Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

More than 300 women faculty at the University of Colorado Boulder will receive back pay and a salary equity analyses every three years, following a $4.5 Following the passage of the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act in 2019, CU Boulder conducted an equity analysis in 2021 to determine whether it complies with the new law.

Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 19, 2025

The report, Equity and Emergency: COVID-19 Relief Funding at Historically and Predominantly Black Community Colleges in the South, examines how 39 institutions across 10 Southern states utilized Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund (HEERF) allocations during the COVID-19 pandemic. billion for institutional expenses.

Community college

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The path to higher education success has many obstacles and barriers for Latinos across the U.S. The mission of Excelencia in Education, founded in 2004 by Dr. Deborah A. Department of Education, the Upward Bound program works with students from six area high schools that are identified as potential first-generation college students.

Retention

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 23, 2025

Despite the profession's growing emphasis on multicultural competence, many counselor education programs and ongoing professional development systems still fall short in preparing trainees and counselors to recognize, process, and effectively address racial stress and trauma.

Counseling

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2025

Mitchell is the inaugural Associate Provost for Community Engagement and a Professor in the College of Education at the University of Maryland. Her teaching emphasizes college students and their development, issues of equity and access, leadership and policy and practice in higher education. Evans and Andrea D.

University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 11, 2025

It has long been associated with the Hispanic-Serving institution (HSI) designation that the Federal government established in the 1992 reauthorization of the Higher Education Act to recognize and provide funding and resources to colleges and universities that had a fulltime undergraduate enrollment of at least 25% Latinx.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Alvin Francis Poussaint, whose tireless advocacy for diversity in medical education transformed Harvard Medical School and influenced generations of physicians from underrepresented backgrounds, died late last week. The Harlem-born psychiatrist was no stranger to the pages of Diverse: Issues In Higher Education.

Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

A massive plan to restructure the School of Education (SOE) at American University, is facing fierce opposition from students, faculty and staff. Holcomb-McCoy had already announced plans to step down from the deanship in January to assume the role of CEO of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE). “I’m

Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 16, 2025

percent lower than they were in fall 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic. colleges and universities representing approximately 370,000 full-time faculty members, provides a comprehensive look at faculty compensation amid ongoing challenges facing higher education. The gender salary-equity ratio was lowest (87.2)

Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Department of Education has placed dozens of employees on paid administrative leave following President Donald J. Trump's executive order targeting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs in federal government, affecting workers who previously participated in diversity training initiatives.

Education

COE

JULY 15, 2025

The Council for Opportunity in Education Launches Inaugural Award for Institutional Effectiveness to Scale TRIO Student Support Services Practices Campus-Wide July 15, 2025 — by Terrance L. A landmark 2019 U.S. WASHINGTON, D.C.

First generation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 11, 2025

Department of Education announced it will no longer allow federal funds to support career, technical, and adult education programs for undocumented students, rescinding a nearly three-decade-old policy that permitted such access. The interpretive rule, published in the Federal Register, clarifies that federal programs under the Carl D.

Adult education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 13, 2025

These classifications highlight the institution's growing research profile while maintaining its historic mission of providing educational access to underrepresented communities. He has launched initiatives addressing pressing health challenges including firearm injury prevention, health equity, and infectious disease control.

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 18, 2024

NEW YORK At The Nightingale-Bamford School on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, educators from across the nation gathered to learn the best practices to elevate young girls, particularly those from minoritized backgrounds, into successful futures. A 2019 study from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management found 60% of U.S.

Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 10, 2024

Mary Ann Villarreal has been appointed vice president in the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Student Success at the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U). She will focus on advancing equity and student success efforts in service to undergraduate populations and academic excellence.

Student success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 17, 2024

DeCuir-Gunby, a prominent educational psychologist and racial equity expert who is on the faculty at the USC Rossier School of Education, has been named the next executive director of the USC Race and Equity Center. She is an APA Fellow and an American Educational Research Association Fellow. Dr. Jessica T.

Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Title: Assistant Professor, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Tenured: No (tenure track) Age: 32 Education: B.A., Dueñas says she uses both qualitative and quantitative methods to examine students in their higher educational spaces. Dr. Cristobal Salinas Jr.,

Equity

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. Our higher education institutions must reflect this reality and prepare students for the world they will inherit.

Higher education

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

Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 15, 2023

It has been three years since the nation was shaken by the untimely murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor, igniting a powerful movement to address racism in policing and other facets of society like education. He is the lead editor of “Racial Equity on College Campuses: Connecting Research and Practice.”

Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 21, 2023

User-Centered Design (UCD), a product design approach that centers on researching intended users, getting feedback from them, and iterating on the product, was central to how the higher ed nonprofit developed its California Postsecondary to Prosperity Dashboard , an education statistics resource for the state.

Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Julian Vasquez Heilig, dean of the University of Kentucky’s (UK) College of Education, has been named the winner of the University Council for Educational Administration's (UCEA) 2022 Linda C. Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig The award – named after diversity and equity advocate Linda C. s education system. s education system.

Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 11, 2024

What does Diverse: Issues In Higher Education mean to you? When the first edition of what was then called Black Issues In Higher Education was published on March 15, 1984, it was two days before my 14th birthday, and I was still adjusting to ninth grade in a public high school after attending a private school from second grade to eight grade.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This is a call to embrace three basic principles to guide our path through this time of transformative change: · Recognize higher education as a public good. · Depoliticize our colleges and universities. · Focus on outcomes that lead to jobs and support economic growth and prosperity.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 27, 2023

“It is an honor to be recognized along with other activists who build community and opportunity through race and equity work,” Crazy Bull said. Diverse also recognized Crazy Bull as a top leader in higher education.

Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 16, 2023

It's one of the new offerings coordinated by the National Education Equity Lab, an educational justice nonprofit that brings credit-bearing college courses into Title I and Title I-eligible high schools, at which large numbers of students come from families with little money.

Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 4, 2024

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. HSIs are also educating large numbers of African Americans and Asian Americans, and significant numbers of white students from lower-income families.”

Low income student

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 9, 2023

“Les has deep experience in higher education leadership and a strong understanding of Connecticut College through his Board of Trustees service and committee-related work,” said Debo P. As a member of the Board of Trustees since 2019, Les is well known to many in the Conn community. Adegbile, chair of the Board of Trustees. “As

Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

Approximately 300,000 undergraduate student parents are currently enrolled at institutions of higher education in the state of California. While pursuing their education, they grapple with a number of challenges in a higher education system that has historically overlooked their needs and experiences, according to the report.

Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Sophia Rahming As a result of her work, class withdrawals and the number of students failing and having to repeat courses — particularly in STEM-related courses — have dramatically declined since she took the helm of the program in 2019. from FSU in 2019 — hasn’t had trouble recruiting diverse students from all backgrounds to sign up as LAs.

Student success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Burt “Aspiring to a career in engineering can be daunting for Black males and a less traveled road they are expected to pave themselves,” said Burt, a UW-Maidson professor of education and director of the Wisconsin Equity and Inclusion Laboratory (Wei LAB). Burt is also a 2019 Diverse Emerging Scholar. Dr. Brian A.

Inclusion

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

A champion of diversity, equity and inclusion, Dr. Eanes is the ideal person to lead Cal State LA and continue to drive its powerful engine of social mobility,” said CSU Trustee Jack B. Dr. Berenecea Johnson Eanes Eanes will become the university's first woman president. “A Clarke, Jr., chair of the Cal State LA Presidential Search Committee.

University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 24, 2024

That is according to the May 23 vote by the Board of Governors for the University of North Carolina System to repeal and replace its existing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policy , likely effecting diversity programs at the system’s 17 institutions. Two of the 24 board members voted against the repeal.

Compliance

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Education is a center of much vitriolic partisan debate in America. Toldson Although the College Board has significantly expanded its AP courses over the past two decades, they have not effectively addressed longstanding racial equity issues. principles." Dr. Ivory A. million soldiers segregated by race and test scores.

Curriculum

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. Klingenstein Library at New-York Historical. or higher on a 4.0 Agnes Hsu-Tang, board chair of New-York Historical.

Curriculum

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 7, 2024

The unanticipated ferocity of the scripted efforts to eliminate DEI on higher education campuses has caused numerous institutions to reverse their previous commitments to a set of “core values” that were intended to evolve their environments and structures into settings that were more welcoming to and supportive of underrepresented constituencies.

University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 15, 2023

Part-time faculty that are paid on a per-course basis got a boost that was just shy of a percentage point, although there has been a nearly 9% increase since the 2019-20 year. If an institution was really wanting to legitimately intervene on women’s pay equity, promotion salary talks would be a really good place to look at it,” she said.

Faculty