Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Incoming transfer students can enroll in courses early to guarantee that they have access to coursework. Necessary support is provided through GANAS (Gaining Access ’AND Academic Success), an innovative access and retention program that serves community college transfer students. Currently, 60.1%

Retention

Active Minds

JANUARY 29, 2025

To approach students and receive as many responses as possible, Diego sent out a survey with questions regarding college experience, support systems, college application process, barriers, the resources they have access to, students’ goals, and their mental health.

Mental health

Active Minds

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

To approach students and receive as many responses as possible, Diego sent out a survey with questions regarding college experience, support systems, college application process, barriers, the resources they have access to, students’ goals, and their mental health.

Mental health

Good Tutors Finder

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

These methods may include phonemic awareness exercises, structured literacy programs, and the incorporation of technology tools. Multisensory Approaches Reading and spelling can become more accessible and less intimidating when presented via multiple sensory channels, such as sight, sound, and touch.

Tutoring

School & Student Services by Community Brands

JULY 1, 2025

Digital portals must meet high data‑security standards (SSL encryption, access controls), and offline systems should be locked, shredded, or securely stored. Accessible, Mobile‑Friendly Information Today’s multi-generational families are busy: working, raising children, and managing households.

Financial aid

School & Student Services by Community Brands

JANUARY 17, 2025

Offering financial literacy workshops, tuition calculators, or consultations with financial planning experts can help families feel more confident about committing to private education. And if your current process feels accessible to families.

Financial aid

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 22, 2025

Lomax highlighted the importance of financial literacy, advocating for better financial counseling to help students avoid over-borrowing on student loans while still accessing the transformative power of higher education.

Literacy

School & Student Services by Community Brands

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Examples include: Percentage of students receiving aid A benchmark to maintain diversity and accessibility. By identifying any inconsistencies or inefficiencies, schools can refine their policies to improve accessibility and fairness. Role-based access controls to limit data exposure.

Financial aid

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 4, 2025

Whats new is that the federal government is now using that logic to impose structural amnesiareplacing racial literacy with silence, and calling it merit. And if we cannot teach, we cannot build the critical literacies that this moment demands. Building Racial Literacies We must expand, not contract, our racial literacies.

Literacy

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 13, 2025

They work to help students navigate college, build peer networks, connect with staff, connect with faculty, provide different types of training, including financial literacy, all sorts of really wonderful types of supports wraparound supports that are not commonly found.

Tutoring

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

It wasn’t until I became an adult that I realized that from all of the life lessons learned in our low income household, financial literacy was not one of them. In my journey to seek generational wealth so did a rising devotion to teaching financial literacy to Blacks and Brown communities. Borrowing from the U.S.

Literacy

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 15, 2025

Adult education programs are facing similar uncertainties without access to expected federal funding. The letter, co-led by House Education and Workforce Committee Ranking Member Robert C. The delay is "disrupting school and district planning, jeopardizing the education of millions of students," the lawmakers wrote.

Title IV

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 7, 2025

Carla Hayden The appointment, announced Monday by the Mellon Foundation, comes as libraries and cultural institutions face unprecedented challenges ranging from artificial intelligence's impact on information access to escalating censorship efforts nationwide. Hayden's contributions to library science have earned widespread recognition.

Humanities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 11, 2025

Department of Education announced it will no longer allow federal funds to support career, technical, and adult education programs for undocumented students, rescinding a nearly three-decade-old policy that permitted such access. The interpretive rule, published in the Federal Register, clarifies that federal programs under the Carl D.

Adult education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Phil Murphy will be receiving a media literacy bill from the New Jersey Senate to sign, a bill that would make New Jersey the first state to mandate information literacy education for all K-12 students. New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy “This bill ensures that 1.3 Phil Murphy “This bill ensures that 1.3

Literacy

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Creating awareness Financial literacy among college-going students has been a concern among many experts. To counter this trend, Spelman officials say it was important to join with other organizations to promote financial literacy. The tour will focus on education and investment access through Rapunzl's stock simulator app.

Literacy

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 19, 2022

NBA star Chris Paul has graduated from Winston-Salem State University and is helping give career advancement and financial literacy opportunities to his fellow graduating classmates. Career development and financial planning are key next steps in the future for these graduates.

Literacy

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 16, 2024

Partnership with Native Americans offers scholarships, college grants, emergency funding, college readiness camps, and literacy and school supplies through its American Indian Education Program to improve Native students’ access to higher education.

Access

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Unfortunately, this sentiment holds true for far too many children who enter Kindergarten already behind their peers in terms of literacy skills and too many continue to fall further behind by the time they reach the crucial third-grade mark. The significance of third-grade literacy extends beyond academic success. Dr. Marcus A.

Literacy

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Despite these gains, Latino students continue to face several hurdles during their academic and career pursuits, such as insufficient financial literacy, career planning, and financial assistance. Professionals are mostly focused on financial literacy and professionals in graduate school require financing for their continued education.”

Literacy

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 13, 2023

Kemp added that his goals for the state include improving literacy for K-12 students, addressing teacher shortages, and increasing broadband access, especially in rural areas.

Literacy

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

More than half a million incarcerated people can now access scholarly materials and texts online via digital library JSTOR’s expansion of its availability in U.S. She is also the one leading the JSTOR Access in Prison Initiative. Then, COVID happened, technology became more accessible to people inside.”

Literacy

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The grant – from the California Department of Health Care Access and Information (HCAI) and to be distributed over five years – will help fund the “UC San Diego Health Career Experience,” an annual program meant to educate and train students interested in nursing and allied health professions. UC San Diego Health has received $2.2

Grant

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 20, 2024

I wanted to create a place where students have access to high-quality programs and facilities and can learn the skills they need to succeed in a rapidly changing world," said Alex Cohen, president of the Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation. Adams said the goal is to make a positive difference in people's lives. "I

Community college

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2024

IHEP identified these two institutions by using the Equitable Value Explorer , a free, publicly accessible site that analyzes data from colleges and universities across the country. Students at LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City, NY. Data is critical for UNT’s student success as well, said Voight.

Student success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 14, 2023

Others are teaching information literacy by having students fact-check bots’ responses to research questions. That] they have equal access to the technology via devices and access points like the internet and so on. And that they’re all coming from the same place in terms of literacy.”

Literacy

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 25, 2023

The ‘partial’ PE requirement definition included schools where only certain degree programs had the requirement, or where students had options for other health-related courses, such as financial literacy or sexual health. To note, the study did not examine disability access or accommodations for such PE requirements.

Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 10, 2024

“I don’t defend everything that Martin Luther said or did, but clearly at the time of the Reformation (16th century) there was an emphasis that he had around access to education and access to literacy.” Nunes notes that during the Lutheran Reformation there was a democratization of knowledge.

Literacy

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 2, 2024

This proactive stance not only sets children up for academic success but also mitigates societal challenges such as low literacy rates and disparities in educational attainment. Dr. Marcus A. Bright Early childhood education is the foundation upon which all future learning is built.

University

Active Minds

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

As an Active Minds Chapter, you’ll have access to various resources, the professional expertise of Active Minds National Staff, and networks of peers – all at no cost. The curriculum contains thirteen discussion guides rooted in mental health literacy and social-emotional development.

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2024

If these educators can access PSLF, we can help our youngest children, their families, and their communities.” There’s a heavy misunderstanding of what really happens in the classroom, our first leverage points for early math, literacy, P-21 skills. “Early childhood educators help young children learn, grow, and thrive.

Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

There is also instruction in job-search skills such as interviewing and resumes, and in relevant life skills, such as teamwork, stress management, and financial literacy. In the program, s tudents learn construction , electrical and plumbing basics, blueprint reading and drawing, math , and worksite safety.

Instruction

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

When ChatGPT, the large language model (LLM) AI that can generate long, detailed answers to complicated questions, was first made accessible to the public in November 2022, it changed the landscape of education forever. “As As you can imagine, people were and still are apprehensive. Provost Dr. Janice L.

Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Early prison education programs were led by religious reformers like the Quakers who brought literacy and moral education to the Walnut Street Prison in post-revolutionary Philadelphia. This trend reversed sharply with the passage of the 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, which banned people in prisons from Pell access.

Community college

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

And although race was seldom mentioned, lawmakers managed to communicate paternalistic attitudes, in which borrowers were characterized almost as children, lacking the information or financial literacy to make good decisions. Scholars suggested several different reasons for the widespread avoidance of race. “A

Student loans

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 8, 2024

Despite the ratification of the 15th Amendment in 1870 which was supposed to guarantee the right to vote, Blacks faced formidable obstacles such as poll taxes, literacy tests, intimidation, and violence, effectively disenfranchising them for generations.

Facilitation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Because they are receiving unnecessary services and may not have access to the general education curriculum and classroom. In fact, perceived learning difficulties may result from limited access to academic opportunities, a lack of culturally relevant teaching, low-quality teaching, and resource inequalities. Dr. Donna Y.

Education