Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 22, 2025

Department of Education announced this week that its Office of Federal Student Aid (FSA) will resume collections on defaulted federal student loans beginning Monday, May 5, 2025, ending a pause that has been in effect since March 2020. million borrowers owing more than $1.6 Secretary of Education Linda McMahon in the announcement.

Student loans

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The debacle surrounding the rollout of the new Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) affected the incoming fall class at three-quarters of private, nonprofit colleges and universities across the nation. The repercussions from this rollout will be felt – by students, families, and institutions – for years.”

FAFSA

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 18, 2025

A 19-year-old nursing student at the University of Utah with no criminal record, Goncalves was stopped by a Mesa County (Colo.) News reports have indicated that she was targeted by ICE after information about the traffic stop was sent by the deputy to a communication group related to drug enforcement. Goncalves has been in the U.S.

International student

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 30, 2025

Community colleges across the nation are grappling with how to integrate artificial intelligence into their operations and curricula as students increasingly use AI tools while faculty and administrators lag behind in adoption, according to a new report from Achieving the Dream.

Community college

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

APRIL 14, 2025

They are teachers, artists, health care workers, entrepreneurs, caregivers, students, and neighbors. They are inventing technologies, building communities, raising children, and transforming what it means to live honestly and fully. International students, meanwhile, contribute more than $40 billion annually to the U.S.

International student

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 17, 2025

I’ve been fortunate to serve as both a mentee—learning from exceptional administrators, students, and community leaders—and a mentor to students, peers, and young professionals. When implemented intentionally, these strategies support student retention, confidence, and engagement. That matters.

Mentoring

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Born and raised in Brazil, Reis' academic background is in communication and journalism. Carolinas reputation for highly talented students, thought leadership by faculty members, dedicated professional staff and a deeply engaged and supportive alumni network is widely known and respected among its peers.

Inclusion

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 2, 2025

As a first-generation Black graduate student attending a large PWI research one university, I recognized the importance of leveraging my cultural assets to persist Jason K. I write this op-ed based on experiences that align with my journey as a Black male doctoral student. Segrest through my program. and McGee and White.

STEM education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 11, 2025

This community in South Baltimore wasn’t the safest place to work or live. Our students faced poverty, gun violence, drug wars, and an atmosphere of despair and hopelessness. This was something I had never experienced, as my childhood was pleasant and consisted of a two-family household in a low- to middle-class community.

Scheduling

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Attendees from across the country and even across the Atlantic tuned in as Lowery-Hart shared how leading with love transforms community colleges and institutions of higher education into places where students, and the whole community, thrive. “[Dr. Entrenched bureaucracy must give way to data and student voices.”

Communication

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 2, 2025

Beginning with the first contact with a foreign language, students develop a new perception of reality. Black students, through foreign language study, as by no other means, learn indelibly and irrefutably that minority status does not mean inferior, that different means neither better nor worse. The benefits to society are many.

Students

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

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

But like other free tuition initiatives for Native American students, it’s not quite as simple as it sounds. One of the concerns I have is many college-bound students do not have the tools or the know how of securing adequate funding before they go to college,” says Dr. Karen R. The basics are very appealing. Dr. Gresham D.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 27, 2025

Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) play a vital role in advancing educational opportunities for Latine students across the United States. This significant responsibility has prompted researchers to examine how these institutions prepare academic advisors to effectively serve their diverse student populations.

Academic advisor

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2025

s legacy through the Martin Luther King Day symposium, an academic credit workshop where both students can earn academic or continuing education credits for their participation in the event.The course is offered at no additional cost, regardless of a students credit load.

Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 23, 2025

In a lifeguard training course I took as a teenager, the instructor imparted critical lessons about the importance of strategic, coordinated communication throughout the process of a rescue. As McClure contends, shared governance that includes staff, faculty, students, and alumni is not a luxury or radical activism.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Therefore, it is imperative - non-negotiable - that educators, practitioners and decision makers see them as the best and brightest and communicate to these capable Black males that they have purpose, they are innovators, and they have gifts and talents that will enhance and enrich our society for generations to come. Communicate.

Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 24, 2025

"Whether or not they screen by GPA, employers hiring for entry-level positions report that they strongly consider a student's major, industry, and internship experience," said VanDerziel. These are key areas where students gain, hone, and demonstrate they have the skills necessary to successfully move into the workplace."

Advising

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 30, 2025

Thus, with our unprecedented longevity, its important for the traditional image of college students, those transitioning from high school and primarily in the second and third decades of life, to evolve. For college students, intergenerational learning is more than interacting with older adults.

Therapist

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 24, 2025

In this role, she will lead the design and implementation of critical university strategies to attract, retain, and graduate the world’s most talented students. Scales earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in communications and a Master of Education degree in counselor education from North Carolina State University.

Financial aid

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

JANUARY 8, 2025

Prior to her role at MATC, Martinez Powless accumulated 17 years of higher education experience at Marquette University and MATC, working in administration, enrollment, student affairs, and multicultural outreach. Martin has since retired, and the college is now led by President Anthony Cruz, who is Hispanic.

Student affairs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 30, 2025

Department of Education to increase undergraduate retention and graduation rates and eliminate equity gaps for KU students. where she served three years as provost and vice president for Academic Affairs; and five years as professor of Communication. Basden Arnold came to KU in June 2021 from SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, N.Y.,

Communication

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 12, 2025

A new study reveals alarming trends among college students nationwide, with seven in ten considering taking a break or dropping out entirely due to mounting pressures. The survey, conducted by higher education virtual health provider TimelyCare, highlights the significant challenges threatening student success across American campuses.

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2025

Loves current focus is a web-based citizen science project called Name That Neutrino that she and her students created in 2023, seeking a multitude of volunteers to participate in the process. Love is active in STEM mentoring and enrichment programs that target students, especially girls, in high school and the lower grades.

Collaboration

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2025

Diverse reported that prior to the May 16 FAMU Board of Trustees vote in favor of naming Johnson president of FAMU, students organized protests on campus, with demonstrators chanting "No MAGA Marva!" Johnson, is a corporate lobbyist and group vice president of state government affairs for Charter Communications.

Communication

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 10, 2025

After attending Murray State University in Kentucky, Bumphus began his career in higher education as a director of residence halls at his alma mater, where he discovered his passion for student development. As I started looking at where I had seen leaders of color moving into the presidency, it was primarily in community colleges.”

Leadership

School & Student Services by Community Brands

JULY 29, 2025

As these opportunities expand, schools can be strategically prepared to communicate clearly with families about how these tax-credit scholarships integrate with institutional financial aid. A well-crafted award letter can clarify the aid amount and explain next steps—building goodwill and reducing back-and-forth communication.

Financial aid

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Combined with the Apple App Store, which first debuted in 2008 with 500 phone applications, in less than 20 years, technology has revolutionized how the average consumer communicates, entertains themselves, and obtains information. Remarkably, of those attending, 32% of all community college attendees are first-generation college students.

Community college

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Ford and hearts as they seek to provide Black students with rigorous and relevant instructional styles and strategies. Specifically, whether intentional or unintentional, harm has been done to students/learners. Combined and individually, curriculum and/or instruction can traumatize students, in this case Black students.

Instruction

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 11, 2025

Bellisario College of Communications at Pennsylvania State University since 2014 and has been a member of the Penn State faculty since 2003, was announced as the 10th president of Quinnipiac University in Connecticut. A first-generation college student, Hardin earned a Ph.D. in mass communication from the University of Georgia, an M.A.

Communication

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 12, 2025

Kelli Sims Butler The California Community College System consists of 116 institutions with over 1.8 million students. In the system, there are 140 Community College Chief Executive Officers (CEO). I understand firsthand the challenges students face because I have lived them. years) and their Black male counterparts (8.3

Mentoring

School & Student Services by Community Brands

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The National Association of Independent Schools found over the course of the 2022-23 school year that 43 percent of students at boarding schools received financial aid , and at day schools that number was 24 percent. How do private schools determine and communicate which costs are included in tuition and which are not?

Financial aid

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Brown, is to advance Latino student success in higher education by promoting Latino student achievement, conducting analysis to inform educational policies and advancing institutional practices. There must be deliberate and continuous assessment to identify and implement strategies that improve Latino student achievement.

Retention

Timely MD

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Yet, for many underrepresented college students, navigating academic life can feel akin to scaling an invisible mountain. Why is help-seeking among underrepresented students important? student life coordinator at Saybrook University and Travis W. In a Gen Ztressed webinar hosted by TimelyCare, experts Brianna Yahaya, M.S

Mental health