Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Between 2022 and 2023 alone, 92 colleges abandoned legacy preferences, representing an 18% decrease that coincided with the Supreme Court's landmark decision to ban race-conscious admissions. The practice has seen particularly steep drops since 2015, when nearly half of all four-year colleges considered legacy status.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2025

2022-2025, received funding of $541,879 from the National Science Foundation over three years. on a proposal preparing math and science teachers for middle school, resulting in a five-year NSF grant of $1,199,762. The research project, IceCube Data Analysis in the U.S. Loves Ph.D. Love also collaborated as co-P.I.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Chancellor Emeritus at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, was honored with the Peter McPherson Lifetime Achievement Award last week at the annual meeting of the Association of Public & Land-Grant Universities (APLU) in Orlando, Florida. Martin, Sr.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 22, 2025

Black law students receive the highest average total aid packages at $54,200, but 87% of this amount comes in the form of federal loans rather than grants. In comparison, white students receive aid packages averaging $39,400, with 55% in federal loans and 36% in institutional grants.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 10, 2025

A major breakthrough came with a three-year, $400,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation, providing crucial support for mentoring programs and capacity building. The grant enables the organization to offer fellowships specifically for humanities leaders, addressing historical underrepresentation in leadership development opportunities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 21, 2025

These participants were drawn from a broader sample of 1,865 parents applying for schools in the 2022-2023 academic year. Grant Foundation, offers valuable insights for educational policymakers, school administrators, and communities working to create more equitable and inclusive educational systems in increasingly diverse American cities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 1, 2025

In 2022, Diverse named Shotton to its annual list of women making a difference in higher education. "I The college offers tuition waivers to qualified Native American students, a policy that dates back to a 1911 federal land grant agreement.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 24, 2025

l'll acknowledge my bias: I teach at a large urban college that recently received an HSI grant. that are eligible to apply for an HSI grant, which are made available through the Higher Education Act of 1965 (Title III and Title V). Why did we apply for this grant? What is my college doing with its HSI grant? population.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2025

Lavariega Monforti has authored over 50 scholarly publications and secured more than $10 million in grant funding to support student achievement and faculty research. In 2022, Lavariega Monforti participated in a Diverse sponsored webinar titled, "Survival Strategies for BIPOC Higher Ed Administrators."

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SRI Education

JULY 22, 2025

Knowing that, SRI researchers met with a group of students, parents, and school staff from a large, diverse county in California in fall 2022 to talk about their experiences, preferences, and challenges related to mental health services in schools. The communities’ voices need to be heard.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 21, 2025

Hiring practices : Department of Education statistics show that two-thirds of full-time professors at degree-granting institutions are white, with whites holding 74% of full professor positions. Citing FBI data, he noted that between 2018 and 2022, Jewish people were targets of 78.4% of employees.

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JANUARY 26, 2025

She had ongoing work which was dependent on permanently employed researchers and their capacity to win grants. Authorship of papers is important for academics: they need to show that they have produced in order to get promotion, more grants etc. ” (Smithers et al 2022) and if so, how could this happen? What do you think?

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College Planners of America

JUNE 24, 2025

In this post, we focus on Subtitle A, Student Eligibility , Subtitle B, Loan Limits , and Subtitle D, Pell Grants. Pell Grants Title III raises the Pell Grant ceiling for academic years 2026-27 and beyond, improving the financial outlook for low-income students. billion for academic year 2025-26, $5.35

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 15, 2025

college presidents are AAPI or Desi, according to the 2022 American College President Study, the most recent year for which statistics are available. In the 2022 study, African Americans made up 13.2% In 2022, Desi showed up as a race/ethnicity survey category for the first time. The study is conducted every five years or so.

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MAY 2, 2025

TRIO is the insurance policy for the Pell Grant, said Maureen Hoyler, COE Senior Advisor and past president. TRIO Student Support Services, in particular, raises completion rates for Pell Grant recipients and ensures our federal investment results in degrees, not dropouts.

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COE

JULY 9, 2025

Blog Veterans Upward Bound Programs Commemorate Memorial Day with Activities and Ceremonies Across the U.S.

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JULY 24, 2025

Blog Veterans Upward Bound Programs Commemorate Memorial Day with Activities and Ceremonies Across the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

To address this challenge, many institutions developed creative solutions, including partnerships with local health providers, grant funding for specific services, and sliding-scale payment options based on students' ability to pay. One college discontinued providing abortion referrals entirely due to their state's political environment.

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COE

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Funds are to be drawn only to meet a grantee’s immediate cash needs for each grant. Programs can continue to draw down funds as they usually do. COE recommends that grantees keep their regular business routine the same. Increase for TRIO for FY 2023 Advocacy Update Congress Announces Bipartisan Funding Deal, Includes 4.7%

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College Planners of America

JUNE 13, 2025

Title III of the legislation contains the Committee on Education and Workforce’s proposed changes to the Department of Education’s (ED) student aid programs, including Pell Grants, student loans, and the aid eligibility formula. For instance, undergrads will need to be enrolled at least half-time to qualify for a Pell Grant.

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COE

JUNE 3, 2025

Blog Veterans Upward Bound Programs Commemorate Memorial Day with Activities and Ceremonies Across the U.S.

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COE

JUNE 11, 2025

One of us is a Latina Pell Grant recipient who has spent the past two years visiting more than 80 colleges and universities across the country, speaking directly with first-generation and low-income students. Congress must act to protect TRIO and reaffirm America’s promise: that where you begin in life should not determine where you end up.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 16, 2025

Part-time faculty members who were paid on a per-course-section basis in the prior year (2023–24) received an average of $4,093 per three-credit course section, nearly a 5 percent increase from 2022–23. The report comes as higher education faces unprecedented political interference and funding challenges.

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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 Blog Veterans Upward Bound Programs Commemorate Memorial Day with Activities and Ceremonies Across the U.S.

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COE

JULY 10, 2025

Blog Veterans Upward Bound Programs Commemorate Memorial Day with Activities and Ceremonies Across the U.S.

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COE

JANUARY 28, 2025

As agencies are directed to provide a report to OMB by Monday, February 10 indicating whether federal grant programs are in compliance with recently issued Executive Orders, grantees may wish to draw down funds to allow for operations at least through that date.

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COE

JULY 15, 2025

Supported by a grant from ECMC Foundation, the Council for Opportunity in Education (COE) today announced the COE Award for Institutional Effectiveness , a $10,000 prize recognizing three community colleges that have embedded TRIO Student Support Services (SSS) strategies across their campuses to advance student success. WASHINGTON, D.C.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2025

Eric Grant, a Mecca Society board member, said the partnership will help Howard "move swiftly and strategically" in the competitive NIL landscape. Howard's athletic programs have achieved recent success, with the men's basketball team making the NCAA tournament in 2022 and the track and field program producing multiple Olympic athletes.

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COE

JANUARY 30, 2025

Trump Administration Reverses Federal Grant Funding Freeze Amid Legal Challenges January 30, 2025 by Kimberly Jones The White House located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. Increase for TRIO for FY 2023 Advocacy Update Congress Announces Bipartisan Funding Deal, Includes 4.7%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Employment rates for Class of 2022 graduates returned to pre-pandemic levels after two relatively down years, according to results of a new survey. The survey found Class of 2022 employment rates nearly match those for the pre-pandemic Class of 2019, at 64.6% with a full-time employment rate of 59.1%. overall and 59.7% overall and 53.6%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 4, 2023

29, the new federal spending plan is set to increase the Pell Grant in 2023, allowing low-income students a chance to access up to $7,395 each year. Coupled with the $400 increase in the 2022 fiscal year, this is the largest two-year increase ever in the history of the grant. trillion by the end of 2022, according to the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 26, 2024

Legislators are looking to enshrine the Postsecondary Student Success Grant (PSSG) program, a student outcomes-centered federal effort, into law through new legislation this March. Although the effort has received support generally, some higher ed scholars and advocates have levied some criticisms and concerns about it.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 8, 2023

Land-grant universities (LGUs) that are historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs) are significantly underfunded compared to predominantly white LGUs, according to a new report by the Center for American Progress (CAP). This match often comes from state appropriations.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 4, 2023

Philander Smith College (PSC) will become a graduate degree-granting school after its Master of Business Administration (MBA) program was approved by the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) in November 2022. Dr. Roderick L.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

has announced the 2022 cohort of MCT Scholars, recognizing 10 first-year graduate students in higher education or student affairs students at six institutions. The program is funded through a grant provided to the Dr. Melvin C. The Dr. Melvin C. Terrell (MCT) Educational Foundation, Inc.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 15, 2024

Mark Becker plans to leave his role as president of the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities (APLU) at the end of the year. “I I carry the ethos of the Morrill Land-Grant Acts in my veins, and I believe with the firmest of convictions that APLU and our members are vitally important to the future of our nation.”

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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.

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