IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

JULY 2, 2025

For decades, the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) at the U.S. Department of Education has conducted studies, such as t he National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS), that provide key evidence to inform policymaking in higher education.

FAFSA

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 22, 2025

Spring enrollments continue their progress towards recovering the levels of spring 2020. Total enrollment numbers remain down from 2020. online programs), and career-aligned education (i.e., increase, the first increase in this demographic since 2020. higher than it was in 2020. The current enrollment is a 3.2%

Community college

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 15, 2025

Gilda Barabino, president of Olin College of Engineering in Massachusetts, will leave her position at the end of the academic year, adding to the growing list of higher Dr. Gilda Barabino education leadership departures.

Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2025

Desmond Lee Endowed Professor of Urban Education at the University of MissouriSt. Louis, has been elected as the next president of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). His research examines the complex intersections of race, social class, and geography in educational opportunity, with a particular focus on the U.S.

Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 3, 2025

By focusing on employer needs, we have launched eight bachelors degrees in crucial areas including nursing, education, information technology, and public safety administration. With 11 bachelors degree programs, Maricopa Community Colleges is well positioned to lead in community college baccalaureate education.

Community college

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 24, 2025

The organization's latest workforce trends report, "The Non-Exempt Higher Education Staff Workforce: Trends in Composition, Size, and Equity," reveals a 9 percent overall decrease in full-time non-exempt staff positions since 2017. percent drop in part-time positions beginning in 2020. The non-exempt staff workforce at U.S.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

In an effort to provide an inclusive and dedicated college experience for diverse populations, The University of Phoenix is actively working to address the unique educational needs of tribal students through its Tribal Operations Team. By the fourth course, that rate increased to 8%. That’s why we are here.

University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

PHILADELPHIA-- In a significant recognition of their transformative efforts in higher education, Chattanooga State Community College and Southwestern Oregon Community College have been awarded the prestigious Leah Meyer Austin Award by Achieving the Dream (ATD). between fall 2020 and fall 2023. percentage points from 2019 to 2022.

Student success

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

DECEMBER 3, 2024

For example, the percentage of first-time students enrolling in transfer-level math and English courses within their first year of college rose dramatically between the fall 2015 and fall 2020 cohorts. But it is not just about access—it is about building an educational ecosystem that nurtures every student’s potential.

Student success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Over the last decade the food pantry became a higher education trend. By 2020 the organization had ballooned to more than 700 members, and in 2021 it became part of Swipe Out Hunger, a national nonprofit. In many ways, it’s a sign of progress. But that is all the more reason to recognize that hope is a strategy.

Financial aid

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

The killing of George Floyd in June 2020 and Black Lives Matter movement created a racial reckoning and ongoing conversation that continue to reverberate across society—from the halls of power to corporate boardrooms to kitchen tables. Together, we must hold our country’s leaders accountable and demand equity in education.

Mathematics

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 3, 2025

NSCRC considered students who have enrolled at least once in postsecondary education since January 1993 but have not earned any degree or certificate and have had no enrollment for at least three consecutive academic terms as of July 31, 2023. million new stopouts between January of 2022 and July of 2023.

Advising

IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

MARCH 4, 2025

The recent cancel lation of critical grants and contracts at the Institute for Education Sciences (IES) jeopardizes the future of congressionally mandated and statistically robust surveys on postsecondary education experiences and outcomes. Only 42% reported receiving financial support from their parents for their educational expenses.

Grant

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University, where he founded the Center for Antiracist Research under a five-year charter in 2020. Most recently, he was the Andrew W. With Kendi's departure comes news that the center's charter was not renewed and is now set to close.

Scholarship

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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 The institution also saw a 1,104% increase in revenue from its Workforce and Continuing Education program under Todd's leadership. as the institution's 22nd president.

Placement

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

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

They shared their convictions with their two sons, including the importance of education and social service. It took him awhile to connect the dots from his passion to higher education. Williams was raised Catholic and attended private institutions—he was often the only Black student in his class, or one of the few. Dr. Dereck J.

Placement

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 21, 2025

Rice University has unveiled plans for unprecedented enrollment growth, aiming to increase its student population by approximately 30% by 2028 compared to 2020 levels, university officials announced Monday. Graduate programs, which have already grown 18% since 2020, are also seeing record application numbers, with U.S.

Financial aid

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 18, 2025

Why are women of color in higher education celebrated for their excellence yet set up to fail by the very systems that claim to value them? This isnt a personal failure; its a systemic issueand higher education is a microcosm of broader workplace inequities. Jackson in Its Not Impostor Syndrome When Youre Black and a Woman.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 16, 2025

Acrobatics and tumbling, which became an emerging sport in August 2020, quickly grew its NCAA sponsorship from 27 schools in the 2020-21 academic year to more than 40 in 2023-24. The NCAA is, once again, expanding championship opportunities to female athletes nationwide," said Dr.

Administration

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 19, 2025

The path to championship status began in 2020 when women's wrestling joined the NCAA's Emerging Sports program. "Since I was a little girl, I dreamed about being an NCAA national wrestling champion. It will fulfill so many little girls' dreams, including mine."

University

College Aid Services

APRIL 22, 2025

Department of Education has announced that collections on defaulted federal student loans will resume on May 5, 2025, ending a pause that began in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Student loans

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 22, 2025

He transitioned to coaching as an assistant with San Antonio before becoming head coach of the Orlando Magic in 2012, later leading the Brooklyn Nets to playoff appearances in 2020 and 2023. I'm truly honored and overwhelmed with excitement to return to my alma mater," Vaughn said. "I

Mentoring

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Tanzania Cooper In the early 19th century, HBCUs were the only option in higher education available to Black people. Donald Trump made a bold claim at the Davos economic conference in 2020 that he saved HBCUs which is untrue. If we are concerned about Black lives, we must be equally concerned about the Black institutions.

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

As Black educators, we are constantly mindful of the quality of lived experiences in the academy, mainly predominantly white Institutions (PWIs) for minoritized students. high blood pressure, fatigue, and headaches), subsequently, impacting educational success and positive health outcomes for racially minoritized students (Smith et al.,

Mental health

SRI Education

JULY 22, 2025

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 ).

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

It was over 180 years ago that HBCUs were founded, at a time when Black Americans had little to no access to higher education. Still today, they are central to the education and empowerment of Black Americans—offering more than just a degree but also a legacy of opportunity and possibility. and not all are of this distinction.

Financial aid

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Detris Adelabu On the day of his death in 2020, an op-ed appeared in the New York Times , pre-written by Congressman John Lewis, urging Americans to stand up for justice and what he called good trouble, necessary trouble. If ever there was a time for good trouble in higher education, that time is now.

Educational leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 15, 2025

Department of Education announced Wednesday a massive student loan discharge affecting 261,000 borrowers who attended Ashford University, following evidence of widespread deceptive practices at the online institution. The discharge covers loans taken out between March 1, 2009, and April 30, 2020.

Administration

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Fresh out of a graduate program at American University (AU), a predominantly white institution (PWI), I began my first job in global education. In 2020, my sister, a teacher in Georgia, was forced to leave the U.S. These inequities discourage talented students from pursuing education in the U.S., increase from the previous year.

International student

Catherine Cronin

JANUARY 11, 2025

“you are neither here nor there” … along the Flaggy Shore Three years ago, in January 2022, I started a new chapter leaving formal, full-time employment in the higher education sector to work independently. A very personal highlight was a keynote at Lehman College in the Bronx.

Collaboration

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Some of those best practices were on full display at the 5 th Biennial International Conference on Urban Education. Sponsored by The Urban Education Collaboration, led by Dr. Chance W. Board of Education ruling. The convening took on a greater sense of urgency, following Tuesday’s election of Donald J. Dr. Leslie T.

Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. The series challenges us to consider how key policy issues within this election may impact the future of higher education and beyond. The editor of the series is Dr. Khalilah L.

Access

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 24, 2025

Senator Bernie Sanders Senator Bernie Sanders introduced legislation last Thursday requiring all public school teachers to earn at least $60,000 annually, calling America's teacher pay crisis a "national emergency" during a Capitol Hill town hall with more than 200 educators. Major education unions endorsed the proposal.

Mathematics

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. This led to corporations and institutions of higher education abandoning their commitments to racial justice and eliminating their diversity programs altogether."

Database

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 15, 2025

2 post is a natural source of pride among Filipina/o American educators and their peers of Asian descent. is so paltry that a 2023 report by the American Council on Education stated, We are unable to highlight unique and varied experiences of AAPI-Desi presidents. of higher education chief executives, while Hispanics were 5.7%.

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