Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 24, 2025

A federal judge in New Hampshire delivered a significant legal victory Thursday for proponents of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs in education by granting a preliminary injunction against the U.S. The Department of Education has not issued a public response to the court's decision.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 17, 2024

Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) to register its commitment to compliance with Title VI of the of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. OCR reviewed documentation of 75 similar reports from the 2022-23 school year through February 2024. Catherine E.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

APRIL 9, 2025

One of the most complex elements private K-12 schools face is verifying and evaluating international family income, which often differs significantly from domestic documentation standards. These may include foreign tax returns (in different languages or formats), employer statements, apostilled documents, or bank records.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Some of the biggest challenges schools face include: Administrative Overload: Manually reviewing applications, verifying financial documents, and answering questions from families takes a lot of time and effort. Compliance and Documentation: Schools must keep accurate records to ensure they comply with financial aid policies and audits.

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EAB

MAY 22, 2023

Email scheduling : Select the email frequency and recipients for dashboard delivery via PDF or Excel documents. Users can also look at the data at different levels and attributes, identifying which groups of students are transferring and surfacing equity gaps.

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EAB

MAY 1, 2023

This could be as simple as an email or a trip down the hall to their office, or you can create a 1-page overview or FAQ document to advertise the new tool. Case in point In 2021, EAB hosted a focus group for an institution that hoped to understand why the equity dashboard they created wasn’t being utilized.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

As Liam Knox of Inside Higher Ed put it , the ruling was “a vague and at times self-contradictory piece of jurisprudence that continues to frustrate colleges keen to maintain diversity without falling out of compliance.”

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