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MAY 2, 2023

In an attempt to break this cycle, the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) is releasing a new report investigating employers’ understanding—or lack thereof— of equity in recruitment and offering ideas for how companies and Black colleges and universities can create mutually beneficial ties. Dr. Joshua D.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2024

In addition to support services that include financial aid and academic advising, an example of supporting Latinx student success is the CSUSB Impact Internship, developed by the university’s Undocumented Student Success Center. We aim to eliminate equity gaps and continue to transform our institution into a Hispanic-graduating institution.”

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JUNE 10, 2024

Through campus partnerships, support programs, and academic interventions, she has led advances in student retention, persistence and graduation with the goal of eliminating equity gaps for our most vulnerable students. She holds a bachelor’s degree, a master’s, and a Ph.D.

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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

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

As his reputation grew, Williams was recruited by Northwestern University, where he served as assistant dean of diversity and inclusion between 2017 and 2021, and then until 2022 as the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion lead of Northwestern’s Public Health Program. We’re in a nuanced landscape right now.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Overall, learners who engaged with academic advising services have experienced an 8.1 The methods we have put in place to address the needs of special populations of students are now being scaled in ways that have a positive impact across campus. percentage point lift in persistence.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2024

Hollingsworth – who has also taught and advised students at Johns Hopkins University – anticipates that she’ll graduate next May. I’m specifically looking at it though from a racialized equity labor lens, stating that Black and Brown students are exerting energy based on race, based on the negligence of the university,” she says.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 12, 2024

Black student-athletes should reconsider attending public colleges and universities in Florida , the NAACP advised in its letter to NCAA President Charlie Baker and current and prospective student-athletes. This is not about politics,” read the letter, characterized as a rebuke of anti-Black ideals. In 2023, Florida Gov.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

For colleges and universities to close these equity gaps, they must address the core of the student experience: the time that students spend in the classroom. Recognizing the key role of faculty in this work, we established the Equity Champions (EC) , a faculty community of practice intentionally designed to build relationships.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

MAY 1, 2024

“It wasn’t always easy to know where to go if I needed advice on what classes to take, what to declare for my major, how to get financial aid,” Cardona shared in a keynote at last week’s Attaining College Excellence and Equity Summit. Not knowing where to find guidance is a common challenge faced by many of today’s college students.

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DECEMBER 12, 2024

We also partnered with the Department of Education for the Attaining College Excellence and Equity Advising Summit. We will continue partnering with students and field experts to identify and uplift promising strategies for improving student success.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 30, 2023

Jennifer Hamer Jennifer Hamer has been named special adviser to the president of Pennsylvania State University for institutional equity. Hamer earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology from the University of Texas at San Antonio, a master’s in sociology from Texas A&M University, and a Ph.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Al Sharpton Together, they have established the national Healthy Equity in Transplantation Coalition, with Al B! serving as executive chairman and Sharpton as senior adviser. , champion of the organ transplant patient community, are partnering to restore Medicare coverage for tests to detect early signs of organ rejection.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 10, 2023

Education leaders and researchers discussed the vast disparities in the number of educators of color and potential ways to help recruit them during a panel of the Southern Education Foundation (SEF) Equity Assistance Center-South’s (EAC-South) Educational Equity Indicators Professional Learning Series. More than 50% of students in U.S.

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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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AUGUST 23, 2023

Florida's higher education law bans the state's public colleges and universities from spending federal and state money on diversity, equity, and inclusion programs or campus activities that advocate for DEI, with certain exceptions. Tallahassee Community College.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

“As we pursue the goals set forth in the plan, we are thrilled by the opportunity to sustain and build on IDHE’s outstanding efforts to inform and shift college and university priorities, practices, and culture to strengthen democracy and advance social and political equity.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Health equity is something MSM leaders, faculty members, and students work toward every day. That’s why Montgomery Rice and other experts are excited about the $2 million donation they received in September from the Croel Family Foundation for the development of the David Satcher Global Health Equity Institute at MSM.

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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. She speaks about the Kentucky Advising Academy, which has worked to build capacity around K-12 advising for college and career readiness.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 7, 2023

Regardless of the mentor’s profession, what was obvious was that the participants had someone coaching, advising, or guiding them and networking on their behalf. Research revealed that all but one of these award-winning colleges had a board-influenced diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) mandate. These recommendations include: 1.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Dr. Joy Gaston Gayles Gayles is currently an Alumni Distinguished Graduate Professor of Higher Education and senior adviser for advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the College of Education. She was the 2022 President of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE).

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OCTOBER 1, 2023

California State University offers programs such as Chico’s Gradu- ate Equity Fellowship Program to help students explore whether to pursue a doctorate degree. The mission of the Grad Equity Fellowship Program is to provide to students an opportunity to explore the possibility of going on to a Ph.D. The program offers a B.A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

In the early aughts, Renick says, it was standard practice for student support programs to address equity gaps and low graduation or retention numbers through the creation of targeted programs, like initiatives for first-generation students, and African American male initiatives. NISS has raised graduation rates by an average of 4.5

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 8, 2024

What we need to do is make a funding model that’s based on an attainment goal, work it backwards with equity at the heart so that we can actually have these colleges act as the engines of social mobility that they’re supposed to be.” If they are having trouble, get them to the right tutor. Or get them the basic needs support they need.”

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EAB

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Blogs Looking to the future of advising: 6 takeaways from the 2023 NACADA conference The academic advising profession faces shrinking budgets, expanding student and administration expectations, and increasing turnover—all of which make it harder for institutions to think strategically about advising structure and staffing to support student success.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 11, 2024

She says she often asks herself: “How do we create equity and justice in these spaces that I occupy, where I know first-hand that equity and justice are absent?” From that sense of urgency, Vassar created CBCE to allow educators to learn from and support each other to advance equity and justice for Black children.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2024

Thus, our recommendation that the CSU system abandons the romantic illusion of Black equity in the system was further reinforced by the those who participated in our listening and focus group sessions.” It advises that implementation and measurement of its proposed strategies be continuous and reassessed by 2025.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Rochester was looking to hire faculty whose work focused on diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice. Because several minoritized professors are being hired at once, they are less likely to be tokenized and burdened with extra diversity, equity, and inclusion work. I would advise them to do it cautiously.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 11, 2024

It is therefore time to connect the dots among efforts to dismantle diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) activities, overturn race-conscious admissions, and bring back standardized tests. By being proactive with admissions, recruitment, and advising, however, we can reduce this risk. Humans are no different.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Dr. DeLeon Gray Gray is an associate professor of educational psychology and equity at North Carolina State University. His friend advised him to show people what “Black and belonging” looked like. “When I went to other spaces and started thinking about my work, community engagement just seemed so natural to me.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 21, 2023

In its brief, California Competes advises: “The C2C team should consider making data available in a variety of formats and the appropriate descriptive contexts so that, no matter their familiarity with the data, various users can easily glean the pertinent information they need and accomplish their respective goals.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 1, 2023

“We saw evidence that relationships were critical to fill in that missing variable to the completion and economic advancement equation,” said Michael Collins, JFF vice president and leader of JFF’s Center for Racial Economic Equity. “We The report also notes requiring ongoing career advisement and formalizing the mentorship experience.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

It’s one of the reasons I’m so sad with the attacks on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in southern states, because they are diversifying fast and DEI is a practical response to making sure you have a work environment that’s collaborative and successful for all the members of the campus, and that includes your students.” asks Delgado.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 30, 2023

The presentation was moderated by Caroline Laguerre-Brown, vice provost for diversity, equity and community engagement at George Washington University. In July, SFFA sent a letter to 150 colleges and universities saying that race-based scholarships were illegal and advising institutions against keeping them.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 27, 2024

Dr. Amaris Matos, assistant vice president for equity, inclusion, and belonging at Queensborough Community College (QCC, part of City University of New York), said the data in the report align with what the college is seeing. Another is integrating career advisement, especially within the first year. “If

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 2, 2023

Also, ensuring that there’s equity in the experiences of our students. This involves foundations with equity missions similar to those of the colleges. Johnson said the college’s current innovative path increases focus on equity and social justice, which includes also serving people ages 16 to 24 who are not in school or at work.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Over one - third of institutions accelerated efforts to expand virtual exchange programs, and one -t hird used technology to support students studying abroad with services like virtual advising. In terms of student mobility, there wasn’t much equity to start with,” said Dr. Philip G.

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