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Formerly Incarcerated Students Are Humans First

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. This was the 5th clinic held so far in total, nearly 500 individuals have benefitted.

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Humanities Organizations File Lawsuit Against NEH Over Massive Program Cuts

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Three major scholarly organizations have taken legal action against the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) following what they describe as devastating cuts to the agency's programs, staff, and funding capabilities. MLA executive director Dr. Krebs emphasized the essential nature of humanities education.

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Empowering Community Colleges Through AI: A New Era of Access and Economic Mobility

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Community Colleges Are Well Positioned Historically, equity and inclusion in higher education have been shaped by various legislation and milestones that improved learner access in America. These historical progressions made the relationship between college access and inclusiveness symbiotic.

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Engineering a Path for the Forgotten: Meet the Professor Transforming Transportation Access - Dr. Kyung "Kate" Hyun

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Hyuns determination to include the human-being in transportation engineering makes her scholarship stand out, says Dr. Vistasp Karbhari, professor of civil engineering, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, and past president at UTA. Because accessibility is opportunities.

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Promises, Promises: Agency, Self-Actualization, the Higher Ed Social Contract

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

While a post-secondary degree, even a two-year degree, increases earning potential and social access, substantial benefits that lead to sustainable personal gains greatly depend on a variety of factors. Increasing options for obtaining education have not necessarily equated to increased access to education.

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Compton College Addresses Student Homelessness and Basic Needs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Curry also became one of the founding chairpersons of the Chief Executive Officers of the California Community Colleges Affordability, Food & Housing Access Taskforce in spring 2018. Louden believes now, more than ever, that Comptons faith in humanity is one of its superpowers. We just wanted to help.

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They Don’t Really Care About Us? Ensuring a Better Connection Between Research, Policy, and Practice to Ensure Success for Black Men in Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Aside from writing about the plight of Black men in higher education, in our scholarship, we have employed an anti-deficit approach to highlight critical factors that help to facilitate the access, retention, and persistence of Black men in college.