Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 21, 2024

Amelia Parnell, vice president for research and policy at NASPA — Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education was named the organization’s president. Parnell has been with the organization since 2015 and will bring deep industry and organizational knowledge to her new role.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

JUNE 30, 2024

The data indicate that considering legacy status when making admissions decisions is associated with decreased college access for Black and Hispanic students, as well as for students living with low incomes. million undergraduate students enrolled in institutions that considered legacy status when making admissions decisions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 23, 2024

I look forward to working this year with the faculty, staff, students, and alumni as we lead the nation in our teaching, research, and land-grant and clinical activities,” said Fuchs, who starts in the role Aug. Fuchs served as the university’s 12th president from January 2015 to February 2023, before taking a yearlong sabbatical.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The leader of a Native American higher ed student access organization was recognized and commended by the Bank of America as a Neighborhood Builders Social Equality Awardee (NBSE). The prayers and dreams of my ancestors give me the strength to work for that transformation for our students today and for future generations.”

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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 graduation rate gap between Black and white students is 22.2

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 18, 2024

Department of Energy and the State of Michigan have announced a collective award of cash incentives and grants totaling $75 million to build workforce development for Nel Hydrogen’s new factory to be built in Plymouth, Michigan.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

In 2018, when Dr. Tim Renick took on the role of senior vice president for student success at Georgia State University (GSU), the university’s demographics were rapidly changing. We’re also one of the largest enrollers of Pell Grant students in the country, enrolling about 30,000 Pell students every semester.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

At a time when the Latino population in the United States is growing and students are still facing daunting obstacles, Excelencia in Education is recognizing nine institutions for their clear and decisive commitment to Latino student success with the Seal of Excelencia. It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The university also issued a statement saying that “respect for the observant Muslim students in that classroom should have superseded academic freedom,” which it later walked back after being sued by the professor. You’d think they'd eventually run out of students and professors to censor, but no such luck in 2022.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

But with the revival of a way for those in prison to better access higher education, per the Second Chance Pell pilot program in 2015 , ITHAKA saw the potential to do more. The expansion was mostly supported through grant funding from the Mellon Foundation and the Ascendium Education Group, Burnett said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Along the way, he touches on the Black land grant institutions authorized in 1890 by the Second Morrill Act. But much of the book highlights how the American higher education system has become the envy of the world — sending thousands of students each year flocking to the United States to commence study.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

She also received a 2015 Outstanding Dissertation Award from the American Educational Research Association. Currently, she is leading a three-year project supported by a $1 million grant from the U.S. So, I feel like this is a really cool opportunity for policy to be created with students and families,” Mayes explains.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 1, 2025

Stout, recipient of the 2025 Diverse Champions Award, has focused her career on helping community colleges achieve outstanding student success. The questions the students asked, she says, helped her to understand the power of community colleges. Where were the students coming from?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Created in 2005 by Excelencia in Education, Examples of Excelencia is a national initiative that recognizes institutions and nonprofit organizations that identify, aggregate, and promote evidence-based practices that improve Latinx student access in higher education. million research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 16, 2024

year prison sentence, Cordero Holmes could not see his future as a great dad, Honors College student, or recipient of the MLK Living the Dream Award for community service in his old neighborhood. In 2015, the U.S. Over seven years, 40,000 students participated in SCP programs in 48 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 23, 2024

Broadly speaking, rather than institutions proactively addressing this “cost of attendance inflation” by reducing their operational costs, the financial livelihoods of students were placed on the back burner, and campus expenses increased while students racked up loans to the tune of $1.727 trillion in total as of the first quarter of 2024.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Bowman (left), Michigan State University’s associate dean for academic and student affairs, and other leaders from the university’s college of education. I just fell completely in love with focusing on the research, working with students, teaching classes. Jerlando F. Jackson meets with Kristine L. I gave up. Dr. Jerlando F.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Today, there are only 2,000 native speakers , but a 2015 Hawaii State Data Center census reported that 5.7% In her own way, Kumu created a liberatory classroom to ensure the safety and growth of language and traditions, allowing her students to learn in ways that our ancestors would have wanted. Interrelations.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Last year, we reported that students of color were more likely than White students to face a gap between their total college costs and the financial assistance available to them from grants and family resources, also known as unmet need. Department of Education’s 2019-20 National Postsecondary Student Aid Survey (NPSAS:20).

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The University Innovation Alliance

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The University Innovation Alliance's Three Playbooks for Student Success. Completion Grants. The University Innovation Alliance (UIA) operates as a multi-campus laboratory for student success innovation. Leveraging strong data-driven tools to help advisors guide students. Completion Grants. Thu, 12/15/2022 - 06:00.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

700,000 incarcerated students will be Pell-eligible in 2023. Online students and other non-traditional audiences are increasingly an area of focus for institutions nationwide. But there is one large group of non-traditional students that’s been previously excluded: incarcerated students.

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EAB

JUNE 1, 2023

Blogs 3 considerations for prison education programs What you need to know ahead of July’s restoration of Second Chance Pell grants Given the restoration of Pell Grant funding for incarcerated students expected in July 2023 , many institutions are beginning to develop plans for Prison Education Programs (PEPs).

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The University Innovation Alliance

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

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. For this to happen, we simply must achieve equity for those student groups that have been traditionally underserved.

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EAB

JANUARY 26, 2023

These six trends will have long-term impacts on how community colleges interact with students and getting ahead of them now will position you for success in the future. 4% enrollment , and these gains were driven completely by the recovery of dual-enrolled high school students (+11.5%) and 18- to 20-year-old students (+1.4%).

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NCLC Student Loan Borrower Assistance

JUNE 3, 2022

On June 1, 2022, the Department of Education announced that it would cancel all of the federal student loans former Corinthian College students borrowed to attend those schools (Heald College, Everest Institute/College, and WyoTech) from Corinthian’s founding in 1995 through its closure in 2015.

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NCLC Student Loan Borrower Assistance

JUNE 1, 2023

By Kyra Taylor , National Consumer Law Center and Winston Berkman-Breen , Student Borrower Protection Center This blog is the third post in a three part series about the IDR Account Adjustment and the continued flexibilities available to borrowers seeking Public Service Loan Forgiveness. 2005-2015: Her loans are in default for 10 years.

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The University Innovation Alliance

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

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. 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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NCLC Student Loan Borrower Assistance

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Over the last few months, the Department of Education has made a number of groundbreaking announcements that will provide debt relief to millions of people with student loans. ITT : Students who attended in 2005 through its closure in 2016. Marinello : Students who attended between 2009 through its closure in 2016.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 22, 2024

architecture, Columbia University Career mentors: Dr. Mabel Wilson, Columbia University; Danielle Smoller, Columbia University; Dr. Hazel Edwards, Howard University; Bradford Grant, Howard University; and Rashida Ng, University of Pennsylvania Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty members: “Your work matters. from 2015 to 2017.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

When Dr. Adele Newson-Horst was developing a grant proposal, she quoted a 2015 article published in Diverse: Issues in Higher Education that noted HBCU institutions had been slow to introduce gender-related programs. Even in the teaching evaluations, students talk about how their thinking has been transformed through the class.

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The University Innovation Alliance

AUGUST 25, 2022

Student Success. Although he returned to the private sector after his tenure in the Obama Administration, Secretary Duncan generously shared his views on the need for institutions to support student success, the need for government to encourage institutions in this effort, and the urgency for moving ahead with these initiatives.

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Clair Kamp Dush

AUGUST 26, 2019

As a tenure-track faculty member at a research intensive university, my (federal) grantsmanship expectations are high if I want to get promoted to full, or to have the money to get resources for my grad students and myself. I wrote the grant, and submitted it to NIH in February of 2015 as an R21. Grant Title. 11/16/2015.

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The University Innovation Alliance

JANUARY 19, 2024

She went on to explain how this has been detrimental to institutions’ ability to deliver on the promise of public higher education: “We do not have full transferability at most institutions, so students leave behind on average 40% of their credits when they go from a community college to a four-year institution.

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College Planners of America

AUGUST 29, 2024

Over the past half century, Congress has authorized many new programs to assist students in paying tuition. Despite this cooperative effort, student aid programs have failed to keep pace with rising tuition because colleges just boost their tuition ever higher. This invidious pricing cycle is why total Federal loan debt is now $1.62

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College Planners of America

AUGUST 29, 2024

Over the past half century, Congress has authorized many new programs to assist students in paying tuition. Despite this cooperative effort, student aid programs have failed to keep pace with rising tuition because colleges just boost their tuition ever higher. This invidious pricing cycle is why total Federal loan debt is now $1.62

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 24, 2025

It has been touted for decades with its fiercest defenders claiming that student-athletes are like any other college student who happens to participate in a sport. Even the notion of amateurism in collegiate sports is rooted in money and power.

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Student Loan Hero

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Student loan forgiveness can wipe out part or all of your student loan debt. The big news on the student loan forgiveness front is that the federal government plans to forgive up to $10,000 in federally held student debt, or up to $20,000 if you previously received a Pell Grant. ( Student loan forgiveness FAQs.

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