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FEBRUARY 21, 2025

But in some cases, students’ return on investment varies widely because factors like race, income, and geography contribute to disparities in student outcomes. The Collaboratives second cohort represents a diverse range of institutional sizes, scopes, types, and geographies.

Collaboration

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Michigan State University (MSU) will offer in-state tuition to out-of-state Native American students through their Native American Tuition Advantage Program (NATAP), beginning in Fall 2025. After looking into and providing a solution to assist the student, Weatherspoon wanted to know what more the institution could do.

Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Removing barriers for students to use mental health services is one of the most important goals of college administrations today particularly for students of color and diverse backgrounds. Nichole Kang College campuses have made great strides in making mental health services available to students, but access remains a critical issue.

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2025

Yet the humanity of formerly incarcerated Dr. Sara Goldrick-Rab students is too often marginalized, even overlooked, in campus programs addressing issues like food and housing insecurity. That is largely because these justice-impacted students are often invisible to educators, their identities simply erased.

Humanities

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JUNE 4, 2025

Ed Smith-Lewis Through digital and innovative platforms, UNCF is building a connected ecosystem where institutions can learn from one another, scale what works, and shape a stronger, more equitable future for their students, says Ed Smith-Lewis, senior vice president of strategic partnerships and institutional programs at UNCF.

Guided pathways

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JANUARY 22, 2025

Since taking the helm in 2020, Jenkins has orchestrated a data-driven renaissance that has revolutionized student success rates and institutional effectiveness. Rather than accepting this as inevitable, his administration launched a comprehensive analysis of student data, policies, and practices.

University

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JANUARY 22, 2025

Terrell Educational Foundation has selected three master's students from diverse institutions across the United States for its 2024-2025 MCT Araceli Negrete Scholars program, with a focus on investigating student mental wellness in today's challenging environment. The Dr. Melvin C. Terrell, foundation namesake and chair emeritus.

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 17, 2025

Schools implementing comprehensive student success systems are achieving substantial reductions in chronic absenteeism and course failure rates — two critical predictors of high school graduation — according to new data released by the GRAD Partnership. Most notably, schools supported by the GRAD Partnership outperformed national trends.

Student success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Lewis The International Conference on Urban Education (ICUE) has become the sought-after space where ideas are shared, and collaborations are formed. Lewis, the director of the Urban Education Collaborative and the Carol Grotnes Belk Distinguished Professor in Urban Education at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Education

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APRIL 16, 2025

Smothers In a powerful response to growing challenges facing Black students and institutions, Virginia Union University (VUU) recently convened over 250 educational leaders for an urgent national summit addressing the state of Black education in America. We are not simply preparing students to succeed in systems as they are, he said.

Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2025

Notably, as an astroparticle physicist, Love has joined the IceCube collaboration, giving her access to data from the worlds largest neutrino observatory. Love also developed and runs an IceCube Citizen Science Program that includes outreach to high school students, immersing them in university-level projects. Loves Ph.D. Loves Ph.D.

Collaboration

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 23, 2025

Ed Smith-Lewis The United Negro College Fund's Institute for Capacity Building (ICB) is spearheading an unprecedented collaboration that could reshape the landscape of higher education partnerships across continents.

Placement

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MAY 1, 2025

The relational emphasis found at these schools is a fundamental component of their approach, where words like community and family are foundational to how they develop students. Their continued survival demands an equally bold step: writing their next chapter not as competitors, but as collaborators.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2025

They needed long-term, data-driven, institutionally customized strategies to build financial resilience, promote academic innovation, and drive student success models that work for their institutions. DIVERSE : In addition to policymakers, faculty, and administrators, students play a major role in UNITE.

Collaboration

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JULY 19, 2025

In his new role, Kimbrough will report directly to the Office of the President, working alongside Dr. Lomax on strategic initiatives while collaborating with the Chief Operating Officer on operational priorities. This position allows me to pour back into UNCF, its member institutions and students."

Higher education

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JULY 1, 2025

"Registered Apprenticeship programs are one of the most promising, yet underused, models for student success and workforce development," the report states. Registered apprenticeships offer students a chance to earn while they learn, reducing student debt while gaining industry-recognized credentials.

Career counseling

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 1, 2024

The announcement comes as more community colleges across the nation are looking to encourage their students to study abroad. We are thrilled to form this collaboration, which will provide invaluable learning experiences for our students and open doors to new perspectives and opportunities on a global scale.

Community college

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 2, 2024

“I very much think it has been invigorating for me over the years to see the data-driven decisions that lead us to doing things with our students that are amazing,” she says. Having served as vice president for student affairs at Cal State, Fullerton, from 2012–19, Eanes was familiar with the Cal State system.

Retention

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 13, 2025

For example, Black students in P-12 schools tend to be suspended at higher rates than their racial peers and the belief is that this discipline will teach Black students a lesson to behave in class. This happens by first acknowledging structural issues and then reducing negative impacts on students (Hill et al.,

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 8, 2025

The United Negro College Fund announced a comprehensive initiative Tuesday designed to empower Black parents as advocates for increasing the number of Black teachers in America's classrooms, addressing a critical shortage that has far-reaching implications for student success and educational equity.

Curriculum

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FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Positions such as data scientists, medical and health service managers, physician assistants, and epidemiologists highlight the immense potential need for students entering these fields. Similarly, Hispanic students earned 12% of STEM bachelors degrees, despite comprising 15% of all bachelors degree recipients (Pew Research Center).

Student success

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MARCH 3, 2025

Du Bois Department of Afro American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst as doctoral students, they saw similarities in their research but began experiencing challenges within existing organizations aimed at supporting their work. From the start, BWSA sought collaboration rather than competition.

Collaboration

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2025

At the same time, reality struck: A student should not need to have an associate provost as a parent to transfer college credits. Nationally, the transfer system has been set up to let students fail for decades. On average, students lose a fifth of their credits when transferring to a four-year college, according to the U.S.

Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 9, 2025

While these schools are only 3% of all higher education institutions in this country, they educate 10% of all Black college students and account for approximately 50% of all Black doctors and lawyers. Many HBCU students are first-generation college students and many are Pell Grant recipients from low income families.

Collaboration

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MAY 28, 2025

Eleven Maryland institutions received funding, representing a mix of historically Black colleges and universities, community colleges, and public and private four-year institutions: HBCUs and Minority-Serving Institutions: Bowie State University will focus on training teachers for culturally and linguistically diverse students through its M.Ed.

Grant

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OCTOBER 29, 2024

How much do grades really tell us about students? The analysis, conducted by The Equitable Grading Project, found that six out of 10 middle and high school grades do not accurately reflect student performance. Ostensibly, they should tell us what students have learned—and tell educators where they need to focus.

Placement

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

This is a historic moment for Sacramento State and a unique partnership with the Native communities to support Native American students,” said Dr. J. The program will provide students with the necessary academic, professional, tribally centered, community-focused, culturally based skills to become successful leaders. “The

Curriculum

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2025

Dr. Moores influence extends far beyond his own accomplishment, said Jackson, who has known Moore since their days as graduate students and have collaborated with him on a number of initiatives and projects, including the International Colloquium on Black Males in Education.

Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

McCorn is a proven leader who has demonstrated a clear and concise vision for institutional change, while identifying and executing a comprehensive plan designed to achieve successful student outcomes,” said Michael Thurmond, Chairman of the Paine College Board of Trustees.

Scheduling

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APRIL 3, 2025

This Fall, three additional programs, one in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning, and two in Business Administrationwith tracks in accounting and managementwill welcome students. In only its second semester, nearly 100 students are enrolled in upper division courses this Spring.

Community college

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

higher education institutions can strengthen democracy by prioritizing civic engagement and civic education in the student experience. The national discourse around democratic participation has heightened our commitment to ensuring that students leave Hostos with a sense of responsibility toward their communities and democracy.”

Higher education

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NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Sorrell Sorrell said that the grant will launch a campus housing initiative that will eventually be accompanied by a larger mixed-use development that includes student and family housing, retail and restaurant spaces, parks, outdoor meeting areas, and classroom facilities—all designed to serve both the campus and the surrounding community.

Grant

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2025

While these schools are only 3% of all higher education institutions in this country, they educate 10% of all Black college students. Many HBCU students are first-generation college students and many are Pell Grant recipients from low income families. They account for approximately 50% of all Black doctors and lawyers.

Collaboration

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 19, 2025

This collaboration between CBCF and the Joint Center demonstrates the power of partnership in advancing thoughtful, data-driven solutions to the complex challenges facing Black communities," said Nicole Austin-Hillery, President and CEO of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation.

Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 23, 2025

For innumerable institutions facing record community disengagement, exhaustion, and low morale, McClure advances a compelling argument: in the same way that we must address the needs of the whole student, we must address the needs of the whole employee, and this is a critical time to center care.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 20, 2025

Spelman is a strongly Pell eligible student base, and we are at least 60% Pell eligible," Brewer told the audience of HBCU leaders. "We We know that for every student that comes to our institution, they will graduate probably with at least $30,000 in student loans. "We So our student is not the affluent that most people think."

Placement

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 27, 2025

As dangerous myths about autism circulate on the national stage, many colleges echo a quieter, yet similarly misguided assumption: that autistic students are socially isolated or incapable of forming meaningful relationships. We used this analysis to publish a journal article on autistic college student friendship earlier this month.

Community college