Compliance Equity Scholarship 
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JULY 10, 2025
This mandate could help preserve opportunities for student-athletes in traditionally underrepresented sports, many of which provide crucial scholarship pathways for diverse student populations. However, critics question whether this protection is sufficient given the magnitude of financial pressures facing athletic departments.
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.
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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.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 16, 2025
In a Dear Colleague Letter to schools receiving federal funding, the Department mandated the cessation of race preferences in areas ranging from admissions and hiring to scholarships and disciplinary actions. Schools that fail to comply within 14 days risk losing federal funding.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
Ohio State University announced Thursday it will close its Office of Diversity and Inclusion and modify scholarship programs geared toward diverse student populations, citing pressure from federal directives and pending state legislation.
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.
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.” Meeting the financial needs of students isn’t easy, says Henderson, but by forming partnerships with medical corporations like Kaiser Permanente, UC Davis has been able to offer scholarships to its primary care students.
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