Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Legacy preferences in college admissions have plummeted to their lowest recorded level, with just 24% of four-year colleges still considering family alumni status in admissions decisions, according to a comprehensive new report from Education Reform Now. Several more states are expected to introduce similar legislation in 2025.

Application

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 1, 2025

She brings more than two decades of experience in higher education, having worked at both small liberal arts colleges and large research universities. In 2022, Diverse named Shotton to its annual list of women making a difference in higher education. "I

Student success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Michigan State University (MSU) will offer in-state tuition to out-of-state Native American students through their Native American Tuition Advantage Program (NATAP), beginning in Fall 2025. It’s not enough just to recruit and enroll Indigenous students at our institutions, she says.

Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 31, 2025

Thats what a bevy of scholars told attendees who gathered at the annual conference of the American Association of Blacks in Higher Education. Chancler spoke of how various programs and initiatives at her university have been rebranded in the wake of efforts to push DEI out of higher education. Now its just The Center.

Mathematics

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 24, 2025

A federal judge in New Hampshire delivered a significant legal victory Thursday for proponents of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs in education by granting a preliminary injunction against the U.S.

Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 27, 2024

The program also provides access to mentors for early career faculty and trains them in grant writing, op-ed writing, teaching, and how to achieve a better work-life balance. Applications for ELEVATE 2025 will open on November 15, 2024. How to achieve tenure and publishing assistance is also on the agenda.

Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2025

UNCF recognized that these institutions need more than just emergency support or short-term grants. It's about equipping institutions with the tools to drive change on their campuses, fostering cross-campus collaboration, and ensuring that HBCUs are setting an agenda for higher education innovation, not just responding to it.

Collaboration

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 5, 2025

Jamal Watson, Professor Trinity Washington University, Executive Editor of Diverse: Issues In Higher Education. Panelists: Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, Distinguished Professor, Vanderbilt University Dr. Christina Greer, Associate Professor, Fordham University, Dr. Annette Gordon Reed, Professor, Harvard University Natasha S.

Literacy

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 5, 2025

Of the 2,465 new students registered for the spring 2025 semester at Bergen, 19% are new transfers. While Bergen is a strong transfer institution, Hlavenka said the college has expanded its focus on workforce, training and continuing education grants. At Bergen, we are a very heavy transfer institution, in both ways.

Retention

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.

Collaboration

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Michigan State University (MSU) will offer in-state tuition to out-of-state Native American students through their Native American Tuition Advantage Program (NATAP), beginning in Fall 2025. It’s not enough just to recruit and enroll Indigenous students at our institutions, she says.

Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 22, 2025

AccessLex Institute has released its 2025 Legal Education Data Deck, providing comprehensive insights into the current state of legal education in the United States. 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.

Education

College Aid Services

APRIL 4, 2025

The Department of Education has confirmed the 2025-26 federal funding allocations for the Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant (FSEOG) and Federal Work-Study (FWS) programs. 3 Update) The post Final Funding Authorizations for 202526 Campus-Based Programs (Apr.

Advising

College Aid Services

JULY 10, 2025

Department of Education has released guidance on the 2024–25 Campus-Based Reallocation Process, enabling schools to return unused Federal Work-Study (FWS) and Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant (FSEOG) funds, and to request supplemental FWS funds for the 2025–26 award year.

Grant

College Aid Services

JANUARY 31, 2025

The Department of Education has released the 2025-26 Federal Pell Grant maximum award of $7,395, with the minimum set at $740 in the Dear Colleague Letter below.

Grant

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. Previously, she joined the IUPUI faculty in 1993 and ascended through the ranks as a department chair, dean and associate vice chancellor for undergraduate education, prior to her role as chief academic officer.

University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2025

Jaida Ross Throughout her time at the University of Oregon (UO), 2025 Arthur Ashe Jr. Education has never been something I’ve taken for granted, and I’ve always seen it as a way to understand the world around me and to make a difference,” says Ross.

Community outreach

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 30, 2025

Federal funding disruptions in 2025 have destabilized the foundation of academic public health across the United States, resulting in thousands of job losses, halted critical research programs, and billions in projected economic losses, according to a new report released by the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH).

Grant

College Planners of America

JUNE 24, 2025

1 of 2025 (the Big Beautiful Bill ), which, in Title III, proposes major changes to Federal student aid programs. Title III consists of Subtitles A through G covering different aspects of changes to education policy. In this post, we focus on Subtitle A, Student Eligibility , Subtitle B, Loan Limits , and Subtitle D, Pell Grants.

Student loans

College Aid Services

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Institutions have until March 3, 2025, to close out their Campus-Based program awards for the previous academic year using information from the Fiscal Operations Report for 202324 and Application to Participate for 202526 (FISAP).

Grant

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 2, 2025

Department of Education, with a federal judge ordering the reinstatement of a key grant that was terminated earlier this year over allegations of illegal diversity, equity, and inclusion practices. On May 21, 2025, a judge in the U.S.

Grant

College Planners of America

MAY 19, 2025

Education Department (ED) to help students afford the costs of higher education. This application is essential for determining a students eligibility for various forms of Federal, state, and private financial aid such as grants, scholarships, work-study programs, and loans.

Student loans

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 16, 2025

Jaida Ross Throughout her time at the University of Oregon (UO), 2025 Arthur Ashe Jr. Education has never been something I’ve taken for granted, and I’ve always seen it as a way to understand the world around me and to make a difference,” says Ross.

Community outreach

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 14, 2025

The initiative combines federal and state grants with institutional scholarships to make a four-year college education more accessible. high school GPA and complete their FAFSA and college application by May 1, 2025, for enrollment in Fall 2025. To qualify, incoming freshmen must maintain a minimum 3.5

Financial aid

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2025

She is an associate professor and graduate program coordinator for the MA in Higher Education at Montclair State University. from the prestigious Higher and Postsecondary Education program at Teachers College, Columbia University. Vega earned her Ed.D.

University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 29, 2025

His work is also purpose-drivenhe uses and tests these methods to study and improve educational and health outcomes. The number of articles he has published and the amount of grant funding he has secured as an early career researcher is exceptional. For 2025, he has been fortunate to create two new courses.

Teaching

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 15, 2025

The panelists also highlighted the impact of Project 2025 and the potential shift of federal loan programs to the Treasury Department, which could change loan processes, interest rates, and repayment structures. It would really impact our underserved communities, low-income students, and first-generation college students, she said.

Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 4, 2025

Their ascension comes at a time when the higher education landscape is undergoing radical shifts and threats to longstanding student programs and revenue streams, such as the Pell grant. DuBois Bowman, who assumed the presidency of Morehouse on July 15, 2025. The threat to HBCUs Dr. David A.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 2, 2025

Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) President Dr. Mark Becker released a statement calling the cuts "of an astonishing magnitude that would decimate U.S. The proposal also calls for various cuts to clean energy funding, education funding, scientific research, and international aid.

Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2025

Trump to issue an executive order directing Education Secretary Linda McMahon to start the process ofdissolving the Department of Education (ED),The Education Trust (EdTrust) convened experts from across the education sector on Thursday to discuss what such a move might mean for the nation at large. Currently, about 6.6

Education

COE

MAY 2, 2025

Council for Opportunity in Education Condemns President Trumps Proposal to Eliminate Federal TRIO Programs May 2, 2025 by Terrance L. This proposal is a direct attack on students who dare to dream of college in the face of adversity, said Kimberly Jones , President of the Council for Opportunity in Education.

Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 14, 2025

The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation has announced its 2025 cohort of Undergraduate Transfer Scholars, selecting 90 community college students from across the nation to receive scholarships of up to $55,000 per year for up to three years to complete their bachelor's degrees at four-year institutions.

Community college

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 11, 2025

Watson, who is also a professor and associate dean of graduate studies at Trinity Washington University, traces the evolution of higher education financing from the transformative GI Bill through the Higher Education Act of 1965, showing how well-intentioned policies gradually shifted the burden from public investment to individual debt.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 10, 2025

1929 J uly 10, 2025, marks the 150th birthday of the woman who wrote that line. Each ride was more than dollars and cents; it was a manifesto: women’s work—and the invisible labor and mothering sewn into its seams—belongs at the heart of education. Fast-forward to 2025. Dr. Crystal A. Center women’s labor here.

Advising

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

The judge noted that DOGE affiliates have been granted access to systems containing highly sensitive dataincluding Social Security numbers, dates of birth, home addresses, income and assets, citizenship status, and disability statuswithout adequate justification.

Financial aid

COE

JULY 9, 2025

Pat Williams: A Champion Who Gave Wings to TRIO’s Defiance July 9, 2025 — by Arnold L. When the Higher Education Act faced its deepest cuts in February 1986, it would have been easy for us to descend into mourning. I’m forever grateful that U.S.

First generation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 11, 2025

Compton College President Dr. Keith Curry is calling on California's top state leaders to include funding for a Black-Serving Institutions grant program in the state budget after legislation establishing the program stalled in the legislature due to fiscal constraints.

Grant