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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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).

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 9, 2023

When she ended her 15 years as director of BCRW in 2015, the college devoted a day-long colloquium to celebrate her contributions to feminist scholarship and research. Jakobsen says what has happened politically since 2015 has indicated that these battles are not over, especially this year with the Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v Wade.

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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.

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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.,

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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.”

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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.

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The University Innovation Alliance

APRIL 6, 2023

Prior to this, from 2012 to 2015, she chaired the chemistry department at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill, where she was instrumental in UNC’s collaboration with UMBC to launch the Chancellor’s Science Scholars Program.

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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.

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