COE

JULY 9, 2025

When the Higher Education Act faced its deepest cuts in February 1986, it would have been easy for us to descend into mourning. Representative Pat Williams (D-MT), then–Chairman of the Postsecondary Subcommittee on Higher Education, agreed to stand beside us that day. I’m forever grateful that U.S.

First generation

COE

JULY 24, 2025

Hamm Click to view the page: From Humble Beginnings to Leading Higher Education Advocacy: My Journey Blog From Humble Beginnings to Leading Higher Education Advocacy: My Journey by Kimberly Jones Click to view the page: From TRIO to the Halls of Congress: U.S.

First generation

COE

JUNE 3, 2025

Today, the Council for Opportunity in Education (COE) proudly recognizes and applauds the more than 10,000 alumni of the Federal TRIO Programs (TRIO) who have come together in an unprecedented show of unity to oppose the Trump Administrations proposal to eliminate TRIO in the Fiscal Year 2026 budget. EOC programs report that 60.6%

First generation

COE

JUNE 11, 2025

Dr. Aaron Brown is the executive vice president of the Council for Opportunity in Education and a TRIO Student Support Services alumnus. She served as White House Deputy Director of Hispanic Media in the Obama Administration. Representative Steven Horsford’s Inspirational Journey Blog From TRIO to the Halls of Congress: U.S.

First generation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 27, 2025

Despite his many accomplishments, meticulously documented in a 137-page curriculum vitae that lists dozens of speeches, scholarly publications, honorary degrees and faculty positions, Gates loathes being referred to as Dr. Gates or Professor Gates. If he had made it, man, that would have been big for our family, Gates says.

Mathematics

COE

JULY 8, 2025

Collins says she helped secure Upward Bound funding for Maine Massachusetts: Trump cuts would devastate community colleges, undermining lower-income students striving to better their lives Massachusetts: Programs to support N.H.s Representative Steven Horsford’s Inspirational Journey Blog From TRIO to the Halls of Congress: U.S.

First generation

COE

JULY 10, 2025

This year’s honorees include: Beverly Black’ s early experience with TRIO Talent Search at Southern University of New Orleans and Student Support Services at the University of L ouisiana at Lafayette instilled in her the confidence and tools to pursue higher education.

Education

COE

JULY 15, 2025

Jones as Its Third President Press Releases Council for Opportunity in Education Board of Directors Unanimously Chooses Kimberly A. Representative Steven Horsford’s Inspirational Journey Blog From TRIO to the Halls of Congress: U.S.

First generation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Morgan State University, a Historically Black university in Baltimore, has been awarded the 2022 ETS/CGS Award for Innovation in Promoting Success in Graduate Education: From Admission through Completion from The Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) and ETS. Its instructional curriculum is built on a series of four courses.

Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Byrne to bring her commitment to access and equity to a new area of public higher education. From December 2016 to July 2022, when she left to begin her new position, she served as associate provost for undergraduate retention and dean of undergraduate studies. Students meet with Macaulay Honors College Dean Dara N.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

She would like to see underrepresented and marginalized students thrive and succeed in higher education. Dueñas’ scholarship addresses issues of equity and access in higher education with a focus on sense of belonging and experiences with imposter syndrome among Latinx students attending four-year colleges and universities. “My

Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 17, 2024

He also will maintain his University Professor and Provost Professor appointments in the USC Rossier School of Education, Marshall School of Business, and Price School of Public Policy. Naslund Chair in Curriculum and Teaching. Dr. Jessica T. DeCuir-Gunby DeCuir-Gunby is a tenured full professor and holds the Robert H.

Equity

COE

OCTOBER 2, 2023

From Humble Beginnings to Leading Higher Education Advocacy: My Journey October 2, 2023 — by Kimberly Jones Becoming COE president, I strive for educational equity, inspired by my parents’ resilience and belief in transformative education for all. Recognizing her potential, they urged her to pursue higher education.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 10, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT can prove very valuable and promising in the realm of higher education but come with their own suite of issues that need to be considered, according to higher ed leaders and faculty who participated in a panel discussion on Wednesday.

Humanities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 24, 2022

College students are taking fewer credit hours than before and conscious course scheduling is becoming more relevant, according to a new report from higher education resource company Ad Astra. The report will prove useful for the higher education industry, its leaders, and faculty alike, Hunter said. "If

Scheduling

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Data showed no change between 2022 and 2023 high school graduates when it came to immediately enrolling in college, but there was an increase of 3.2 percentage points between 2021 and 2022 graduates across nearly all high school characteristics in terms of enrolling in college within a year of graduation. for the class of 2022.

Low income student

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

During July 2022 alone, ten anti-gay laws went into effect , all of them relating to education. For instance, the University of Louisville has been recognized as one of the best institutions for LGBTQ+ students by being named a 2022 Best of the Best LGBTQ-Friendly Campus by Campus Pride.

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Since their creation, tests have disproportionately hindered access to gifted and talented education (GATE), AP, college acceptance (particularly to elite higher education institutions), scholarships, and so on. More representation of minoritized professionals is needed in P-12 and higher education. internships).

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

For many years, the curriculum for those who hoped to ascend to a presidency focused on management skill development and building core competencies like budgeting, board management, and fundraising. The president and board should repeat the conversation during the contract renewal process to discuss an ongoing match.

Leadership development

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 4, 2024

Race and higher education scholars are voicing criticism, concern, and cynicism after the University of Florida ended many of its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts, a move that the school cited it took to comply with a state law that was passed last year. Go look at a curriculum. Go look at the faculty and staff.

University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2023

This framework, under development since March 2022, replaces the preliminary pilot course framework under discussion to date,” College Board said. Florida’s Department of Education has argued that the curriculum was contrary to Florida law and lacked educational value.

Placement

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

In October 2022, the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES) released a new report where, again, Black students lagged behind white students on the National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP) also known as the Nation’s Report Card. Dr. Donna Y. Years later, our experiences still haunt us.

Placement

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 10, 2023

“I then thought, because I was very good in math and science, perhaps I could become an engineer and design an airplane for others to pilot,” said Lim, who joined the NJIT in July 2022 as its ninth president and a distinguished professor of mechanical engineering. Research activity is ahead of last year.

Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

However, the study cites evidence that Black, Hispanic, and low-income community college students perform worse in online courses than face-to-face ones, which may explain the especially strong negative effect of an all-online curriculum. Smith Jaggars attributes this to systemic barriers.

Community college

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 30, 2024

achievement and opportunity gaps, underachievement, excessive and unjust suspensions and expulsions, overrepresentation in special education , and underrepresentation in gifted and talented education, Advanced Placement ), it behooves educators to not just increase minoritized students’ engagement , but to also increase their family’s engagement.

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. Demographic changes have led to an increasing number of Latinx students attending higher education.

Advising

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

Teri Wurmser, dean of the Hackensack Meridian Health School of Nursing and Wellness; and Dr. Kelly McNeal, dean of the School of Education. McNeal was the last to join – she did so in July 2022 – and her appointment solidified GCU’s 100% women deanship rate. It was in our curriculum. And in 2022, women make up 67% of faculty.

Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Students visit Sabal’s Cassava Farm in Belize in March 2022 “Our student demographic is one of the most diverse student demographics in the country,” said Dr. Gundolf Graml, associate VP for academic affairs, dean for curriculum and strategic initiatives, and professor of German. Over 60% of our students are students of color.

Curriculum

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The idea to create a cannabis studies program at the Salem, Virginia school came from a faculty discussion in 2022 about out-of-the-box curriculum ideas. Similarly in 2022, the Pew Research Center put the percentage of U.S. The suggestion of looking into cannabis came as a surprise to Poli, she said. “I According to U.S.

Humanities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 15, 2023

Following her retirement as president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in July 2022, Jackson continued to have an impact on academia, industry, and public service. Jackson was a 2009 recipient of the Dr. John Hope Franklin Award but was recognized at this year’s American Council on Education (ACE) annual meeting in Washington, D.C.

Mathematics

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

She joined the Boston school in 2022. We haven't changed our calculus curriculum at all. We have not changed our physics curriculum at all. Those looking to apply to Wentworth are required to have four years of English, a mathematics course on the level of Algebra II, and one laboratory science course under their belt.

Mathematics

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 15, 2024

This is year 19 for Examples of Excelencia, an annual recognition given by Excelencia in Education. Brown, Excelencia in Education has the stated mission to accelerate Latino student success in higher education. It has done that with an 86% success rate for the 2022-23 academic year. Santiago and Sarita E.

Tutoring

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Editors of top-tier journals couldn’t comprehend why she chose to focus on Black women instead of Black people generally, and if she wanted to talk about Black women and girls in the courses that she taught, she had to figure out how to slip the material into the pre-designed curriculum. The experience was isolating. Dr. Candace N.

Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 15, 2022

There is a need to find ways to meet students where they are and integrate meaningful content and curriculum into what they are doing. Additionally, building on existing curriculum bases or helping teachers to establish new ones is a way to keep students on the tech highway after they have accessed it via an on-ramp.

Facilitation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

This focus is part of what drew Google to the program. “ The program stands out because of the uniqueness of the curriculum. west regional lead, tech education outreach & partnerships at Google. The 2021-2022 cohort of STEP CS students—the inaugural group —numbered nine, with five students from under-represented backgrounds.

Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 16, 2023

Shana Stoddard Having first come to Rhodes as a William Randolph Hearst Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in 2015, Stoddard has cemented a role for herself at the school over time, attaining the position of associate professor of chemistry in 2022. “I I knew that I wanted an undergraduate research lab,” Stoddard said. She holds a Ph.D.

Mentoring

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

To produce the report, Ed Trust, a non-profit focused on eliminating racial and economic barriers in the educational system, analyzed 300 books aimed at kindergarteners through eighth graders from publishers who met quality standards set by EdReports, an organization that evaluates curriculum materials.

Humanities