Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

At Agnes Scott College, first-year students are given the opportunity to take their first step into becoming global citizens through its Global Journeys program. 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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

I (Ford) was reading a commentary on the top number of “issues” facing education/ educators and became even more outraged and indignant on terminology used to describe children who live in poverty, Blacks, and other minoritized students. b. Special education over-referrals and overrepresentation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center has released the 2024 High School Benchmarks report , which shows small improvements in college enrollment and persistence in public high school graduates. Unfortunately, there remains a persistent gap between low-income students and students at low poverty high schools.

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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. Among the report’s findings were that students took 14.6% two years earlier to 64% in Fall 2021 at public four-year universities.

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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 She said it allows students to better understand the significance of what they’re learning.

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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. Black students know more than what those damn tests claim to measure.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 30, 2024

Given the lower achievement and other negative outcomes of Black and Hispanic students in our schools often due to racial prejudice and discrimination (i.e., Given the lower achievement and other negative outcomes of Black and Hispanic students in our schools often due to racial prejudice and discrimination (i.e., In 2022, the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

McNeal was the last to join – she did so in July 2022 – and her appointment solidified GCU’s 100% women deanship rate. Georgian Court's tradition is a concern for women in the first place,” said Dr. Joy Smith, associate provost for student support and services at GCU. “So It was in our curriculum.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

After the COVID-19 pandemic forced an emergency switch to online learning, students have embraced the modality for its flexibility and convenience. This is particularly true of community college students, who are more likely than others to have jobs and family commitments that make coming to a campus tough.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Roanoke College students will soon get the opportunity to learn and even earn a degree in cannabis studies, after approval from school faculty. Come this August, students will be able to declare either a major or a minor in cannabis studies. Similarly in 2022, the Pew Research Center put the percentage of U.S. According to U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The Wentworth Institute of Technology is dropping its pre-Calculus admissions requirement, opening its doors to a wider range of students looking to pursue STEM degrees there. She joined the Boston school in 2022. These are students that have great potential and that really want to move into a STEM career,” Donovan said. “So

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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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Th is absence of diversity makes it harder to recruit students from under-represented backgrounds into the field, creating a vicious cycle of non-representation. This financial help is critical to the program’s ability to attract a diverse array of teaching students. With Google’s help, this year’s goal is to accept 20 students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 15, 2022

When it comes to inspiring the development of more on-ramps into tech for youth, beginning in areas where many students already spend a lot of their free time is a good place to start and expand. There is a need to find ways to meet students where they are and integrate meaningful content and curriculum into what they are doing.

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Active Minds

DECEMBER 11, 2022

I’ll be honest: talking about mental health and Active Minds with Rory McIlroy was not on my 2022 bingo card. Since joining, I’ve been a chapter member, chapter president, Active Minds Student Ambassador Member, Active Minds Student Advisory Committee member, and treasurer of the Student Advisory Committee.

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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

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 10, 2024

Dr. Gilda Barabino Olin College of Engineering "Our use of AI in our teaching can be seen both as a threat to how students acquire foundational knowledge, but it can also be an enabler to enhance student learning,” said panelist Dr. Gilda A. ChatGPT launched in November of 2022,” Watson said. We don't want the answer.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Reading stories about diverse characters has benefits for all students. Students of color perform better when they see themselves accurately represented, and white students learn about the world as it really is—a complex multi-cultural place. It reduces the ability to be critical thinkers about larger systemic issues.”

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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. In a 2022 interview with ABC News, Jackson recalled, “At MIT, it wasn’t always friendly. Jackson did that by co-founding the Black Student Union.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Brown, Excelencia in Education has the stated mission to accelerate Latino student success in higher education. The intent is to bring attention to evidence-based practices that are making a positive difference for Hispanic students,” says Santiago, chief executive officer of Excelencia in Education. Santiago and Sarita E.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 4, 2024

But rather, it's the elimination of opportunities to retain faculty and students [who] this country and its universities has historically never served,” McCune said. Go look at a curriculum. In Fall 2018, there were 3,372 Black/African American students (6.01%) in that year’s Fall cohort of 56, 079 students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Students organized Black student unions demanding more African American studies courses, Black faculty and staff,” says Canton. The campus movement helped open the space for Black studies, and Black studies as a discipline in return would provide the curriculum that looks at the African American perspective. “The Dr. David A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Dr. Na’ilah Suad Nasir, president of the Spencer Foundation, took the reigns in 2021-2022, followed by Dr. H. Richard Milner IV, the Cornelius Vanderbilt Distinguished Professor of Education in 2022-2023. Her presidency, she says, will include a “heightened focus on policies,” that can aid in reinforcing change over the long haul.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2023

The career goals and objectives of business students have evolved greatly over the past decade. While there are many undergraduates and graduate students aiming for careers in banking or finance, there are also entrepreneurs, innovators, people interested in hospital administration, and others seeking positions at nonprofit organizations.

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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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The school is now eligible for Title V HSI funds that can support student recruitment, education, sense of belonging, and completion. Demographic changes have led to an increasing number of Latinx students attending higher education. We are around 83% students of color. The 2021 Latinx population in the U.S. totaled 62.5

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

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. Macaulay is a highly selective honors college for students in the CUNY system. Students meet with Macaulay Honors College Dean Dara N.

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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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The vast majority (63.9%) are white, followed by Asian Americans at 20.6%, according to 2022 data from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). Those students’ enrollments went way down, across the system. These programs, he adds, tend to attract students of all races who are interested in serving the underserved.

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Civitas Learning

MAY 7, 2025

A lot can stand in the way of a students decision to enroll for the next termfrom a required course not being offered to scheduling conflicts with work. Even the smallest issues can have a big impact on your ability to retain students. In other cases, outdated or inflexible policies can slow students down.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Created in 2005 by Excelencia in Education, Examples of Excelencia is a national initiative that recognizes institutions and nonprofit organizations that identify, aggregate, and promote evidence-based practices that improve Latinx student access in higher education. million research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

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COE

AUGUST 13, 2023

Breaking Barriers in Finance: The Impact of TRIO on Student Support Services Alumna Ashley Thomas August 14, 2023 — by Holly Hexter, Neve Dole B Ashley Thomas spearheaded a strategic collaboration bridging TRIO Programs with Thermo Fisher Scientific. ” Of the outreach, she says, “I just want to make sure it keeps growing.” 

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COE

APRIL 11, 2023

Research Reveals Ways to Improve Mental Health Support for First-Generation Students April 11, 2023 — by Holly Hexter Colleges can do more to help first-generation students address mental health challenges as they transition to campus life, an Ohio State University researcher says. Sergeev emigrated to the U.S.

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COE

OCTOBER 2, 2023

When people ask me about my work, they often wonder if my motivation stems from being a low-income, first-generation college student myself. Although she graduated at the top of her high school class, like many of our own TRIO students emerging from under-resourced high schools, she found herself woefully unprepared for the rigors of college.

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COE

AUGUST 26, 2024

For first-generation and low-income students, these programs can be life-changing, offering experiences that might otherwise be out of reach. This program provided students with an unparalleled opportunity to explore the world and their place within it. Learn more about COE’s opportunities for students and recent alumni.

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The Counseling Geek

MAY 5, 2023

However, traditional counseling approaches can be time-consuming and resource-intensive, making it difficult for schools to provide the level of support that students need. ChatGPT was released by OpenAI only in November of 2022 and look at how far it has ALREADY come in less than 6 months. That’s where ChatGPT comes in.

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COE

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Mason Award stands as the pinnacle of recognition bestowed by the Council for Opportunity in Education, celebrating extraordinary individuals who have made indelible contributions to the realm of college opportunity programs and the relentless pursuit of educational equity for low-income, first-generation students, and those with disabilities.

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