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The Slow but Steady Rise of Women in Higher Education Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 7, 2025

This increase, while notable, also highlights the persistent challenges that remain in achieving true gender equity at the highest levels of academia. college and university chief executives by 2030. Today, the percentage stands at nearly 33%, marking a significant but measured progress in the landscape of academic leadership.

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Community Colleges Chart Path Forward on AI Integration as Students Outpace Faculty Adoption

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 30, 2025

The 36-page report presents an eight-point framework for community colleges to strategically integrate AI while addressing concerns about equity, academic integrity, and workforce preparation. By 2030, up to 12 million occupational transitions may be required in the U.S.,

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Michigan Awards Nearly $1M to Students Through FAFSA Completion Initiative

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2025

The initiative aligns with Michigan's broader "Sixty by 30" goal, which aims for at least 60% of state residents to hold a degree or skills certificate by 2030. "It proved that when we show up for students with encouragement, clear information and real incentives, they respond with action," he said.

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Michigan Awards Nearly $1M to Students Through FAFSA Completion Initiative

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2025

The initiative aligns with Michigan's broader "Sixty by 30" goal, which aims for at least 60% of state residents to hold a degree or skills certificate by 2030. "It proved that when we show up for students with encouragement, clear information and real incentives, they respond with action," he said.

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California Community Colleges Launch Initiative to Expand Shortened Courses

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

The shortened course initiative directly aligns with Vision 2030, the strategic plan for California Community Colleges, which emphasizes supporting students through flexible modalities. As the largest system of higher education in the nation, California Community Colleges serves 2.1 million students annually across 116 colleges.

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Kids on Campus Initiative Shows Strong Progress in Connecting Head Start and Community Colleges

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 28, 2025

The project is supported by a coalition of foundations committed to educational equity, including ECMC Foundation, Imaginable Futures, Lumina Foundation, the Annie E. During Year One, we've sown the seeds of progress. Over the next several years, Kids on Campus will continue to push our initiative forward."

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Virginia Community Colleges End DEI Initiatives Following Federal Mandate

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 24, 2025

In a significant policy shift affecting higher education in Virginia, the state's 23 community colleges must now ensure all programs and practices comply with new federal regulations that effectively terminate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives across these institutions.

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Common App Launches 2024-25 Direct Admissions Program

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

While the program reached more than 400,000 first-generation and low-income students in 2023-24, Rickard expects the 2024-25 launch will reach and inspire even more students and move Common App closer to its goal of closing the postsecondary attainment equity gap for low- and middle-income students by 2030.

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Common App Sets Goal to Increase Reach to Low-Income Students, Publishes Findings of Pilot Programs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

The nonprofit Common Application, which offers an online tool that many students use when looking to pursue an undergraduate education, is not being used by enough students who are from lower-income backgrounds, according to the organization’s inaugural Equity Innovations Guide. million students during the 2022-23 application cycle year.

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The Human Rights Campaign Receives $5 Million Grant to Continue Fight Against HIV and Stigmas

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 31, 2023

Kelley Robinson The grant – awarded over three years – will go towards efforts to eradicate stigmas about HIV in Black and Latino communities and end the HIV epidemic by 2030.

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Cal State Fullerton Gets $1.4M for Career Pathways Projects

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 22, 2023

The funding comes as part of a California program to tackle issues of equity in higher ed and the workforce. It’s a burgeoning industry, expected to grow 7% between 2020 and 2030. But California State University, Fullerton’s efforts to tackle this issue got a major boost recently with the announcement of $1.4

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Boldly Future Forward

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2024

As we are preparing our students for skills in artificial intelligence, we know that by 2030 there will be new positions that we don’t even know what they’re called at this point, but we want our students to be ready.” Smith-Jackson, provost and executive vice chancellor for academic affairs. “As

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5 Tips for Recruiting and Enrolling Latine/x Students in Your Community College

EAB

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Now, schools must work harder to prioritize closing equity gaps and bringing these students back to campus. The burden to be inclusive shouldn’t rest solely with your Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion or your multilingual staff. degrees by the year 2030. 3 easy changes that build a more inclusive campus.

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Attack of the “Math Shark”: Why Unfinished Learning Is a Lurking Threat to Student Success in the Late 2020s

EAB

JULY 28, 2023

Closing equity gaps may become even harder. The underlying social inequities that drove pre-pandemic equity gaps have not gone away and are now being compounded by a political backlash. The Moon Shot for Equity Learn how our partners are closing regional equity gaps. Strengthen your math tutoring and academic support.

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Attack of the “Math Shark”: Why Unfinished Learning Is a Lurking Threat to Student Success in the Late 2020s

EAB

JULY 28, 2023

Closing equity gaps may become even harder. The underlying social inequities that drove pre-pandemic equity gaps have not gone away and are now being compounded by a political backlash. The Moon Shot for Equity Learn how our partners are closing regional equity gaps. Strengthen your math tutoring and academic support.

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The Slow but Steady Rise of Women in Higher Education Leadership

Community Colleges Chart Path Forward on AI Integration as Students Outpace Faculty Adoption

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Michigan Awards Nearly $1M to Students Through FAFSA Completion Initiative

Michigan Awards Nearly $1M to Students Through FAFSA Completion Initiative

California Community Colleges Launch Initiative to Expand Shortened Courses

Kids on Campus Initiative Shows Strong Progress in Connecting Head Start and Community Colleges

Virginia Community Colleges End DEI Initiatives Following Federal Mandate

Common App Launches 2024-25 Direct Admissions Program

Common App Sets Goal to Increase Reach to Low-Income Students, Publishes Findings of Pilot Programs

The Human Rights Campaign Receives $5 Million Grant to Continue Fight Against HIV and Stigmas

Cal State Fullerton Gets $1.4M for Career Pathways Projects

Boldly Future Forward

5 Tips for Recruiting and Enrolling Latine/x Students in Your Community College

Attack of the “Math Shark”: Why Unfinished Learning Is a Lurking Threat to Student Success in the Late 2020s

Attack of the “Math Shark”: Why Unfinished Learning Is a Lurking Threat to Student Success in the Late 2020s

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