Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

California community college professors are suing state officials, alleging that new diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) rules put in place violated their First Amendment rights, The Hill reported. These regulations are a totalitarian triple-whammy,” FIRE attorney Daniel Ortner said.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

City Colleges of Chicagos participation in our Value Data Collaborative aligns with its vision to serve as the citys most accessible engine of socioeconomic mobility and racial equity.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Joy Gaston Gayles opened the 47th annual conference for the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) in Las Vegas with a call to disrupt the systemic oppression keeping marginalized populations from accessing higher education and burning out academics working toward greater diversity, equity, and inclusion. “If

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 24, 2024

Department of Education (ED) and the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP) held the Attaining College Excellence and Equity Summit: Holistic Advising and Wraparound Services in Washington, D.C. Speakers addressed evidence-based practices, collaboration, access, and advising. Secretary of Education Dr. Miguel A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Further, the manner in which conservative media embraces the study gives a compelling glimpse at anti-CRT proponents’ operational definition of CRT. Unconscious bias and white privilege are powerful forces that help to create and maintain barriers to racial equity. Dr. Ivory A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

He fears that the attacks on diversity will likely increase as the 2024 presidential election grows nearer. “I am definitely concerned, but that’s why I wanted to be in this space,” said Foster. Sayvon Foster, an assistant professor of sports management, who is a first-time ASHE attendee.

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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.” Public service jobs include public education, social work, and early childhood education — it’s already in the definition. “Early childhood educators help young children learn, grow, and thrive.

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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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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. Previously, MENA was included under the definition of White. For example, Asian students can share their specific ancestry (e.g.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2025

The divergence in these trajectories raises important questions about the changing nature of higher education accessibility, appeal, and completion rates across gender lines. The growth in educational attainment among Hispanic women represents a major shift in educational access and achievement within the Hispanic community.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 4, 2023

29, the new federal spending plan is set to increase the Pell Grant in 2023, allowing low-income students a chance to access up to $7,395 each year. When you get closer to doubling [the Pell Grant], you’ll definitely make a difference for low-income families,” said Stout. With President Biden’s signature on Dec. Dr. Karen A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The conservative political fringe wants to extend this arrangement and to limit students’ access to truth and historical reality – concerned individuals from all backgrounds who want the next generation of leaders to move the society forward, rather than backward, must make it clear that this is not acceptable. Dr. William B.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2023

The Diversity and STEM report provides objective, reliable data on where our nation has made progress towards access and equity in STEM education and careers, as well as where we must do more." population, the report found.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

Aaron Thompson, president of the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE), participated in the Attaining College Excellence and Equity Summit put together by the U.S. Employers, he says, are making it clear that they believe in diversity, equity, and inclusion. “We The 2024 Higher Education Matters Progress Report shows a 16.1

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

As a graduate of Columbia's Teacher's College who studied higher education leadership, he is familiar with matters of access and is an HBCU alum, having earned his master’s degree in history and bachelor’s degree in agribusiness from Florida A&M University. definitely sets this fellowship apart,” Williams says. Dr. John E.

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Student Privacy Compass

JULY 23, 2024

School leaders should clearly determine whether any data shared falls under the definition of a student education record or directory information as defined by FERPA, and ensure that proper consent and opt-out mechanisms are in place. Has the purpose of the fundraiser been clearly defined and communicated?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Dr. Mark Henderson Henderson says the measure definitely influenced the enrollment of “historically excluded groups.” We had become complacent for a long time in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), doing the same-old, same-old.” Those students’ enrollments went way down, across the system. Dr. David A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Attempts to develop an accurate definition and measure of "intelligence" have been fraught with difficulty and controversy. Within the questions lie recommendations for equity-based and culturally responsive assessments. Ford, Moore, and Pope-Davis ’ qualified acceptance of the apology appears in another Diverse Issues commentary.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

MAY 11, 2023

The day’s conversations included inspiring reflections and honest accounts about challenges with accessing and using data to promote student success. I applaud ED for creating space for policymakers and institutional leaders to discuss the importance of using data to improve student success and educational equity.

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The University Innovation Alliance

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Ensuring Equitable Access. Career services offices, like higher education more broadly, have struggled with access and opportunity issues for first-generation and low-income students. One result of this effort was the definition of robust campus-employer partnerships, co-created by BGEE campus teams, EWG members, and students.

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The University Innovation Alliance

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Sharon Perry Fantini , Vice Provost for Equity Access and Opportunity at Iowa State University. • Outside support takes political will to decide that this is a priority for equity and competitiveness. Panelists included: • Tim Renick , Executive Director, National Institute for Student Success at Georgia State University.

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NACAC's Admitted

AUGUST 10, 2023

The 2021 task force also noted that simply going test-optional or test-free will not in and of itself universally improve equity. EqRC is studying the implications of equity in admission for historically excluded populations.

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EAB

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

We're committed to educational equity and we focus on students from 11th grade all the way through to college graduation. In the last 20 years, there's been this really big resurgence of community-based organizations that are, I would say, kind of called college access and success as a general bucket term. JS: Yeah, it's interesting.

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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

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. We often hear from institutions about uncertainty regarding the source, the methodology, the timeliness, and data definitions. get the infographic: how to respond to data detractors 3.

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Catherine Cronin

MAY 12, 2023

This open access book, a collection of work by over 70 authors in 18 countries, offers ways of thinking, conceptualising and creating possibilities for (re)making higher education, focusing on futures that foreground inclusion, equity, social justice, care and sustainability. So, how did this belief translate into practice?

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EAB

AUGUST 8, 2023

Their discussion is focused primarily on the school’s use of fly-in programs and all-access weekends in which prospective students and their parents are invited (all expenses paid) to travel to the campus to explore, meet staff and students, and participate in fun group activities. So, with that is our All-Access Weekend Fly-in program.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

My team has worked with an increasing number of institutions that are seeking to re-center their student success strategies around a more holistic definition of the student experience. Read more: Recommendations on customizing your early alert system to close equity gaps and help more students graduate.

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Supporting Student Success

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Stress is more likely to be experienced as positive or performance enhancing when we have sufficient control over a situation, perceive a reasonable ability to overcome the stressor, and have access to positive psychosocial supports and safe environments. Mitigating Barriers.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Following up plans for educational access and equity with actions has become the hallmark of Grand Valley State University, which has a statewide presence in Michigan. Bernal, chief of staff to the president and vice president for inclusion and equity. After the death of George Floyd in 2020, Dr. Philomena V.

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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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EAB

JULY 11, 2023

And so today, I'm super excited to be joined by another advocate for college access, Dr. Brian Peterson from the University of Pennsylvania. The students today have so much more access, and it's not just because of the Internet. So, to answer your first question, I definitely agree that universities, campuses want to diversify.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 25, 2024

If you can convince people to do that, then convincing them that you don't need a law promoting equity for people of color is a very easy thing to do.” We must take some action in whatever capacity that we can to make sure that, despite affirmative action no longer being permitted, we still achieve equity.” Alvin Tillery, Jr.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 1, 2024

Day, the Centennial Conference announced its creation of a three-year strategic diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) plan, uniting the conference’s 11 private, Division III institutions in a shared mission to make their athletics programs a place where all students, particularly those in marginalized populations, feel they belong.

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Catherine Cronin

JANUARY 30, 2024

The book is an open-access collection of work by 70+ authors in 18 countries, edited by Laura Czerniewicz and me (further details about the book can be found here ). We are grateful to Equity Unbound for hosting the online launch, and also for their offer to host further webinars focused on specific chapters.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 27, 2025

is to embarrass elite institutions by calling out a few examples that, while definitely do need to be addressed, dont always tell the full picture. fact, DEI programs not only do not categorically create a hostile environment on the basis of race, they often have the opposite impact by serving as a remedial measure to discriminatory acts.

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