Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 2, 2025
At Morgan State, despite achieving record-breaking total enrollment figures and becoming the nation's third-largest HBCU, the percentage of Black male students has dropped from 43% in 2015 to 37% in fall 2024. Morgan has long been a leader in providing access and opportunity for Black males seeking higher education," Wilson said.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
Prior to 2015 it was difficult to find much formal acknowledgement of student food insecurity, let alone services to help. While that generosity of spirit is appreciated, we think it’s time to say thanks and ask how those collective energies could be harnessed to fight students’ hunger, rather than just feed them.
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 9, 2023
Financial aid, retention, and faculty/staff representation are part of the Seal,” says Dr. Deborah Santiago, co-founder and CEO of Excelencia in Education, who says she is delighted to see institutions with intentional practices actively working toward increasing Latino representation in key positions.
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. Martinez explains that TACC has been involved with the commission since day one, gathering input from community college leaders and presidents, affinity groups, financial aid officers and more.
IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy
OCTOBER 10, 2024
i In 2015-16, just 30% of students were immigrants or children of immigrants. Policies that increase financial aid for students from low-income backgrounds, such as doubling the Pell Grant and funding first-dollar free college programs, are positive steps to increase college affordability for all students.
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 Since 2015, 64 students, 93.75% of whom are Latino, have been placed in internships. “I million research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
The University Innovation Alliance
DECEMBER 12, 2022
Do you know of other uses of institutional aid where for a thousand dollars you can change the outcomes from a 30% graduation rate to an 80% graduation rate?
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