Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 4, 2025

Analysts have documented a $12 billion disparity in funding between land-grant HBCUs and their non-HBCU peers, despite legal mandates for equal funding. We know that many early childhood educators face a host of layered challenges: economic insecurity, family obligations, language barriers, and more.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 31, 2025

Toldson, professor of counseling psychology at Howard University and recipient of AABHEs Distinguished Cultural Award, urged attendees to fiercely defend academic freedom. They expressed frustrations about feeling hamstrung in their efforts to serve students from underrepresented groups and conceded that many of them had begun to self-censor.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2025

Nearly half are Pell Grant-eligible, and 68% experience at least one basic needs insecurity, with 24% self-identifying as homeless. Yet, this outdated law restricts our ability to invest in counseling, librarians, and essential wraparound services that help students stay enrolled and achieve their goals."

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 29, 2023

million grant from the Andrew W. Kimbrough , Interim Executive Director for BMRI, wants the symposium to dive deeply into mental health and how it affects Black men and their communities. Funded by a $1.4 Lectures for the symposium’s second day will include Dr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 16, 2024

Department of Education (ED) has awarded a $1 million grant to Pitt Community College to help boost college enrollment and completion rates among students in rural areas. million to 22 of the nation’s higher education institutions through its Rural Postsecondary & Economic Development (RPED) Grant Program.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2025

Emotional and mental burnout crept innot just from the work itself but also from the realization of how easily our loyalty could be taken for granted. Dr. Nicole Pulliam is an associate professor of Educational Counseling & Leadership at Monmouth University. But one-sided love takes a toll. Higher ed raised many of us.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 19, 2024

Recommendations include doubling the maximum Pell Grant, reforming the student loan system to protect borrowers, and ensuring that public benefit programs, like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) or Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), are reformed to support a student’s journey through higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 1, 2023

And the Know Before You Owe Federal Student Loan Act would strengthen current loan counseling requirements for higher ed institutions, require loan counseling annually, and allow students to decide exactly how much they would like to borrow. “We And we’ve introduced a bill to improve loan counseling.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The task force will be chaired by Peter McPherson, president emeritus of the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU). This national task force will create financial aid offer principles and standards to help students understand education costs and compare offers.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Meridith Randall GWC Academic Senate President Damien Jordan, an associate professor of counseling, says Randall built trust among the faculty while serving as vice president of instruction, which readily translated when she became interim president. Grade-point averages were also higher for students who received the grants — 2.97

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Our first semester back on campus [fall 2021], we had a 30% increase in first-time personal counseling appointments,” said Dr. Jennifer Migliorino-Reyes, assistant vice president of student affairs at Bergen Community College. Another $10 million will be used to establish free statewide telehealth counseling services for college students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 15, 2024

He also oversaw the growth in fundraising and grant procurement. He holds a bachelor’s degree in business management from Southwest Minnesota State University, a master’s in counseling in Shippensburg University, and an Ed.D. in educational leadership in University of La Verne. President Tom Jackson, Jr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 27, 2023

We are extremely grateful for this grant and for the support from the Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development,” said MassBay President Dr. David Podell. MassBay Community College will be offering free education and training in the areas of computers and technology to unemployed and underemployed workers.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 6, 2024

These students also often lack access to adequate college counseling, making it more difficult to navigate the complex higher education landscape. We need policies that improve school funding, offer advanced courses to all students regardless of district, and ensure that college counseling is available to every student.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 1, 2024

has awarded a grant worth nearly $1 million to the Howard University College of Medicine to promote HIV prevention among Black women and girls. million in grants to the medical school’s Department of Pediatrics and Child Health and 18 other organizations as part of its new Setting the P.A.C.E. Gilead Sciences Inc.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2023

Ivory Toldson, national director of education innovation and research for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and professor of counseling psychology at Howard “[It’s] a monumental achievement,” said Dr. Ivory A. Howard had previously received a grant from the Department of Defense in 2020 of $7.5

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Title: Associate Professor of Counseling, Department of Disability & Psychoeducational Studies, University of Arizona, Affiliate Faculty, Education Policy Center, University of Arizona Tenured: Yes Age: 37 Education: B.S., school counseling, University of Maryland, College Park; and Ph.D.,

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JANUARY 17, 2024

counseling, University of Wisconsin-Madison; and Ph.D., She has been supported in her studies and research by numerous grants and fellowships including a 2022 grant from the Office of the Provost Research Development Academy at UT-Knoxville; she was a 2023 Faculty Fellow with the Association of American Hispanics in Higher Education, Inc.;

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

And thanks to a grant from Sound Transit, tuition, normally $5,000, is waived. AAMU is hoping to offer RAs in psychology, counseling, and eventually STEM fields. The first cohort gra duated in fall 2021. The needs of the community surrounding Alabama A&M University (AAMU) , an HBCU, were quite different.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 17, 2023

Supreme Court’s decision on the constitutionality of affirmative action, the Mellon Foundation, a nonprofit that makes grants related to higher learning, among other areas, recently convened a panel to discuss how America got to this moment and what might come after. As the world awaits the U.S. The participants were not optimistic. “To

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 18, 2023

“The best-case scenario here would be for the court to affirm its longstanding precedent and uphold both Harvard and UNC’s minimal consideration of race as just one of dozens of factors that the schools consider in admissions,” said Michaele Turnage Young, senior counsel at the Legal Defense Fund. And that’s troubling.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Institutions that have a large number of undergraduate students who receive Pell Grants also reported a decline in freshman enrollment of more than 10%. Our holistic support services including food pantries, tutoring, counseling, athletics, clubs, organizations and our cultural centers create opportunities for our students to thrive.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 9, 2023

No Pell Grants. Work with Admissions, Financial Aid, Counseling, Career Development, and other offices to discuss inclusive actions and support structures. On top of that, undocumented students are ineligible for any federal financial aid. No student loans. No Federal work study. Provide holistic student services.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

WVC, an associate’s and bachelor’s degree granting institution, has two dual enrollment programs: Running Start, which brings students to WVC, and College in the High School, held on high school campuses. These programs waive tuition and connect students with academic counseling to ensure their success. Dr. Karen A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2022

We don't just have a handful of counseling faculty and advisors for the Black students at Compton. At Compton, we put all budgets on the table – every small categorical program, every department, every grant – to pay for what works and will reach the largest number of students. All employees see themselves as student success advocates.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2023

Daniel Santos, CEO of Prepory, a college counseling service, has seen how the bills have shaped college searches recently. “But because of the all the anti-LGBT laws that were being passed, I didn’t feel comfortable. I’ve heard all these horror stories about people getting beat up for their identity.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 11, 2023

Department of Education is stepping up with $368 million in new grant funding to aid teacher retention and recruitment and improve diversity. For that reason it’s encouraging to see that a key provision of the bill would double the amount of annual grants that help prospective educators pay for college.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 29, 2024

Washington’s expertise is sought after and granted across religious, government, corporate, and educational settings. Dr. Jamie Washington Washington connects all these responsibilities and commitments with a very simple but unifying approach: find the humanity inside everyone.

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APRIL 7, 2023

From College to Careers: The Pell Institute Receives $748,000 Ascendium Grant to Explore Career Development within TRIO Programs April 7, 2023 — by Terry Vaughan III The research will examine how TRIO programs can work with existing career services to provide comprehensive career support to learners.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

But it’s taken for granted that these students will lose credits along the way. It’s very difficult for [prospective transfer] students to access the time and counsel of an academic advisor,” said Pingel. The Government Accountability Office estimates that transfer students lose 43% of their credits when they switch schools.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

This eventually led to applying for and receiving a grant to develop programming for LGBTQ+ students at Guttman. Even if he wanted to go to the counseling center, there weren’t counselors competent to discuss issues related to his coming out process. This academic year, 575 students are being supported.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 8, 2024

The students don’t just get the housing, they get individualized counseling, transportation, and other supports that are comprehensive,” says CCC Chancellor Juan Salgado. In the summer, certain EHS buildings have a Pell Grant rate for individuals who are Pell Grant eligible. EHS President and CEO Jeffrey H.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In Massachusetts , the state-funded Supporting Urgent Community College Equity Through Student Services (SUCCESS) program provides community college students with wraparound services including tutoring, academic advising, financial aid counseling, and career guidance.

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Active Minds

OCTOBER 10, 2024

In an amazing moment of coincidence, at the start of the school year a few students came down to the school counseling office saying that they wanted to start a new club at school to focus on kindness and mental health awareness. Talk about “great minds think alike!” The students were thrilled and we instantly got started.

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OCTOBER 10, 2023

Financial aid discussions have centered on simplifying FAFSA and increasing federal Pell Grants – all important – but federal student aid policies are only one funding source for families trying to determine how to pay for college. However, the reality is these institutional grants are not fairly distributed.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Based on data gathered, we increased support services such as Ram Pantry, counseling, technology availability, and academic advising,” he continues. Approximately 49% are Pell Grant eligible or have first-generation, low-income backgrounds. These data-driven decisions allow us to refine efforts to better serve our student population.”

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In Massachusetts , the state-funded Supporting Urgent Community College Equity Through Student Services (SUCCESS) program provides community college students with wraparound services including tutoring, academic advising, financial aid counseling, and career guidance.

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