Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

She and fellow BMI program leader and dean for diversity and compliance at Hunter, John Rose, have focused on giving Hunters young men of color as much agency as they can, engaging them through empowerment. What could we do to help turn that around? And in my mind, part of the solution was to have them help turn it around, not us.

Success

Student Privacy Compass

JULY 23, 2024

This shift introduces new considerations related to student safety, data privacy, and regulatory compliance. Legal and Compliance Considerations As fundraising increasingly leverages digital tools and online engagement, school leaders must navigate a new set of risks and responsibilities.

Compliance

School & Student Services by Community Brands

AUGUST 5, 2025

Equity Lens: Reaching Every Family Offer one-on-one consultations. Designate someone on your team to review aid materials each year for legal compliance and messaging accuracy. Link to your state’s choice program site, scholarship granting organizations (SGOs), or Invest in Education for broader resources.

Financial aid

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 13, 2025

These demands reportedly extend far beyond addressing antisemitism, including new speech restrictions, elimination of all diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, and mandatory cooperation with the Department of Homeland Security. Nikolas Bowie, Louis D.

Administration

School & Student Services by Community Brands

APRIL 9, 2025

These uploads are encrypted and protected, ensuring privacy and compliance. Rather than working from assumptions or inconsistent reporting, schools have access to comparable data sets, allowing them to allocate funds with equity and clarity. This data reliability is also valuable when communicating with leadership or boards.

International student

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 4, 2025

It instructed the University to dismantle diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs under whatever name, and to cease any admissions or hiring practices that consider race, gender, or even proxies for race. The administrations memo targets racial equity work explicitly. But its follow-up was historic.

Compliance

School & Student Services by Community Brands

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

However, incorporating historical data insight into the process allows schools to: Ensure Equity and Fairness Schools can analyze patterns and trends to ensure aid is distributed based on demonstrated need and institutional priorities rather than ad-hoc decision-making. Compliance with data privacy regulations, such as FERPA.

Financial aid

School & Student Services by Community Brands

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Compliance and Documentation: Schools must keep accurate records to ensure they comply with financial aid policies and audits. Prioritize Fairness and Compliance With more applications coming in, schools need to ensure they are awarding aid fairly and following best practices.

Financial aid

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. That over compliance as a residual effect of whats happening in Texas, Tennessee and Florida, is also happening in California.

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 should not be seen as a political agenda; it is a moral imperative educators provide to society. On January 20, 2025, President Donald J.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 28, 2025

The administration defended the move as necessary to ensure compliance with Trump's executive orders on transgender rights, environmental justice, and diversity initiatives.

Grant

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 2, 2025

Purdue University announced the immediate closure of its Office of Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging along with related diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives across colleges and departments, citing "an increasing number of actions and policy measures at both the federal and state level" as the driving force behind the decision.

Compliance

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 19, 2025

We have been in the past, and remain today, in full compliance with the regulations that apply to not only Penn, but all of our NCAA and Ivy League peer institutions." Penn has always followed NCAA and Ivy League policies regarding student participation on athletic teams, said a UPenn spokeswoman.

Administration

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The lawsuit specifically challenges the orders' lack of clear definitions for terms such as "DEI," "equity," and "illegal DEIA," arguing that this vagueness makes compliance virtually impossible for institutions while potentially exposing them to significant federal enforcement actions.

Compliance

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 2, 2025

Department of Education, with a federal judge ordering the reinstatement of a key grant that was terminated earlier this year over allegations of illegal diversity, equity, and inclusion practices. The organization's Equity Assistance Center represents a continuation of work that began with the original Desegregation Assistance Centers. "We

Grant

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 9, 2025

In a March 2025 university-wide email, President Gregory Washington announced the renaming of the "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion" office to the "Office of Access, Compliance, and Community" while maintaining that GMU "has always complied with existing civil rights laws."

Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The decision comes at a time when universities nationwide are struggling to balance competitive athletics programs with federal equity requirements. These cases have put additional pressure on institutions to clearly define their approaches to student-athlete compensation while maintaining compliance with federal regulations.

Administration

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

It also targets diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs, which the Department claims have contributed to widespread censorship and a repressive viewpoint monoculture on campuses. The directive, which builds on last year's Supreme Court decision in Students for Fair Admissions v.

Compliance

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

These changes include discontinuing the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, ending programming under Student Life's Center for Belonging and Social Change, and renaming the Office of Institutional Equity to the Office of Civil Rights Compliance.

Inclusion

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 30, 2025

It threatens to refer the case to the Justice Department ‘as soon as possible’ unless Harvard comes into compliance.” In a letter sent to Harvard, a federal task force ”accuses the university of being a ‘willful participant’ in antisemitic harassment of Jewish students and faculty.

Administration

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 8, 2025

The commitments to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) have long been performative at most predominantly white institutions (PWIs). Someone should inform higher education that fascism doesn't reward compliance. Now, institutions no longer need to maintain even this pretense.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 24, 2024

Utah higher education leaders are considering steps toward compliance with a new law, HB 261 , that prohibits an institution of higher education, public education system, and governmental employer from engaging in discriminatory practices. Katy Hall Such prohibited practices include diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.

Compliance

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 23, 2024

The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) has announced steps it will take to comply with Senate Bill 129 affecting diversity, equity and inclusion programming on University of Alabama System campuses. UAB has shuttered its Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion among other changes to ensure compliance.

Compliance

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 24, 2024

That is according to the May 23 vote by the Board of Governors for the University of North Carolina System to repeal and replace its existing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policy , likely effecting diversity programs at the system’s 17 institutions. Two of the 24 board members voted against the repeal. 1, and annually thereafter.

Compliance

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 21, 2024

As a first-generation college student, a Black woman, and the child of immigrants, I have witnessed firsthand the transformative power of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs in higher education. Use your platform to champion diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives within your university.

Higher education

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. The University of Michigan has entered into a resolution agreement with the U.S. Catherine E.

Compliance

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The regulation’s review requirements outline the Florida Educational Equity Act, which bars teaching of themes of critical race theory at universities. “By UF faculty already have a tenured review process that takes place every seven years. The Florida Board of Governors will meet in January to discuss the new policy.

Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 1, 2023

One remained behind in the hotel suite to ensure compliance. Earlier that day, Malone had given her keynote speech, Radical Hope and Authentic Healing , touching on the collective responsibility of community to advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion. This feeds back into your diversity, equity, and inclusion statements.

Inclusion

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Even though the landscape of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in higher education may have changed over the last three years, institutional and academic search firms say their commitment to identifying leaders, staff, and faculty who embody the essence of DEI work remains strong. and even around the world to fill key vacancies.

Compliance

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 5, 2024

Natalie Galucia The study, Age as a Factor in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives in Higher Education , was conducted between February 2022 and January 2023 and published in the Journal of Gerontological Social Wor k. Friedman Center for Aging.

University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2023

David Goetsch, associate director of recruitment compliance at Emory; Dr. Eric Solomon, visiting assistant professor of English and American studies at Oxford College; and Sarah Luce Look, co-owner of independent feminist bookstore Charis Books and More. The training was provided by SETpoint Jun.

Compliance

IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

JULY 23, 2024

These changes, informed by extensive public engagement, aim to modernize and standardize race and ethnicity data collections to improve uniformity and comparability across federal data sets and their usefulness for equity-driven policymaking. Full compliance across all data collections and publications is required by March 2029.

FAFSA

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2023

We had become complacent for a long time in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), doing the same-old, same-old.” While this regional-conscience admissions policy was already in place before the SCOTUS ruling, Perry says that her admissions department still had to make some changes to ensure their admissions processes were in compliance.

Application

The University Innovation Alliance

AUGUST 11, 2022

Innovating to Close Equity Gaps: The National Institute for Student Success. Closing the Equity Gaps. Those equity gaps often stem from an outdated profile of the typical college student: a full-time, on-campus resident with an understanding of available resources and the bandwidth to seek those resources on their own.

Student success

EAB

JANUARY 30, 2023

3 key functions of a higher education analytics organization Institutions of higher learning are collecting reams of data, but these data are generally used to satisfy compliance reporting requirements (or remain unused ) rather than employed to facilitate strategic analysis (1). Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 28 (1), 1-24.

Facilitation

EAB

JUNE 30, 2023

Improve compliance reporting IPEDS reporting (among other compliance reports) is a necessity for any institution receiving state or federal funding, but compiling and submitting IPEDS data is tedious and time-consuming. Edify uses plain-language terminology for its data fields to ensure everyone understands the data they access.

Database