Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Winnifred Brown-Glaude is professor of African American studies and sociology and anthropology at The College of New Jersey. Brown-Glaude is the former chair of the Department of African American Studies, where she spearheaded the development of its major. She researches race, gender, and informal economies in the Anglophone Caribbean.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 30, 2024

Education Northwest, an Oregon-based nonprofit organization promoting education for all, unveiled the results on Tuesday of a first-of-its kind, nine-year study of the partnership between Tacoma Community College (TCC) and the Tacoma Housing Authority (THA), called the College Housing Assistance Program (CHAP).

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DECEMBER 5, 2018

Holding a HS College Admissions Case Study. Watch our 2nd Annual Case Study Download My College SWAG Letter Template. College Admissions Case Study 101: 2018 was the third year that my school hosted our annual College Admissions Case Study event and it was a huge hit for the third year running.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 24, 2024

As director of the LGBTQI+ Rights Clinic, she will oversee its success and sustainability and will be responsible for the types of cases and projects the clinic selects. She holds a bachelor’s degree in biology and gender studies from Indiana University and a law degree from The University of Chicago Law School.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The study was conducted by Lidia Altamura, Cristina Vargas, and Ladislao Salmerón, all at the University of Valencia. “In In sum, for developing readers, leisure digital reading does not seem to pay off in terms of reading comprehension, at least not as much as traditional print reading does,” said study co-author Lidia Altamura, a Ph.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Fairfield University's Marion Peckham Egan School of Nursing and Health Studies has received a $2.59 The DNP and MSN programs in Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner studies (PMHNP) prepare nurses to assess, diagnose, and treat acute and chronic psychiatric disorders in children, adolescents, adults, and the elderly.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 5, 2024

Age is not a factor that is often prioritized when it comes to DEI efforts, according to a new study from Washington University in St. According to the study, age was acknowledged as a factor in the DEI landscape, but it is often not a topic that is given attention. Rather, it is often times accepted, according to the study.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 8, 2023

Aultman has been appointed dean of the College of Graduate Studies for Northeast Ohio Medical University in Rootstown, Ohio. Aultman earned a master’s degree in bioethics from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland and a Ph.D. Aultman Julie M. in medical ethics and cognitive science from Michigan State University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 6, 2024

If a marvelous course in East African development wins you over, you can select Swahili over French, or study both. Find your people Establishing and participating in a solid study group can help students achieve several of their college goals at once, including academic, communication, leadership, and social goals.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The study was conducted by Lidia Altamura, Cristina Vargas, and Ladislao Salmerón, all at the University of Valencia. “In In sum, for developing readers, leisure digital reading does not seem to pay off in terms of reading comprehension, at least not as much as traditional print reading does,” said study co-author Lidia Altamura, a Ph.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 25, 2024

This newest study focuses on the enrollment data available for the community college cohort entering in 2015, which allowed for six years to complete their journey toward a bachelor’s degree. Often, our community colleges support students in a case-study model, in a social work context," said González.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

This study, for us, was about seeking to understand the scale of the gender and race issues we face as a field and to document the disparities we see as baseline data to help track our progress towards more equitable work environments over time.” In this case, the split had everything to do with sample size.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The racial wealth gap can be downright physically harmful for Black Americans, according to a recent study in JAMA Network Open. And eliminating that wealth gap – caused by the legacy of slavery and subsequent discriminatory policies and practices – with reparations will help close racial inequities in health and longevity, the study found.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 4, 2023

The goal of the project is to create research and teaching materials: case studies, recorded lectures, and oral histories. NC A&T was the home of the Greensboro Four, and PVAMU was involved in the only 26th Amendment case that went before the U.S. and the role of college communities in fighting for voting rights.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 3, 2023

Ben Vinson III Vinson – a historian of the African diaspora in Latin America – is currently provost at Case Western Reserve University. Vinson holds a bachelor’s degree in history and classical studies from Dartmouth College and a doctorate in history from Columbia University. In 2002, Diverse named Vinson an Emerging Scholar.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 2, 2024

In that case, your institution is spending critical tuition, fees, donor funds, and potential public taxpayer dollars on plans and initiatives not rooted in current environmental scans and data. The study also found that 8% of undergraduates and 5% of graduate students are experiencing homelessness, accounting for more than 1.5

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 2, 2023

A new study finds that anti-LGBTQ+ policies are linked to depression in Black and Latinx youth in the United States. state-level measure of anti-LGBTQ+ structural stigma, said Jackson. Last year, 16 percent of Latinx LGBTQ youth attempted suicide as well as 19 percent of Black youth in comparison to the 12 percent of white youth.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 22, 2023

Recent incidents of harassment within higher education, such as the case of Kylah Spring, who was subjected to racial slurs and aggression by her white peers, highlight the fact that Black women in education face multiple intersecting forms of oppression. This study serves as a call to action. Dr. Janelle L.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2024

The guide also includes real-world case studies from Austin Community College, Loyola University of New Orleans, and California State University Bakersfield, which have worked to scale successful on-campus coaching programs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 25, 2024

Though graduate-level microcredentials are often perceived and talked about as alternatives to master’s degrees, findings indicate that that is commonly not the case, said report co-author Dr. Matthew Linton, senior manager for programs and publications at CGS. There are things called embedded and partially embedded graduate certificates.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 30, 2024

At The University of Rhode Island’s (URI) Department of Fisheries, Animal and Veterinary Sciences, much of Treviño Peña’s scholarship involves listening to and studying people. So, in general, I just like to study how different aspects of people’s identities impact their ability to navigate nature.” Melva Treviño Peña’s work.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 25, 2023

Ricardo (Rick) Torres The site – financially supported by the Cognizant Foundation – includes case studies and data that provide a starting point for understanding current equity gaps, identifying recent trends, and analyzing enrollment , persistence , and completion. “As

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 22, 2024

architecture and visual studies, University of Pennsylvania; and M.A., When it comes to the study of architecture, often the subject is presented through a Eurocentric lens. Title: Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, College of Engineering and Architecture, Howard University Tenured: No Age: 39 Education: B.A.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2024

Internships, career preparation and networking are also important – included in the report are a series of case studies of higher ed institutions who have taken steps towards preparing their English majors. This is urgently needed in English and across the humanities.”

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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. More than half (14 of 23) of the athletes were found to have LEA, according to the study. Marc Cook , associate director for N.C.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 2, 2023

At least 100 students marched for almost two hours at Loyola University in New Orleans last week to protest the firing of the director of its African and African American Studies program, NBC News reported. He is the English department’s only Black professor and the sole faculty member of the Black studies program. “He

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 10, 2024

The study assesses football teams at 82 Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) institutions. NCAA statistics were used for this study. Dr. Adrien Bouchet Dr. Adrien Bouchet, the director of TIDES and primary author of the study, said it is important to keep a focus on academics while the on the field product keeps getting more commercialized.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

APRIL 23, 2024

The webinar , “State Lessons for Implementing Evidence-Based Postsecondary Success Programs,” explored two recent case studies about data and evidence-based programs that are helping more students complete college.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

That’s according to the latest report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, a nonprofit studying data from a majority of postsecondary institutions in the U.S. Eighty-two percent of liberal arts and sciences, humanities and general studies majors changed their majors upon transfer. In fall of 2023, 5.3%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2024

"My mom immigrated to this country with nothing more than five dollars in her pocket and an eighth-grade reading level,” said Taifha Alexander, CRT Forward project director at UCLA School of Law’s Critical Race Studies program. “My My sisters and I joke that, somehow, she has an M.B.A., I will pass the torch to you.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 11, 2024

Dr. Kelly Slay studied Black students’ decisions about whether or not to apply and enroll at the University of Michigan after Proposal 2, which also banned affirmative action. Similar sentiments nationally following the SCOTUS cases have put the potential benefits of HBCU’s in the spotlight.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

Unfortunately, that is not the case for everyone. Dr. Cynthia Evers Tackling food insecurity demands urgency and innovation, especially when studies have found 23% of undergraduates and 12% of graduate students – four million students in total – facing this dilemma.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Writing in language arts was why most students used AI tools (66%), followed by social studies (49%), according to the survey. One interesting finding in this study was the relationship between students’ academic achievement level (as measured by ACT Composite scores) and AI tool use,” the report noted.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Unfortunately, students had to repeatedly make their case to skeptical and unsupportive university administrators, trustees, alumni, donors, and legislators. In making the case for the establishment of Black culture centers, students and their supporters articulated, in part or in whole, a four-pronged rationale.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Nevertheless, giving from individuals still far outweighs the other sources and strengthens the case for our institutions to remain laser-focused on individuals who know our case (our alumni and friends); individuals who have always supported our case (legacy donors); and now, individuals who, because of varying societal circumstances (e.g.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 31, 2023

Approximately 80% of the programs being suspended have fewer than three students and, in many cases, similar degrees are available, said St. Others to be phased out include theater, real estate, and religious studies at the undergraduate level, and marriage and family therapy at the graduate level.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The webinar , “State Lessons for Implementing Evidence-Based Postsecondary Success Programs,” explored two recent case studies about data and evidence-based programs that are helping more students complete college.

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