Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

Two new reports from The California Alliance for Student Parent Success (The Alliance) detail the challenges that student parents face at California institutions. Approximately 300,000 undergraduate student parents are currently enrolled at institutions of higher education in the state of California.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 6, 2023

As associate director of the university’s Center for Advancement of Teaching, Rahming oversees FSU’s Learning Assistant Program, which has yielded impressive results in helping students excel in some of the school’s high-enrollment, lower-division courses that provide the foundation for learning in late courses. The concept is quite simple.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 29, 2024

Jeff Strohl, director of CEW and lead author of “ Progress Interrupted: Evaluating a Decade of Demographic Change at Selective and Open-Access Institutions Prior to the End of Race-Conscious Affirmative Action.” Supreme Court ruling in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2025

Her teaching emphasizes college students and their development, issues of equity and access, leadership and policy and practice in higher education. Her research focuses on community engagement as a critical practice to explore civic identity, social justice, student learning and development. Evans and Andrea D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 13, 2025

I am excited to partner with faculty, staff, students, alumni, and supporters to build on our legacy and write the next chapter of Morehouse's transformative story." These classifications highlight the institution's growing research profile while maintaining its historic mission of providing educational access to underrepresented communities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 3, 2024

McMillan Cottom’s second book, THICK: And Other Essays, was published in 2019. The Amazon best-seller won the Brooklyn Public Library’s 2019 Literary Prize. She is specifically interested in digital sociology, considering how access to technology has or has not impacted access to quality education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

In 2019, following the 5000 Role Models of Excellence Project Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Scholarship Breakfast in Miami, I observed attendees gathering around one of the honorees, actor Danny Glover. However, my attention was drawn to the man accompanying him, Bob Moses, who went largely unrecognized by many.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 3, 2023

Recently released data from the Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration highlights a significant decrease in enrollment for post-secondary undocumented students and an increase in enrollment for students from immigrant families. Immigrant-origin] students are not from the other side of the moon. More than 5.6

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Valerie Paley Through a partnership with the City University of New York’s School of Professional Studies (CUNY SPS), New-York Historical has been teaching CUNY students the ins and outs of museum operations via a graduate degree in Museum Studies program. Puras said that SPS’s student population consists of almost 70% students of color.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Frederick Shegog, former Delaware County Community College student, now motivational speaker. On last Friday, it was all about the students. If I were community college president for a day, I would make student representation a bigger part of school,” said Miclaus. “We Sometimes students don’t know how to share their knowledge.

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AUGUST 16, 2023

Department of Education’s 2019-20 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:20) underscores a disconcerting reality: most students face a gap between what their families can afford and what they must pay to attend college. New IHEP analysis of data from the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 4, 2024

Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) offer more upward mobility for their students when compared to Predominantly White Institutions (PWIs), despite having fewer resources. Institutions should really take a look at the strategies that HSIs are using to support low-income, high-needs student groups,” said Gasman.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Burt is also a 2019 Diverse Emerging Scholar. “We We aim to provide a growing and well-informed community of support for these hardworking students.” This topic is on the agenda to be explored at the upcoming International Colloquium on Black Males in Education, scheduled to take place next month in Pittsburgh.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 9, 2023

Immigrant high school students without citizenship or permanent residency in the U.S. Known to many as Dreamers, DACA recipients, and undocumented students, it’s easy for them to slip through the cracks without getting the educational support or resources they deserve. No student loans. No Pell Grants. No Federal work study.

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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

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Shai Reshef Reshef founded the online, tuition-free University of the People, which now has 137,000 students globally. The global challenge of access to higher education means that its life-changing impact in terms of opening minds, improving employment and earnings remain out of reach for many.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 29, 2023

The Department continues to work to strengthen accessible pathways for educators whose diversity reflects the rich culture of our students and communities.” Although most school and district leaders are white, most of the P-12 student population (56%) are not, according to New York State’s 2019 Educator Diversity Report.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2023

Denise Forte The tests – given October-December 2022 – found that average scores for 13-year-olds declined in reading (4 points) and in math (9 points) compared to the last assessment, which was given during the 2019–20 school year. These misguided efforts limit academic progress for all students and must be stopped.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 12, 2023

The findings of the study – published May 11 in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) – show disparities in access to medical education and could have negative impacts on patient care, according to researchers. medical school applicants and matriculants between 2014 and 2019. student at Yale School of Medicine.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

percent dip in overall faculty head counts between fall 2019 and fall 2021. institutions down 70% from 2019 to 2020. And the stress is not going unnoticed by students, with a joint Inside Higher Ed/College Pulse survey finding that students noticed professors were showing signs of stress.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 3, 2023

They collaborate on projects that improve access to graduate school for under-resourced students and students of color. The Graduate School Academy helps students of color complete their applications for graduate school, overcoming any knowledge gaps created from being first-generation or under-resourced.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 2, 2024

The Marie Fielder Medal for Social Transformation is an annual signature award bestowed by the Marie Fielder Center for Democracy, Leadership, and Social Innovation, recognizing lifetime achievements toward supporting educational access and success. "I I am humbled to receive this year's Marie Fielder Medal.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2023

College and university student enrollment is down for the third straight year, 7% lower than it was in 2019. Still others, influenced by dangerous myths, are reluctant to attend an open-access institution like a community college. Community colleges provide an affordable option; nearly half of all college students in the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Lewis The conference, Lewis said, is aimed at creating a vision that allows for researchers and practitioners to strategize on how best to "make a difference in the space of allowing students to reach their full academic potential. That is why we're here today," he said. We need to be talking to the African American newspaper in town.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

After the COVID-19 pandemic forced an emergency switch to online learning, students have embraced the modality for its flexibility and convenience. This is particularly true of community college students, who are more likely than others to have jobs and family commitments that make coming to a campus tough.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 24, 2024

Hardrick, who has been in the role since 2019, previously served as vice provost for access and success at Florida International University and assistant vice provost for academic affairs at Baylor University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2023

During the developmental period between adolescence to adulthood, students of color, similar to all students, confront social, academic, and psychological stresses. Between 2006 and 2021, Black student enrollment dropped from 7% to 4% and Indigenous student enrollment dropped from 1% to 0.1%. Dr. Annelle B.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 21, 2024

As a first-generation college student, a Black woman, and the child of immigrants, I have witnessed firsthand the transformative power of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs in higher education. These initiatives opened doors for me and countless others, providing opportunities that seemed out of reach for many in my community.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

In October 2022, the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES) released a new report where, again, Black students lagged behind white students on the National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP) also known as the Nation’s Report Card. Black students know more than what those damn tests claim to measure.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Energy and excitement filled the McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago, as over two thousand community college leaders, faculty, and staff gathered to share stories of access, equity, and inclusion at the 2023 Dream conference.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 7, 2024

For example, as a means of demonstrating institutional accountability, an interesting proposal has been presented in California that would identify those colleges and universities in the state that value their African American students by recognizing them as “Black-Serving Institutions.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 6, 2023

Black scholars and policy leaders gathered on Thursday to discuss the impact that the end of affirmative action may bring to Black colleges and Black students at large. Who are working hard every day to ensure that all students, regardless of their color, have access to public education that's honest, that's inclusive.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 27, 2024

When Dr. Ericka Armstrong Dunbar first got the call in 2019 to proofread scripts for accuracy in Julian Fellowes’ new series The Gilded Age on HBO, she was surprised. She is always looking to center the story of Black women in history, particularly to find ways to make those stories resonate with the students of today. “We

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College Planners of America

JUNE 24, 2025

1 of 2025 (the Big Beautiful Bill ), which, in Title III, proposes major changes to Federal student aid programs. In this post, we focus on Subtitle A, Student Eligibility , Subtitle B, Loan Limits , and Subtitle D, Pell Grants. Student Debt Levels Student debt has become more and more burdensome in recent years.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Despite the broad availability of AP courses, lower-income communities are still less likely to offer them than those in more affluent areas and Black students are consistently underrepresented even where availability is not an issue. Studies have uncovered various systemic factors that continue to impede equitable access to AP classes.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Community colleges have taken great pride over many decades as an open-door institution welcoming students who had no other place to go. They have created special programs for students who are under-served, at risk, first generation, Black males, women, migrants, and prisoners. 14% attempted suicide in the past year. •

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 19, 2024

Dr. Grace Alexis Stephens Generations College boasts a 120-year rich legacy of providing accessible and high-quality education to campus-based and online students from diverse backgrounds across 40 states. Generations College is dedicated to empowering single parents and breaking barriers through education.

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