Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 22, 2023

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. The inaugural class of this program commenced in 2019. In 2017, a partnership was forged between the University of the People and the University of Edinburgh.

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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. The scores also saw a decrease, 7 points in reading and 14 points in math, when compared to a decade ago. “We

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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

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2024

[link] Comics and graphic novels can disrupt traditional texts by challenging the worship of the written word ( Torres, 2019 ), a feature of white supremacy that perpetuates textual hierarchies within educational spaces. These percentages do not mirror the K-12 student population, with 52% identifying as a student of color ( NCES, 2019 ).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

One of the core goals of the program – it was launched in 2019 – is to diversify museum staff, which then may affect museum curation, said Dr. Valerie Paley, Senior Vice President and Sue Ann Weinberg Director of the Patricia D. The program also offers non-traditional students an accessible and affordable pathway into the field, Puras said.

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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. For students, variable class offerings in both modality and timing, along with online resources they can access on their own schedule, is vital to helping them succeed in the classroom and earn their degree.

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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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The widening racial disparities between Blacks and whites is dramatic, noted Ladson-Billings, who pointed out that in 2019, about 30% of Black children lived in poverty, with 1 and 4 Black children facing severe food insecurity.

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OCTOBER 10, 2023

1] This preliminary analysis is part of a forthcoming study using the recently released 2019-2020 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:20). College Access Challenges Students of color and those from low-income families face a range of financial and academic barriers to college access. Source: U.S.

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

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Enabling critical research and technological access can be the key to sovereignty for communities of color. In studying reproductive justice, she received the Birthworkers of Color full spectrum doula training in 2019, which allowed her to become part of the doula community and learn about their specific needs. “I

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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. Through the third-party feedback the institutional leaders receive from the coaches, the HBCUs are able to nimbly pivot to meet student needs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

high school graduates in 2019 (40%) had completed precalculus/mathematical analysis. This requirement change-up is a move towards increasing accessibility at Wentworth, Sontgerath said. We're saying: 'Come to us, and we'll get you ready for the calculus and physics sequence here at Wentworth.'"

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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. But despite their efforts to increase access and opportunity for all, equity gaps remain. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 3, 2023

of overall students in 2019. Currently, 23 states and the District of Columbia allow students in-state tuition access regardless of citizenship. The reported noted that more than 408,000 undocumented students are enrolled in post-secondary education, representing about 1.9% of all post-secondary students.

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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

JULY 6, 2023

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. Morgan State University in Baltimore, for example, reported a 58% increase in undergraduate applications in 2021 compared to 2019.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 21, 2023

If the information we put out isn't accessible to and useful for California's diverse communities, we won't have succeeded.” Now, the organization has released a brief about that experience and how the state of California can learn from it to continue integrating UCD into its own upcoming California Cradle-to-Career Data System (C2C).

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DECEMBER 20, 2021

While t ransfer pathways can offer students like Coleen an affordable and accessible route to earning a four-year degree, they too often fall short of delivering on this promise. com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Race-and-Ethnicity-in-Higher-Education.pdf. percent complete a bachelors’ degree within six yea rs. References. Wakhungu, P.K.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The overall context of poverty in which homelessness usually occurs brings with it a steady barrage of stressful conditions including lack of access to adequate nutrition and healthcare and unsafe, often overcrowded living conditions. California is a microcosm of homelessness for community college students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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.

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The Counseling Geek

MAY 16, 2024

Unmasking the College Board's Profiteering at Educators' Expense Dear David (it’s me again), This is a follow up to my original letter titled Dear David: An Open Letter to The College Board written in May of 2019. This causes many issues including students not having access to school transportation home for many schools.

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Active Minds

JUNE 9, 2023

I was captivated by the potential for AI to revolutionize therapy outcomes and improve access to tailored support for individuals in need. Safeguarding patients’ confidential mental health information from unauthorized access or misuse is critical.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 11, 2023

Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, director and faculty fellow of the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University Schanzenbach and her team used enrollment information from the federal government’s Integrated Post-secondary Education Data System from 1986-2019. The impact that they found was clear. “I

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Student Loan Planner

JULY 20, 2023

Still, 66% of graduates in the class of 2019-2020 had student loan debt, with an average balance of $31,939, according to The Institute for College Access & Success (TICAS). North Dakota has fewer than one million residents, according to recent Census data.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. Our region has a large healthcare industry with a significantly unmet employment demand exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Roueche Center for Community College Leadership.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 9, 2023

In 2019, Oglethorpe partnered with TheDream.US , a national scholarship program that helps provide access to a college education for immigrant youth who came to the country at a young age without documentation. Undocumented students make up nearly 10% of Oglethorpe’s degree-seeking student body. As the scholar advisor to TheDream.US

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

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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Active Minds

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The Student ID Bill (formally titled the “Increasing Mental Health Access for Students Act”) is a proposal that states that schools would print mental health hotline numbers (including 988) on the back of student ID cards. Our voices matter, and the decisions made now will impact our futures and the futures of generations to come.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2023

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 10, 2023

Being an HSI gives institutions access to grants and funding that must be used to better support and serve Latinx students. Enrollment decreases are partly due to the exodus of Puerto Rican residents after Hurricane Maria in 2017 and the earthquakes, which started rumbling in late 2019 and culminated in two quakes on Jan.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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.

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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. Partnering with high schools that serve predominantly Latino students reinforces accessibility. It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The learners shared what they’ve learned from their time at the conference, how their community college experiences transformed them, and what community colleges must still do to improve and expand access and opportunities for all. Quackenbush is pursuing a degree in nursing as she advocates for harm reduction.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

years from 2019 to 2021. Lee explains how some of her students live in rural areas “not having access to hospitals nearby … not even just having running water. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revealed that while life expectancy in the U.S. years was equal to the life expectancy of the total U.S. population in 1944.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Some are creating new programming, while others endeavor to increase access for students interested in serving the most vulnerable populations. With health services management they can work as managers in hospitals and in enhancing healthcare access. Dr. Shamard Charles is an assistant professor of public health at St. Francis College.

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