Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 6, 2025

In a significant leadership transition at one of legal education's key institutions, the Law School Admission Council (LSAC) has appointed Sudha Setty as its new president and chief executive officer, effective July 1, 2025.

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College Aid Services

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

This surprising announcement places a significant burden on Financial Aid Administrators and may cause further delays in granting aid to students. Update on November 8, 2024: The Department previously indicated that the batch… More » FSA to Roll Out 2024-25 and 2025-26 FAFSA Batch Corrections by Early 2025 (Nov.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 12, 2025

Patterson, who currently serves as president of Chadron State College in Nebraska, will assume his new role on July 1, 2025, succeeding retiring President Dr. Bob Jackson. Bob Jackson Murray State University, located in Kentucky, has appointed Dr. Ron K. Patterson as its 15th president.

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Active Minds

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Active Minds is honored to share our 2025 Emerging Scholars and their incredible research. Juky Chen The City College of New York Project: DreaMHealth: Elevating the Voices of Undocumented Students Juky Chen is a junior at The City College of New York, majoring in Business Administration. in a Psychology-related discipline.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 12, 2024

Thomas "In my inaugural address, I promised to do the absolute best I could for Morehouse, and I have since risen each day dedicated to delivering on that promise," said Thomas, who retires June 30, 2025. Serving as president of Morehouse has been the honor of a lifetime,” he said. in organizational behavior from Yale University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 25, 2024

The recently released "Project 2025: The Conservative Promise" paints a dystopian picture of American higher education, overrun by a "woke" ideology that supposedly threatens our nation's very foundations. This could stifle critical thinking and limit students’ exposure to diverse perspectives.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 31, 2025

College and university administrators should be strategic about how they respond to government attempts to root out diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives (DEI) on campus. Heath urged program administrators to study the legislative efforts to curtail DEI on campus before they make any changes. Sylvester James (Jim) Gates, Jr.

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College Aid Services

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Federal Student Aid will host a live internet webinar on November 8th to provide administrators with an update on processing for the 2024–25 FAFSA , beta testing for the 2025–26 FAFSA, and when the upcoming application will be available.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Kristin Mallory Mallory, who currently serves as vice president for Academic Affairs at Wor-Wic Community College in Maryland, will assume her new role on July 1, 2025, bringing with her a comprehensive vision for educational excellence and community engagement.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 5, 2025

The 2025 National Action Network (NAN) Convention continues to be a clarion call for justice, strategy, and truth-telling. The administration's weaponization of the acronym has become a strategic assault to reassert white supremacy, particularly that of white male dominance. Alford, SVP, The Grio.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 24, 2025

The ruling temporarily blocks the Education Department from enforcing its February 14, 2025, directive against the plaintiffs, their members, and affiliated organizations while litigation continues.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

As colleges and universities begin to feel the pain of budget deficits, reduced student enrollments, rollbacks on diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts, questions of bloated administrations, and the like, it is essential to remember what your responsibility is and what is not. At the top of 2025, the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Currently, just 56% of California adults aged 25-64 hold a postsecondary degree or credential, according to the February 2025 report. While this rate has steadily increased and matches national averages, it falls well short of the state's aspirations, particularly for underserved communities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 16, 2025

The recommendation is contingent on official confirmation of the sport's sponsorship and participation numbers for spring 2025 competition, which will occur over the summer. All the hard work of hundreds of coaches, administrators and student-athletes is coming to fruition.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 25, 2025

This is the topic we took to task in Fostering Healthier Campuses: Applying Sense of Belonging Theory to Student Affairs Research and Practice at the recent annual meeting of NASPAStudent Affairs Administrators in Higher Education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2025

DIVERSE : In addition to policymakers, faculty, and administrators, students play a major role in UNITE. In 2025, we'll see a more explicit focus on faculty engagement, picking up the student engagement onto the broader aspects of the platform in 2026. DIVERSE: Why is Together We Lead your theme for UNITE 2025?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Ragean Hill "We are extremely proud of the work that USA Wrestling has done to make this a reality in such a short period of time,” said Ragean Hill, chair of the Committee on Women's Athletics and executive associate athletics director/senior woman administrator at Charlotte. 15-18, during the 2025 NCAA Convention in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 22, 2024

Wallace, whose term starts in March 2025, is the fifth African American elected to serve as the 104-year-old organization’s national president and the first ATE president who is an alumna and employee of an historically Black university. Louis, Missouri, and Crystal City, Virginia, during the summer of 2025 and in March 2026.

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College Aid Services

MAY 8, 2025

FSA has released the May 2025 update to the 202627 FAFSA Specifications Guide, a comprehensive resource for financial aid administrators, software developers, and data processing professionals. This guide provides detailed information on integrating and managing electronic FAFSA data within institutional systems.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Phil Murphy’s administration’s goals to increase college completion and get 65% of state denizens a high-quality credential by 2025. “As This effort comes as part of NJ Gov.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

MARCH 5, 2025

Our team just returned from the annual NAIS Thrive 2025 conference, held from February 2628 in Nashville, TN. VenturEd Solutions was proud to be a Diamond sponsor at this annual event where over 3,000 educators, administrators, and industry leaders gathered to explore the future of independent schools.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2024

The American Jewish Committee (AJC) and Hillel International are expanding their partnership to deepen the organizations’ critical work with college and university presidents and administrators to combat rising antisemitism on campus. In the wake of the spike of antisemitism seen after Hamas’ Oct.

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College Aid Services

JANUARY 15, 2025

14, 2025: The Department updated this EA to reflect that we updated Frequently Asked Questions related only to Administrative Capability and Financial Responsibility. 14 Update) The post OPE Publishes New FAQ Resource Page for Administrative Capabilities, Key Postsecondary Regulations (Jan. Update Jan.

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College Aid Services

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The first version of the EDExpress for Windows for the 2025-26 academic year is now available and includes functionality for Global, Application Processing, and Packaging. Now Available The post EDExpress for Windows 2025–2026, Release 1.0 Now Available The post EDExpress for Windows 2025–2026, Release 1.0

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College Aid Services

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Federal Student Aid has provided a series of important verification updates for the 2025-26 academic year that affect victims of IRS tax-related identity theft and students who are confined or incarcerated.

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College Aid Services

AUGUST 21, 2024

The Department of Education has released a new online course designed to guide financial aid administrators through each part of the FISAP and reviews commons mistakes that users will encounter throughout the process.

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College Aid Services

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Administrators now have access to the 2025–26 FAFSA® prototype, which is a web-based design tool where users can explore certain aspects of the official application as the Department of Education improves it over time.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2025

Johnson has more than 30 years of higher education experience as a faculty member, researcher and administrator. She is currently the president of the University of New Orleans.

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College Aid Services

MARCH 25, 2025

Melanie Storey has been named the new President & CEO of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA), effective May 1, 2025. Her appointment ends a nine-month search after former President Justin Draeger resigned in June of 2024.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2023

Federal officials will also review antisemitism complaints and UVM responses through 2025, or until they decide such oversight is unnecessary. Students reported these incidents to UVM’s administration to no avail, the complaint stated. 3 statement. In 2021, two nonprofit Jewish advocacy groups, the Louis D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 31, 2023

The plan will help reduce the deficit to about $9 million by fall 2025 and create a surplus of about $5 million by fall 2026, according to administrators. Approximately 80% of the programs being suspended have fewer than three students and, in many cases, similar degrees are available, said St. Cloud State President Dr. Robbyn Wacker.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 3, 2024

I can sit in my position as an administrator for a higher ed in prison program and observe a tremendous amount of what our students go through, but that’s very different than the lived experiences of reentry. The next phase of this research will commence in 2025. There is not a one-size-fits-all model.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 5, 2023

McPhail's contract as the school's 13th president would have lasted through February 2025. created a “hostile environment” for her and Gwen Kea, SAU’s vice president of finance and administration. 9 for alleged hostile behavior from trustees during an Oct. 5 board meeting. Tensions in October McPhail alleges that, during the Oct.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2024

The report’s conclusions urge institutions to find ways to engage this ever-growing population, particularly to help America achieve its 60% credential attainment goal for those between 25 and 64 years old by the year 2025.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 21, 2024

The Manhattan Institute's "Project on Fair Representation " and the Heritage Foundation's " Project 2025 " both explicitly call for the dismantling of DEI initiatives in higher education. This transformation in thinking appears to be precisely what some conservative groups fear.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2025

With over 25 years of administrative, research, and teaching experience in various higher education settings, Vega transitioned to academia as a faculty member and has significantly contributed to the Master of Arts in Higher Education program at Montclair State University since 2017. Vega earned her Ed.D.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

MARCH 14, 2025

The energy in Nashville was already electric with the NAIS Thrive Annual Conference in full swing, but on the evening of February 27, 2025, the excitement reached a new level as VenturEd Solutions and TaxStatus hosted an unforgettable launch party at The Twelve Thirty Club. Ready to learn more about SSS and TaxStatus?

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