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DECEMBER 3, 2024

“This is an HBCU-centric program, and we are unapologetic about it,” says Dr. Elfred Anthony Pinkard, who served as president of Wilberforce University from 2018 until his retirement in 2023. But we look at them as absolute crisis-related departures and I think we really need to move away from that.” From May 12-14th, H.E.L.F. Innovation.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Jay Ruderman Amid the ongoing mental health crisis among young adults, it is incumbent upon college administrators nationwide to conduct thorough examinations on the availability and extent of their mental health services and wellness resources for students.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2024

As of fall 2023, 69% of the student population at CSUSB identified as Hispanic or Latino. CSUSM’s inclusive hiring practices have increased Latino representation among faculty, administrators and staff. All faculty and administrator searches must have a DEI advocate who completes specialized training. years, compared to 4.2

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2025

Monica Parrish Trent, Chief Program and Network Officer at Achieving the Dream, an organization focused on creating student success and equity at community colleges, says that students with disabilities often face administrative hurdles in accessing accommodations, as well as social and sensory barriers in classrooms.

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APRIL 18, 2025

Among 235 responding four-year colleges surveyed by the American College Health Association, 154 offered student health plans to domestic undergraduate students, while 120 required students to have health coverage during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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MAY 16, 2025

"The advancement of acrobatics and tumbling toward National Collegiate Championship status is a powerful step forward for women's sports," said Ragean Hill, chair of the Committee on Women's Athletics and executive associate athletics director/senior woman administrator at Charlotte.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 19, 2025

For determining student aid amounts, the most common factors were administrative data, Pell Grant eligibility, and specific methodologies developed by the institutions. The deadline for spending all HEERF funding was June 2023, with institutions that did not use all their funds able to request extensions.

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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 25, 2025

Strayhorn few years ago, Liu (2023) published, Everyone is Talking about Belonging in The Chronicle of Higher Education. A Dr. Terrell L. Her opening lines were perennial: Its everywhere. College t-shirts, notepads, and posters proclaim, You Belong! That was true then and it still rings true today.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Saint Augustine’s University—a historically Black college and university in North Carolina—has announced plans to cut half of its employees as administrators, amid financial challenges. According to university officials, the institution has reduced its expenses by approximately $17 million this fiscal year compared to 2023.

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DECEMBER 4, 2024

In 2023, the World Economic Forum reported that employers expected 44% of workers skills to be disrupted within five years. One example of achieving this is using AI to increase administrative automation of functions like live chat features on your college website with chatbot integrations like what we use at the Community College of Aurora.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Positive Potential Minnesota also has the American Indian Scholars Program, which was established in the 2023 legislative session. There are 11 federally recognized American Indian tribes in Minnesota. Among the requirements for some Native American specific scholarships are uploading tribal I.D.

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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. The absence of outcry speaks volumes, reinforcing the notion that the presence of these students on campus is tolerated rather than embraced.

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OCTOBER 30, 2024

It is clear that the 2023 U. Dr. Charlie Nelms is a veteran higher education administrator and chancellor emeritus of North Carolina Central University. Lives were sacrificed to ensure our right to vote, in our quest to form a more perfect union. When we vote, we honor those lives and carry on this quest. Please vote!

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APRIL 24, 2025

The proportion of non-exempt staff aged 55 and older has declined from 34 percent in 2019-20 to 31 percent in 2023-24, indicating a slightly younger workforce than before the pandemic. The report also highlights demographic shifts within this workforce. The disparity is even greater for Black women (92 cents) and Hispanic women (94 cents).

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DECEMBER 18, 2024

The Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree is the pinnacle of business qualifications for students dreaming of becoming captains of industry. Master of Business Administration (MBA) 101 Earning an MBA is a significant achievement. A Master of Business Administration degree is a professional masters level academic qualification.

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JANUARY 1, 2025

The executive order laid the groundwork for subsequent administrations to continue supporting these institutions, leading to billions in federal funding over the following decades. His administration strengthened bilingual education programs and worked to improve access to government services for non-English speakers.

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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 ).

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JUNE 25, 2025

But by the following week, she was on administrative leave. 2023 ; Hunsu et al., She was inspired by recent workshops and publications advocating for culturally responsive pedagogies, approaches that seek to make learning concrete, evoke emotion, and connect historical content to students’ lived realities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

That said, VP Harris has been an influential and successful voice for HBCUs in the Biden Administration. 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. There are 101 HBCUs in operation across the U.S.

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DECEMBER 11, 2024

after the Trump administration froze green cards and visas for foreign workers. institutions in the 2023-2024 academic yeara remarkable 13.1% Jody Dixon The immigration policies of Trumps first presidency werent just theoreticalthey tore at the fabric of my family. In 2020, my sister, a teacher in Georgia, was forced to leave the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 28, 2025

Rowena Tomaneng At a time when the Trump administration is dismantling the Education Department, the overwhelming majority of Asian American and Pacific Islander adults believe earning a college degree is integral to quality of life, a new national survey shows. adults a year ago, according to the survey.

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JANUARY 7, 2025

The SAVE plan is the newest income-driven repayment plan for federal student loans, created by the Biden Administration in 2023. Parts of the SAVE plan went into effect in the summer of 2023, and all of it was scheduled to go into effect on July 1, 2024, though many aspects of SAVE have been temporarily blocked by court order.

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JUNE 9, 2025

As for student enrollment, in 2023 it stood at over 2,738, federal data show. He also holds a Master of Organizational Psychology from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Administrative Sciences from Yale College. We’ve doubled our endowment,” he says, adding that the endowment grew from $127 million in 2018 to $285 million today.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 18, 2025

Data revealed that DEI job postings declined 44% from 2022 to 2023, and major companies like Google and Meta scaled back programs supporting Black talent. The report details a pattern of progress and regression across several administrations.

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MAY 15, 2025

is so paltry that a 2023 report by the American Council on Education stated, We are unable to highlight unique and varied experiences of AAPI-Desi presidents. During 12 years there ending in 2003, Suzuki constantly urged mid- and senior-level AAPI administrators of Asian descent to pursue the top jobs.

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MAY 2, 2025

The Trump Administration’s budget proposal claims that access to college is not the obstacle it was for students of limited means. As recently as 2023, students from the highest income quartile earned college degrees at a rate more than four times that of students from the lowest income quartile (62% vs. 15%).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2025

The report, "Two Decades of Change: Faculty Discipline Trends in Higher Education," analyzes data from CUPA-HR's Faculty in Higher Education Survey from 2003-04 to 2023-24, revealing significant shifts in faculty size, tenure status, and salaries across academic disciplines. Business also showed robust growth of 20.8%

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JUNE 17, 2025

According to the Center for Internet Security, 82% of K–12 organizations experienced cyber incidents between July 2023 and December 2024 , with ransomware, phishing, and data breaches among the most reported threats. According to IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report 2023 , the average breach in education totaled $3.65 In fact, the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 13, 2025

Department of Education announced Monday that more than 5 million Americans have been approved for student loan forgiveness under the Biden-Harris Administration, with total debt relief reaching $183.6 This marks a dramatic increase from the mere 7,000 borrowers who had received PSLF relief at the start of the administration.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2025

in 2023, he wasnt planning to resurrect a defunct executive search firm. Working in the student union as an undergraduate led to leadership roles, eventually guiding him toward a career in higher education administration. When Dr. Dakota Doman attended a Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) HBCU fly-in event in Washington, D.C.

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JUNE 5, 2025

Previously, he served as chief compliance and ethics officer for The University of Texas System Administration, where he held various roles from 2012 to 2023, and led the development and execution of a system-wide research compliance strategy that safeguarded a $3.5 billion research portfolio from foreign influence and misconduct.

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JULY 25, 2025

The Time-Expertise Paradox Between individual counseling sessions, group interventions, crisis response, administrative duties, and collaboration meetings, comprehensive research feels impossible. The pros/cons analysis helps with administrative buy-in conversations.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 13, 2025

With the Trump administration setting its sights on eliminating all DEI or diversity, equity and inclusion programs in higher education and other sectors, thefuture of AANAPISIs one of the youngest types of federally-designated MSIs, or Minority-Serving Institutions is uncertain.

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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. He explained that many campus administrators are self-imposing various versions of DEI rollbacks even when not legislatively mandated. The re-election of President Donald J.

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JULY 8, 2025

But, while it should be shocking that the federal government – one that has been repeatedly talking about the return of education to the states – is interfering with the administration of a public university, it should have been expected if you were paying attention. Amanda Fuchs Miller Why is that?

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JULY 10, 2025

I confronted that expendability in my 2023 Diverse essay, “The Program Went On as Planned,” written after Temple University’s acting president JoAnne A. The neglect is also administrative—a kind of “friendly fire” that surfaces whenever campuses ask more of Black women than they budget for. The program continued shortly afterward.

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