department of Education, and served as the chair of the governing board for the Higher Ed Equity Network and chair of the finance and investment committee for the EDUCAUSE board of directors.

Student affairs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Miami Dade College (MDC), located in Miami, Florida and one of the nation’s largest Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) received the classification in 2015 and is one of a handful of community colleges across the nation to hold the designation. Dr. Marybeth Gasman But why is applying for this Carnegie Classification important for HSIs?

Curriculum

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Beck, administrators, faculty, staff, and student leadership have used data and intentional practices to re-center campus culture around an equity-minded student success agenda and solidify strategic direction in closing equity gaps. Partnering with high schools that serve predominantly Latino students reinforces accessibility.

Retention

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

In the early aughts, Renick says, it was standard practice for student support programs to address equity gaps and low graduation or retention numbers through the creation of targeted programs, like initiatives for first-generation students, and African American male initiatives. NISS has raised graduation rates by an average of 4.5

Retention

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 25, 2023

A Gallup poll was released, bearing terrible news: only 36% of Americans have “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in higher education, down 12 percentage points from 2018 and 21 percentage points from 2015, when more than half of U.S. citizens expressed high confidence.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts were at the center of another entry. The University of Oregon (UO) drew FIRE’s ire due to its rubric for evaluating DEI statements from prospective faculty and faculty seeking promotion or tenure. UO ignored FIRE’s protestations and maintained the rubric.

Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

times higher than non-members, and CCA Alliance institutions have seen a 10% overall increase in credentials awarded since 2015. The data, she adds, is critical to pinpointing areas for improvement, especially when working with states that might be confronting anti-diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) language. Dr. Dhanfu E.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

It began as a pilot program in 2015 and started in earnest in 2018 with 25 students after receiving a $1.68 California State University offers programs such as Chico’s Gradu- ate Equity Fellowship Program to help students explore whether to pursue a doctorate degree. million research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Mentoring

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Banks chronicled the history of Black AERA leadership in a March 2016 article, titled “Expanding the Epistemological Terrain: Increasing Equity and Diversity Within the American Educational Research Association,” that appeared in the journal Educational Researcher. Dr. Joyce E. King, the Benjamin E. Gadsden, the William T.

Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 11, 2024

14, 2003) While there is no shortage of higher education news outlets, none has covered two-year and four-year colleges and universities and their efforts to promote equity and inclusivity quite like this one. (“From Opening Doors to Opening Minds,” Aug. A Lifetime of Service,” Aug.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board set a strategic goal in 2015, to be met within 15 years. Workforce needs are also changing in the state, as more jobs are predicted to require some credential or degree. The goal is seen as a way to boost the state’s larger and local economies. With the legislative process, you never know.”

Financial aid

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 27, 2022

In 2015, he was presented with the Distinguished Alumni Award and returned to campus a few weeks ago to celebrate this year’s cohort of honorees. Jackson easily won him over at their first meeting.

Faculty

EAB

JUNE 1, 2023

Ferris State University views their Second Chance Pell partnership as a natural extension of their Ferris Equity Initiative , a public-private partnership with EAB that seeks to eliminate equity gaps and improve student outcomes.

Education

EAB

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Since the program’s creation in 2015, it has enrolled approximately 75 students. How One Institution Created a Blueprint for Improving Student Equity Across Campus. Remarkably, this was the first higher education degree pathway in the statefor incarcerated women. November 9, 2022. November 7, 2022. October 26, 2022. October 25, 2022.

Grant

EAB

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

While programming Java and JavaScript have remained among the top five most requested programming languages by employers since 2015, Python and SQL have now largely uprooted Java at the top of the list. In January 2015 to January 2016 Java was the top requested programming language skill by employers in San Francisco, with SQL a close second.

Database

The University Innovation Alliance

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Since launching in 2014, UIA institutions have increased the number of graduates of color produced annually by 93% and the number of low-income graduates produced annually by 50%, resulting in 118,000 more graduates than projected. We've recently distilled some of our learning into three UIA playbooks that we invite you to download for free.

Student success

The University Innovation Alliance

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

For this to happen, we simply must achieve equity for those student groups that have been traditionally underserved. It has become clearer than ever that we need a movement toward large-scale student success to elevate us as a society and as a competitive economy.

Student success

EAB

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

In just a five-year period, from 2010 to 2015, the number of first-year law students decreased by more than 29%. Then, from 2015 to 2020, the number of first-year law students increased by 3%. How One Institution Created a Blueprint for Improving Student Equity Across Campus. Review our law case study compendium.

Application

The University Innovation Alliance

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

For this to happen, we simply must achieve equity for those student groups that have been traditionally underserved. It has become clearer than ever that we need a movement toward large-scale student success to elevate us as a society and as a competitive economy.

Student success

EAB

APRIL 14, 2023

9% increase in six-year completion rates for students who started in fall 2015 compared to fall 2016. Even more impressively, there has been a 4% improvement in completion rates when compared to the fall 2008 cohort. February 21, 2023 Our partners implemented strategic advising campaigns at 40 schools in 27 states. Here’s what we learned.

Student success

Supporting Student Success

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

2011; Meyer, 2015) Human rights protections and equitable legal recognition / protections for identity representation and full inclusion; and, Cultural identity, connection to language & land within Indigenous communities (Kirmayer et al., These community resilience factors include: Community connection and support (Wexler et al.,

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

She rebranded Cal’s annual tournament to reflect a focus on social justice and equity. Dr. Aaron Goodson “It’s really important that we see Black women in this position of leadership as head coaches in our sport,” says Smith, who is co-chair of the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Committee. “In

Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

First presented in a 2015 book by scholars at Columbia University’s Community College Research Center (CCRC), Guided Pathways is designed to get students on clear tracks by giving them structure. It’s incredibly influential,” said Dr. Frank Harris III, co-director of the Community College Equity Assessment Lab at San Diego State University.

Guided pathways

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 11, 2023

This entails being anti-racist, equity-minded, and culturally responsive, as we have written about in Diverse: Issues In Higher Education and several other scholarly outlets. Ford We write this being very mindful of Mason and the need for school counselors to be effectively prepared to work with minoritized students.

Counseling

The University Innovation Alliance

JANUARY 19, 2024

So, I have loved having opportunities to do the good work, to have more impact over time, and to now lead an institution that is fundamentally about access, equity, inclusion, for people who are left behind in higher education.” And this puts a lot of pressure on us to up our game. access and inclusion for all, regardless of background.

Higher education