Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Shai Reshef, President and Founder, of University of the People, is the recipient of the 2023 Yidan Prize. Shai Reshef Reshef founded the online, tuition-free University of the People, which now has 137,000 students globally. The purpose of the university is to respond to the needs of learners with an innovative, scalable solution.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

This is necessary but must include intentional and proactive scholarship and resources on racial identity development. Since their creation, tests have disproportionately hindered access to gifted and talented education (GATE), AP, college acceptance (particularly to elite higher education institutions), scholarships, and so on.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Dr. DeLeon Gray Gray is an associate professor of educational psychology and equity at North Carolina State University. It’s scholarship in a different form.” Gray began his academic career studying motivation in graduate school at The Ohio State University. They make all kinds of videos, mixtapes, and songs,” he says.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2024

After studying aircraft mechanics, then working at the Los Angeles Zoo, he discovered the field of evolutionary marine biology while attending Portland State University (PSU). That’s how he first connected with The Ohio State University (OSU), where he first learned about evolutionary thinking, and decided to attend for his Ph.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Title: Associate Professor of Counseling, Department of Disability & Psychoeducational Studies, University of Arizona, Affiliate Faculty, Education Policy Center, University of Arizona Tenured: Yes Age: 37 Education: B.S., middle school math & social studies education, University of Missouri, Columbia; M.Ed.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

. — remembers the joyful opening of the LGBTQ+ Resource Office on the main campus of Prairie View A&M University. The joy has now turned to sadness as a new law in Texas has dismantled diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) offices and programs at publicly funded universities. of non-LGBTQ people. About 45.5%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas, partners with over 62 high schools across the state, facilitating college access for Latino, rural, and other marginalized communities. A data literacy workshop series offered each semester helps to foster a data-driven decision-making culture across the university.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

As researchers, practitioners, and healthcare workers reflect on the events of the last two and a half years, programs related to public health have become a priority at many colleges and universities. In response, colleges and universities are seeing increased interest in courses and programs that address issues of public health.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Back in September, Western Michigan University—a public research institution located in the southwestern corner of the state—released its fall 2024 enrollment and retention numbers, much to the delight of the school’s provost, Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig. Black student enrollment, for example, went up 2.3% in Hispanic enrollment.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Title: Chief Operating Officer, College Football Playoff Williams joined the College Football Playoff in July 2018 as its chief operating officer, after having spent the previous two years as commissioner of the Big Sky Conference. Williams is a graduate of Texas A&M, where she competed in volleyball and basketball.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

She discovered a love for the sport that led her to competitive fencing, Columbia University, international competition, and two Olympic Games. “I Hilliard says that athletic scholarships in artistic gymnastics tend to go to elite gymnasts who’ve competed at the highest level. You can use those strategies anywhere.”

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Scholarship America

MARCH 7, 2023

If you’re a student pursuing a future career in the skilled trades, manufacturing or engineering, this is the scholarship month for you! And if those don’t fit the bill, you can find all of our open scholarships right here. Best of luck! You must also have a minimum grade point average of 3.0 scale (or its equivalent).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

He became executive vice president in 2013 and assumed the presidency in 2018. CPE is a coordinating board that oversees Kentucky’s public universities, community colleges, and technical colleges. Offutt has been with CPE since 2018. It also licenses nonprofit and for-profit higher education institutions in the state.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2023

As an undergraduate at the University of California (UC), Santa Barbara, Lee was a computer science major. in theater history from The Ohio State University. While Asian Studies have existed at colleges and universities for decades, Asian American Studies is an emerging field over the past decade. That is why it’s so powerful.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2023

University of Maryland Global Campus Dr. Pam Carter University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC) offers a broad range of programs, primarily online. Webster University The mission of Webster University, a private institution in Missouri, prioritizes diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 6, 2023

Dr. José Vargas-Muñiz “‘You’re too loud,’” Vargas-Muñiz, a Southern Illinois University molecular geneticist and microbiologist, recalled another of those years-old warnings. In 2018, according to 2021 version of that bi-annual analysis, 16.8% from Duke University in 2017. “I People may call that elitist. But I’m not elitist ….

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

Starting with programs for middle and high school students, through supports for graduate students, the Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity (CEED) at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) has provided inspiration, insight, encouragement, and community for engineering students.

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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 There is a dual admission program with the Armour College of Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), which provides scholarships. million research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

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Scholarship America

JULY 14, 2023

At Scholarship America, our mission is to eliminate barriers to higher education, and to ensure those with the most need have the opportunity to thrive through equitable pathways to education and training. Private-sector scholarships can make a huge difference when it comes to filling the affordability gap for low-income students.

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#RealCollege Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2021

In 2018, we teamed up with Amarillo College in Texas, a two-year college with one of the best basic needs hubs in the country, to see if we could boost the number of students visiting the school’s Advocacy and Resource Center (ARC) while spending almost no money. If your college doesn’t have a centralized basic needs hub, it should.

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College Planners of America

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Since National Liberal Arts Colleges and National Universities are ranked separately by USN&WR, institutions are shown as C1 or U1, C2 or U2, and so on. Endowments of $3 billion+ are included. Ties are indicated. Table A Correlation of Institutional Endowments to Rankings (2022) No.

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COE

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Gabrielle also participated in the 2012 Southwest Association of Student Assistance Programs (SWASAP) Student Leadership Conference as a part of TRIO, where she earned a scholarship. She graduated from Southern Arkansas University (SAU) with a bachelor of arts degree in Political Science.

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EAB

JANUARY 31, 2023

Blogs Oklahoma cooperative extension service: Family and consumer sciences January 31, 2023 Gina Peek Associate Dean, Extension Engagement and Continuing Education, Oklahoma State University The views and opinions expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of EAB. Johns Hopkins University Press.

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College Planners of America

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Last month, we featured a post titled, “Tuition Discounts Offered as Merit Aid” about the common practice of colleges to provide partial merit scholarships, or discounted tuition. The CDS enables them to identify the colleges that are most inclined to discount their full price of tuition by offering partial merit scholarships.

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EAB

JANUARY 30, 2023

My parents couldn’t afford to pay for any of my college education, so I worked to pay for it on my own using a combination of scholarships, grants, and a work-study. Just as I began to accept not returning to school, I was saved by a scholarship.

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The University Innovation Alliance

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Four new universities joined the UIA, bringing fresh energy and ideas. We raised $5 million for cutting-edge collaborative innovation projects, and we welcomed new colleagues and partners to the digital ecosystem of our University Innovation Lab. In 2022, we reemerged from the challenges of COVID.

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The Advisor That Cares

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Answers/scores can launch informative videos, initiate a referral to support services (Careers, ARC, advising, financial aid/scholarships), targeted outreach, and follow up from stakeholders to explain options and impacts and/or advising/coaching campaign links. CSLE2COVA, 2018). 2018, August 8). 2022, October 23). References.

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The University Innovation Alliance

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Four new universities joined the UIA, bringing fresh energy and ideas. We raised $5 million for cutting-edge collaborative innovation projects, and we welcomed new colleagues and partners to the digital ecosystem of our University Innovation Lab. In 2022, we reemerged from the challenges of COVID.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Altmann, who has led the institution since 2018. The initiative's success earned the 2023 Exemplary Model Award from the American Association of University Administrators. Truman Scholarship Foundation from 2011 to 2019, where he oversaw the prestigious federal program supporting future public service leaders.

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Supporting Student Success

MAY 6, 2021

But we tend to get lost on the why because it is personal and squishy—there’s no empirical evidence you can cite, no scholarship to drive your formulation. Morrison and her parents, Pat and Sandy Koerner, after her hooding ceremony at Montana State University in 2018. It is the root of my why. Courtesy of Cali Morrison.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

A working paper recently published by the National Bureau of Economic Research reported that PWIs can learn how to better support Black students by implementing best practices from historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). Middleton is an assistant professor of counselor education at The Ohio State University Dr. Donna Y.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 14, 2024

A senior at the University of New Orleans (UNO), she will graduate in May with a bachelor's degree in interdisciplinary studies and has aspirations of pursuing an MBA. In 2018 at the age of 17, Lopez learned that she was pregnant. “I She applied, received a scholarship, and “was introduced to a community of young moms like me.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 29, 2023

She is the author of numerous books including Racism in American Public Life: A Call to Action Lewis is a professor of History and Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan and director of the Center for Social Solutions. From March 2013 to 2018, he served as president of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 29, 2023

The American Indian College Fund is the nation’s largest charity supporting Native higher education and has distributed more than $259 million in scholarships and grants for programs and services since it was founded in 1989. HACU has been instrumental in addressing some of those issues, particularly through its scholarship programs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 22, 2023

These concerns are not new; Tinto’s (1993) and Tracey and Sedlacek’s (1984) groundbreaking studies and theoretical scholarship remain relevant today. P-12 school systems should partner with local colleges, universities, and vocational schools to facilitate visits to demystify the postsecondary experience. Fletcher Jr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2024

Getting into Howard University was a dream come true for Durmerrick Ross. Howard University. He had received a scholarship in the spring semester that covered the cost of any debts he had incurred that year, and he had the receipts to prove it. Durmerrick Ross stands beneath lights at an event. Ross was confused.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Lee is a professor and chair of Native American Studies at the University of New Mexico (UNM). DeSanti is director of Native American studies and associate professor of religious studies at the University of Nebraska Omaha (UNO). A master’s program was launched in 2018, and in spring 2022, the state legislature approved a Ph.D.

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