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JANUARY 23, 2025

McMickens, Morris Thomas, and Calvin Hadley There is deep concern about the status of Black men in higher education. A recent report about the enrollment of Black men in postsecondary education indicates that Black men comprise 4.6% million students enrolled in colleges and universities. Gloria Ladson-Billings.

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DECEMBER 9, 2024

Removing barriers for students to use mental health services is one of the most important goals of college administrations today particularly for students of color and diverse backgrounds. Nichole Kang College campuses have made great strides in making mental health services available to students, but access remains a critical issue.

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MARCH 3, 2025

Across the country, community colleges and universities are seeing fewer students enroll, a trend that could have long-term consequences for both individuals and the economy. A shrinking student population means fewer trained workers entering key industries, bringing about economic decline as the demographic cliff continues to grow.

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DECEMBER 4, 2024

It is this quality experience that learners courting and attending our community colleges expect to receive, and failure to provide will lead to continuous declines in enrollment and confidence in higher education. These historical progressions made the relationship between college access and inclusiveness symbiotic.

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APRIL 9, 2025

higher education outlook is not merely a financial tremor; it serves as a chilling echo of the cyclone that swept Dorothy into the tumultuous Land of Oza "tempest of uncertainty" driven by rapid policy shifts and financial pressures, threatening the very foundations of higher education. higher education.

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MARCH 4, 2025

Jamie Merisotis The Lumina Foundation announced a new goal to increase the number of Americans with education and training to 75%. Lumina is defining economic prosperity as people earning at least 15% more than the national average for adults with only a high school education. Currently, 44.1% of people have such a credential.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2024

A new report by the Southern Education Foundation (SEF) points out that seventy years after the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision, many Black students across the nation still do not have access to equitable educational opportunities in early childhood, K-12, or higher education compared with other students.

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MAY 7, 2025

Despite persistent challenges in affordability, accessibility and mental health support, U.S. adults without college degrees continue to place high value on higher education and remain interested in pursuing credentials, according to a comprehensive new study released today. adults without a degree or other credentials."

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JANUARY 7, 2025

A groundbreaking report released by Generation Hope reveals the devastating impact of housing insecurity on student parents pursuing higher education. The findings paint a stark picture: one in five undergraduate students nationwide is parenting while attending college, and housing costs often exceed tuition expenses.

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APRIL 28, 2025

Its part of a broader and troubling pattern: a sustained attack on scientific research, the public institutions that produce it, and the higher education system that trains the researchers behind it. It means health and education systems are becoming more responsive to the needs of diverse communities. Weve seen it before.

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JUNE 5, 2025

Bridges New Jersey's groundbreaking state-funded teletherapy program has delivered more than 78,000 counseling sessions to college students since its 2023 launch, according to new data released by the New Jersey Office of the Secretary of Higher Education. Bridges, New Jersey's secretary of higher education.

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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. After looking into and providing a solution to assist the student, Weatherspoon wanted to know what more the institution could do.

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APRIL 24, 2025

higher education institutions, unveiled a significant redesign today that fundamentally changes how colleges and universities are classified and evaluated. Nowadays, institutions can't be reduced down to the highest degree they award because they exist to serve a wide range of students in a wide variety of ways."

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JANUARY 26, 2025

Title: Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education, University of Oklahoma Age: 38 Education: B.S., Student Affairs and Higher Education, Indiana State University; Ph.D., Early on, Briscoe saw herself as a student leader.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2025

A new study from the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies reveals that Black student parents at community colleges face significant barriers in accessing critical childcare support, potentially hindering their educational progress and economic mobility.

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MAY 21, 2025

introduced legislation Wednesday that would make public colleges and universities tuition-free for approximately 95% of American students, in what supporters call the most significant higher education investment in six decades. Jayapal highlighted the legislation's focus on addressing educational inequity. history."

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JANUARY 21, 2025

Yet the humanity of formerly incarcerated Dr. Sara Goldrick-Rab students is too often marginalized, even overlooked, in campus programs addressing issues like food and housing insecurity. That is largely because these justice-impacted students are often invisible to educators, their identities simply erased.

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JUNE 17, 2025

Higher education institutions prioritizing student empowerment and mental well-being call attention to the prevalence of PTSD in American society. Awareness and advocacy are essential to delivering relevant student services and fostering a campus culture that is both supportive and affirming.

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JANUARY 31, 2025

This allowed students to share their current feelings and experiences. During one of these meetings, two students spoke up and shared that they were homeless. Im a former student activist, so seeing student activists seeing what we need was good. We took it upon ourselves, says Louden.

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JUNE 5, 2025

have introduced bicameral legislation to restore graduate students' access to subsidized federal loans, a benefit eliminated more than a decade ago that advocates say has created barriers to advanced education for students from underrepresented backgrounds. Senator Alex Padilla Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.)

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MARCH 10, 2025

Lomax A new study released by the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) has found that students at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) demonstrate significantly stronger mental health outcomes compared to their peers at other institutions, despite facing greater financial stressors and barriers to mental health services.

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JANUARY 15, 2025

She not only works with faculty in engineering, but also across disciplines with colleagues in social work, nursing and health, education, and architecture or public planning. Our students are going to be the decision makers, theyre going to work at the city or the consulting company, build the roads and improve infrastructure.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2024

SREB represents and works with 16 states to improve public education at every level. According to Boren, to attract the younger generation to teach, the pathways should be designed so that students are not wasting credits, money or time. They want to be able to advance.” Retention of teachers is increasing.

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MAY 18, 2025

Hines Black students have cultural assets and exude brilliance in both K-12 and Higher Education. However, in certain courses and majors, Black students are often discouraged or deterred from pursuing them, specifically in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM).

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JANUARY 27, 2025

A comprehensive new study by education research firm EAB has identified the most influential factors shaping how students choose colleges, with academic program variety, campus safety, and student organizations emerging as the top three drivers of student attraction. The research, analyzing data from U.S.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Nearly 3 in 4 college students are struggling to meet their basic needs, according to a new report released by The Hope Center. The report found that 59% of surveyed students experienced at least one form of basic needs insecurity related to food or housing.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2025

higher education institutions. At Morgan State, despite achieving record-breaking total enrollment figures and becoming the nation's third-largest HBCU, the percentage of Black male students has dropped from 43% in 2015 to 37% in fall 2024. Michael Sinclair, associate professor of Social Work.

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APRIL 25, 2025

Strayhorn few years ago, Liu (2023) published, Everyone is Talking about Belonging in The Chronicle of Higher Education. A landing page for student-facing websites at University of Michigan and Amherst College, just to name a few. A Dr. Terrell L. Her opening lines were perennial: Its everywhere.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2024

As mental health becomes a growing key issue for many, college students are stepping up, not only as advocates for their own well-being but also as catalysts for change within their own communities. However, while students may view mental health advocacy as crucial, few are ready to commit to long term action. "We

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MARCH 27, 2025

The report, "Pathways to Opportunity: Examining Students' Academic and Economic Outcomes at HBCUs, TCUs, and MSIs," found that these institutions consistently outperform non-minority serving institutions in awarding degrees to their target populations and providing pathways to economic success for underrepresented students.

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JANUARY 22, 2025

Terrell Educational Foundation has selected three master's students from diverse institutions across the United States for its 2024-2025 MCT Araceli Negrete Scholars program, with a focus on investigating student mental wellness in today's challenging environment. The Dr. Melvin C. Dr. Martino Harmon, MCT Foundation Chair.

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OCTOBER 28, 2024

The issues closest to my heart—those that affect our students and education equity—are being largely ignored by the presidential candidates. Repeatedly, we call for “someone” to show us, through better education policy, that we are not forgotten. And we do not need the scarcity mindset that has dominated political discourse.

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JANUARY 5, 2025

Ambitious, and often anxious, students enter collegiate Alicia P. At any age, collegiate students feel the intensity between their desires for differentiation and longing for belonging and a clear sense of purpose. Education stimulates decision-making, productivity and direct engagement in civil society.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The Community Vibrancy Framework, developed by Achieving the Dream (ATD), moves beyond traditional metrics of student completion to create a more comprehensive model of institutional and community transformation. Community colleges, which educate nearly 44% of all U.S. Stout, ATD's president and CEO.

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MARCH 13, 2025

UCLA Graduation As graduates streamed into commencement ceremonies last May, their faces reflected the changing demographics of American higher education. The mid-1990s marked the end of an era where men had historically dominated higher education, setting the stage for a new chapter in American educational achievement.

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DECEMBER 2, 2024

For the past 18 years of her distinguished career in higher education, Eanes has worked at public institutions. Although public higher education can be challenging, it is gratifying, rewarding and impactful in ways that are measurable and not measurable.”

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JUNE 16, 2025

In addition to supportive family, I relied on the TRIO-Educational Opportunity Program to help me navigate the system of higher education. Cutting it would not only limit college access for more than 880,000 students — it would also weaken America. Nearly 37 million people in the U.S. The Ronald E.

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