Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 7, 2025

This gathering focused on building inclusive pathways in artificial intelligence, offering interactive workshops, recruiter engagement, and a platform for collaboration among HBCUs, community colleges, and major tech firms. HBCUs are fertile ground for workforce development, AI research, and inclusive tech talent pipelines.

Inclusion

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 10, 2025

Ski” Sygielski As I prepare for my retirement in mid-July from HACC, Central Pennsylvania’s Community College, where I’ve had the honor of serving as the longest-tenured president in its 61-year history, I find myself reflecting on the remarkable journey that has brought me to this point. Dr. John J.

Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 10, 2025

As the association navigates an increasingly challenging political landscape, its mission to cultivate inclusive leadership has never been more vital. When I was a community college dean in California, I went to a leadership institute put on by the American Association of Community Colleges.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 23, 2025

With the demise of affirmative action, threats to diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives (DEI), and policies in higher education there might not be an immediate increase in the number of Black men seeking to enroll in higher education.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 8, 2025

"When our entire education community works together like this, students win. NC College Connect removes barriers and creates clear pathways to college for thousands of our students," he said. The inclusion of community colleges in NC College Connect recognizes their vital role in democratizing higher education access.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Necessary support is provided through GANAS (Gaining Access ’AND Academic Success), an innovative access and retention program that serves community college transfer students. CSUSM’s inclusive hiring practices have increased Latino representation among faculty, administrators and staff. in the last two years.” years in 2021-22.”

Retention

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 20, 2025

Programs led by strong advocates of teacher preparation at four-year institutions, community colleges, HBCUs, HSIs, tribal colleges, and other minority-serving institutions have shown the power of culturally responsive educator pipelines. None of this is theoretical. Weve seen it work.

Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 13, 2025

After graduating, he studied at Pierce College (a community college), majoring in psychology because he wanted to become a high school counselor. At the time, he didnt know how to articulate what he was feeling, but as he gained additional knowledge, his academic focus became clearer. He went to an under-resourced high school.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

As chief executive officers in the California community college system, we embarked upon the topic of STEM out of an acute awareness of the lack of Dr. Lennor Johnson opportunities available to disproportionately impacted communities, and a shared commitment to forging increased pathways for those with the least access.

Student success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Dr. Michael Gavin Delta College is a two-year public community college in University Center, Michigan. Before serving at Delta, Gavin worked at Prince George’s Community College for 13 years and Anne Arundel College for seven years, both located in Maryland. Delta College has to be ready for our students.

Mentoring

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 12, 2025

Kelli Sims Butler The California Community College System consists of 116 institutions with over 1.8 In the system, there are 140 Community College Chief Executive Officers (CEO). Of the current 140 chancellors and college presidents, 63 are female, and 12 identify as Black females. million students. King, Jamal A.

Mentoring

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

As colleges and universities begin to feel the pain of budget deficits, reduced student enrollments, rollbacks on diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts, questions of bloated administrations, and the like, it is essential to remember what your responsibility is and what is not. I encourage you to choose optimism, but not mindlessly.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 14, 2025

I am open to unlearning and relearning and recognizing my privilege as a cisgender male while navigating the burdens of being an African American male in the upper echelon of higher education, particularly community college education. Sokenu is the president of Moorpark College. Dr. Julius O.

Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 12, 2025

Patterson, a native of Corinth, Mississippi, brings 25 years of higher education experience to Murray State, with particular expertise in enrollment management, diversity and inclusion, and strategic planning.

University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Mississippi Delta Community College has named Dr. Steven J. Jones as the tenth president of the college. Dr. Steven Jones Jones currently serves as Vice President of Administrative and Student Services at the College located in the city of Moorhead. A native of Taylorsville, MS.,

Community college

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 21, 2025

A Dr. Donald Guy Generals fter nearly a decade of leadership marked by program expansion and innovative initiatives, Community College of Philadelphia (CCP) President Dr. Donald "Guy" Generals is seeking answers following his unexpected removal earlier this month. I think there's still a lot of work to be done.

Scholarship

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 23, 2025

A crucial through-line of the author’s argument entails the inclusion of employees from all divisions and levels in strategic planning processes. McClure emphasizes the need for cross-institutional teams that engage in open and honest information sharing and collaboration grounded in data.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Before our nations college leaders and society at large react to the political zeitgeist and tear down the actual practice of mindfully seeking fairness and justice, lets level set on what it is we are talking about here. He previously served as Chancellor for the California Community Colleges, the nations largest higher education system.

Equity

Civitas Learning

JUNE 12, 2025

Proactive Support in Action At Austin Community College (ACC) , support starts before students even set foot on campus. Whether through targeted academic support or inclusive campus spaces, institutions that invest in the full student experience are seeing measurable gains in persistence and long-term success.

Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 17, 2025

According to the research, public 4-year institutions support less than half (42%) of Black students to complete degrees within six years, and only 21% of Black students at public community colleges complete degrees within three years.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 28, 2025

Also, 65% of AAPIs polled oppose federal funding cuts to colleges with diversity, equity, and inclusion programs. Dr. Rowena Tomaneng, deputy chancellor of California Community Colleges, shared during last weeks panel discussion her observations from several recent affinity-themed graduation ceremonies.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 11, 2025

Keith Curry T he enactment of California Senate Bill (SB) 1348 formally established the California Black-Serving Institutions (BSI) designation to recognize the State’s public community colleges and universities that enroll a student body that is 10 percent Black or enroll at least 1,500 Black students, among other criteria.

Higher education

COE

MAY 2, 2025

Further, the Administrations proposal ignores the harsh reality that many institutions of higher education particularly community colleges, regional colleges, and smaller private institutions do not have the infrastructure or funding to take on TRIOs responsibilities alone.

Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 11, 2025

According to Curry's letter, as of June 6, the California State University Central Office, which oversees the application process, had received applications from two University of California campuses, three CSU campuses, one private university, and 36 California Community Colleges.

Grant

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2025

The panelists explored how the incoming second Trump administrations anticipated policies could create increased challenges for colleges and universities, specifically targeting Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives, accreditation processes and federal funding.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Several states have already dismantled diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programming, and other states anticipate something similar coming their way. Institutions continue to see presidential resignations, and the leaders of the future try to figure out how best to oversee colleges and universities.

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Trump declared the countrys end to radical and wasteful government diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs and Dr. Mordecai Brownlee preferencing through executive order. Equity is institutionalized in our college mission and a means of differentiating our approach to higher education as a community college we serve our community.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 8, 2025

These actions have, and will, hit institutions across the board hard – from Columbia and Harvard to public state schools to small independent colleges to community colleges. All of these schools – and their students – rely on and benefit from public investments in higher education. Second, it is not just about the words used.

University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2025

Nicole DelMastro-Jeffery, former executive director for the DEI and Belonging office and Title IX coordinator at Richland Community College. She intentionally uses the words diversity, equity, and inclusion, instead of DEI. On January 21, one day after his inauguration, President Donald J.

Database

Knack

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Community colleges play a crucial role in providing accessible education, serving a diverse student population with varied backgrounds and experiences. By reimagining support structures, institutions can create more inclusive pathways that empower every learner to succeed.

Student success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 24, 2025

In a significant policy shift affecting higher education in Virginia, the state's 23 community colleges must now ensure all programs and practices comply with new federal regulations that effectively terminate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives across these institutions.

Community college

COE

JULY 8, 2025

Collins says she helped secure Upward Bound funding for Maine Massachusetts: Trump cuts would devastate community colleges, undermining lower-income students striving to better their lives Massachusetts: Programs to support N.H.s

First generation

COE

JULY 15, 2025

Hamm COE is inviting community colleges—with or without a current SSS program—to apply for the inaugural COE Award for Institutional Effectiveness, which will bestow $10,000 each on three campuses that have successfully embedded TRIO Student Support Services practices into their wider student success strategies. .

First generation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 8, 2025

Consequently, this trauma appears in the halls, classrooms, and events held at college and university campuses around the country. Dr. Mordecai Brownlee is President of the Community College of Aurora. Stay tuned.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 21, 2025

GPA at Suffolk Community College, and her proper pursuit of citizenship. When institutions maintained their diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, their presidents faced investigation. Our response must center on recognizing our interconnectedness and working toward a more inclusive, not less inclusive, society.

Inclusion

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2025

Dr. Monica Parrish Trent, CEO, Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA) Foundation (Formerly with Achieving the Dream). By prioritizing inclusivity and representation, these women are transforming cultural spaces into platforms for dialogue and understanding. Carolyn Carter, a distinguished graduate of the John E.

Leadership