Active Minds

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Addressing racial inequality is one of the key components of this effort to ensure marginalized communities have access to the same opportunities and resources as others and recognize the unique challenges faced by different marginalized groups, especially when it comes to mental health.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

We present the problems/solutions as an easily accessible 10-point checklist, so that you can grade your own processes, identify your challenges, and proactively incorporate de-biasing practices in the spirit of equity, diversity, and inclusion. The criteria should be read aloud, prior to evaluating that dimension. Dr. Donna Y.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 3, 2024

When the revised Pell Grant regulations went into effect in July 2023, they contained a provision that college in prison programs must now document how they and/or organizations with which they partner provide reentry services.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The purpose of the age-old course syllabus remains the same — a crucial document that sets the foundation for a course by providing students with essential information, outlining expectations, and serving as a reference point throughout the semester. How do we do this?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 9, 2023

In 2019, Oglethorpe partnered with TheDream.US , a national scholarship program that helps provide access to a college education for immigrant youth who came to the country at a young age without documentation. Add inclusive language to admission materials and other student-facing resources where applicable.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The research includes interviews with financial aid staff and parents; reveals key insights about inclusion, stigma, and financial challenges; and offers actionable insights to improve relationships. Results Interviews with staff covered innovative and ongoing strategies to improve student accessibility.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

APRIL 9, 2025

One of the most complex elements private K-12 schools face is verifying and evaluating international family income, which often differs significantly from domestic documentation standards. Schools that serve international families benefit greatly from using a financial aid solution designed with accessibility and flexibility in mind.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Concurrently, in some cases, state legislatures are passing bans or limits on diversity/equity/inclusion programs, racial equity training for faculty and staff, the teaching of Black history, and classroom discussion on topics related to critical race theory. Another dynamic is a new form of segregation emerging as the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Through our work we found that when given the chance to document their experiences fat students overwhelmingly focus on the ways they do not fit in furniture, chairs, and generally within classroom spaces. Fat bodies on and off campus deserve access to all the things non-fat bodies have.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

JANUARY 31, 2025

Independent and private K12 schools are constantly striving to balance accessibility with financial sustainability. Enhanced Accuracy and Efficiency Traditionally, the financial aid process involves extensive paperwork, manual uploads of tax documents, and repeated follow-ups between families and school administrators.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

In general, it’s really opened conversations about flexibility and thinking about how we can use technology to be more inclusive to provide opportunities.” If lectures are recorded, students who miss a class can readily access the material, said Luoma. I knew we needed to up our usage of it. … I added Zoom once we moved to virtual.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 10, 2023

It has been documented exhaustively that diversity contributes to positive learning outcomes, and work teams that consist of individuals with varied backgrounds, perspectives, ethnicities, races, belief systems, cultures and socio-economic statuses are proven to achieve greater results than those that lack such diversity.”

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

APRIL 1, 2025

With a commitment to both academic excellence and access for all, this prestigious boarding and day school awarded $11.2 For families who qualify, thats an average of $50,000 per studenta powerful testament to Peddies mission of inclusivity and opportunity. The Peddie School in New Jersey understands this on a deep level.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2023

Access to admissions is being denied under the guise of trying to achieve a color-blind society. The strategies that were offered will be complied in a document and shared widely. Several of these states saw decreases in minority student enrollment as a result of their actions.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

MARCH 25, 2025

The Challenge: Balancing Accuracy with Efficiency Traditionally, financial aid officers have faced an uphill battle: gathering accurate family income information, verifying documents, and assessing needall while providing personalized guidance to families. Many are new to the process and may feel overwhelmed by the documentation requirements.

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Student Privacy Compass

JULY 23, 2024

Updated] Equity, Access, and Reputational Considerations Beyond regulatory compliance, digital fundraising introduces challenges related to equity, access, and public perception. However, this progress must be guided by thoughtful oversight, inclusive practices, and a commitment to safeguarding student well-being.

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Catherine Cronin

JANUARY 11, 2025

Committed to maximising access, we worked over several months with Higher Education for Good authors to record audio versions of all 32 chapters. That project was restarted in 2024 and I was privileged to work with GTM and colleagues at the University of Galway to document oral histories and create a publishable digital map.

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Civitas Learning

JUNE 1, 2023

Faculty and staff needed ways to easily communicate and access student data in one place so they had the shared context they needed to meaningfully help students. Faculty and staff can now access a comprehensive picture of each student. To advise students effectively, we needed to see the whole picture.”

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

MARCH 5, 2025

Sessions on innovative approaches to financial aid and tuition modeling provided administrators with new strategies to make financial aid more accessible and efficient. Discussions on fostering diversity, equity, and belonging emphasized the importance of inclusive school communities and the impact of policy decisions on student success.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The research includes interviews with financial aid staff and parents; reveals key insights about inclusion, stigma, and financial challenges; and offers actionable insights to improve relationships. Results Interviews with staff covered innovative and ongoing strategies to improve student accessibility.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

What became lightening-rod terms, diversity, equity and inclusion in reality constitute neither a policy nor an ideology; they are a way of life that, when intentional and outcome-oriented, change lives in meaningful, measurable ways. The role of higher education in transforming lives is seen time and again when access is prioritized.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Reaching out to prospective families demonstrates a school’s commitment to making education accessible to all students and ensuring financial barriers do not prevent qualified students from pursuing their academic goals. Bilingual support can play a crucial role in ensuring that these families have equal access to the resources they need.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

AUGUST 9, 2024

Diverse Student Body: US private schools’ pride themselves on creating inclusive communities where students from different backgrounds can learn and grow together. Financial aid plays a crucial role in making these schools accessible to a wider range of students.

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COE

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

She said she spent 15 years writing her book “The Warmth of Other Suns,” documenting stories about the 20th-century migration of 6 million Black Americans away from the Jim Crow South. “My mission,” she said, “has been to use the power of language and narrative to change the way we see ourselves and our country.”

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Financial aid processing solutions that offer automated document verification, self-service capability, secure data management, and privacy protection for families’ financial information offer those advantages to K-12 private and independent schools. At the same time, schools can increase the number of families they’re able to help.

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Civitas Learning

JULY 11, 2024

Northwest’s student success model relies on collaboration between faculty, advisors, and student support units, such as diversity and inclusion, the registrar’s office, and the athletics department. Democratizing access to data , rather than restricting it to a select few, transforms student success efforts. Read the Blog 2.

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COE

JANUARY 7, 2024

Hamm In this short Q&A, Kent Battiste, director of TRIO Upward Bound at Impact Educational and Housing Development in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, describes how introducing his TRIO program to empower enhanced data capabilities and streamlined processes, citing its flexible remote access and comprehensive student profiles as key features.

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Catherine Cronin

APRIL 14, 2022

Robeyns has documented in detail how the Capability Approach has made a “crucial foundational contribution to the growth of the human development paradigm” ( 2017 ). Making resources legally accessible (e.g. Since 1979, many theorists have built upon and expanded Sen’s original work (e.g.

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EAB

AUGUST 7, 2023

Student Experience and Well-Being Most academic leaders think of advising, academics, or student affairs when thinking about student success, and it is critical to make these supports more streamlined, accessible, and student-centric. But the administrative infrastructure of a campus has an equally key role to play.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 21, 2025

Shaun Harper In a powerful defense of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in higher education, Dr. Shaun Harper, Provost Professor of Education, Public Policy, and Business at the University of Southern California, presented evidence-based testimony before the U.S.

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Catherine Cronin

APRIL 21, 2022

Findings for each initiative, as well as analysis across all four initiatives, will be documented in a final GO-GN Fellowship report. The aim of TUS’s University of Sanctuary programme is to create a culture of welcome and inclusion for asylum seekers, refugees and migrants at the institution.

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COE

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Recording notes about our students is now a breeze, ensuring that every counseling session and important detail is documented. Schedule a demo empower ’ s individual student services tracking goes beyond grades and testing, providing insights into financial aid, application status, and other crucial data.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Furthermore, school counselors can help students access resources needed to achieve a well-rounded pre-K-12 school experience to be prepared for college, careers, and adulthood. There is a merger of traditional counseling with Black culture documented by A. Wade Boykin’s Afro-centric cultural styles.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2024

Giving all of our students access to contemporary literature that centers Black youth perspectives is not only important in decolonizing literature education but also in presenting a holistic view of Black childhood. Chapter 12: Brown, D. Frazier, R.-M. Kenton, D.H. , & Pollock, D. Emerald Publishing Limited.

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Timely MD

MAY 2, 2023

Some of these steps include: Providing gender-inclusive restrooms and facilities Offering gender-neutral restrooms and other facilities can help alleviate the stress and anxiety that TGNC students may feel when using gender-segregated spaces. These issues often affect transgender students throughout their academic journey.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

link] Many scholars have documented the critical importance of youth having access to spaces of joy and homeplaces in which they learn to matter. Beyond single-identity spaces of Black mattering: Homeplaces for Black LGBTQ+ identities in K-12 schools. Theory into Practice.

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EAB

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Lineage B: Degree planning Even as first-year experience programs grew in popularity from 2000 to 2010, leaders at open-access and two-year institutions began advocating for expanding focus beyond the first year. As early as the 1980s, student success leaders were documenting equity gaps in college access and completion.

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