Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 31, 2025

College and university administrators should be strategic about how they respond to government attempts to root out diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives (DEI) on campus. Heath urged program administrators to study the legislative efforts to curtail DEI on campus before they make any changes. Now its just The Center.

Mathematics

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 19, 2025

The report, Equity and Emergency: COVID-19 Relief Funding at Historically and Predominantly Black Community Colleges in the South, examines how 39 institutions across 10 Southern states utilized Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund (HEERF) allocations during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Community college

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 5, 2025

In a climate where DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) is being vilified, this year's panels didn't hold back. Say the words :Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. The administration's weaponization of the acronym has become a strategic assault to reassert white supremacy, particularly that of white male dominance.

Literacy

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 24, 2025

A federal judge in New Hampshire delivered a significant legal victory Thursday for proponents of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs in education by granting a preliminary injunction against the U.S.

Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 21, 2025

Grant Foundation, offers valuable insights for educational policymakers, school administrators, and communities working to create more equitable and inclusive educational systems in increasingly diverse American cities. Experts say that the study, funded by the William T.

Compliance

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2025

With the reinstatement of Pell Grant eligibility for incarcerated students in July 2023, approximately 760,000 incarcerated people can have college dreams. Perkins , assistant Vice President of Student Empowerment and Equity Initiative at CCP, we must remember We have always been the change we seek.

Humanities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2025

Gretchen Whitmer's administration in partnership with the Michigan College Access Network (MCAN), drew more than 21,000 entries from students who completed their Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) for the first time. The initiative, launched by Gov. For many recipients, the awards represent transformative opportunities.

FAFSA

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2025

Johnson has more than 30 years of higher education experience as a faculty member, researcher and administrator. Johnson is deeply involved with a number of national organizations, including Complete College America, the Coalition of Urban Serving Universities, and the Association of Public and Land Grant Universities.

University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2025

With over 25 years of administrative, research, and teaching experience in various higher education settings, Vega transitioned to academia as a faculty member and has significantly contributed to the Master of Arts in Higher Education program at Montclair State University since 2017. Vega earned her Ed.D.

University

School & Student Services by Community Brands

JANUARY 31, 2025

This partnership introduces groundbreaking efficiencies that promise to benefit schools, families, and administrators alike. Enhanced Accuracy and Efficiency Traditionally, the financial aid process involves extensive paperwork, manual uploads of tax documents, and repeated follow-ups between families and school administrators.

Financial aid

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 13, 2025

In what legal experts are calling a landmark case for academic freedom, Harvard faculty and the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) have filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, alleging unconstitutional attempts to control campus speech and governance through threatened funding cuts.

Administration

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Fostering a deeper understanding of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives at U.S. Diversity, equity and inclusion policies and programs aim to right the past and present wrongs of America. Those actions could strip schools of federal grant funding if their accreditation is removed under such a process.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 15, 2025

As APAHE board president, Tomaneng is considering forming a national network for AAPI and Desi provosts and senior administrators to provide them executive coaching as reminders that presidencies not their current roles can be career mountaintops. Suzuki was the first Asian American to lead a major U.S.

Instruction

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 15, 2025

As a federal agency, ED has had a long-standing role in advancing racial equity in education, added Dr. Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy, the former dean of the College of Education at American University and the recently named CEO and president of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. Lynn warned that the U.S.

Education

School & Student Services by Community Brands

MAY 2, 2025

If passed, the ECCA would allow individuals and businesses to receive tax credits for donations to scholarship-granting organizations, making private education more accessible to families across all 50 states. Traditional document collection can delay awards and create administrative burdens for families.

Financial aid

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2025

It describes its approach as equity-driven, data-centered and student-focused. Unfortunately, this administration does not share that belief. former Secretary of Education under the Obama administration and the current Chancellor of the State University of New York. Currently, about 6.6 Dr. John B.

Education

COE

MAY 2, 2025

The Trump Administration’s budget proposal claims that access to college is not the obstacle it was for students of limited means. TRIO is the insurance policy for the Pell Grant, said Maureen Hoyler, COE Senior Advisor and past president. However, data from the U.S.

Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 10, 2025

Universities that once hashtagged #Equity during the height of Black Lives Matter are dismantling the very safeguards they pledged to build. Land-grant parity lags, too; 1890 campuses wait months for matching funds federal law says should arrive automatically. Center women’s labor here. But at what cost? Fast-forward to 2025.

Advising

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 11, 2025

Compton College President Dr. Keith Curry is calling on California's top state leaders to include funding for a Black-Serving Institutions grant program in the state budget after legislation establishing the program stalled in the legislature due to fiscal constraints.

Grant

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 13, 2025

All three of these initiatives the refugee course, the ARISE program and the multilingual writing center are funded through federal grants for schools designated as an Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institution or AANAPISI. The department administers grants for AANAPISIs and MSIs. San Antonio College.

Tutoring

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 9, 2024

As the year winds down, undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, staff and administration are left to wonder what comes next in higher education. Several states have already dismantled diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programming, and other states anticipate something similar coming their way.

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 8, 2025

But, while it should be shocking that the federal government – one that has been repeatedly talking about the return of education to the states – is interfering with the administration of a public university, it should have been expected if you were paying attention. Amanda Fuchs Miller Why is that?

University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 28, 2025

The White House's sudden pause on federal grants and loans is drawing sharp criticism from education leaders, union officials and Democratic lawmakers, as President Donald J. Trump's administration begins an across-the-board ideological review of its spending. Trump President Donald J. The pause, which took effect Tuesday at 5 p.m.

Grant

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 18, 2025

The largest share of ED employees work in the federal student aid office, making any disruption potentially catastrophic for institutions that rely on revenue from student charges provided by federal student loans and Pell Grants.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2025

District Court for the District of Maryland has granted a preliminary nationwide injunction on parts of two executive orders issued by President Donald J. Trump that sought to end diversity, equity and inclusion policies and programs among federal government grantees and contractors, which includes most colleges and universities.

University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Trump's executive orders targeting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs, delivering a significant blow to the administrations efforts to curtail such initiatives in federal contracting and higher education.

Inclusion

COE

JUNE 3, 2025

The Trump Administrations claim that access is no longer an obstacle for low-income students is flatly contradicted by data and by the lived experience of more than 6 million TRIO alumni. More Than 10,000 TRIO Alumni Urge Congress to Protect Federal TRIO Programs June 3, 2025 by Terrance L.

First generation

COE

JUNE 11, 2025

Targeting TRIO for complete elimination in its most recent budget proposal to Congress, the Trump Administration wrongly claimed that “access to college is no longer the barrier it once was for low-income students.” She served as White House Deputy Director of Hispanic Media in the Obama Administration.

First generation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 27, 2025

The Biden Administration undertook, with dedication and persistence, the hard work to ensure students and campus communities were safe. Department of Education in the Biden-Harris Administration from 2023 to 2024. This is in strong contrast to what we saw from our federal agencies during the period post October 7 th.

Student success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 24, 2025

In a significant policy shift affecting higher education in Virginia, the state's 23 community colleges must now ensure all programs and practices comply with new federal regulations that effectively terminate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives across these institutions.

Community college

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 16, 2025

The report also examined salary equity by gender, finding persistent disparities. The gender salary-equity ratio was lowest (87.2) The report highlighted the growing compensation gap between administrators and faculty. By institutional control, nominal average salaries for full-time faculty members increased 3.9 in fall 2024.

Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

During last Thursday's hearing before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP), McMahon addressed concerns about the administration's stance on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs in educational institutions. When pressed by Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.)

Financial aid

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 20, 2025

This step would further harm institutions of higher education and negatively impact diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, threatening access to education for historically underserved students and communities," said Paulette Granberry Russell, President and CEO of NADOHE. Welch, AASCU President.

Administration

COE

JULY 8, 2025

Collins says she helped secure Upward Bound funding for Maine Massachusetts: Trump cuts would devastate community colleges, undermining lower-income students striving to better their lives Massachusetts: Programs to support N.H.s

First generation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 7, 2025

The administration's criticism focused on Hayden's diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives and her efforts to make the library's collections more representative of America's diverse communities. Hayden's nearly five-decade career in library science has been marked by efforts to democratize access to information.

Humanities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 11, 2025

The department said it is rescinding a 1997 "Dear Colleague Letter" from the Clinton administration that allowed undocumented immigrants to receive federal aid for career, technical, and adult education programs. The interpretive rule, published in the Federal Register, clarifies that federal programs under the Carl D.

Adult education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 17, 2025

As a former college professor and university administrator, I take these attacks both personally and seriously. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) followed suit by suing the Department of Energy for cuts to federal research grants. The litany of assaults grow by the day. Columbia University is revisiting its initial response.

Low income student