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The Problem with Our College Ranking System

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Mary Dana Hinton Yet at about the same time, my institution, Hollins University, began the HOPE scholarship program. When Princeton announced its wonderful change in policy to support lower-income families, it made the front pages of three global newspapers and magazines and was reported in countless others.

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Medical Schools Embrace Efforts Post-Affirmative Action Decision

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Through intentional outreach to applicants, dedicated pathway programs, partnerships, curriculum, and programs specifically built to serve underserved populations, and a focus on regionality and socio-economic histories, UC Davis has become one of the most diverse medical school programs in the nation. What barriers have they overcome?

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Athletics and Academics

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Middle schoolers receive STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and math) curriculum and high school application guidance. “We Rising high school seniors spend the summer before senior year working on college applications with an eye toward at least one early application. We were not just a college access program.

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Dismantling the Academy

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

We are willing to tweak the application of these things, using the master’s tools, definitions, and proscribed outcomes but a real paradigm shift eludes us. As a sector, we must recognize that time is variable and provide alternate pathways for traditional and nontraditional learners. The students have excelled. ·

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Are We There Yet? Revising and Questioning Affirmative Action

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Hughes Because I claim antiracism scholarship and practice antiracism in every space where I am present, I am often questioned and challenged. If the applicants all happen to be white, well, that is the most qualified pool. Dr. Robin L. We often hear, “We can’t find any,” and “We are hiring the most qualified”.

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Dr. Dara N. Byrne: Leveraging Public Higher Education for the Common Good

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Less than 10% of applicants are accepted. Those New York residents who make it receive full-tuition scholarships or tuition waivers (for individuals from out of state). From its inception, Macaulay Honors College only accepted applications from high school seniors and has not accepted transfer students.

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Fourth-Year Grad Student Sets Sights on Collegiate Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“Those fellowships as well as Morgan and HBCUs more broadly have helped me to understand that my Blackness is a strength and I don’t have to put it on the backburner to pursue scholarship and knowledge development,” he said. “It There are practical applications for his doctoral studies.