Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 8, 2025

The United Negro College Fund announced a comprehensive initiative Tuesday designed to empower Black parents as advocates for increasing the number of Black teachers in America's classrooms, addressing a critical shortage that has far-reaching implications for student success and educational equity.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 15, 2025

In a significant gathering dedicated to the advancement of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), approximately 70 leaders from across the higher education landscape have converged on Claflin University this week for the Ideation, Innovation, and Collaboration summit sponsored by the Higher Education Leadership Foundation (H.E.L.F).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2025

As associate provost at the college, Ill admit I was biased but even two decades of experience in higher education couldnt fully prepare me for her struggle to transfer credits. Enshrined in New York state education law is the mandate for CUNY to maintain its close articulation between senior and community college units.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Known for a dedication to fostering inclusion, Reis has a history of championing initiatives that promote representation and innovation in media education and is an accomplished scholar with research interests in environmental journalism, international communication, and the role of media in society. That elevates our role that much further.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The legacy of racial inequities in education is not an abstraction; it is a lived reality that resonates both with the students we serve and within the leadership spaces we occupy. Rather than constraining educators, AB 705 lays the groundwork for new strategies—like culturally relevant pedagogy, curriculum revisions, and embedded supports.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 2, 2025

Likewise, as a higher education professional, I have mentored and supported first-generation Black postsecondary STEM students who share similar life experiences, aspirations, challenges, and stories that help them persist through their STEM education and workforce readiness training. Kornbluh et al.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

A California native, legislator, father and lifelong advocate for equity and education, Gipson has committed years to ensuring Black and historically marginalized students have the resources they need. This grant program represents the next step in his advocacy efforts.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 2, 2025

Trans research agenda crystallized during her undergraduate studies at CUNY, Queens College, where she noticed a significant gap in the curriculum. Asian American literature was a huge gap in the curriculum, Tran recalls.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2025

It brings together presidents, provosts, faculty, funders, policymakers, and industry leaders to address big questions facing HBCUs. DIVERSE : In addition to policymakers, faculty, and administrators, students play a major role in UNITE. At the end of the day, UNITE isn't just a conference; it's a movement. Take HBCUv for example.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The path to higher education success has many obstacles and barriers for Latinos across the U.S. The mission of Excelencia in Education, founded in 2004 by Dr. Deborah A. Department of Education, the Upward Bound program works with students from six area high schools that are identified as potential first-generation college students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 14, 2025

I identify as a gay Black man, a practicing Catholic, and a multilingual leader with a doctorate in education and an emphasis in curriculum and teaching. Moorpark College faculty members provide students more time on tests in gateway Math and English courses. We are there for them when they need us.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 12, 2025

During her time there, she led full-time and adjunct faculty recruitment, development, retention and evaluation, curriculum and instruction. Prior to that, she was Dean of Instruction for Transfer and Pre-College Education at Highline, from July 2008 to March 2017.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2025

Today's studentsand today's workforce needsrequire educational experiences that extend beyond the classroom," said Dr. Larry Galizio, President & CEO of the Community College League of California. "By The landscape of higher education has changed dramatically since the Eisenhower-era statute was implemented.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 17, 2025

One of Jordan’s proudest achievements: building a liberal arts education model that is innovative and accessible to all. “We We demonstrated to the country that we’re thinking about the highest form of undergraduate education in a way that is inclusive of everyone,” says Jordan in an interview with Diverse. It took funding.

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Student Research Foundation

DECEMBER 6, 2024

While many colleges are known for the quality of their education, most excel in specific fields or subject areas. Then, well discuss key factors to consider when comparing programs, such as curriculum, resources, and major-specific opportunities. If you want to help people, some of the best majors for you may be education or nursing.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2025

Clark has used her extensive experience to elevate the law schools curriculum, guide students and alumni on their career paths, and influence the public discourse through her scholarship, public service, and media commentary.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 22, 2025

As a founding faculty member of University of Pikeville’s Kentucky College of Optometry (KYCO), Ibironke co-developed the college’s didactic and clinical pediatric optometry curriculum and created its Leadership in Healthcare course sequence, all while serving as an advisor to students.

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Timely MD

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Higher education has long been heralded as a path to personal and professional growth. A recent nationwide survey by TimelyCare, higher educations most trusted virtual health and well-being provider, shows that 71% of college students experience mental health challenges like stress, anxiety, and depression.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Private schools have long been a beacon of academic excellence and unique educational opportunities. Informative Workshops: Conduct workshops and seminars to educate families about the financial aid process and encourage them to apply. This can lead to improved academic performance and positive social-emotional development.

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IEFA

DECEMBER 18, 2024

are offered by business schools associated with universities providing the resources, faculty and accreditation for MBAs. Full-time MBAs These in-person programs follow a set course curriculum with students attending classes and submitting coursework. Financing your MBA education can come through various avenues.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Tanzania Cooper In the early 19th century, HBCUs were the only option in higher education available to Black people. HBCUs not only provide a quality education; they also provide a space to be unapologetically and courageously Black in a society that would deny Black people dignity.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 21, 2025

Shaun Harper In a powerful defense of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in higher education, Dr. Shaun Harper, Provost Professor of Education, Public Policy, and Business at the University of Southern California, presented evidence-based testimony before the U.S. of racially motivated hate crimes on campuses. "In

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Civitas Learning

APRIL 17, 2025

In higher education, successful implementation often means rethinking long-standing processes, habits, and team dynamics. To address this, ACC partnered with Civitas Learning and took a collaborative approach, engaging faculty, advisors, and student success staff from the beginning.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2025

Carol Ann Tomlinson taught in public schools for 21 years and was later a faculty member at the University of Virginia for 30 years. Her two lives as an educator have enabled her to develop, pilot, research, refine, and share a model for differentiating instruction in todays diverse classrooms.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 13, 2025

In what legal experts are calling a landmark case for academic freedom, Harvard faculty and the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) have filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, alleging unconstitutional attempts to control campus speech and governance through threatened funding cuts. Nikolas Bowie, Louis D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Since joining the university's Campus Ministry in 2002, he has been instrumental in advancing several key initiatives, including formative education programs and Core Curriculum renewal. Butler's path to the presidency reflects a lifetime of service and education. An Atlanta native and 1987 graduate of St.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 18, 2025

One hundred miles south of Los Angeles’ protests, 245 higher education professionals met one week before the Juneteenth holiday. We convened at the Umoja Community Education Foundation’s Summer Learning Institute (SLI) in San Marcos, Calif., The administrator discussed how the protests in L.A., and “Am I college material?”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 4, 2025

Ethan Pollock Ethan Pollock, a faculty member and academic leader with nearly 20 years of service to Brown University, will become the Universitys new dean of the College, effective July 1. A professor of history and Slavic studies who joined the Brown faculty in 2006, Pollock has served as chair of the Department of History since 2020.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Some of those best practices were on full display at the 5 th Biennial International Conference on Urban Education. Sponsored by The Urban Education Collaboration, led by Dr. Chance W. Board of Education ruling. The convening took on a greater sense of urgency, following Tuesday’s election of Donald J. Dr. Leslie T.

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Civitas Learning

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Higher education institutions that bring together previously disjointed approaches to student care gain greater clarity and drive measurable improvements in retention, completion rates, career readiness, and the overall student experience. Discover: Common challenges that institutions face in aligning care.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 11, 2025

It has long been associated with the Hispanic-Serving institution (HSI) designation that the Federal government established in the 1992 reauthorization of the Higher Education Act to recognize and provide funding and resources to colleges and universities that had a fulltime undergraduate enrollment of at least 25% Latinx.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 4, 2025

It demanded academic departments be ideologically reshaped, student organizations dismantled, and faculty policed for anything considered activism. The federal memo reads like a wish list from those who have long wanted higher education to retreat from efforts to repair the racialized inequality that plagues this country.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

A massive plan to restructure the School of Education (SOE) at American University, is facing fierce opposition from students, faculty and staff. Faculty and staff at the private university in Washington, D.C. Students and faculty, however, have expressed concerns. Dr. Antonio L.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Phelton Moss expressly prohibits federal involvement in local education systems. Code is unambiguous: No provision of any applicable program shall be construed to authorize any department, agency, officer, or employee of the United States to exercise any direction, supervision, or control over curriculum.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The intergenerational benefits of a college education are massive, and they begin accruing when both parent and child are in school at the same time. The good news is that two-generation models are increasingly common in higher education, and evaluations of both short and longer-term effects are promising, especially for Black families.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 23, 2025

Unlike many global models, American universities foster a unique educational ecosystem. Convincing data from multiple sources confirm the value of educational experiences. Research indicates that non-pecuniary advantages of a college education include increased happiness and protection against age-related neural decline.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 17, 2025

President Donald Trumps efforts to dismantle higher education diversity, equity and inclusion programs are having ripple effects in Virginia, a state with divided government leadership. However, strong opposition has come from faculty and students. Opposing arguments also have come from student voices.

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