Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 10, 2025

The comprehensive report, titled Flourishing: Bolstering the Mental Health of Students at HBCUs and PBIs," examined mental health indicators among 2,504 students across 16 HBCUs and two predominantly Black institutions (PBIs) during the 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 academic years.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 7, 2025

VSU's new student-parent housing program, launched in November 2023, provides dedicated campus apartments for six student parents and their young children. Generation Hope's partnerships with organizations like Sinai House in Washington, DC, and Virginia State University demonstrate how targeted interventions can make a difference.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Supreme Court decision in June 2023 to ban race-conscious college admissions, and the fallout since then, have been sobering, including for Asian Americans who were swayed by SFFA. Beyond the media smokescreen, Asian American and NHPI students face a diverse range of challenges on the road to college access and success.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Having access to reliable, quality housing is an essential element for students so they can earn a degree, certification or improve their income and options long-term,” said Kristy Fercho, head of Diverse Segments, Representation and Inclusion at Wells Fargo. In 2010, In 2010, the college converted its football field into a farm.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Incoming transfer students can enroll in courses early to guarantee that they have access to coursework. Necessary support is provided through GANAS (Gaining Access ’AND Academic Success), an innovative access and retention program that serves community college transfer students. Morales, president of CSUSB. years in 2021-22.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 30, 2025

of working-age adults holding a degree or credential in 2023, according to a new report released by the Lumina Foundation. in 2023, an increase of 17 percentage points, but not enough to reach 60% by 2025. Post-high school educational attainment in the U.S. has reached a record high, with 54.9% in 2008 to 54.9%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2025

Curry also became one of the founding chairpersons of the Chief Executive Officers of the California Community Colleges Affordability, Food & Housing Access Taskforce in spring 2018. Sometimes you have to say stuff and get people united because you said it. The student housing will also include study areas, lounges and shared kitchens.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2025

While community colleges play a crucial role in providing accessible and affordable education to diverse student populations, many still struggle to fully accommodate students with disabilities, according to insights from community college students, faculty, and higher education experts. Its not innate for everyone, says Trent.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 14, 2025

Where disabled people are not burdens but innovators In 2023 alone, over 500 anti-LGBTQ+ bills were introduced across U.S. lives with a disability, yet schools remain underfunded for special education, and accessibility in public spaces is inconsistent more than three decades after the ADA was passed. One in four adults in the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 7, 2025

Despite persistent challenges in affordability, accessibility and mental health support, U.S. The study reveals that interest in higher education continues to hold steady, with 57% of unenrolled adults reporting they have considered pursuing a credential or degree within the past two yearsnearly matching the record-high 59% reported in 2023.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2025

Bridges New Jersey's groundbreaking state-funded teletherapy program has delivered more than 78,000 counseling sessions to college students since its 2023 launch, according to new data released by the New Jersey Office of the Secretary of Higher Education. Nearly one-third of all sessions occurred outside traditional business hours, with 19.2%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 22, 2025

Inspired by the opportunity to fill the need for more accessible and valuable degree programs at community colleges, YC began working with the Higher Learning Commission (HLC), a regional accrediting agency, to build out the first three-year bachelors degree program at a community college.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

This initiative reflects the Ruderman Family Foundations commitment to working with our partners to help expand access to mental health services and programs in the higher education community. With this information now freely accessible through these platforms, will colleges and universities be motivated to act?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The impact of these closures is stark with the number of these news desert counties rising from 204 in 2023 to 208 this year. More than 7,000 newspaper jobs vanished between 2022 and 2023, compared to a few hundred the year before, further adding to the local news crisis.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Positive Potential Minnesota also has the American Indian Scholars Program, which was established in the 2023 legislative session. COIN has an elders-in-residence program through which UM students have access to cultural knowledge speakers and language speakers. Events and activities happen throughout the academic year.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 22, 2025

Black and Hispanic students comprised 22% of first-year enrollment in the 2023-24 academic year but accounted for 33% of non-transfer attrition. While we've seen incremental improvements in some areas, the data clearly indicates that significant work remains to ensure equitable access and outcomes for all aspiring lawyers."

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 22, 2025

Bronx Community College experienced a 5% year-over-year increase and an 8% gain since spring 2023, said Gantt. This growth reflects strengthening student interest in accessible, flexible (i.e., online programs), and career-aligned education (i.e., health-related programs) following years of pandemic-related declines.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 17, 2025

Despite having chronic absenteeism rates above the national average at the end of the 2021-22 school year, their rates fell below the estimated national rate for 2023-24. Most notably, schools supported by the GRAD Partnership outperformed national trends.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2025

With the reinstatement of Pell Grant eligibility for incarcerated students in July 2023, approximately 760,000 incarcerated people can have college dreams. We urge all colleges and universities to heed that call and join leaders including Education Trust , the National College Access Network , and others to move the basic needs field forward.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 10, 2025

This recent campaign builds on a similar effort in 2023 that successfully delayed the passage of the in-state tuition repeal until this year. In April, following the repeal announcement, TheDream.US One participant in that earlier campaign was Britney, a TheDream.US

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 10, 2025

and the board asked me to stay on as executive director in 2023,” he explains. The organization’s first formal strategic plan, adopted in October 2023, outlines ambitious goals for the next three years. “The board asked me to serve for the rest of that year as interim executive director.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2025

Notably, as an astroparticle physicist, Love has joined the IceCube collaboration, giving her access to data from the worlds largest neutrino observatory.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 25, 2025

Strayhorn few years ago, Liu (2023) published, Everyone is Talking about Belonging in The Chronicle of Higher Education. When campuses take proactive steps to ensure that students have access to what they need, they open up possibilities for them to become who they are or aspire to be in terms of learning and development.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Lennor Johnson opportunities available to disproportionately impacted communities, and a shared commitment to forging increased pathways for those with the least access. Systemic barriersincluding financial burdens, limited access to competitive institutions, and insufficient representationcontribute to these inequities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 9, 2025

The initiative, announced Thursday by PCC Athletics, positions the college among the first National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) institutions nationwide to implement formal NIL support following the association's 2023 decision to permit such opportunities at the two-year college level.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 5, 2025

Kimberly Andrews Espy is the 13th president of Wayne State University in Detroit, serving sinceAugust 2023. Espy has modernized the universitys organization and leadershipand establishedstrong relationships with WSU stakeholders. The university has seen record enrollment growth, with nearly 7,000new students joining the Wayne State community.A

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

JUNE 17, 2025

A single security breach can have severe consequences such as stolen identities, compromised social security numbers, and unauthorized access to financial information like household income or banking details. That’s why the integration between SSS and TaxStatus, which enables direct, secure IRS data access, is not just an upgrade.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 1, 2025

This support played a crucial role in expanding access to higher education for African American students, fostering educational opportunities, and promoting diversity in the higher education system. His administration strengthened bilingual education programs and worked to improve access to government services for non-English speakers.

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IEFA

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Stanfords Graduate School of Business 2023 MBA graduates, for example, could expect a $248,000 average base salary, with 84% finding work within three months of graduating. A 2023 study indicated that over 90% of employers in the lucrative finance, consulting and technology industries expect to hire MBA graduates. MBA valuable.

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NCLC Student Loan Borrower Assistance

MARCH 28, 2025

These calculations will now be based on the rules as they existed before July 2023, instead of the rules used between July 2023 and February 2025. Borrowers may want to consolidate to get out of default, to get access to ICR if they have Parent PLUS loans. Read more about consolidation here.),

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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 ). How can other school staff contribute?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

On-campus worship, outreach efforts, and networking to improve the accessibility of services for those lacking transportation or carpools to assist with attending in-person services can be helpful. This may make accessing support like food banks or religious services difficult.

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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. Yet, while 64 nonprofit and for-profit colleges closed between 2020 and 2023, exacerbated by the pandemic and long-term enrollment declines, only four of these closures were HBCUs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 25, 2025

2023 ; Hunsu et al., Universal design The more flexible and accessible our environments are by default, the less we need to play gatekeeper, counselor, or diagnostician. These results are especially pronounced in underrepresented groups (see Asher et al.,

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Catherine Cronin

JANUARY 11, 2025

In that same month, Laura Czerniewicz and I published a call for chapters for a new book, an idea we had been slow-cooking for about six months (that book, Higher Education for Good , was published in October 2023). This drew on GTM and team members’ expertise as well as principles of data feminism (DIgnazio & Klein, 2020 ).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 17, 2025

In a timely publication released Thursday, education experts outline concrete strategies to support Black student success in college amid growing national pressures on diversity initiatives and following the 2023 Supreme Court decision limiting race-conscious admissions.

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Patter by Pat Thomson

JANUARY 18, 2025

It is important to understand, if doing this kind of calculation, that team members often have different roles and access to tasks and opportunities, team-work is by nature complementary. However, if this is where the team is, then there are tools that can help – see for example this Open Access paper: Martins, R.S., Fatimi, A.S.

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