Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Among other functions, AI can assist with developing institution-relevant cultural competency training for employees; simulations for leadership training; additional educational content for students; and specialized orientations for certain student demographics.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

In this role, she is looking at proportionate demographic representation between the program and CCBC at large; diversity in the classroom in terms of race, ethnicity, and age; and concepts of how students can give back to the community. Washington says she wants the Honors Program to cater to the demographics of a community college. “A

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 14, 2023

The demographics of the college presidency still don’t reflect the demographics of who goes to college, let alone the demographics of society. Okahana hopes that the study will catalyze discussion and reflection.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Several racial demographics domestically – including underrepresented minorities (URM) – saw declines, with first-time graduate enrollment falling 5.7% And many demographics did see increases in total graduate enrollment, with total enrollment rising by 9.9% for white students, 4.5% for American Indian/Alaska Native students, 4.1%

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Community College Review

MAY 30, 2022

Learn about the increasing numbers of older, professional students attending community colleges, which offer excellent opportunities for adult learners.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

They serve our country’s fastest-growing demographics—from students of color and first-generation students to adult learners and transfer students—and create pathways to social and economic mobility.” It’s an honor to join AASCU at a time when regional comprehensive universities are poised to make a critical impact.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

A growing demographic, Latinos currently make up 25% of young Americans aged 18 and under, according to the report. And an increasing percentage of Latinos seem to be pursuing undergraduate engineering degrees, the demographic seeing a 73.6% Latinos are here to help bridge that gap. We're ready to bridge that gap."

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2024

The report is drawn from InsideTrack’s frontline experience working side-by-side with hundreds of college and university programs to help them design, build, and scale holistic in-house student support programs able to meet the fast-changing demographics and complex needs of students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 11, 2024

Earning a college degree is still a sound investment, although the rate of economic return varies across college majors and student demographics, according to a new American Educational Research Association (AERA) analysis of 5.8 million Americans.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC) is looking to enhance its student success coaching program as its student demographics change. Ruth Bauer White InsideTrack "What UMGC has shared with us is that their student demographics are changing,” said Steve Ast, senior vice president of partner success at InsideTrack.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 24, 2024

The Latinx population is the fastest growing demographic in the U.S., It can be searched by keyword, location, and Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) status, achieved when student populations reach over 25% Latinx.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Research on gateway math as a barrier has mostly focused on students—their demographic backgrounds, socioeconomic statuses, and high school grades. A student’s high school (11%), personal demographics (7%), and the attributes of the course itself (1%) played smaller roles still.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 21, 2022

When the University of Central Florida (UCF) struggled to diversify its predominately White student and faculty demographics, it turned Dr. Valarie Greene King, an Army-trained clinical psychologist, to help drive the diversity agenda. That was 20 years ago and she’s never looked back.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 2, 2024

In a rapidly changing society riddled with economic uncertainties, demographic shifts, political infighting, declining workforce participation rates, rising inflation, rising attacks on diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts, and a technological landscape that is evolving rapidly with deeper integrations with artificial intelligence, how is your (..)

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2023

To note, despite the increases for the aforementioned demographics, these groups – and those with disabilities – remain underrepresented in STEM compared to their percentage in the U.S. population, the report found. Currently, the STEM workforce includes 12.3 million women (35% of the STEM workforce), 8.3

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 7, 2023

We’re being very intentional with the recruitment of our male students of color because we want to make sure that the college’s demographic landscape is also reflected within our Honors Program,” said Adrianne Washington, CCBC dean of special academic programs. of the Honors Program population. The goal is at least 15%.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 29, 2023

The National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education criticized the ruling. “ The Supreme Court has erred grievously in overturning decades of precedent that has affirmed the legality and value of race-conscious admissions practices.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The letter authors called on ED to expand its Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) to include racial and ethnic demographic data for applications and admits, whether a school considers an alumni relation in admissions, and whether a school offers an early decision and/or early action. “If

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 24, 2023

The Black Census Project collects findings of Black attitudes and opinions across demographics and geography, including LGBTQ+ communities, transgender communities, incarcerated Black people, Black immigrant communities, and Black people in rural areas.

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APRIL 18, 2024

The College of Health Care Professions recognized the changes in student demographics and designed programs centered on today’s learners, including Aracely, who has now started her career as a nationally certified medical coding and billing specialist. A looming challenge for today’s colleges is finding ways to re-engage adult learners.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 4, 2024

Viewers can additionally look at the racial demographics, median household incomes, and high school graduation rates in each of the region’s school districts. According to the site, old covenants remain on many property deeds in the county to this day. The Rochester region is consistently one of the U.S.’s

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Lawmakers can also contribute to support this demographic, Flohr wrote. Educators can take steps and create lesson plans to highlight Black LGBTQ+ figures and content that affirms Black LGBTQ+ experiences and identities, the report’s authors suggested.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 20, 2024

Leaders at both Mercy and MSC hope this partnership and credential will move the demographics in the industry to more closely represent the make-up of the country. Dr. Brian Amkraut, vice president for Workforce Credentialing and Community Impact at Mercy University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 3, 2024

The head coach is also shown, and demographic data on the university is provided. Harper, founder and executive director of the University of Southern California Race and Equity Center. Harper depicts each team in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Tournament. Data across Division I is also provided.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2024

Forced captivity, enslavement, disenfranchisement, and deliberate divisions based on race, colorism, sexism, gender differentiation, language, tone, accents, and demographics are intentional viruses meant to plague the ability for Black success.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2024

Having tens of thousands of respondents allows us to really dig deep into concerns we see in particular sports or within particular demographic groups.” There was great variance, however, on other issues including how student-athletes viewed their body image.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 8, 2024

Not only have state financial aid programs not kept up with rising tuition, but they are also falling behind compared to changing demographics and the needs of today’s students, which include returning adults, student parents, and working first-generation students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 4, 2023

On top of that, we have huge demographic shifts—fewer high school graduates, the traditional college-going market, with increasing proportions of students of color, Latinx in particular,” said Oubré. According to the Department of Education, about six million students received Pell Grant funding in the 2020 – 2021 academic year.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Campus mental health services need to also evolve to accommodate more demographics, Brown said. And we've certainly seen over the last couple of years the growing importance of providing support for students from a variety of different demographic groups and making sure there are various pathways to that support.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Students visit Sabal’s Cassava Farm in Belize in March 2022 “Our student demographic is one of the most diverse student demographics in the country,” said Dr. Gundolf Graml, associate VP for academic affairs, dean for curriculum and strategic initiatives, and professor of German.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Systems can be programmed to ignore factors such as demographic information and assess applicant resumes more objectively, Hall claimed. “We've all been in the office when someone just comes by your desk and one conversation leads to another topic.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2024

Machines who learn from skewed data sets – such as inaccurate or disproportionate representations of demographics – will have bias built in and therefore produce biased results. The use cases for AI tools are many, but tools are only as good as the data they are trained on, the report noted.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2024

The demographics of our faculty, staff, and administrators reflect the student population we serve. The creation of a federal Black Serving Institution designation to support institutions of higher education. Accreditation and accountability will be viewed as a positive peer review process and not performative.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Similar stagnation was discernable for various racial and ethnic demographics. Georgia, Florida, New York, and Massachusetts were some of the states that instead saw declining six-year completion rates. Asian, white, Hispanic student completion rates stayed about the same from last year. Black students saw a 0.5% decrease – 43.9% to 47.5%.

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MAY 4, 2023

It] really points to the fact that this mental health crisis in this demographic has been brewing for some time,” said Fakorzi. Seli Fakorzi The finding indicates that issues of mental health are not recent, said Seli Fakorzi, a licensed clinician and director of mental health operations at TimelyCare. “[It] It's not brand new."

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Increased transfer rates were seen across all earnings demographics, and students from middle to low-income neighborhoods increased their transfer into highly selective institutions by 13.3% Black and Latinx students saw the largest increase in transfers, a 7.8% and 5% increase from last year respectively. respectively.

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EAB

JUNE 20, 2023

In our conversations with partners, most are already familiar with the coming demographic decline that will start around 2025. This tool brings all three of these forces (demographics, college-going rates, and market share) together into a collection of institution-specific analyses based on your institution’s enrollment data.

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