Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2025

New Jersey is rethinking student mental health — not as an add-on, but as a cornerstone of student success and our statewide college completion strategy," said Dr. Brian K. Bridges, New Jersey's secretary of higher education. Nearly one-third of all sessions occurred outside traditional business hours, with 19.2% on weekends.

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Shelly Raube, vice president of student empowerment and success at Delta College, says that the institution is focused on making sure everybody belongs and that they see themselves “as a valued member of our community.” We’re not going after a fancy building, we’re going after student success with our money and our resources and our time.”

Mentoring

Active Minds

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Active Minds has had another successful internship semester with the 2024 Fall class, and as this intern cohort finishes up their semester with us, we want to take a moment to reflect on their incredible contributions to mental health advocacy. Why is mental health advocacy important to you?

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 22, 2025

In 2024, White applicants received offers of admission at nearly twice the rate of their Black counterparts, with 79% of white applicants receiving at least one acceptance compared to just 45% of Black applicants. While women comprised 57% of all law school applicants in 2024, they accounted for only 56% of admitted students.

Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 11, 2025

DeQuan Smith-Murry As the Morehouse School of Medicine seeks to expand its reach by establishing regional campuses throughout the nation, providing effective and efficient student services will be paramount to its success. That job falls to Dr. DeQuan Smith-Murry, assistant dean of student affairs at Morehouse’s medical school.

Student wellbeing

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 7, 2024

has awarded doctoral students with its 2024 MCT Scholarship. Named in honor of Terrella well-responded student affairs administratorthe MCT Foundation was created to ensure underrepresented students gain access and achieve success in higher education and student affairs. The Dr. Melvin C. Terrell (MCT) Educational Foundation, Inc.

Scholarship

Civitas Learning

JULY 28, 2025

In Fall 2024, as Hurricane Helene disrupted the region, UNC Asheville was able to identify impacted students, send targeted messages, and receive real-time updates—all within the same platform. Institutions like UNC Asheville exemplify how coordinated, real-time outreach can create this kind of inclusive, responsive environment.

Student success

Civitas Learning

JUNE 12, 2025

When we talk about student success, it’s easy to focus on the classroom. Findings from the 2025 Student Success Impact Report reinforce a powerful truth: supplemental instruction (SI), tutoring, and writing centers aren’t just add-ons—they’re foundational to a healthy student success model.

Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

With the 2024 election fresh on our minds, it is fair to say that Vice President Kamala Harris, a graduate of Howard University and outspoken advocate of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), brought renewed attention to HBCUs during both her time in office and the presidential campaign. Dr. Adriel A.

Financial aid

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2024

In contrast, other political narratives about inclusivity or support for issues traditionally framed within women’s rights, such as reproductive health, may not have resonated as strongly. Instead, educational institutions better prepare critically astute Latino men who contribute to a more inclusive and equitable society.

Education

School & Student Services by Community Brands

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Were sharing a wrap-up of 2024 resources for our K-12 private schools to help your school increase retention, enrollment, diversity, and marketing initiatives for the new year.o help, we compiled the top resources from 2024 for easy reading. Enjoy the school winter break with your families and community. Read the full blog here.

Financial aid

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 28, 2025

population were measured separately in May 2024. Also, 65% of AAPIs polled oppose federal funding cuts to colleges with diversity, equity, and inclusion programs. We already know that DEI programming increases student engagement and leads to student success. The opinions of the general U.S.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 29, 2024

As we approach the last leg of the 2024 presidential race, safeguarding voting rights requires the same dogged tenacity that was central to Lewis’s legacy. The 2024 election is consequential for voting rights. A Trump victory, however, would usher in federal judges that will roll back voter protections. Holder case a decade ago.

Access

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2025

Black students report the steepest drop in their sense of inclusion and emotional safety, according to NASPA’s 2024 Student Belonging Index. Build cultures where no one has to choose between success and belonging. When students do not feel they matter, they disengage. When faculty and staff do not feel safe, they withdraw.

Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 27, 2025

Last year, the group Independent Women held a national bus tour, Take Back Title IX Summer 2024 Bus Tour, and will do so again this year to celebrate the Trump administration’s policies. Ibrahim said focus on trans sports participation serves as a distraction from other Title IX issues.

Equity

COE

MAY 2, 2025

Hamm Click to view the page: Henry Bonilla Honored with 2024 COE Lifetime TRIO Achievement Award Blog Henry Bonilla Honored with 2024 COE Lifetime TRIO Achievement Award by Terrance L. Hamm Click to view the page: Three TRIO Leaders Honored with the 2024 Walter O. this summer.

Education

COE

JULY 9, 2025

Hamm Click to view the page: Henry Bonilla Honored with 2024 COE Lifetime TRIO Achievement Award Blog Henry Bonilla Honored with 2024 COE Lifetime TRIO Achievement Award by Terrance L. Hamm Click to view the page: Three TRIO Leaders Honored with the 2024 Walter O. Hamm Click to view the page: U.S. this summer. Create Change.

First generation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 11, 2025

The setback represents a significant hurdle for proponents of enhanced support for Black students in California higher education, coming just months after the state made history by becoming the first in the nation to establish a Black-Serving Institution designation through Senate Bill 1348, signed into law by Governor Newsom in September 2024.

Grant

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 13, 2025

He published his fi ndings in a 2024 study for The Review of Higher Education. So, I think its important to note that without this type of sustained federal investment, a lot of students are gonna be underserved and its gonna greatly impact student success, Nguyen says.

Tutoring

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Trump has brought a sense of uncertainty as 2024 draws to a close. Several states have already dismantled diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programming, and other states anticipate something similar coming their way. Student debt issues loom, and problems due to the rollout of the 2024-25 FAFSA linger. Larry Hlavenka Jr.,

Mental health

COE

JULY 24, 2025

Hamm Click to view the page: Henry Bonilla Honored with 2024 COE Lifetime TRIO Achievement Award Blog Henry Bonilla Honored with 2024 COE Lifetime TRIO Achievement Award by Terrance L. Hamm Click to view the page: Three TRIO Leaders Honored with the 2024 Walter O. Hamm Click to view the page: U.S. this summer. Create Change.

First generation

COE

JUNE 3, 2025

territories called on Congress to reject the proposed cuts and reaffirm its commitment to college access and success for low-income, first-generation students. Hamm Click to view the page: Henry Bonilla Honored with 2024 COE Lifetime TRIO Achievement Award Blog Henry Bonilla Honored with 2024 COE Lifetime TRIO Achievement Award by Terrance L.

First generation

COE

JUNE 11, 2025

Despite decades of proven success in expanding college access and economic mobility for low-income and first-generation students, the federal TRIO programs now face elimination in the President’s budget—prompting over 10,000 alumni to urge Congress to protect this vital engine of opportunity. Hamm Click to view the page: U.S. this summer.

First generation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 27, 2025

Taking away federal funding which is there to support student success or even the threat of taking away federal funding immediately is not fulfilling the goal of our civil rights laws. Department of Education in the Biden-Harris Administration from 2023 to 2024. We need to fix what is happening on our college campuses.We

Student success

COE

JULY 8, 2025

Hamm Click to view the page: Henry Bonilla Honored with 2024 COE Lifetime TRIO Achievement Award Blog Henry Bonilla Honored with 2024 COE Lifetime TRIO Achievement Award by Terrance L. Hamm Click to view the page: Three TRIO Leaders Honored with the 2024 Walter O.

First generation

COE

JULY 10, 2025

McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement, Educational Opportunity Centers, and Veterans Upward Bound—who have overcome adversity to achieve remarkable success and significantly contribute to their professions and communities. Hamm Click to view the page: Three TRIO Leaders Honored with the 2024 Walter O.

Education

COE

JULY 15, 2025

Hamm COE is inviting community colleges—with or without a current SSS program—to apply for the inaugural COE Award for Institutional Effectiveness, which will bestow $10,000 each on three campuses that have successfully embedded TRIO Student Support Services practices into their wider student success strategies. WASHINGTON, D.C.

First generation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 8, 2025

In combination with supporting the academic recovery and college preparedness of Generation P learners, a term that now describes students through online platforms during the pandemic, educators are in need of new strategies to achieve equitable student success among students. million high school graduates sometime near 2025.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2024

The NCAA has awarded Division I Accelerating Academic Success Program grants to 17 schools for the 2024-25 academic year. Each campus recipient is intentional with their application by clearly stating a commitment to invest in and to evolve services to support student athletes' educational experience and their academic success.”

Grant

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 10, 2024

Mary Ann Villarreal has been appointed vice president in the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Student Success at the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U). She will focus on advancing equity and student success efforts in service to undergraduate populations and academic excellence.

Student success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Prior to starting this position in April 2024, Salcedo spent two years as assistant director for administration of the Academic Advancement Program working with Alexander, who has directed AAP for over a decade. The tutoring and academic counseling were crucial to her success. Then, you see the successes.”

Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 3, 2023

Kim Cassidy Dr. Kim Cassidy will step down as president of Bryn Mawr College in June 2024, bringing to an end an 11-year tenure as the school’s leader, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. “I It has been an honor to serve as president of Bryn Mawr.”

Financial aid

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2024

The inclusion of Ivy League and other institutions throws this dynamic into even further relief. Today, we see the growing impact of outside money from wealthy conservatives like Bill Ackman, the billionaire hedge fund manager who has waged an assault on diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts at Harvard University and elsewhere.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 2, 2024

will be honored with the 2024 Marie Fielder Medal for Social Transformation, present by Fielding Graduate University at the Fielding convocation on July 10. Nothing could be more appropriate to the mission of the Marie Fielder Center to advance social and educational justice and inclusion." Ronald Mason Jr. Ronald Mason Jr.

Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 31, 2024

Several states have successfully begun efforts to defund campus diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives and weaken tenure and accreditation.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The goal was to achieve these numbers by 2025, but NJIT hit its target by the spring of 2024. It was also a time to strategize on ways to retain Latinx students, which includes building additional initiatives to support student success. Jones, NJIT chief diversity officer, has led the school’s Office of Inclusive Excellence.

Inclusion

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 4, 2023

There she oversees all aspects of academic affairs, ranging from education to diversity and inclusion. I have a lot of goals and ideas around students and creating a really inclusive culture and addressing issues of access and affordability,” Gilliam told Diverse. In doing so, she will become BU’s first woman and first Black president.

University