Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2025

California's community colleges find themselves caught in a 60-year-old funding constraint that increasingly hampers their ability to serve todays students, according to a new report from the Community College League of California. In 1961, college students were predominantly white, traditional-age students who attended full-time.

Student success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2025

A unique aspect of the program pairs each fellow with a Howard student, creating mentorship opportunities while advancing research goals. The new institute will implement a competitive residential fellowship program, bringing together international scholars to pursue research projects across various disciplines.

University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

This gap widens at an institution like Trine , where many students graduate with degrees in high-paying fields like healthcare and engineering, and many of our graduates earn above the national average in their field. These benefits are magnified for students who go on to earn master's and doctoral degrees. Dr. Earl D.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Diversifying representation sends a signal to students, faculty, and other stakeholders that leadership is attainable, and education serves as a gateway to socio-economic gains for communities and the citizens they serve. In a perfect world, governing boards and leadership demographics would mirror the student population (Higgs, 2014).

Inclusion

IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

JULY 2, 2025

Their responses highlight four key ways federal data make their work possible: benchmarking student progress, guiding state budgeting, ensuring data consistency, and expanding state data capacity. Unfortunately, our nation’s federal postsecondary data infrastructure is now in jeopardy.

Financial aid

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

But like other free tuition initiatives for Native American students, it’s not quite as simple as it sounds. One of the concerns I have is many college-bound students do not have the tools or the know how of securing adequate funding before they go to college,” says Dr. Karen R. The basics are very appealing. Dr. Gresham D.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 27, 2025

In doing so, we remain true to the definition of fidelity the quality or state of being faithful or loyal. We urge educators to prioritize this kind of evaluation and then to take action to be responsive and accountable to students and families on the margins. Accordingly, we relate the 12 criteria to academic settings.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 14, 2025

If you look up the book definition of intersectionality, you can identify the sociological framework suggested by Kimberl Crenshaw in the 1980s that explains how complex power structures of individuals and groups combine, or intersect, in patterns of discrimination and privilege across multiple factors such as gender, race, and class.

Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 17, 2025

It provides students with tools to think about their education practically and guarantees every student access to research, an internship, or an international experience. “If It definitely had that reputation as an ivory tower, so it’s been part of my mission to break down that barrier here.” It took perseverance.

Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Ford and hearts as they seek to provide Black students with rigorous and relevant instructional styles and strategies. While the authors use deliberate in their definition, I urge readers to understand that such violence can also be unintentional. I want to inform and/or remind readers that Dr. James A.

Instruction

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2025

They needed long-term, data-driven, institutionally customized strategies to build financial resilience, promote academic innovation, and drive student success models that work for their institutions. DIVERSE : In addition to policymakers, faculty, and administrators, students play a major role in UNITE.

Collaboration

IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

But in some cases, students’ return on investment varies widely because factors like race, income, and geography contribute to disparities in student outcomes. PASSHE is using the Value Data Collaborative to assess the long-term impact of a college education for their students.

Collaboration

Student Minds

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Talking and interacting with people is definitely not my speciality. I experience it a lot but feeling lonely around 30,000 students - nearly 400 of them in my course - exacerbated this even more. You can also find support at Student Space. Vee writes about overcoming feelings of loneliness and making friends at uni. -

Mental health

CFAA College Financial Aid Advisors

DECEMBER 16, 2024

For some students, the application feels overwhelming and instead of figuring it out or asking for help, they skip submitting it. However, by not submitting the FAFSA, families and students are missing out on potential aid to help pay for school! Many students forget about this and wind up losing out on aid!

FAFSA

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2025

Balancing academics with athletics has definitely been challenging, but I’ve learned how to stay disciplined, manage my time and stay focused on my goals. One of the things I’ve loved most is getting the chance to speak at elementary schools and connect with younger students,” Ross says. “I She lifts everybody up that’s around her.”

Community outreach

Patter by Pat Thomson

JULY 29, 2025

His book examines how students develop written identities in academic settings and the complex relationship between language, power, and social class in educational settings. While teachers often encourage students to “find their voice,” Schmit shows that voice is largely determined by social institutions and community membership.

Instruction

IEFA

JANUARY 7, 2025

How do students secure funding for their university education and support their academic journey? Students can access funding through government grants, private donations, scholarships, and research grants. Financial aid for students Financial aid bridges the gap between what students can afford and the actual cost of education.

International student

Student Privacy Compass

JULY 23, 2024

These efforts are often led by parent organizations, athletic boosters, student groups, or the school itself. Traditionally, fundraisers were dominated by product sales – cookie dough, candy bars, and kitchenware – often involving students soliciting support door-to-door or from family and friends.

Compliance

John Hopkins University Student Well-Being Blog

APRIL 3, 2025

It is definitely, and also totally normal. How to Access: [link] What to Do: Once you click the link and select the type of learner you are (student or trainee). If you are a School of Medicine medical student, a resident, or a medical fellow, use your JHED@jhmi.edu address. The sun is shining. Flowers are starting to bloom.

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 16, 2025

Balancing academics with athletics has definitely been challenging, but I’ve learned how to stay disciplined, manage my time and stay focused on my goals. One of the things I’ve loved most is getting the chance to speak at elementary schools and connect with younger students,” Ross says. “I She lifts everybody up that’s around her.”

Community outreach

Believe in Students

APRIL 23, 2025

When you look at the top twenty or so institutions in the country—which includes large public schools like UCLA—less than 5% of students attend these schools. And just as most institutions don’t look like Harvard, most students don’t look like those filling the green space at Penn or Columbia to protest university or government policies.

Faculty

Civitas Learning

MARCH 13, 2025

Ensuring that students eventually graduate isnt enough to drive sustainable institutions. Higher Education must also prepare and develop students to reach their goals. A students journeyand how prepared they feel for life after collegedirectly impacts long-term success.

Retention

NCLC Student Loan Borrower Assistance

JANUARY 7, 2025

Department of Educations efforts to reduce student loan burdens through the new SAVE repayment plan. In this post, we first explain where things currently stand for student loan borrowers as of January 7, 2025, and what options are available to borrowers. These lawsuits are ongoing and there are no financial decisions yet.

Student loans

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 28, 2024

As election day approaches, organizers nationwide are intensifying their efforts to boost engagement and turnout efforts among college students and first-time voters. The IGNITE report surveyed 1,004 Gen Z college students aged 18-25 from two-and four-year colleges across 48 states and Washington, D.C.,

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 10, 2025

Political considerations are playing an unprecedented role in college selection, with nearly one-third of prospective students removing schools from consideration for political reasons, according to a new study released Tuesday by education research firm EAB. Mental health challenges are impacting college enrollment decisions significantly.

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 27, 2025

The most recent example is the University of Cincinnati, which for months has been the scene of protests from students and faculty against the implementation of Senate Bill 1. Why should a future student give tuition dollars to a school that may not provide protections for free speech?

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 10, 2025

The letters, sent under the authority of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, warn institutions of potential enforcement actions if they don't adequately protect Jewish students on campus. The Department of Education's statement expresses disappointment that "Jewish students studying on elite U.S.

Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Realigning TM 2 to enhance the leadership initiatives for our member schools at the executive level is essential to the future of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), historically Black community colleges (HBCCs) and predominantly Black institutions (PBIs) and the students they serve, says Dr. Harry L.

Leadership

Catherine Cronin

JANUARY 16, 2025

And what does it mean for individual lives: teachers, students, and especially those whose humanity continues to be the subject of debate? The word generative has different definitions in other contexts, however. What does generative AI mean for teaching, learning, assessment, and research? What does it mean for the future?

Humanities

College Planners of America

JUNE 13, 2025

Title III of the legislation contains the Committee on Education and Workforce’s proposed changes to the Department of Education’s (ED) student aid programs, including Pell Grants, student loans, and the aid eligibility formula. 1 was designed to rectify the government’s convoluted student loan system and save $351 billion.

Financial aid

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 27, 2025

And our students deserve that. Supreme Court in Students for Fair Admissions and an attempt to undermine diversity efforts on our college campuses (and elsewhere) because of a disagreement in policy and popular political messaging not because it is what is best for students.

Student success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 24, 2025

Columbia's own antisemitism task force documented instances of Jewish students facing verbal abuse, ostracism, and classroom humiliation during spring 2024 demonstrations. The funding suspension stemmed from the administration's concerns about Columbia's handling of antisemitism during Israel-Hamas war protests on campus.

Curriculum

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 9, 2025

Barnard College has reached a settlement in a federal lawsuit alleging insufficient response to campus antisemitism, agreeing to implement sweeping policy changes that have sparked debate about academic freedom and student expression at the Manhattan women's college.

Inclusion

Patter by Pat Thomson

AUGUST 7, 2025

Meanwhile, all the behind-the-scenes labour that makes conferences possible – students managing registration, the admin staff coordinating logistics – becomes invisible. Next time you’re lying awake before a big presentation, remember Gunaratnam’s message: you’re not broken, and you’re definitely not alone.

Humanities

NCLC Student Loan Borrower Assistance

MARCH 20, 2025

Department of Educations efforts to reduce student loan burdens through the new SAVE repayment plan. In Part 2, we break down exactly what the recent court orders mean for student loan borrowers. The SAVE plan is the newest income-driven repayment plan for federal student loans, created by the Biden Administration in 2023.

Student loans

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2025

Theres definitely pressure to succeed academically in our community, says Chen. While a gender gap exists, what stands out is the remarkable increase in overall degree completion rates for both men and women. In 1995, 42% of young Asian Americans of both genders held bachelors degrees.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2025

Bonner II Kendrick Lamars Superbowl LIX performance Not Like Us took me back to an experience I had when I was a doctoral student. To define and explore who I was, did not have to be based on the definitions and experiences of the otherespecially when the other was outside of the Black diaspora.

Humanities