Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 3, 2025

By partnering with Intel, our curriculum prepares students for real-world application. For more than a century, our system has delivered on the promise of providing affordable, high-quality postsecondary education. Maricopa Community Colleges has been at the forefront of AI. The Roueche Center Forum is co-edited by Drs.

Community college

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 24, 2025

The court determined the directive potentially contradicts established legal protections for academic freedom and may violate constitutional rights by imposing vague restrictions on curriculum and programming.

Education

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. To make sure that this system does not break again, we will be working with faculty to adjust how we develop the curriculum for new courses.

Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 8, 2025

A recent UNCF study, "The Heart Work of Hard Work," examined best practices in teacher preparation programs at HBCUs and found these institutions serve as significant producers of Black teachers for America's public education system.

Curriculum

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2024

It is this quality experience that learners courting and attending our community colleges expect to receive, and failure to provide will lead to continuous declines in enrollment and confidence in higher education. These historical progressions made the relationship between college access and inclusiveness symbiotic.

Community college

Believe in Students

MAY 22, 2025

ICYMI: Last fall we announced the launch of the #RealCollege Curriculum, a masterclass for higher education professionals and their partners, designed to help colleges and universities enhance the equitable use of holistic student supports. 🔗Ready to dive in? Get started here.

Curriculum

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. Segrest through my program.

STEM education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 22, 2025

Title: Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Tenured: Yes Age: 36 Education: B.A., Political Science, Tulane University; Ph.D.,

Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

We should have the same fervor with Black boys and men - seeing their humanity and celebrating the tremendous value they have added not just in sports, but also in academics and various career fields.

Education

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. I am a parent as well as a poet, writer, and storyteller, and Ive served as an artist in the schools where Ive taught.

Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2025

It's about equipping institutions with the tools to drive change on their campuses, fostering cross-campus collaboration, and ensuring that HBCUs are setting an agenda for higher education innovation, not just responding to it. Diverse: Issues In Higher Education is proud to serve as this years media sponsor.

Collaboration

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Concerns range from the stability of special program funding to the potential rigidity of curriculum mandates and the challenges of supporting individualized education plans (IEPs). He speaks not only for himself but for many of his colleagues who are lying awake at night, grappling with the weight of what might come.

Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

How does thedepartments curriculum reflectthe perspectives and experiences of historically underrepresented communities in media and journalism? Political and social tensions centered around higher education are by no means new phenomena.

Inclusion

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 1, 2025

The toolkit outlines a five-step process for building successful programs: assembling a campus-wide team, identifying industry partners, aligning curriculum with workforce needs, registering with federal or state agencies, and publicizing the programs to students.

Career counseling

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. She went on to earn both her M.A.

Curriculum

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Annette Reed According to university officials, the Sacramento State Native American College, is set to welcome its inaugural cohort for the Fall 2025 semester “and will offer a unique, culturally rooted educational experience.”

Curriculum

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 3, 2025

The expansion comes as Oregon Tech serves a student body that reflects many of the demographic trends reshaping higher education nationwide. Ruth Bauer, president of InsideTrack and a lifetime Oregon resident, noted that Oregon Tech's student population mirrors national trends in higher education demographics.

Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 17, 2025

As we were trying to think about enrollment, there was this national dialogue that’s still continuing about the value of higher education, specifically about liberal arts education,” Jordan recalls. We did not at any point water down our standards and the rigor of the curriculum,” says Jordan. “As

Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 23, 2025

The college has also updated its approach to academic advising and refreshed the curriculum in several programs. This includes in-person presence at high schools in the Bronx, Manhattan and lower Westchester. The enrollment numbers for Black and Hispanic students continues to increase for the third consecutive year.

Low income student

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Through his advocacy for Black students in California, he has observed several key barriers that impact their enrollment and success, including Black faculty representation, culturally reflective curriculum, pedagogy and instructional methodology.

Grant

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The academy's curriculum aligns with Professional Standards for Educational Leaders (PSEL) and covers essential competencies including district operations, budgeting, board relations, communications, and community engagement. The benefits are far-reaching."

Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 5, 2025

Jessica DeCuir-Gunby, a leading educational psychologist, holds the Robert A. Naslund Chair in Curriculum and Teaching at the University of Southern California (USC). Previously, she served as department head of the Department of Teacher Education and Learning Sciences at NC State University.

University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2025

The landscape of higher education has changed dramatically since the Eisenhower-era statute was implemented. While the Fifty Percent Law technically applies to K-12 schools as well, districts at that level can easily obtain waivers, making community colleges the only educational system where the law is strictly enforced.

Student success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Eliminating remedial education is not a blanket solution, but it serves as a necessary intervention to halt a system that has disproportionately affected minoritized students. Rather than constraining educators, AB 705 lays the groundwork for new strategies—like culturally relevant pedagogy, curriculum revisions, and embedded supports.

Student success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The transformational achievements of the past speak to the college's ability to successfully navigate this moment and continue its mission of preparing creatives for successful careers for many generations to come."

Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 30, 2025

Failing to take advantage of the positive aspects of generative AI will risk leaving more students behind, sending students to work unprepared, and further eroding confidence in higher education."

Community college

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 27, 2025

The center's work will be organized around four pillars: Law & Policy, Education and Curriculum, Art, Imagination, and Narrative, and Democratic Institutions. This framework will allow for a comprehensive examination of the amendment's impact across society.

University

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.

Instruction

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. As one of the few Latina provosts in higher education, the Seal holds personal significance for me,” Duran-Cerda says. Santiago and Sarita E.

Retention

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 23, 2025

These higher education programs strive to maintain professional standards in ethics, assessment, and cultural awareness. Conclusion: investing in counselor sustainability The resilience-based approach I advocate encourages counselor educators, supervisors, and institutions to adopt an equity-driven stance.

Counseling

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.

Mental health

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.

Curriculum

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. Black students are seeking more interactions with Black faculty, a Black-centered curriculum, and an overall empowering campus experience. Tanzania Cooper is a Ph.D.

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

In higher education, these legislative attacks have led to a decline in Black and Latino student enrollment at selective colleges and universities and have prompted institutions to abandon their commitment to equity. If ever there was a time for good trouble in higher education, that time is now.

Educational leadership

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.

Curriculum

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.

Community outreach

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 13, 2025

The research and teaching of Harvard faculty have already been chilled by the Trump administration's attempt to coerce the university into changing its curriculum and governing structure," said Dr. Kirsten Weld, professor of History and president of the AAUP-Harvard Faculty Chapter. "If

Administration