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JULY 2, 2025

 It combines valuable student interview data with administrative data, including FAFSA data that’s only available from the federal government.  Here are three examples of how NPSAS data provide unique and important insights about federal policy and spurred changes to increase student access to financial aid.

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MAY 16, 2025

"The advancement of acrobatics and tumbling toward National Collegiate Championship status is a powerful step forward for women's sports," said Ragean Hill, chair of the Committee on Women's Athletics and executive associate athletics director/senior woman administrator at Charlotte.

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MAY 4, 2025

Todd, who has served as president and CEO of Denmark Technical College (DTC) in South Carolina since 2020, will assume his new role on July 1. "I Talladega College's Board of Trustees has selected Dr. Willie L. as the institution's 22nd president. A Georgia native, Todd holds a Ph.D.

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APRIL 24, 2025

percent drop in part-time positions beginning in 2020. People of color make up 33 percent of the non-exempt workforcea higher representation than in other higher education employment categories, including administrators, faculty, and professionals. percent reduction in full-time positions and a dramatic 17.2

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NOVEMBER 5, 2024

CSUSM’s inclusive hiring practices have increased Latino representation among faculty, administrators and staff. All faculty and administrator searches must have a DEI advocate who completes specialized training. The current administration is led by a Latinx president and provost and includes more female leaders than ever before.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

That philosophy, and his dedication to achieving his goals, inspired Dr. Katrice Albert, a veteran higher education administrator, to ask him to consider joining her where she serves as vice president of community relations at UK. It was 2020, shortly after the murder of26-year-old Breonna Taylor. Every Kentuckian deserves to love UK.”

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DECEMBER 17, 2024

Donald Trump made a bold claim at the Davos economic conference in 2020 that he saved HBCUs which is untrue. Later, President Joe Biden responded by asserting that his administration provided billions of dollars to these institutions because "any Black student is capable of doing what any white student can do."

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In the 2023-24 school year, 84% of public school administrators across the country reported that their school staff provided students with individualized mental health services ( National Center for Educational Statistics, 2024 ).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

That said, VP Harris has been an influential and successful voice for HBCUs in the Biden Administration. Yet, while 64 nonprofit and for-profit colleges closed between 2020 and 2023, exacerbated by the pandemic and long-term enrollment declines, only four of these closures were HBCUs. There are 101 HBCUs in operation across the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 15, 2025

The discharge covers loans taken out between March 1, 2009, and April 30, 2020. This action is part of the Biden administration's broader effort to address student loan issues, which has now provided approximately $34 billion in relief to 1.9 million borrowers whose schools engaged in misconduct or closed.

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DECEMBER 11, 2024

In 2020, my sister, a teacher in Georgia, was forced to leave the U.S. after the Trump administration froze green cards and visas for foreign workers. Jody Dixon The immigration policies of Trumps first presidency werent just theoreticalthey tore at the fabric of my family.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

For example, during one workshop session, administrators shared details about a social justice academy in New Jersey that has successfully provided anti-racist training to more than 200 teachers and those enrolled in teacher-prep programs. BOLD Leadership Network, headquartered in Greenville, S.C.,

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OCTOBER 29, 2024

Former President Barack Obama’s 2020 eulogy of Congressmember John Lewis was a clarion call to the electorate. Dozens were adopted since 2020. It gives standing to Trump’s election denialism , even proposing to prosecute state and local election administrators. The 2024 election is consequential for voting rights.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 24, 2025

Additionally, 44% of public school teachers quit within five years, and 17% worked multiple jobs during the 2020-2021 school year. The Trump administration is also withholding nearly $5.5 The comprehensive bill would cost approximately $400 billion over five years, funded through mandatory appropriations.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 18, 2025

traces the trajectory of racial justice initiatives since May 25, 2020, when Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. The report details a pattern of progress and regression across several administrations. The report, titled "George Floyd Five Years Later: Was it a Moment or a Movement?"

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 15, 2025

As APAHE board president, Tomaneng is considering forming a national network for AAPI and Desi provosts and senior administrators to provide them executive coaching as reminders that presidencies not their current roles can be career mountaintops. 2 post at Rutgers flagship campus. Suzuki was the first Asian American to lead a major U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Claims that DEI IS DEAD are ringing out loudly from the current administration, but isnt there a way to make sure valuable equity-minded practices actually survive? In 2020 , the unemployment rate for workers with a bachelors degree was 5.5 percent, while it was 9 percent for those with a high school diploma.

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MARCH 6, 2025

With over 25 years of administrative, research, and teaching experience in various higher education settings, Vega transitioned to academia as a faculty member and has significantly contributed to the Master of Arts in Higher Education program at Montclair State University since 2017. Vega earned her Ed.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2025

Following the COVID-19 pandemic, most disciplines showed reduced faculty numbers from 2020 to 2022, with few exceptions including Area/Group Studies, Computer Science, Security/Protective Services, Public Administration/Social Service, and Health Professions.

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MARCH 18, 2025

In 2020, I spoke with Dr. Pauline Clance, the psychologist who coined the term impostor phenomenon. Ive taken on administrative roles by choiceserving as a program director, department chair, and leader of a large-scale initiative. Jackson in Its Not Impostor Syndrome When Youre Black and a Woman.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2025

McCain executive and Small Business Administration chief lacks the necessary experience and holds views that could threaten civil rights protections in education. The organization expressed additional concern about McMahon's leadership role at AFPI, which she co-founded after Trump's 2020 election loss.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 9, 2024

As the year winds down, undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, staff and administration are left to wonder what comes next in higher education. He explained that many campus administrators are self-imposing various versions of DEI rollbacks even when not legislatively mandated. The re-election of President Donald J.

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Starting forced collections will be a big change: collection has been paused for most borrowers since March 2020. However, during pandemic payment pause and other temporary relief programs in effect from 2020 until 2024, most collections were paused and missed payments generally did not put loans closer to defaulting. As of now, 5.3

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2025

According to DelMastro-Jeffery, in early 2024 when the Biden-Harris administration issued a new Dear Colleague letter which expanded Title IX for the further protection of women and transgender individuals, Richland moved toward implementing those changes.

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APRIL 24, 2025

"I believe that I have done all I can to advance the mission of the agency and feel that it is time to pass the baton to new leadership," writes Dr. Sethuraman Panchanathan, a computer scientist who was nominated to lead NSF by then-President Donald Trump in December 2019 and was confirmed by the Senate in August 2020. "I

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JUNE 16, 2025

However, despite the positive trend, part-time faculty pay remains appallingly low, and in real terms it has not returned to the levels before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020. The report highlighted the growing compensation gap between administrators and faculty. percent from 2019-20 to 2023-24.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 9, 2025

The timing of the George Mason investigation coincides with broader national debates about the role of diversity programs in education and employment, with different administrations taking varying approaches to enforcement of civil rights laws. The university, however, maintains it has consistently followed federal civil rights laws.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 6, 2025

Drake, who has served as UC president since 2020 and was the first Black president in the system's history. Milliken steps into the leadership role during a complex period for the UC system, which faces both federal research budget cuts from the Trump administration and potential cuts from California state funding.

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AUGUST 4, 2023

Some faculty at Spartanburg Community College (SCC) are criticizing what they allege is heavy-handed governance and changes without faculty input by the school administration since new leadership in 2020, The Post and Courier reported. SCC’s current president Dr. Michael Mikota took office in summer 2020.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Graduate school first-time enrollment has gone up between Fall 2020 and Fall 2021, according to a new report. Dr. Enyu Zhou The Graduate Enrollment and Degrees (GE&D) report – released by the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) – showed that, between Fall 2020 to Fall 2021, first-time enrollment rose by 8.9%. in Fall 2020.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The 2023-2024 Digital Learning Pulse Survey revealed that three-quarters of higher education trustees, faculty, and administrators believe GenAI will noticeably change their institutions — and help solve ongoing issues. But only 16% of faculty and 11% of administrators feel prepared for change.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

For example, in 2020, the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR) found that Black/African American employees comprise less than 10% of higher education professionals. The same report found that Black/African American administrators in higher education were just 8% of all senior leaders.

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MARCH 26, 2024

The office was established in March 2020 to help create and cultivate a representative and qualified congressional workforce reflective of the American people. ODI reported a $4.5 million annual operating budget for FY23.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 1, 2022

State agencies and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention spoke of a mental health emergency among youth and schoolchildren in 2020, citing steadily rising rates of suicide from 2010-2020. “I Phil Murphy’s administration. Phil Murphy This comes amid rising suicide and depression among students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

She was recognized as one of 25 innovative women leading higher education in Diverse last year and is the recipient of NC State’s 2020 Chancellor’s Creating Community Award for Outstanding Faculty. She also received NC State’s University Faculty Scholar in 2018 and is the winner of the Zenobia L. Hikes Woman of Color in the Academy Award.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The move was recommended by Purdue administration and endorsed by its Board of Trustees. Since 2020, Purdue has been “test flexible” due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which hindered many students’ access to testing sites. The school will begin accepting 2024 applications on Aug.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 20, 2023

Diversity of the US Public Health Workforce Pipeline (2016-2020): Role of Academic Institutions ,” developed by researchers at the GW Milken Institute School of Public Health and the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH) looked at public health student diversity from 2016-2020 using a Diversity Index (DI).

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