Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 20, 2025

America is undergoing a calculated retreat in federal education policy. Despite ongoing disinvestment, educators remain steadfast in their battlenot only for schools but also for students, families, and the conviction that education fuels a just society. Yet, amid these challenges lies a transformative opportunity.

Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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.

Low income student

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 4, 2025

billion is a staggering amount of public investment thats what states collectively spent in just one year on state-funded preschool, according to the latest report from the National Institute for Early Education Research. Removing Barriers, Supporting the Whole Educator ECIC is not a traditional top-down initiative.

Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 2, 2025

Though its current budget represents just one hundredths of one percent of the federal budget, the organizations argue that the agency has an outsized public impact through supporting education, research, and cultural programs nationwide. The lawsuit comes at a critical time for humanities funding in the United States.

Humanities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 30, 2025

She will lead IHEP’s research directors and analysts while stewarding a research portfolio aimed at identifying strategies that work to improve college access, completion, and value for all students. Before joining IHEP, Velez served as Director of Education Research at RTI International.

Educational research

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2025

Berger is an award-winning scholar and social justice educator who is making higher education more accessible to underrepresented students. She is an associate professor of history and art history and director of African and African American Studies at George Mason University.

University

IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

JUNE 23, 2025

Federal lawmakers have long recognized robust postsecondary data as a cornerstone of evidence-based higher education policymaking. Unfortunately, the Trump Administration’s FY2026 budget request threatens to harm the integrity of our education research and data system.

Educational research

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 11, 2025

Curry highlighted ongoing challenges facing Black students in higher education, noting that "Black students in the Compton Community College District service area—and across California—continue to be underrepresented in higher education."

Grant

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2025

Her research focuses on the way that education policy affects and shapes the access and success of minoritized students in higher education. She primarily investigates student financial aid/finance, admissions policies, and policies that influence the ability to create an inclusive & equitable campus climate.

Student financial aid

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 12, 2023

Under the University of Vermont’s (UVM) new open-access academic press, authors and readers will not have to pay fees to publish or access published materials. Entwined in UVM Press’s diamond open-access model is a sentiment of shared responsibilities and a commitment not to profit, according to its website.

Access

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 3, 2024

Supreme Court’s decision to strike-down of Affirmative Action last year, it was important to examine how much access Black and Latino students have to these elite schools, said report author Sandra Perez, a higher education research analyst for Ed Trust. “We Stanford University also got an F, with an access score of 53.

Access

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

“We see how introductory courses like Calculus play a unique role as a gateway or barrier for racially minoritized students in terms of access to STEM majors and careers,” he says. “We Ford envisions him having an impact on recruitment and retention. He’s bringing innovative approaches.

Mathematics

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 7, 2024

In this new role, he is expected to guide policy research at the assessment organization with the goal of advancing equitable access to quality education and fair assessment for learners. The chair is named after Gordon, a prominent psychologist and education researcher. Dr. Odis Johnson Jr.

Mentoring

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 20, 2022

-based Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP), one of the nation’s premiere education research and policy centers, Dr. Michelle Asha Cooper has a vision. Since taking the helm of IHEP in 2008, Cooper’s been out front influencing national education policy.

Educational research

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

In the wake of the COVID pandemic, where so many researchers pivoted to Zoom to share their scholarship during webinars, Burt thought that he needed to create a new way to make his research more accessible to others outside of the academy.

Inclusion

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2024

“The school’s mission-vision aligns with my work as a scholar and leader, and I believe the school is poised to reach new heights in the areas of K-12 and higher education, human development, exercise, health, and wellness.” in educational organization and leadership from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Over 270 sessions were offered at the conference, including a keynote address by Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings, one of the world's most prolific educational researchers. During the COVID pandemic, a number of Black children were only able to access the internet through their smart phones. That is why we're here today," he said.

Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

Means Title: Assistant Professor, School of Education, University of Pittsburgh Age: 39 Education: B.A., counselor education (student affairs), Clemson University; and Ph.D., My interests in higher education are focused on access,” Means said. “I sociology and political science, Elon University; M.Ed.,

Mentoring

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

To frame it any other way dismisses both the historical and contemporary contexts and centrality of race and racism in decisions to remove these specific students from the general education system, forcing them into a system that suppresses their opportunities and contributes to miseducation. Educational Researcher , 44 , 278–292.

Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 25, 2023

Experts on American perceptions of higher education said that the polls collectively reveal that American views are nuanced. Zach Hrynowski, an education research consultant at Gallup, thought that Americans were differentiating between higher education itself and the systems that organize it.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

It goes back to the support that they have,” said Dr. Erin Dunlop Velez, director of educational research at RTI International and one of the report’s authors. “If you look at Black students who get STEM PhDs, so many of them start at HBCUs. The differential persists in graduate schools. Velez said.

Mathematics

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

From the very beginning, we thought the notion, the concept, the feeling about creating ethnic studies centers at that point in time would be a good thing for education, research, and teaching,” said Morgan Chu. And over the years, we saw that it was a very good thing. “It

Scholarship

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Organizational exemplars who have been selected by their peers to lead national scholarly organizations include such esteemed figures as Aldon Morris from the American Sociological Association, Gloria Ladson-Billings from the American Education Research Association, and Caroline Turner from the Association for the Study of Higher Education.

Application

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Since their creation, tests have disproportionately hindered access to gifted and talented education (GATE), AP, college acceptance (particularly to elite higher education institutions), scholarships, and so on. Career and Technical Education Research, 43 (1), 77-98. Warren, N., & & Hernandez-Gantes, V.M.

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

The goal was to bring new and exciting events and speakers that were accessible to students and to build awareness and provide some educational and engaging programming and resources that would offer a sense of community and belonging to our students,” says Roth.

Mathematics

IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

JUNE 12, 2025

The National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS)—administered by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES)—is one of the only nationally representative datasets that offers a comprehensive view of students’ college access, progress, degree completion, and employment outcomes. Many other education researchers have done the same.

Financial aid

EAB

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Press Release PowerSchool and EAB Partner to Simplify College Admissions and Expand College Access for Millions of Students Users of the Naviance platform will now have easier access to offers of college admission and financial aid via EAB’s Concourse technology September 12, 2023 FOLSOM, CALIF.

Access

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 27, 2022

It reminded me of that feel, touch, and access that land-grant schools provide and that it’s a pride point for Michigan State. They carry out their work where access is a priority, but excellence on the back end is also a priority.” “It said to me that hard work was in the DNA of the institution,” says Jackson. “It

Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

American Educational Research Association, American Psychological Association, & N ational Council on Measurement in Education ; Association of School Psychologists; Association of School Counselors; Council for Exceptional Children; National Association for Gifted Children)?

Placement

EAB

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Please access the survey here. This is a nationwide survey administered by EAB, an educational research organization that partners with hundreds of school districts across the country. The survey will close Tuesday, November 1 st.

Students

EAB

JANUARY 18, 2023

EAB among firms named to the 2023 GSV EdTech150, chosen from over 4,000 education technology companies. EAB is also known for its data and analytics solution, Edify , created specifically for higher education. These capabilities help more students—especially underserved students—enroll and succeed in higher education.

Student success

The University Innovation Alliance

MARCH 15, 2023

Chancellor Reyes stressed the importance of understanding just how much work a top leadership position can be: "The more we provide people access to what this lifestyle is, what this job entails, the more you will be having people that can come in completely knowing this is and wanting to immerse themselves and give themselves to it.

Leadership

Catherine Cronin

APRIL 14, 2022

Although I now work independently in open education research and policy, my work between 2019 and 2021 related to practice and policy in the Irish HE sector, as Digital and Open Education lead for Ireland’s National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education.

Education

The LTC Blog

AUGUST 27, 2017

Consider including syllabus statements from relevant Carleton offices and take a look at Tulane’s accessible syllabus website. The syllabus should make proper use of the pronouns “I”, “you”, and “we” to appropriately signal what the students should do (“you”), what the instructor will do (“I”), and what will be communal (“we”).

Teaching

EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

There may be some costs to locating this responsibility in an AVP—one is that the role would sit squarely in the administration, which many faculty see as separated from their work as educators/researchers. A sense that there is a gulf between admin and the faculty can prevail on campuses, and would need some attention in this model.

Curriculum

EAB

AUGUST 7, 2023

Professional and Adult Education Adult learners are a unique audience whether they are served through traditional graduate programs, non-credit offerings, degree completion programs, or short-format credentials across on-campus, online, and hybrid modalities. But the administrative infrastructure of a campus has an equally key role to play.

Mental health

Supporting Student Success

APRIL 1, 2021

Higher education leaders, faculty and staff members, college counselors, and college access advocates met virtually to discuss obstacles and opportunities to support rural students’ success. Geography of college opportunity: The case of education deserts. American Educational Research Journal , 53 (4), 987-1021.

Higher education