Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2024

Adam Burns Through focus groups and a national survey, Continuing to Explore the Exodus from Higher Education – prepared for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation – serves as an update about how sentiments on college have evolved for “non-enrolled” people, 18-to-30-year-old high school graduates who didn’t go to or left college, since 2022.

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Our findings are particularly surprising when you compare them to what we already know about the well-established positive association between reading frequency in print and text comprehension.” At later stages (high school and university), the relationship turned slightly positive, according to Altamura. student at the university.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2024

Emily Labandera The April 2024 report uses publicly available data to provide readers with a “fundamental understanding” of who Latino students are, how they fit a “post-traditional student profile,” and the schools they are attending, said Emily Labandera, director of research at Excelencia.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Dr. David Radwin The brief, " Redrawing the Starting Line: Advancing Equity in Adult Learners’ Developmental Education Outcomes ", compared transfer-level English and math course completion rates between adult community college students – those age 25 or older – and their younger, traditional-age student peers.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

includes 11% of students who transferred and completed their credential at a different school from where they started, he said. Differentiated by school type, the trends demonstrated more fluctuation. Public two-year schools, however, saw a 1.2% gap compared to 2008’s 7% gap. increase in the same period.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 1, 2024

D uring the COVID-19 pandemic, Black, Hispanic, and Indigenous students had less contact with teachers and less access to computers with stable internet connections compared to white students, Prabhakar said. The school has been part of the SOA since the beginning, Spelman President Dr. Helene Gayle told Diverse. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 29, 2023

As schools and workplaces return to in-person post-pandemic, so is college recruiting, according to a new report from the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE). Findings showed that fewer recruiters are being tasked with the work this year compared to last, with 7.2 recruiters in 2023, down from 9.0 reported in 2022.

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AUGUST 10, 2023

schools over five application cycles (2015-2020), excluding students who attended a foreign high school or held a primary citizenship from another country. They faced 49% lower odds of admission than white applicants, compared to 17% lower odds of admission to the considered schools for East Asian and Southeast Asian applicants.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2023

Denise Forte The tests – given October-December 2022 – found that average scores for 13-year-olds declined in reading (4 points) and in math (9 points) compared to the last assessment, which was given during the 2019–20 school year. These misguided efforts limit academic progress for all students and must be stopped.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 14, 2024

So they're comparable between rural and urban areas after you adjust for the cost of living.” Despite 41% of women in rural areas, compared to 26% of men, working white-collar jobs, the median earnings for women were lower than those of men, $50,000 and $71,000, respectively. The report’s authors suggested that the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 11, 2024

Liang Zhang “Our cost-benefit analysis finds that on average a college degree offers better returns than the stock market,” said study coauthor Dr. Liang Zhang, a professor of higher education at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey for 2.9

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JULY 18, 2023

At two-year institutions, the gap increased from -2% to -5%, while four-year schools saw a smaller but still present gap widening from -12% to -13%. The data showed that 26% of Hispanic males have an associate degree or higher, compared to 33% of Hispanic females. Less than 20% of students today fit that profile.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Less than a third of parents surveyed (28%) said that they would be disappointed if their child did not pursue college after high school, according to a new report commissioned by American Student Assistance (ASA) and Jobs for the Future (JFF). the report asks. It's more of an assumption about what employers want and need,” Lammers said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

LGBTQ youth are disproportionally represented in juvenile correctional facilities, a recent study from the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law found. It looked at Minnesota Student Survey data to analyze mental health experiences of LGBTQ and non-LGBTQ youth in juvenile correctional facilities and public schools. Dr. Kirsty A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

News has had Riverside as the top-ranked school for social mobility for several years running, but in Washington Monthly , Riverside was #40. The factors that it uses include student earnings, student capacity to pay off debt, and comparing the percentage of students who receive Pell grants that graduate to the expected rates.

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APRIL 24, 2024

community college students are finding that their schools are not equipping them with the knowledge to succeed after they graduate, according to recent findings from University of Texas at Austin’s 2023 Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCCSE). Sizable portions of U.S. Internships aren't possible for all students.

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OCTOBER 11, 2023

to 19.6), compared to 2022, according to the ACT. We are also continuing to see a rise in the number of seniors leaving high school without meeting any of the college readiness benchmarks, even as student GPAs continue to rise and students report that they feel prepared to be successful in college.” Average English scores fell 0.4

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 23, 2024

Today’s high school students are showing less interest in pursuing careers in education, and teachers in the profession are feeling burnt out and underpaid, according to a new report from the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB). in 2022 compared to 6.9% South, the worst still being Louisiana with 3.7% the year before.

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MAY 12, 2023

medical schools have increasingly come from households with higher incomes, according to a Yale-led study. medical school applicants and matriculants between 2014 and 2019. They found that the socioeconomic diversity of medical school applicants and matriculants has decreased over time. “ student at Yale School of Medicine.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Part-time faculty at the New School have agreed to end a three-week strike after reaching an agreement with the university late Dec. Union members said that compensation was still not on par with those at comparable institutions in the city but that all their health insurance demands had been met. 10, The New York Times reported. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 7, 2024

Black students in elementary school, particularly Black boys, are less likely to be identified for special education when their teachers are also Black, according to a new report published by the American Educational Research Association (AERA). school system to diversify its educator workforce more, Hart said. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 7, 2024

A February 23, 2024, article in Diverse headlined “Growing Number of College Grads Earn Less Than the Typical High School Graduate” was based on a report from the HEA Group – a headline mirrored in other national media (including CBS MoneyWatch, Forbes, and the New York Times ). But the problems continue. rather than the reported 26%).

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Forty-one percent of students work full-time (30 or more hours per week) while attending school, and 73 percent work at least one job while enrolled. Students’ financial backgrounds, family circumstances , and life experiences also shape their postsecondary education. More than half of students (56 percent) have family incomes under $50,000.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Part-time faculty at The New School walked out Nov. With approximately 200 demonstrators present, the strike was the result of years of tension between adjunct faculty and the private New York City school’s administration. Nearly 90% of the school’s instructors are part-time, according to a trade union representing part-time educators.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2024

The fastest-growing industries require workers with disproportionately higher education levels compared to industries with slower growth (Carnevale et al, 2023). Dual enrollment allows high school students to enroll in college courses and earn credits. Boggs By 2031, 72%of the jobs in the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

While most colleges are producing graduates who go on to earn incomes higher than your typical high school graduate, a sizable portion of them are not, according to a new report from the HEA Group. As the bar is raised however, the number of schools producing students earning above these thresholds decreased by notable amounts.

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MARCH 5, 2024

Those from oppressed communities see educational institutions, school buildings, district centers, as either representative of an oppressive government or as oppressive forces themselves,” she said. McCall explained that different people may be familiar with different “cultural archetypes,” such as collectivism and individualism. “If

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APRIL 17, 2023

In terms of race and ethnicity, the report found that Asian employees and Hispanic/Latino employees were underrepresented at all levels of admissions compared to Asian and Hispanic/Latino U.S. bachelor’s degree holders, while Black employees were well represented in comparison to Black U.S. bachelor’s degree holders.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 23, 2023

After large pandemic-related declines the past several years, community college enrollment grew this spring by 0.5%, or 22,000 students, compared to spring 2022. at public schools and 0.2% At two-year schools, comp sci enrollments are now higher than before the pandemic. at private ones. or 25,000 students).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 8, 2023

Agnes Scott College was among seven schools awarded funds from NASA to help improve the national gender gap and experiences of women in STEM. The chosen schools are: Agnes Scott College, Alverno College, Cedar Crest College, College of Saint Mary, Salem Academy and College, Simmons University, and Smith College.

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MAY 7, 2024

Dr. Debra Bragg According to the report , a CCB college is defined as a school that presently or historically confers mostly sub-baccalaureate degrees – such as associate degrees – and confers less than 50% of their total degrees at the baccalaureate level. More community colleges in the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 1, 2023

A new study by Yale University finds that Black students are more likely to leave medical school than their white peers. student at Yale School of Medicine and lead author of the study, said when research and innovation are equitable, physicians are better equipped to care for diverse populations. "To Mytien Nguyen, an M.D.-Ph.D.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2024

As a result, they also face hardships related to a number of facets in their lives, including school safety, religion, community support, and higher education, according to a new report from the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation. compared to 33% for Black LGBTQ+ youth. Charleigh J.

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JUNE 23, 2023

IHEP’s Equitable Value Explorer , an interactive data visualization tool that compares the post-college student earnings for more than 4,000 colleges and universities across the country , is helping to answer that question. These race and ethnicity value thresholds can then be compared to the overall earnings at the selected institution.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIU Carbondale) and historically Black college Tougaloo College have partnered for a 3+3 dual degree program, wherein Tougaloo students who qualify will be able to complete both their bachelor’s and SIU School of Law law degrees in six years instead of seven. of the population. .

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JUNE 6, 2023

The results, which compared students who took classes exclusively online with those who took at least one class in-person, showed that in some expected but critical ways, disengagement increased with distance. Linda García, executive director of the CCCSE, attributed this to recent changes in policy at schools.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Erin Dunlop Velez Sixty-six percent of white students and 65% of Asian students earned their bachelor’s degrees at institutions that offered doctoral degrees as compared to 56% of Black students. Eleven of top 20 schools for Hispanic STEM PhD recipients were Hispanic Serving Institutions. The differential persists in graduate schools.

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