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JULY 15, 2025

A landmark 2019 U.S. “By honoring institutions that have made SSS practices a permanent, mission-aligned part of their work, we spotlight models that help low-income and first-generation students not only enroll but persist and graduate.” Award for Exceptional Contributions to Educational Opportunity by Terrance L.

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MAY 13, 2025

Bowman, who currently serves as dean of the University of Michigan School of Public Health, will succeed Dr. David A. 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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JANUARY 17, 2024

Title: Assistant Professor, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Tenured: No (tenure track) Age: 32 Education: B.A., criminology, law & society, University of California, Irvine; M.S., counseling, University of Wisconsin-Madison; and Ph.D., Dr. Cristobal Salinas Jr.,

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APRIL 29, 2024

A report from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce (CEW) suggests that diversity gains made at the most selective colleges and universities — even with race-conscious affirmative action — have been marginal.

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FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Peiyin Hung is an assistant professor in health services policy and management in the University of South Carolina’s Arnold School of Public Health. Hung was named a Breakthrough Research Star at University of South Carolina in 2023 and a National Rural Health Association Policy Fellow in 2019.

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JUNE 29, 2023

Stony Brook University has received $700,000 for an initiative to address the lack of diverse and well-prepared K-12 school leaders. John's University. 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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NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Meanwhile, the American Association of University Professors’ annual faculty salary survey report shows a 0.6 percent dip in overall faculty head counts between fall 2019 and fall 2021. institutions down 70% from 2019 to 2020. institutions down 70% from 2019 to 2020.

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MAY 3, 2024

Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom McMillan Cottom is an associate professor at the University of North Carolina (UNC) Chapel Hill and a senior principal researcher at UNC’s Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life. McMillan Cottom’s second book, THICK: And Other Essays, was published in 2019. McMillan Cottom received her Ph.D.

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AUGUST 7, 2024

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill highlighted the confusion that such messaging creates when, after their board of governors instituted a DEI ban, university officials voted to divert $2.3 million of previously designated funding to campus police instead.

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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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JANUARY 9, 2023

Many state policies block undocumented students from receiving in-state tuition — even if they completed their K-12 education there — and several states directly prohibit undocumented students from enrolling in many public universities. Does your university already have resources and policies directed toward undocumented students?

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MARCH 4, 2024

Dr. Marybeth Gasman, executive director of the Center for MSIs (CMSI) at Rutgers University. Dr. Marybeth Gasman, executive director of the Center for MSIs and her research team representing MSI-focused academics from across the country, have been working on the report since 2019. How HSIs Promote Upward Mobility.

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JULY 2, 2024

will be honored with the 2024 Marie Fielder Medal for Social Transformation, present by Fielding Graduate University at the Fielding convocation on July 10. It's a prestigious honor," said Mason, the former president of the University of the District of Columbia (UDC). Ronald Mason Jr. Ronald Mason Jr.

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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.

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DECEMBER 6, 2023

Sophia Rahming is single-handedly helping to revolutionize peer-to-peer learning at Florida State University (FSU). It was originally conceived and developed at the University of Colorado Boulder and has since grown to more than 120 other colleges. At FSU, the program has also worked to increase access to STEM majors. “My

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

A brand-new video series that highlights the diverse experiences of Black boys and men in the science, technology, engineering and mathematic (STEM) fields, has launched under the direction of a prominent researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Burt is also a 2019 Diverse Emerging Scholar. “We Dr. Brian A.

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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.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2022

That's been a requirement for Lewis, the Carol Grotnes Belk Distinguished Professor of Urban Education at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and the executive director of the university's Urban Education Collaborative, the convener of the conference which first launched in 2014. Dr. Chance W. Lewis, and Drs. Jerlando F.

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JUNE 24, 2024

Florida Memorial University President Dr. Jaffus Hardrick has resigned from his post at the small, private historically Black university. University officials said that Hardrick stepped down because of a health issue. Dr. Jaffus Hardrick William C.

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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. The institutions are open-access, affordable, and conveniently located. Dr. George R.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

Meanwhile, “Making the Invisible Visible: Taking Stock of How the California State University Collects and Uses Data About Parenting Students” details the need for more data to develop more comprehensive and effective means of serving this population. Data in “The Almanac” indicates that just 1% enrolled in 2019-20 lived on campus.

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AUGUST 21, 2024

A 2013 Princeton University study found that students who engaged in more diverse interactions during college were more likely to challenge their own beliefs and develop more inclusive attitudes. Use your platform to champion diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives within your university. A study by Martínez et al.

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JANUARY 17, 2024

Title: Assistant Professor, School for the Future of Innovation in Society, Arizona State University; Futurist, Latinx Pacific Archive; Co-Director, Situated Critical Race and Media (SCRAM). public & private sector organizations, Brown University; M.A., ethnic studies, San Francisco State University; M.A., Guevarra, Jr.,

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MARCH 27, 2024

Ericka Armstrong Dunbar, professor of history at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ. 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. At Alabama State University in Montgomery and Johnson C.

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JULY 6, 2023

The virtual panel, convened by the Center for Policy Analysis and Research, explored the growing concerns surrounding the end of race-conscious admissions in colleges and universities and what these policy changes will mean for campuses nationwide. “I But we've seen this groundswell of law and policymakers who are doing the opposite.”

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AUGUST 3, 2023

They're like all other students in fundamental ways," said Dr. Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, Dr. Marcelo Suárez-Orozco is the chancellor of the University of Massachusetts, Boston. chancellor of the University of Massachusetts, Boston. of overall students in 2019. colleges and universities in 2021 were from immigrant families.

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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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OCTOBER 11, 2023

In a survey by the Association of American Universities of 180,000 college students, 17% identified as gay, lesbian, bisexual, asexual, queer, or questioning. It is not known how many of these students are enrolled in community colleges, but it is likely these students are represented equally to those in universities.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Studies have uncovered various systemic factors that continue to impede equitable access to AP classes. In doing so, they are complicit in reinforcing racist and oppressive power dynamics that contribute to inequality in higher education access. African Americans deserve better. Dr. Ivory A.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Depending on whom you ask, you will get wildly different views on the state of the American university. My career path has been anything but typical of a university chancellor, but I believe that my unique experiences have given me a different perspective on higher education.

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OCTOBER 27, 2022

Team NEO, in its 2019 Aligning Opportunities Report, zeroes in on the talent shortage facing three sectors of the economy — IT, manufacturing, and healthcare. Marshall is a teaching professor and doctoral cohort coordinator for Kansas State University’s John E. Roueche Center for Community College Leadership. Roueche and Margaretta B.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The world was introduced to the mythical country Wakanda in the original “Black Panther” movie, starring award winning actor and Howard University alum, Chadwick Boseman. That is precisely the moment historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) find themselves in today. How many times have we heard that adage?

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JANUARY 3, 2023

Dr. LaVar Charleston is the deputy vice chancellor for diversity & inclusion, vice provost and chief diversity officer at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. They collaborate on projects that improve access to graduate school for under-resourced students and students of color.

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OCTOBER 15, 2024

Approximately 80% of the students who access EAP are Latino. There is a structured approach to CAMP, which exists at colleges and universities around the U.S., The aims of the CAMP at Washington State University (WSU) are first-year completion, second-year retention and successful graduation. are Hispanic.

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JULY 14, 2023

Community colleges play a critical role, providing affordable and accessible education for diverse populations. After it was first launched at GateWay Community College in 2019, we expanded the model to several colleges and our District Office, with the goal of system-wide utilization by the end of 2023. Roueche and Margaretta B.

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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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AUGUST 9, 2023

This eventuality has been borne out at the University of Michigan following the discontinuation of affirmative action. The University of Michigan reported that in 2019 one-quarter of students from underrepresented backgrounds said they did not feel they belonged at Michigan, a 66% increase over ten years earlier.

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