Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 7, 2025

Carolyn Stefanco hen the American Council on Education launched its Moving the Needle initiative over a decade ago to raise awareness about gender parity in higher education or lack thereof only 23% of college presidents or chancellors were women. college and university chief executives by 2030.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

The California Community Colleges system is rolling out an ambitious new project aimed at making higher education more Dr. Rowena M. The shortened course initiative directly aligns with Vision 2030, the strategic plan for California Community Colleges, which emphasizes supporting students through flexible modalities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 28, 2025

A national partnership between the Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT) and the National Head Start Association (NHSA) is creating powerful educational opportunities for both young children and their parents through the innovative "Kids on Campus" initiative. During Year One, we've sown the seeds of progress.

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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. labor force.

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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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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 22, 2023

The difficulty of making a successful transition from school to the workforce remains one of the most persistent problems in higher education. 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.

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