IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

JULY 23, 2024

Higher education leaders, institutions, and systems need data that are accurate, accessible, and disaggregated by race and ethnicity in ways that reflect the increasing diversity of today’s students. Full compliance across all data collections and publications is required by March 2029.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2023

We had become complacent for a long time in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), doing the same-old, same-old.” While this regional-conscience admissions policy was already in place before the SCOTUS ruling, Perry says that her admissions department still had to make some changes to ensure their admissions processes were in compliance.

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Application Compliance Inclusion Communication 317

School & Student Services by Community Brands

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

These trends underscore the growing commitment of independent schools to support families and enhance accessibility to quality education. While financial aid is essential for keeping private schools diverse and accessible, the administrative workload that comes with processing all these applications can quickly become overwhelming.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

However, incorporating historical data insight into the process allows schools to: Ensure Equity and Fairness Schools can analyze patterns and trends to ensure aid is distributed based on demonstrated need and institutional priorities rather than ad-hoc decision-making. Role-based access controls to limit data exposure.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

APRIL 9, 2025

Schools that serve international families benefit greatly from using a financial aid solution designed with accessibility and flexibility in mind. These uploads are encrypted and protected, ensuring privacy and compliance. The SSS platform was designed with accessibility and clarity in mind.

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The University Innovation Alliance

AUGUST 11, 2022

Innovating to Close Equity Gaps: The National Institute for Student Success. Closing the Equity Gaps. Those equity gaps often stem from an outdated profile of the typical college student: a full-time, on-campus resident with an understanding of available resources and the bandwidth to seek those resources on their own.

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EAB

JANUARY 30, 2023

In the first blog post in this series , I discussed the necessity of a sufficient technology infrastructure to facilitate curation, access, and retrieval of data. For these professionals to maximize their returns, however, they must have access to adequate data resources and systems that will allow them to perform these analyses.

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EAB

JUNE 30, 2023

With trustworthy data stored in a secure location (known as a data warehouse), a data management platform allows your campus to govern data, assign data access based on user roles, put data into action, and develop customized dashboards. Edify automatically standardizes data from those systems so that it is clean, accessible, and trustworthy.

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EAB

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Thus, coordinated email communications are critical to closing equity gaps. are your emails to students limiting your equity efforts? Unfortunately, having easy access to data isn’t the reality for many community colleges.

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Community college Advising Compliance Communication 52

Student Privacy Compass

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The infographic depicts the main reasons why schools monitor student activity online—ensuring student safety, legal compliance, and addressing community concerns—and highlights two areas of frequent confusion: what types of student data are being monitored, and how that data could be used.

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EAB

MAY 1, 2023

Case in point In 2021, EAB hosted a focus group for an institution that hoped to understand why the equity dashboard they created wasn’t being utilized. They don't have access In a Fall 2022 survey sent to new Edify partners, only 15% of respondents indicated that they had direct access to the data they need to do their job.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The lawsuit specifically challenges the orders' lack of clear definitions for terms such as "DEI," "equity," and "illegal DEIA," arguing that this vagueness makes compliance virtually impossible for institutions while potentially exposing them to significant federal enforcement actions.

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Compliance Higher education Inclusion Faculty 361

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 19, 2025

We have been in the past, and remain today, in full compliance with the regulations that apply to not only Penn, but all of our NCAA and Ivy League peer institutions." The case highlights the complex intersection of educational access, civil rights, competitive fairness, and institutional governance.

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Administration Administration Compliance Higher education 218

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

It also targets diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs, which the Department claims have contributed to widespread censorship and a repressive viewpoint monoculture on campuses. The directive, which builds on last year's Supreme Court decision in Students for Fair Admissions v.

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Compliance Education Scholarship Equity 317

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

These changes include discontinuing the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, ending programming under Student Life's Center for Belonging and Social Change, and renaming the Office of Institutional Equity to the Office of Civil Rights Compliance. The university confirmed that 16 positions will be eliminated as a result of these changes.

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Inclusion University Scholarship Compliance 278

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 4, 2025

It instructed the University to dismantle diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs under whatever name, and to cease any admissions or hiring practices that consider race, gender, or even proxies for race. The administrations memo targets racial equity work explicitly. But its follow-up was historic.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 14, 2025

We are watching the very meaning of equity hollowed out by Orwellian doublespeak. In California, equity offices are quietly being scaled back. In California, equity offices are quietly being scaled back. And theDepartment of Justices Office for Access to Justiceis once again under scrutiny. The goal isnt compliance.

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Equity Compliance Mental health Curriculum 279

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 20, 2023

While advocates of access hailed the policy, the for-profit sector and financial aid offices raised worries. Dr. Kyle Southern, associate vice president of higher education quality for The Institute for College Access and Success (TICAS), which has been calling for a secret shopper program and other oversight, agreed.

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Financial aid Financial aid administration Financial aid officer Compliance 289

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Trump declared the countrys end to radical and wasteful government diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs and Dr. Mordecai Brownlee preferencing through executive order. Equity should not be seen as a political agenda; it is a moral imperative educators provide to society. On January 20, 2025, President Donald J.

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Higher education Equity Education Compliance 294

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 16, 2023

But despite the increase, few institutions are in Title IX compliance. We want to make sure that everyone has access regardless of race, socioeconomic status, location, or zip code.” In practice, the former collegiate gymnast focuses on aspects of litigation and education law, particularly on federal Title IX compliance.

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