Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 30, 2024

At the end of 2020, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) launched the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP), which was designed to give low-income households a discount each month on their internet bill, even offering a one-time coupon of up to $100 to buy a laptop, desktop computer, or tablet. UNITE, Inc.,

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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. Michigan State University In addition, out-of-state Native students who are Pell-eligible will be able to take advantage of a full tuition waiver.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Postsecondary education provides graduates with greater access to job opportunities and higher earning potential throughout their lifetimes. But higher education isn’t the only provider of communal uplift. But broadband access varies across regions, states, and even towns. 95% of households have access to broadband.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 12, 2023

Under the University of Vermont’s (UVM) new open-access academic press, authors and readers will not have to pay fees to publish or access published materials. Entwined in UVM Press’s diamond open-access model is a sentiment of shared responsibilities and a commitment not to profit, according to its website.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2025

According to Ess Pokornowski, Reintegrating students face a unique set of overlapping challenges: they are leaving a total institution where choice, communication, access to healthcare, access to technology, and opportunities for education and gainful employment are all dramatically limited.

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JANUARY 17, 2025

Title: Associate Teaching Professor, Drexel University Tenured: No Age: 40 Education: B.S., physics education, West Chester University; M.A., physics, Temple University Career mentors: Dr. A.J. Neutrinos are, however, the most common particle(s) in the universe. This resulted in both a publication and a masters thesis.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 12, 2025

Despite widespread availability of campus resources, with 90% of students having accessed at least one school-provided service, significant barriers remain. These findings suggest that merely offering services is insufficient if students cannot effectively access them when needed.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 16, 2024

Danielle Lopez has been appointed the inaugural director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) for Accessibility Services at Hudson County Community College (HCCC). She will lead and support our accessibility and accommodation programs for students and employees.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

To earn the Seal of Excelencia a college or university must demonstrate an intentional, institutional focus on advancing Latino student success by aligning data and practice. Colleges and universities that have received the Seal of Excelencia enroll 17% of Latino students in the U.S. and graduate 19%.

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Student Minds

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Alyssa-Caroline shares her experience with autism, ADHD, and inaccessibility in professional communication. But, for a neurodivergent person like me, there is nothing quick or casual about verbal, aural professional communication— especially when that communication rarely accompanies (or even offers) the support of notes or handouts.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 28, 2023

On July 1 st , incarcerated Americans will re-gain access to Pell grants for the first time in nearly 30 years. These students are therefore not eligible for Pell grants, making it exceedingly difficult for them to access higher education. If you’re in default, this new opportunity for prison education is closed to you.”

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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. Michigan State University In addition, out-of-state Native students who are Pell-eligible will be able to take advantage of a full tuition waiver.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 31, 2024

It's disconnected people from a lot of local issues that really matter, said Brant Houston, who holds the Knight Chair in Investigative and Enterprise Reporting at the University of Illinois and is the author of Changing Models for Journalism: Reinventing the Newsroom.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 24, 2023

Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs) have been in existence for over 50 years, serving not only Native American and Alaskan Native students but anyone from the rural communities where they reside. The 35 TCUs in the U.S. train future teachers, nurses, engineers, and more.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 8, 2023

Previously, he was provost and vice president for academic affairs at Clark Atlanta University and associate vice president for academic programs and accreditation liaison officer at California State University, Fullerton. “We in communication studies from Howard University; and M.A. Lehman College. Nwosu holds a Ph.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The station – which broadcasts at WWLR 91.5 – was run by student club WWLR and broadcasted “freeform community radio” to Caledonia County in Vermont and much of Coos County in New Hampshire, according to its website. The price would be no more than $80,000, but a final deal is contingent on approval by the Federal Communications Commission.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 7, 2024

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill highlighted the confusion that such messaging creates when, after their board of governors instituted a DEI ban, university officials voted to divert $2.3 million of previously designated funding to campus police instead. million of previously designated funding to campus police instead.

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MARCH 12, 2025

These experiences have given me a unique lens through which I approach leadership, prioritizing equity, access, and the holistic well-being of our students. By the time I transferred to the State University, I realized I was a decent student and no longer anxious about my financial aid being denied for academic standing.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 16, 2023

She previously served as vice president of organizational development and human resources; associate vice president of organizational communication and development; and academic coordinator at Valencia College. in organizational communication and an M.A. in communication from the University of Central Florida, and an Ed.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 1, 2023

Previously, she has served as program administrator and assistant professor of communication arts at Defiance College; and assistant professor of speech communication at Norfolk State University. in interpersonal communication from Bowling Green State University; an M.A. Department of Education. Haney holds a Ph.D.

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Active Minds

DECEMBER 10, 2024

I attend Boston University, and I am studying Public health with concentrations in Epidemiology and Biostatistics along with mental health. I graduated with a BA in Graphic Design and am returning to the University of Akron for a Masters in Communication. Why is mental health advocacy important to you?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Florida A&M University’s (FAMU) School of Journalism & Graphic Communication will receive a $1 million multi-year grant from Disney to support journalism students, the Tallahassee Democrat reported. Florida A&M University changed my life,” Godwin said in a statement.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 3, 2024

The community organizations would really benefit from learning more about college students’ needs reentering, but on the flip side the colleges aren’t always thinking about their own reentering students.” “There is a real urgent need to think with great care and deliberation about non-traditional students.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 13, 2024

Student newsrooms at select historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) can expect thousands in additional monetary support soon thanks to an initiative at Howard University. Investments in the talent and ambitions of aspiring journalists will fundamentally transform these newsrooms.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 12, 2023

Now, the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP), a nonpartisan nonprofit promoting post-secondary access and success, is publishing lessons learned from its ongoing attempts to build a better, more equitable transfer system. Unified communications, IHEP found, lend a sense of credibility to the pathways that they are promoting.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 16, 2024

The University of North Florida (UNF), by example, has shuttered several on-campus centers, including the LGBTQ Center. The University of Texas at Austin closed its Gender and Sexuality Center, transferring some of its activities and services to the university’s Women’s Community Center, which UT then closed in May.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 29, 2024

The Emmett Till Archives, featuring primary and secondary source material related to the life, murder, and memory of Emmett Louis Till, is part of special collections at the Florida State University Libraries. Shown are Emmett and Mamie Till, 1908. who defended Till’s killers, J. Those lies are documented in this new collection.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Amanda Wilkerson The report, " The Other Black Voter: Analyzing the Political Socialization of Florida’s HBCU Students ", surveyed young Black voters educated at Florida Historically Black Colleges and Universities, between the ages of 18-29. HBCUs have shaped elections and the entire political landscape but are often ignored by researchers.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 19, 2024

Darren Masier, an assistant professor of human resource management at Meredith College, had petitioned for an independent examination of the potential cancer cluster at Poe Hall at North Carolina State University (NC State). His diagnosis came as a shock to his family. Masier had always prioritized his health. It just doesn’t make sense.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 17, 2023

In legislatures and courtrooms across the country, attempts to ban books, impose educational gag orders, limit what can be taught and by whom, and defund and discredit diversity, equity, and inclusion work in colleges and universities pose a monumental threat to the nation’s future.

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MARCH 1, 2024

has awarded a grant worth nearly $1 million to the Howard University College of Medicine to promote HIV prevention among Black women and girls. Prevention, Arts and Advocacy, Community, Education) initiative. Promising Futures performers at the Howard University International Stigma Conference. “As Gilead Sciences Inc.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 19, 2023

A fully designed doctoral curriculum in which all courses focus on the community college. Community college leaders with extensive experience in and knowledge of the community college serve as one of the most diverse faculties in a national university leadership program. in community college leadership.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 24, 2024

Excelencia in Education, an organization working for increased access and completion of Latinx students in postsecondary education, has released its latest report on programs that have qualitatively and quantitatively shown to improve and increase the success of Latinx students in higher education. Dr. Jimmy E.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

With this as a backdrop, the Education Writers Association gathered a panel of experts to discuss social mobility as part of its annual Higher Education Seminar, hosted at the University of California, Riverside. The panel on social mobility at the University of California, Riverside. Or vice-versa.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Title: Assistant Professor, School for the Future of Innovation in Society, Arizona State University; Futurist, Latinx Pacific Archive; Co-Director, Situated Critical Race and Media (SCRAM). public & private sector organizations, Brown University; M.A., ethnic studies, San Francisco State University; M.A., Guevarra, Jr.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 9, 2024

Colclough hatched an idea — what if they could develop professional learning environments easily accessible for all faculty in North Carolina’s community colleges, and what if that development could move the needle on student success? But it does depend on what each community college in our region tells us they most need.”

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MARCH 20, 2023

This program – for students from historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) – will take those selected to Charlotte for leadership, communication, and media relations workshops over three days and New York City for a boot camp on competency areas such as executive presence, finance, operations, influence, and business acumen.

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