IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

MARCH 4, 2025

Among students with unmet need in 2019-2020 school year: 40% reported taking out student loans, nearly twice the rate of students without unmet need (21%). 33% reported working at least 30 hours per week while enrolled, despite strong evidence that working more than 20 hours per week can be detrimental to student success.

Grant

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. Today, amidst increasing racial violence, hostility, and divisiveness, HBCUs are, for many Black students, the option of choice. It creates an environment for students to thrive academically and personally.

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 6, 2025

His 1997 landmark book, A Learning College for the 21st Century , fundamentally shifted how educators think about community college mission and practice, earning him the Phillip E. Frandson Award for Literature in the Field of Continuing Higher Education. His influence extended far beyond theory to practical implementation.

Community college

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 15, 2025

of higher education chief executives, while Hispanics were 5.7%. As deputy chancellor of California Community Colleges, she fosters policies and practice that support student success and college effectiveness. Dr. Prabhas Moghe has been executive vice president of academic affairs at Rutgers University since 2020.

Instruction

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. Student debt issues loom, and problems due to the rollout of the 2024-25 FAFSA linger. It has been an unnecessary barrier to higher education. Dr. Everrett A.

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 23, 2025

Williams and Jim Runcie At a time when higher education is facing increased scrutiny, economic headwinds, and technological disruption, a group of institutions is charting a new path forwardone grounded in legacy, strengthened by collaboration and built for the future. Our students need more than degrees. Lomax, Harry L.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 26, 2024

What does student success mean? Some colleges associate student success with high graduation rates, others focus on alumni achievements, and then other colleges emphasize test scores and grades. The data shows that, from 2011 through 2020, there was a 39% drop in Black male enrollment in colleges across the United States.

Student success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 20, 2023

HISPA fellows with New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy The main program is the HISPA Role Model Program in which role models speak to students at predominantly low-income, public middle schools with majority Hispanic student populations, sharing their stories and encouraging student success.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 13, 2024

Edward’s University in Austin, Texas, I deeply understand the value of higher education for all. Education is a human right regardless of one’s background, and access and support should be readily available to those in need. We are fully committed to first-generation students, but commitment is just the start.

First generation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 23, 2024

In San Luiz, Arizona, along the border of the state and Sonora, Mexico, there is Gadsden Elementary School District #32, where more than 99% of its more than 5,000 students identified as Hispanic in 2020. Within that school district lies Southwest Junior High (SJH), a school comprising mostly Latinx (96%) students.

Student success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Complete College America (CCA) is making the connection between the potential of student success at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and investment in cutting-edge technology. The report also noted the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) and its potential influence on higher education services.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 22, 2023

So I think a lot of institutional leaders have been concerned about making sure students develop that sense of connection. And then, faculty are especially interested because they haven't always had an explicit role in student success efforts, and it's a way for them to see where they fit in.

Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Carnevale from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce makes a compelling case that U.S. Economist Dr. Anthony P. In recent years we have recognized the need to go beyond incremental changes and help institutions recognize our nation’s persistent racism to create more equitable institutions. Francesca I.

Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 1, 2022

noa’s Native Hawaiian population has grown tremendously since the 1990s, and doubled between 2007 and 2020, thanks to deliberate efforts to recruit and retain these students, said Dr. Willy Kauai, director of Native Hawaiian student services at UH M?noa. The way populations have identified here has changed over the years.

University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

I look forward to engaging and collaborating with Cal State LA’s talented students, staff and faculty to continue the institution’s journey to new heights in student success, research, scholarship and creative activity, and community engagement.” A champion of diversity, equity and inclusion, Dr. Clarke, Jr.,

University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

Aaron Thompson, president of the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE), participated in the Attaining College Excellence and Equity Summit put together by the U.S. Department of Education and the Institute for Higher Education Policy. The 2024 Higher Education Matters Progress Report shows a 16.1

Low income student

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 10, 2024

She also served as a department chair and interim associate dean in the College of Education and Integrative Studies as well as an associate vice president for student success.

Advising

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 24, 2024

Studying the data, intentional collaboration, and asking students what they need are keys to improving outcomes. Department of Education (ED) and the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP) held the Attaining College Excellence and Equity Summit: Holistic Advising and Wraparound Services in Washington, D.C.

Mental health

Civitas Learning

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

As higher education continues to shapeshift to meet the changing needs of students, many leaders are asking what role each department plays in supporting student success. Everyone is responsible for student success” is easy to say but harder to do. But this is a missed opportunity.

Student success

IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Federal, state, and institutional policymakers have the power to close these racial and economic gaps and promote equitable access to the better living and better life that higher education can provide. The cost of opportunity: Student stories of college affordability. The Institute for Higher Education Policy.

Student success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Between June 2004 and June 2020, almost 12,000 institutions of higher education closed their doors. Some of those institutions closed in an orderly fashion—students, faculty and staff were given ample warning, and arrangements for continuing a student’s education at another institution, teach-out plans, are made.

Multiple measures

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

A 2019 survey of almost 40,000 California community college students found that 60% of respondents indicated they were housing insecure in 2018, according to The Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice, an action research center working to make higher education more equitable. The residence opened in 2020.

Community college

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 14, 2023

However, in recent years, higher education, like many industries, is facing significant challenges in filling critical leadership, faculty, and support staff positions due to an aging workforce, a need for more qualified internal candidates, and increasing competition in the labor market.

Community college

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Ray Martinez III To build the new model, Martinez says Texas’s higher education stakeholders and policy makers have come together to ask, “What do we need to do as a matter of state policy to ensure that students have the support they need, the scaffolding to ensure they can be successful in completing a post-secondary credential?”

Financial aid

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2024

Between 2010 and 2020, Latinx people accounted for over 50% of the U.S. That’s why Excelencia has issued four new reports in its continuing investigation into the relationship between institutions, Latinx students, and the workforce. population growth. Currently, one fifth of the U.S. Yet despite their representation in the U.S.

Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 17, 2024

What started as an innovative program to support limited-income and first-generation students at the University of Michigan in 2008 has since grown into a 16-institution collaborative program that has helped hundreds of first-generation students across the country find success in post-secondary education.

First generation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 15, 2024

FAMU received the gift — a donation to support of student success initiatives and athletics — from the Issac Batterson 7th Family Trust and Chief Executive Officer Gregory Gerami, a Texas hemp farmer and the founder of Batterson Farms Corp. million in pledges since July 1, 2020. million gift. million in cash and $10.7

University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 14, 2023

Significant portions of the college student population have faced food insecurity, according to an analysis of data from the National Postsecondary Student Aid Study: 2020 (NPSAS:20). Advocates and leaders must help tell the stories of the students represented in the data, said panelist Dr. Dr. Tammeil Y.

Grant

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 27, 2024

She is always looking to center the story of Black women in history, particularly to find ways to make those stories resonate with the students of today. “We HBCUs play a crucial role in educating Black people in America, a particularly noteworthy accomplishment considering how few resources the institutions actually have.

Curriculum

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Data gathered by Excelencia in Education, a nonprofit organization working to improve and accelerate Latinx student success in postsecondary education, showed that in 2021, there were 401 emerging HSI institutions across 43 states. Students’ families are a part of the community,” says Burns. totaled 62.5

Advising

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

At a time when the Latino population in the United States is growing and students are still facing daunting obstacles, Excelencia in Education is recognizing nine institutions for their clear and decisive commitment to Latino student success with the Seal of Excelencia. Beck CSUN President Dr. Erika D.

Retention

The University Innovation Alliance

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The University Innovation Alliance's Three Playbooks for Student Success. The University Innovation Alliance (UIA) operates as a multi-campus laboratory for student success innovation. Understanding how students may use their completion grant funds. The unique needs of transfer students. College to Career.

Student success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 27, 2024

percentage points from our fall 2020 cohort to our fall 2022 cohort,” said Matos. for the fall 2020 cohort to 55.4% We’ve also launched an office of student success…to try to really be proactive about our outreach to students.” “We’re happy to share that our one-year retention has increased overall 2.3

Retention

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 2, 2023

Since 2020, it seems as though anyone with any sort of leadership role in higher education has pledged their anti-racism bona fides. These questions provoked some deep uncertainty from Brianne Sanchez, the dean of student success at South Seattle College.

Teaching

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 10, 2024

“Standardized scores combined with high school GPA support this goal by improving early identification of students who demonstrated the greatest academic achievement, the most potential, and those who can most benefit from support through our student success programs.”

Application

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 26, 2023

Achieving HSI status Larry Eby Larry Eby, executive director of advancement at Goldey-Beacom College (GBC) in Delaware, said several years ago the college’s admissions office saw there was a rising number of Hispanic students pursuing higher education. Obviously, the number one thing is student success,” she continued.

Tutoring

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 11, 2024

At Wayne State, she founded efforts such as: Leading Well, a grant-funded professional learning community for Black women school leaders in Detroit; the Center for Black Children in Education (CBCE), which hosts an annual conference; and the Sankofa Scholarship Foundation, which provides scholarships for young people in higher education.

Equity