Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 12, 2023

Under the University of Vermont’s (UVM) new open-access academic press, authors and readers will not have to pay fees to publish or access published materials. Entwined in UVM Press’s diamond open-access model is a sentiment of shared responsibilities and a commitment not to profit, according to its website.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 6, 2024

The Student Voting Campaign Brief provides information to assist administrators at colleges and universities in promoting access to voter registration at their institutions. A recently released brief offers resources to assist postsecondary education leaders in their efforts to promote civic education and engagement.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Editor's Note: With the exception of the last section about an Anti-Racist, Culturally Competent Special Education Model, the content in this article comes from a recently accepted journal manuscript. CritSEM: Advancing QuantCrit to examine racialized resegregation in special education. Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Byrne to bring her commitment to access and equity to a new area of public higher education. From December 2016 to July 2022, when she left to begin her new position, she served as associate provost for undergraduate retention and dean of undergraduate studies. Students meet with Macaulay Honors College Dean Dara N.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2025

One of our most defining initiatives started in 2016: the Career Pathways Initiative (CPI), a $50 million investment by the Lilly Endowment. When we set out to build that digital learning network, we weren't just thinking about online education. Diverse: Issues In Higher Education is proud to serve as this years media sponsor.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 1, 2023

During her time at Moraine Valley, Haney oversaw the Title III-Strengthening Institutions Program Grant for its Increasing Access to Career Pathways Initiative by the U.S. Department of Education. Crawley Leadership Award.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

“Nothing made me question my life choices more than knowing that my hours spent cleaning other people’s toilets to put myself through college weren’t enough—and that my hours spent earning a degree didn’t matter…they were telling me that higher education was something I simply could not afford.” The U.S.D.A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

In April, Dr. Aaron Thompson, president of the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE), participated in the Attaining College Excellence and Equity Summit put together by the U.S. Department of Education and the Institute for Higher Education Policy. It collects, analyzes, and reports comprehensive performance data.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

identified as place-bound , according to the American Council on Education (ACE) Center for Policy Research and Strategy (Hillman, Nicholas, & Weichman, 2016). While online education has grown exponentially in the U.S., Despite increased opportunities for online educational programming, their analysis concludes “.it’s

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

education or universities, specifically. Dr. Alex Redcorn In higher education, we have inherited problematic and pernicious status quos focused on Eurocentric learning for Euro-American audiences toward social assimilation. These priorities often are not the focus in U.S. There are 37 TCUs within the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 10, 2023

Yet despite the chaos, nothing has stopped Puerto Rican postsecondary institutions from working to achieve their educational missions. Deborah Santiago, co-founder and CEO of Ed Excelencia, an organization promoting Latinx success in higher education and at Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs). 6 and 7, 2020 at a 5.8 magnitude and 6.4

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

For students who started community college in 2016, which means a portion of their six years overlapped with COVID, 35% obtained a credential. In terms of the overall state of higher education, it’s nothing to celebrate—there are still lots of students not completing,” said Shapiro.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

In 2016, he was tapped to lead the school’s law center, which was founded at the historically Black university (an HBCU) in 1947. And I held him in high regard due to my role in legal education. With the attacks on diversity, equity, and inclusion within higher education, HBCUs are “even more relevant and important today,” he says.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Through carefully targeted programs and partnerships that remove barriers to educational access and success, these leaders hope their latest numbers portend future growth. It was most pronounced from 2016 to 2020, where we dropped about 25% of our enrollment. It was a dangerous decay, and Covid pushed it hard nose downward.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 15, 2024

This is year 19 for Examples of Excelencia, an annual recognition given by Excelencia in Education. Brown, Excelencia in Education has the stated mission to accelerate Latino student success in higher education. Approximately 80% of the students who access EAP are Latino. Founded in 2004 by Dr. Deborah A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 10, 2024

SEATTLE-- Prominent student affairs practitioners of color shared powerful stories of leading in higher education amid major challenges, including the recent COVID pandemic and ongoing attacks to diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. The panel was organized by the Melvin C.

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OCTOBER 23, 2022

Title: Assistant Vice President for Diversity, Access and Inclusion; Associate to the President, University of Nebraska Jenkins has served as the University of Nebraska’s associate to the president and assistant vice president for diversity, access and inclusion since August of 2016.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Yale also became more financially accessible: the number of incoming freshmen who qualify for Pell grants doubled from his first year to 22% at present. In 2016, he was criticized when Yale decided not to remove the name of John C. Salovey’s tenure was not without controversy, however. Calhoun—a former U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2023

The fallout from this affirmative action case will impact all of higher education. States such as California, Washington, Idaho, Arizona, New Hampshire, Michigan, Nebraska, and Florida have already banned affirmative action in higher education. Since 2016, that discrimination has been even more open and very visible. Silver, Sr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 6, 2022

And for this updated 2022 report, those working on it will have access to data regarding student race/ethnicity, information not available for the report’s previous 2016 edition, said John Fink , senior research associate and program lead at the CCRC. And so, the Transfer Playbook 2.0

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 18, 2023

Higher education is expecting a ruling from the U.S. But, if the court rules in favor of SFFA, it would overturn 44 years of precedent that affirmed the educational value of diversity. Because of the many ways the court can decide to rule, institutions of higher education may feel unsure how to prepare for its impact.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

It was July 2016, and the list of Black men and women killed by police had grown by two names in just two days. For a year and a half, Webb collaborated with educators to create the 3E Program for Social Justice and Change , which begins its official roll out on November 15. Alton Sterling. Philando Castile.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

In recent years, Alabama has been the #1 state in terms of opioid prescriptions written, with 121 per 100 people in 2016. The needs of the community surrounding Alabama A&M University (AAMU) , an HBCU, were quite different. The ravages of the opioid crisis meant that Alabama was in desperate need of social workers.

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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

JUNE 5, 2023

UMGC is open access, which means there are students from different backgrounds and preparation levels. Hardin estimates that 80% of current graduate students are employed while pursuing their education. When we launched IMBA (online) in 2016, we disrupted business education in that we offer an MBA for under $24,000,” says Elliott. “We

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

AUGUST 22, 2023

Department of Education is currently accepting applications for PSSG grants from institutions, and nonprofits or states in partnership with institutions. When it was written in 2016, Toward Convergence was meant to reflect where the field was and influence where it should go next. The result? Interested participants can register here.

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College Planners of America

JUNE 24, 2025

Title III consists of Subtitles A through G covering different aspects of changes to education policy. Title III represents a significant overhaul of the student loan system in a move to improve access, transparency, and accountability in loan programs. In summary, the Title III provisions of H.R.

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Civitas Learning

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

In today’s higher education landscape, creating a successful student experience means seeing the whole student—not just their academic performance. Insights help teams create tailored support plans, but many institutions find it difficult to access quality data. So, how can schools access clean, usable data?

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

JUNE 22, 2019

by: Tanya Ang, Vice President, Veterans Education Success. With this legislation, President Roosevelt also affirmed the unique potential of higher education to make real the promise of economic and social advancement for our veterans and military families. To do that, they need access to better information about student outcomes.

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Symplicity

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Roughly 20 percent of students enrolled in higher education have reported having a disability, according to the most recent federal data. Department of Education does not require students to disclose their specific disability, but in order for a student to receive academic accommodations they must disclose in an accommodation request.

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#RealCollege Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2021

When her classes all went online during the COVID-19 pandemic, she was desperate for help because she could no longer access the computer lab on campus. In 48 hours, it provided her with a laptop so she could pursue her education remotely while caring for her infant twin boys. An additional $2,500 was raised locally.

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Catherine Cronin

APRIL 14, 2022

This blog post is an initial contribution to a workshop I’ll be co-presenting at OER22 (26-28 April): ‘Applying the Capability Approach to Open Educational Practice’ with Gabi Witthaus. The workshop arises from our recent discussions about overlaps in our work and our visions for open education. So what are capabilities ?

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EAB

JANUARY 30, 2023

Blogs Creating a data-informed campus: part 3 Using data to facilitate institutional effectiveness The conversation around data-informed decision making in higher education continues to accelerate. All too often, however, the question of how to capture these data and use them to positively affect the institution remains.

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The University Innovation Alliance

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Between 2016 and 2020, the UIA conducted a randomized control trial study of proactive, predictive analytics-enabled advising for first-generation and Pell-eligible students across 11 campuses. MAAPS demonstrated the value of an accessible, coordinated approach to advising. Proactive Advising. College to Career.

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Iowa State University Extension and Outreach

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The Growing Together Iowa Mini-Grant Program , www.extension.iastate.edu/mastergardener/growing-together-iowa, has provided funding for the Master Gardener donation garden projects since 2016. The funding helps volunteers buy materials such as seeds, fencing, and harvest supplies to support food pantry donation gardens.

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The University Innovation Alliance

APRIL 20, 2023

We launched this tool in May 2016 for our incoming students, thinking maybe we'd have 6000, 8000 exchanges with the students before the beginning of fall classes. With student access to easy answers, we reduced summer melt by about 30+%. The panel explored what's possible with the technology and shared success stories.

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EAB

JANUARY 26, 2023

It’s easy to understand how these barriers make it impossible for students to start, or finish, their education without deliberate support from student affairs professionals. Some states, like Washington, California, and Illinois, have implemented policies that require public colleges to assist students with access to basic needs.

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