Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 26, 2024

As an educator and university president, I have seen firsthand the ADA’s transformative impact on our higher education systems — and how far we still must go before higher education is truly accessible and inclusive of learners from all backgrounds. Lisa Marsh Ryerson The number of students with disabilities at U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 30, 2023

In fact, access to an executive coach is frequently a benefit included in the contract of many newly-hired executives. In both instances, aspects of my work entails executive coaching for both aspiring and newly appointed university CEOs. Availability.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 11, 2024

More than 180,000 learners reverse transferred from a four-year university to a two-year institution. colleges and universities as the basis for regional networks and study abroad programs, this model leverages existing capacity from other institutions to provide students with an expanded course catalog. Historically used by U.S.

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College Aid Consulting Services

JANUARY 5, 2024

Navigating Financial Aid at the 20 Most Searched Colleges and Universities. As a financial aid consultant, I’ve noticed a trend in the most searched colleges and universities—an indication of where students hope to invest their futures. University of Central Florida (UCF) UCF is one of the largest universities by enrollment.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 6, 2025

Historically Black Colleges and Universities play a critical role in student success. Many departments tried to schedule all of their courses during what we called prime time between 8 a.m. So we ordered each department to schedule no more than 60% of their in-person classes during prime time. What we found was eye-opening.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2024

The first cohort of fellows — whose projects ranged from a first-of-its-kind campus accessibility ranking to a digital zine examining the intersection of anti-Blackness, fatphobia, ableism , and incarceration — gathered at SFSU for a month-long workshop in July 2023. universities using data provided by around 250 surveyed students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Meanwhile, the American Association of University Professors’ annual faculty salary survey report shows a 0.6 As professors left, universities also implemented hiring freezes, so even those looking to enter the field were unable to find jobs, with faculty job openings at U.S. institutions down 70% from 2019 to 2020.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The number of academic credits a student takes per year has ties to their likelihood to graduate and complete their college journey, a new report from course scheduling company Ad Astra found. Siloes in the schedule build often lead to unintended barriers to student progression. It analyzed data about 1.3

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 18, 2024

In an effort to provide support for its student parents at all 23 of its campuses, the California State University (CSU) launched its first university-wide initiative focused on this demographic. She explained that parenting students often need flexibility with class schedules, childcare resources, and child-friendly spaces on campus.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 21, 2023

Every Saturday morning University of Miami freshman Anthony Davenport leaves his residence hall on the Coral Gables campus and gets on the Miami-Dade County Metrorail in route to the Brownsville neighborhood. The primary challenge with the coupling of computationally talented college students with K-12 schools is a logistical one.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 18, 2024

A college education gave Aracely Bahenat access to a career in health care that enabled her to provide a better life for her three sons and escape violent domestic abuse. Faculty and staff must work to center their schedules around the learner, not vice versa. Julie Peller is the executive director of Higher Learning Advocates.

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Student Minds

JANUARY 6, 2025

Was I going to be able to cope with university academics in another language? When I was not in Lyon, I studied at The University of Manchester, a city I grew to love and appreciate. Keeping similar routines and activities has allowed me to be more settled, even just having the same decorations as my last two rooms at university.

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Active Minds

DECEMBER 10, 2024

I attend Boston University, and I am studying Public health with concentrations in Epidemiology and Biostatistics along with mental health. It could also mean restructuring economic systems to ensure fairer wages and compensation, a healthier work schedule, and opportunities for everyone to succeed without the extreme concentration of wealth.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Throughout September, National Student Parent Month , we celebrated the accomplishments of student parents and the efforts of those colleges, universities, and organizations that faithfully serve. Strengthening opportunities for student parents to access high-value schools and degrees is a leading factor in their success.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Many of these students face economic hardships, insufficient access to mentorship, and a lack of preparatory resources, all of which contribute to their struggle in navigating the medical education landscape. During the spring semester of 2023, he maintained a rigorous study schedule, dedicating 2 to 3 hours each night to MCAT preparation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2023

College and university student enrollment is down for the third straight year, 7% lower than it was in 2019. Still others, influenced by dangerous myths, are reluctant to attend an open-access institution like a community college. The institutions are open-access, affordable, and conveniently located. Dr. George R. attend them.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

A brand-new video series that highlights the diverse experiences of Black boys and men in the science, technology, engineering and mathematic (STEM) fields, has launched under the direction of a prominent researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Brian A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

Meanwhile, “Making the Invisible Visible: Taking Stock of How the California State University Collects and Uses Data About Parenting Students” details the need for more data to develop more comprehensive and effective means of serving this population.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

according to a University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UTSW) study. Dr. Ethan Sanford The study’s findings, published in the “ Journal of Pediatric Surgery ,” may indicate inequities in access to surgical care, but causes for the gap are not identified nor listed.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 24, 2023

Rutgers University's plan to merge New Jersey’s two largest public medical schools, New Jersey Medical School and Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, has proven controversial, NorthJersey.com reported. 21 vote of lost confidence in Rutgers President Dr. Jonathan Holloway by the University Senate. A merger would take five years.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 30, 2023

The University of Michigan’s Graduate Employees' Organization (GEO) began striking Mar. The next bargaining session is scheduled for Friday, and the university remains ready to meet at any time." 29 following five months of negotiations, The Detroit News reported.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 24, 2024

Speakers addressed evidence-based practices, collaboration, access, and advising. He went to the dean of the College of Education at Central Connecticut State University and said, “I need help, or I’m out.” His story illustrated the need for comprehensive advising with an essential focus on access.

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Civitas Learning

MAY 7, 2025

A lot can stand in the way of a students decision to enroll for the next termfrom a required course not being offered to scheduling conflicts with work. But sometimes, the root issue is closer to home students cant access the courses they need to stay on track to progress toward their degree.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The FAFSA Simplification Act, scheduled to go into effect this year, will cut the number of questions on the notoriously difficult application for federal aid—which is also used in calculations for state and institutional awards—from 108 to 36 for most students. But now, one school is taking matters into its own hands. Dr. Gregory S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas, partners with over 62 high schools across the state, facilitating college access for Latino, rural, and other marginalized communities. A data literacy workshop series offered each semester helps to foster a data-driven decision-making culture across the university.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Departments of Justice and Education offered guidance and clarification to the public about what colleges and universities are now permitted to do as they interact with various individuals and groups. Harvey serves as Distinguished Scholar at the American Association for Access, Equity and Diversity in Washington, DC. Dr. William B.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Alexander is very accessible, very approachable for students,” says Dr. Claudia Salcedo, who adds that administrators can sometimes be perceived as separate from the students they serve. Salcedo is the director of the Center for Community College Partnerships at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Then, you see the successes.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2023

The University of Southern California Chan Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy trumpets its dedication to diversity on its website. The university must respect its employees’ privacy rights and therefore cannot discuss individual personnel matters,” the university said in a statement.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 24, 2023

Low-energy availability (LEA) and high blood pressure (HBP) in Black athletes may be related, according to findings from a recent study from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (N.C. Athletes are faced with several barriers to eating well, including limited schedules and insufficient nutritional knowledge, Purdom said.

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Active Minds

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Creighton University is recognized as Chapter of the Month for outstanding advocacy work promoting mental health accessibility and awareness on campus. Creighton University’s dedication to breaking down barriers and making mental health care easier to access is aspirational. Authored by Active Minds.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The interviewees were successful comebackers from California State University, Sacramento State and the Shasta-Tehama-Trinity Joint Community College District. Online courses and programs were both praised by comebackers and suggested by the report’s authors for the flexibility in scheduling that they provide.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 10, 2023

Now, a new study from the Community College Research Center at Columbia University has shown that summer Pell has had meaningful benefits, improving retention, attainment, and even earnings up to nine years after college entry for students who received it. Liu found clear advantages for the students who got summer money.

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Civitas Learning

JUNE 1, 2023

Northwest Missouri State University (Northwest), a regional public university with 8,500 students, is committed to ensuring the success of “every student, every day.” Faculty and staff needed ways to easily communicate and access student data in one place so they had the shared context they needed to meaningfully help students.

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Civitas Learning

APRIL 4, 2024

The Challenge: Facing declining retention and cumbersome scheduling, JAX State needed to address barriers to enrollment. The Outcomes: By simplifying the scheduling and registration experience, JAX State is achieving better student outcomes and improving interactions between students and staff.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

Mike Rose, University of California, Los Angeles The course of Carlos Galan’s academic career was changed by a single question from a high school student. A Latino student researching a university department observed that hardly any of the faculty had backgrounds similar to his own. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The needs of the community surrounding Alabama A&M University (AAMU) , an HBCU, were quite different. Schedules are designed to fit working students’ needs, with options for evening, hybrid, and online, synchronous and a synchronous. And thanks to a grant from Sound Transit, tuition, normally $5,000, is waived.

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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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