Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 4, 2025

The United Negro College Funds (UNCF) Institute for Capacity Building (ICB) is leveraging the power of networks, technology and innovation to help Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Predominantly Black Institutions (PBIs) achieve their missions. In 2015, UNCF received a $50 million grant from the Lilly Endowment Inc.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 20, 2023

Yet less than 12% of resident 18-to-24-year-old students enrolled in our public universities are Hispanic. About 60% of our state university students graduate within six years. Although these actions are helpful, they have not moved the needle toward closing access and success gaps. Structural change is needed.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Against this backdrop, colleges and universities are engaged in significant work to improve outcomes for their students – and to make them more equitable for under-represented students of color. Roueche Center for Community College Leadership, Department of Educational Leadership, College of Education, Kansas State University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2024

It launched a popular Farmer’s Market on campus last year, providing each student with $20 a week to access fresh foods and vegetables. Pathway to the presidency Growing up in Compton, there was no question that Curry, who was the youngest of his siblings, would go off to college. He did not want to return home without a degree.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 1, 2025

Since 2015, Stout has served as president and CEO of Achieving the Dream (ATD), a network of over 300 community colleges, with the goal of being accessible hubs of learning, credentialing and economic mobility that eliminate inequities in educational and workforce outcomes. Shes helping colleges implement evidence-based reforms.

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MAY 9, 2023

play an important role for students and communities, providing a quality education that prepares students for jobs or to transfer to four-year colleges and universities. These educational institutions and technical colleges offer affordable and accessible education, which is often tailored to meet the needs of the local job market.

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JUNE 13, 2024

As part of the State University of New York (SUNY), the country’s largest integrated public higher education system, SUNY Broome Community College is committed to giving everyone a chance at success. Proactive Advising Model Supports Guided Pathways Initiative Advising is often considered the most powerful tool to improve student outcomes.

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