Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 11, 2025

Language barriers- Some families' first language is not English and communication may be challenging for them. Lack of Communication- In some cases, teachers do not communicate with families until something negative has occurred. Ask questions like: What method of communication do you prefer? Dr. Donna Y.

Scheduling

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

While this is not a program specific to Native Americans, the state’s four tribal colleges are eligible institutions along with Minnesota State Colleges and Universities and all University of Minnesota campuses. Communication is key on how the funding works to benefit students.” Dr. Gresham D.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Lowery-Hart shared three elements required to transform institutional framework for leadership that’s built on love: culture, impact, and communication. That means incorporating the new culture of care into the budget, structure, organizational charts and job descriptions at the university. Leading transformation is scary.

Communication

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 24, 2025

Keyana Scales has been named senior vice president for enrollment management services at Howard University. 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. She will begin Aug 1, 2025.

Financial aid

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 22, 2025

Jamal Watson, a Diverse editor and professor and associate dean of graduate studies at Trinity Washington University. Defaulted borrowers will receive email communications over the next two weeks urging them to contact the Default Resolution Group to make arrangements for repayment. Additionally, nearly 1.9

Student loans

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 27, 2025

As their numbers have surged to over 600 institutions, representing 20% of all colleges and universities nationwide, HSIs now enroll and advise two-thirds of all Latino undergraduates. Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) play a vital role in advancing educational opportunities for Latine students across the United States.

Academic advisor

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 16, 2025

The collection features authentic portrayals of students across community colleges, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), regional universities, and workforce training programs. The Complete College Photo Library, offers nearly 1,000 professional-quality images available free through Creative Commons licensing.

Students

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

MARCH 30, 2025

As a soon-to-be septuagenarian, current university faculty member and educational researcher, the guiding principle learn throughout life resonates with me. Both then, as K-12 educator and grandmother of six, and now in my university work, my life is iteratively enriched through intergenerational learning.

Therapist

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 8, 2025

Photos by Tim Trumble In a powerful gathering of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) professionals, university leaders from across the nation shared strategies for protecting critical DEI work on college campuses despite mounting opposition nationwide. We've been under attack around the federal government.

Inclusion

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2025

Title: Associate Teaching Professor, Drexel University Tenured: No Age: 40 Education: B.S., physics education, West Chester University; M.A., physics, Temple University Career mentors: Dr. A.J. Neutrinos are, however, the most common particle(s) in the universe. This resulted in both a publication and a masters thesis.

Collaboration

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 27, 2025

Whether through formal autism support programs (ASPs), campus disability centers, or informal sensory-friendly spaces, students emphasized how these environments allowed them to engage with others who shared similar communication styles, sensory needs, and lived experiences. These spaces didn’t just accommodate difference—they affirmed it.

Community college

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 13, 2025

Moreover, given the current socio-political era of anti-DEI, faculty and other university personnel have been losing funding, positions, and operational units that support research and programming that help the most vulnerable student populations to thrive and attain optimal outcomes in higher education and in their personal lives.

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 10, 2025

Born and raised in Princeton, Kentucky, Bumphus’s path to becoming one of the most influential leaders in community college education wasn’t initially clear. It wasn’t until 1974 that Bumphus took his first community college position at East Arkansas Community College in Forest City, Arkansas.

Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 5, 2025

As Chief of Staff at Paul Quinn College, she provides strategic oversight of enrollment, communications, and institutional priorities. Esmieu previously held leadership roles at the University of Pennsylvania and Rutgers University, directing national programs that supported minority-serving institutions. and M.S.Ed.

Communication

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2025

According to Ess Pokornowski, Reintegrating students face a unique set of overlapping challenges: they are leaving a total institution where choice, communication, access to healthcare, access to technology, and opportunities for education and gainful employment are all dramatically limited.

Humanities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2025

Marva Johnson In a news release, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU) announced that the Florida Board of Governors voted unanimously on June 18 to confirm Marva Johnson as president of FAMU. “It Johnson, is a corporate lobbyist and group vice president of state government affairs for Charter Communications.

Communication

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. Michigan State University In addition, out-of-state Native students who are Pell-eligible will be able to take advantage of a full tuition waiver.

Students

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

MARCH 12, 2025

Ezeonu earned her doctorate in educational leadership with an emphasis in the community college from Seattle University, a masters degree in communication from Washington State University, and a bachelors degree in communication/public relations from Washington State University.

Instruction

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

To earn the Seal of Excelencia a college or university must demonstrate an intentional, institutional focus on advancing Latino student success by aligning data and practice. Colleges and universities that have received the Seal of Excelencia enroll 17% of Latino students in the U.S. California State University, San Marcos Dr. Ellen J.

Retention

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 12, 2025

Many called for more transparent and accessible communication about available resources, with one student suggesting institutions make a comprehensive list of all resources in one place. These findings suggest that merely offering services is insufficient if students cannot effectively access them when needed.

Mental health

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. Lastly, linguistic capital is a means by which students from linguistically diverse backgrounds can communicate using their native language.

STEM education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 31, 2024

It's disconnected people from a lot of local issues that really matter, said Brant Houston, who holds the Knight Chair in Investigative and Enterprise Reporting at the University of Illinois and is the author of Changing Models for Journalism: Reinventing the Newsroom.

Access

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 12, 2025

Daile has been appointed Vice President for Marketing and Communications at Ohio Wesleyan University. Fairbanks Endowed Chair in Communication. Dailey earned her Bachelor of Science in Education from Ohio Dominican University and both her Master of Arts in Communication and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

Communication

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. in mass communication from the University of Georgia, an M.A.

Communication

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Ford is a Distinguished Professor of Education and Human Ecology in the College of Education and Human Ecology at The Ohio State University The time for solutions is long overdue. Dr. Donna Y.

Instruction

School & Student Services by Community Brands

OCTOBER 31, 2024

This same NAIS also recently published a dissertation on this very subject, entitled “ Prioritizing Belonging for PreK-12 Families on Financial Assistance in Private Schools.” Deana Clapp of Concordia University, St. How do private schools determine and communicate which costs are included in tuition and which are not?

Financial aid

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 12, 2025

By the time I transferred to the State University, I realized I was a decent student and no longer anxious about my financial aid being denied for academic standing. I decided to step outside of my comfort zone and pursue Communications Studies.

Mentoring

Active Minds

DECEMBER 10, 2024

I attend Boston University, and I am studying Public health with concentrations in Epidemiology and Biostatistics along with mental health. I graduated with a BA in Graphic Design and am returning to the University of Akron for a Masters in Communication.

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 16, 2025

Jessica Berger Jessica Berger has been appointed Executive Vice President and Chief Advancement Officer at Chapman University. Berger earned a Master of Social Work from Cleveland State University and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Wittenberg University, both with honors.

Communication

Civitas Learning

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

As Northwest Missouri State University (Northwest) worked to improve retention rates, it recognized that faculty and staff needed a centralized location to communicate and access student data easily. It makes a more data-driven mindset, allowing everyone to access and understand how to use the data in their specific roles.

Advising

Timely MD

DECEMBER 18, 2024

student life coordinator at Saybrook University and Travis W. assistant vice president for retention at Emory & Henry University, weighed in on what colleges and universities can do to help support underrepresented student groups to ensure they receive the care and support they need to succeed. Proffitt, M.A.,

Mental health

IEFA

DECEMBER 18, 2024

are offered by business schools associated with universities providing the resources, faculty and accreditation for MBAs. university business schools accept international student MBA program applications, with some even offering scholarships and incentives to attract more foreign participants. colleges and universities.

International student

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 25, 2025

Universal design The more flexible and accessible our environments are by default, the less we need to play gatekeeper, counselor, or diagnostician. Learn more about Universal Design for Learning ) Provide choice. Harte Center for Teaching and Learning at Washington and Lee University.

Inclusion

Civitas Learning

MAY 7, 2025

Communication and integrated workflows also play a critical role. Simplifying registration and integrating built-in communication tools helps students get quick answers to logistical issues, reserving appointment times for more strategic discussions. Faculty need simple ways to flag concerns and coordinate with advisors in real time.

Scheduling