Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 25, 2025

2025 NASPA CONFERENCE NASPA brought together over 6,600 student affairs professionals from across the country to New Orleans, Louisiana for connection, reflection, and renewal, three anchors of this years theme. Figure 1 is a visual representation of points shared in the session. Sense of belonging model as a blueprint BELONGING 1.0

Student affairs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 23, 2025

McClure’s The Caring University: Reimagining the Higher Education Workplace After the Great Resignation (Johns Hopkins University Press, July 2025), a welcome antidote to the current foci in higher education.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 10, 2025

This creates what researchers describe as a paradox: a generation equipped to harness cutting-edge tools while simultaneously craving more authentic, less mediated forms of human connection. The survey findings suggest that colleges and universities need to fundamentally rethink their approach to student support services.

Mental health

Active Minds

APRIL 8, 2025

Slowing down, processing pain and focusing on meaning change us from humans doing to human beings. Copyright 2025 by Dr. Judith Joseph MD MBA PC. When we busy ourselves from processing pain and emotions, we busy ourselves to feeling joy and from prioritizing the things that brings us the most joy in life.

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2025

Prior to that role, she was Chief of Staff and interim Vice Presidents for Advancement and for Human Resources to President Robert S. She previously served as Vice President for University Advancement at Sacramento State leading its first comprehensive fundraising campaign, On the Rise, raising nearly $240 million.

Humanities

Knowledge Avatars College

APRIL 28, 2025

Knowledge Avatars: Transformative Education For Teachers and Students Emiliano De La Mon, 04/28/2025 - 15:31 Knowledge Avatars (KAs) are revolutionizing classrooms by enhancing teaching effectiveness and deepening student learning. Heres how were implementing this dynamic tool across several schools.

Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 25, 2025

When instruction includes novel, emotionally or intellectually stimulating features, students show greater attention, motivation, and cognitive performance, particularly in STEM and technical subjects (see Guo & Fryer, 2025 ; Hidi & Renninger, 2006 ). It’s a deeply human endeavor: expressive, subjective, unpredictable, and relational.

Inclusion

Civitas Learning

JUNE 12, 2025

The 2024 analysis in our 2025 Student Success Impact Report found that institutions are not only increasing outreach—they’re measuring its impact. While automated alerts can help scale outreach, they often lack context and human insight—limiting their ability to truly support students.

Advising

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. On the final day, Shankar Vedantam, host of the Hidden Brain podcast and former NPR social science correspondent, explored the unseen forces shaping human behavior. “Attending NAIS Thrive 2025 was a remarkable experience.

Financial aid

IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

AUGUST 5, 2025

Here are three things to know about the Senate’s proposed funding plan for IES. 1) Rejects Trump Administration’s Proposed 67% Funding Cut to IES Senate appropriators voted to maintain the fiscal year 2025 funding level, roughly $793 million. This departs from the P resident’s fiscal year 2026 IES budget request of only $261.3

Administration

The Counseling Geek

JULY 25, 2025

It still takes human review and critical thinking, but my experience has been that it has been FAR more accurate than other more “creative” AI tools. Perplexity transforms us from information gatherers hoping our knowledge is current to information synthesizers confident in our recommendations.

Counseling

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 19, 2025

Despite the outrage following the February 2025 tragedy, the circumstances of this incident are sadly familiar. The Wilson family placed billboards in New Orleans during Omega Psi Phis April 2025 9th District Meeting to draw attention to Calebs story and note the inaction of the national organization to offer condolences.

Humanities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 22, 2025

ATLANTA — The United Negro College Fund (UNCF) launched its premier UNITE 2025 conference in this week, drawing over 1,300 attendees from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) nationwide for a transformative four-day gathering focused on advancing institutional excellence and student success.

Literacy

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 15, 2025

He provided historical context for the ED, highlighting its roots in addressing racial inequality and human rights. Dr. Marvin Lynn "The Department of Education really exists within the context of the ongoing struggle for civil and basic human rights, he said.

Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 18, 2025

In early 2025, the organization convened the Demand Diversity Roundtable, an emergency strategy session to confront threats posed by the new administration's actions against civil and human rights.

Database

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 4, 2025

“Most of the challenges that we’re dealing with as a global enterprise require an interdisciplinary approach to problem solving, and so students need an understanding of not only the humanities, but they need an appreciation and understanding of the sciences,” Nelms says. “To The threat to HBCUs Dr. David A.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 2, 2025

Trump's budget proposes cutting the National Institutes of Health by $18 billion compared with 2025 levels, the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) by $4 billion, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by $3.6 billion for the Defense Department, and $500 million for Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.

Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 11, 2025

Watson’s approach is both journalistic and deeply human. In documenting both the human cost of the current system and the long history of struggle for educational access, Watson has produced a work that is both deeply researched and profoundly moving—a fitting examination of what he rightly calls America’s moral urgency.

Higher education

School & Student Services by Community Brands

APRIL 1, 2025

million in financial assistance in 2025 alone. Park sees this innovation as part of a broader vision to make financial aid accessible and human-centered: Every family enters this process with both an emotional and financial commitment, he says. The Peddie School in New Jersey understands this on a deep level.

Success

COE

JULY 31, 2025

Billion for FY 2026 July 31, 2025 — by Kimberly Jones While there are many more steps until the appropriations process for FY26 is complete, this is a monumental first step that bodes well for our future. Senate Committee Passes Bipartisan Bill to Sustain TRIO Funding at $1.2

Grant

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 19, 2025

Despite the outrage following the February 2025 tragedy, the circumstances of this incident are sadly familiar. The Wilson family placed billboards in New Orleans during Omega Psi Phis April 2025 9th District Meeting to draw attention to Calebs story and note the inaction of the national organization to offer condolences.

Humanities

COE

JULY 24, 2025

TRIO Future Leaders Summit Ignites Passion and Purpose in First-Generation Students Nationwide July 24, 2025 — by Terrance L. Now a graduating Human Services major working with parolees and probationers, Susie left the summit with a new sense of possibility. “I I wouldn’t be here without them.” But after this week?

First generation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2025

She led a partnership between the Universitys Office of Human Resources and the Villanova Initiative to Support Inclusiveness and Build Leaders to plan and facilitate Hiring for Villanovas Future training for employees serving on search committees.

University

COE

JUNE 3, 2025

More Than 10,000 TRIO Alumni Urge Congress to Protect Federal TRIO Programs June 3, 2025 by Terrance L. Earlier today, Education Secretary Linda McMahon testified before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education (LHHS) on the Department of Education’s FY26 budget request.

First generation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2025

Slay is an assistant professor of higher education and public policy in the Peabody College of Education and Human Development at Vanderbilt University.

University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 24, 2025

The following day, the administration announced plans to transfer the student loan portfolio to the Small Business Administration and move disability-related programs to the Department of Health and Human Services.

Administration

COE

JULY 10, 2025

The Council for Opportunity in Education Announces 2025 National TRIO Achiever Award Recipients July 10, 2025 — by Terrance L. The honorees will be recognized during COE’s 2025 Educational Opportunity Dinner in Chicago on Tuesday, September 9. WASHINGTON, D.C.

Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 7, 2025

"For generations, libraries, archives, and cultural institutions have been the guardians of knowledge and the catalysts for human progress," said Hayden. "At Hayden's transition to the Mellon Foundation follows her controversial dismissal from the Library of Congress in May 2025. The Andrew W.

Humanities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2025

Baker is an associate professor of education and public policy with a joint appointment in the College of Education & Human Development and the Joseph R. Dominique J. School of Public Policy and Administration at the University of Delaware.

Student financial aid

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?

Financial aid

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 17, 2025

The proposal, which passed at the NEA's 2025 Representative Assembly in Portland, Oregon, would prohibit the nation's largest teachers' union from using ADL materials on antisemitism and Holocaust education or promoting ADL statistics and programs.

Humanities

Cal Newport

MAY 19, 2025

The tech incubator Y Combinator, for example, made waves when they reported that a quarter of the start-ups in their Winter 2025 batch generated 95% or more of their product’s codebases using AI. The Free Press recently published an article titled “AI Will Change What it Means to Be Human. Are We Ready?”

Humanities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 8, 2024

The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, and National Council of Negro Women — are doubling down on their endorsement of the Freedom to Learn campaign. 2, in Nashville, Tennessee. 2, in Nashville, Tennessee. As we commemorate the 70th anniversary of Brown v.

Humanities

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 Knowing this allows us to recognize that students are humans first and addressing their personal needs and overall well-being is not tangential but central to their academic success.”

Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 1, 2024

Dr. Maisha T Winn The association announced that Winn will join the AERA Council as president-elect in 2024–2025, ahead of her presidency, which begins at the conclusion of the association’s 2025 annual meeting. Winn has been elected to a leadership post at the American Educational Research Association (AERA).

Literacy

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.

Faculty

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. 3 statement. In 2021, two nonprofit Jewish advocacy groups, the Louis D.

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