Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2024

The inclusion of Ivy League and other institutions throws this dynamic into even further relief. Today, we see the growing impact of outside money from wealthy conservatives like Bill Ackman, the billionaire hedge fund manager who has waged an assault on diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts at Harvard University and elsewhere.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

We present the problems/solutions as an easily accessible 10-point checklist, so that you can grade your own processes, identify your challenges, and proactively incorporate de-biasing practices in the spirit of equity, diversity, and inclusion. Committee members often arrive unprepared. Dr. Donna Y.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 12, 2024

Ellen Chaffee “The value of diverse perspectives for teams and for-profit boards is well-documented, and we recognize that governing boards need new and varied voices to overcome the myriad challenges facing higher education right now,” said Lesley McBain, the association’s director of research.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Rochester was looking to hire faculty whose work focused on diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice. Because several minoritized professors are being hired at once, they are less likely to be tokenized and burdened with extra diversity, equity, and inclusion work. And they weren’t looking to just hire one.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

These organizations provide membership and community for qualitative and quantitative researchers, and WIM focuses on improving gender and racial equity within the field. The report also studied how diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI), and anti-discrimination is perceived in the workplace.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Lae’l Hughes-Watkins, co-chair of The 1856 Project and associate director for engagement, inclusion and reparative archiving, Special Collections and University Archives at the University of Maryland. It’s our own small way to ensure that all voices are heard, and all people are respected.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The purpose of the age-old course syllabus remains the same — a crucial document that sets the foundation for a course by providing students with essential information, outlining expectations, and serving as a reference point throughout the semester. How do we do this?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 31, 2024

No one knows exactly where we stand on the most important matters of racial equity. It’s not in a document that can be discoverable in court, or that would make a school liable of violating the law. It’s not in a document that can be discoverable in court, or that would make a school liable of violating the law.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Concurrently, in some cases, state legislatures are passing bans or limits on diversity/equity/inclusion programs, racial equity training for faculty and staff, the teaching of Black history, and classroom discussion on topics related to critical race theory. Another dynamic is a new form of segregation emerging as the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 31, 2024

No one knows exactly where we stand on the most important matters of racial equity. It’s not in a document that can be discoverable in court, or that would make a school liable of violating the law. It’s not in a document that can be discoverable in court, or that would make a school liable of violating the law.

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Active Minds

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Mental health disparities among communities of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC), the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) community, and people with disabilities are well-documented.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 11, 2024

That animals avoid environments which seem unhealthy due to predators or poor conditions is a well-documented ecological phenomenon. It is therefore time to connect the dots among efforts to dismantle diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) activities, overturn race-conscious admissions, and bring back standardized tests.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The research includes interviews with financial aid staff and parents; reveals key insights about inclusion, stigma, and financial challenges; and offers actionable insights to improve relationships. Satisfaction often came down to how easy it was for parents to fill out documents and pay school expenses.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

APRIL 9, 2025

One of the most complex elements private K-12 schools face is verifying and evaluating international family income, which often differs significantly from domestic documentation standards. These may include foreign tax returns (in different languages or formats), employer statements, apostilled documents, or bank records.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Transparent and Accessible Financial Aid Process: Clear Communication: Provide families with clear and concise information about the financial aid process, including deadlines, required documentation, and eligibility criteria. Simplified Application: Streamline the financial aid application process to minimize the burden on families.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

APRIL 1, 2025

For families who qualify, thats an average of $50,000 per studenta powerful testament to Peddies mission of inclusivity and opportunity. For schools that want to strengthen family relationships and reinforce their values of equity and access, building trust into the financial aid process isnt optionalits essential.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2023

The strategies that were offered will be complied in a document and shared widely. The action of the Court and that of state legislatures across the country have openly eroded voting rights, diversity, equity, and inclusion, women rights, and culturally relevant curriculum in primary and secondary schools and in colleges and universities.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

JANUARY 31, 2025

Enhanced Accuracy and Efficiency Traditionally, the financial aid process involves extensive paperwork, manual uploads of tax documents, and repeated follow-ups between families and school administrators. Enhanced Equity : Schools can ensure that aid is awarded fairly and consistently, supporting broader goals of accessibility and inclusion.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

MARCH 25, 2025

The Challenge: Balancing Accuracy with Efficiency Traditionally, financial aid officers have faced an uphill battle: gathering accurate family income information, verifying documents, and assessing needall while providing personalized guidance to families. Many are new to the process and may feel overwhelmed by the documentation requirements.

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Catherine Cronin

JANUARY 11, 2025

But returning to speak about open educational practices for good with scholars and librarians who are leading work in open education for equity and antiracism that was a future I could never have dreamt. This drew on GTM and team members’ expertise as well as principles of data feminism (DIgnazio & Klein, 2020 ).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

First, lets look at how we define, value and seek equity. What became lightening-rod terms, diversity, equity and inclusion in reality constitute neither a policy nor an ideology; they are a way of life that, when intentional and outcome-oriented, change lives in meaningful, measurable ways.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

MARCH 5, 2025

Discussions on fostering diversity, equity, and belonging emphasized the importance of inclusive school communities and the impact of policy decisions on student success. Our new partnership between TaxStatus and SSS makes the financial aid process smoother and more reliable for schools.

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EAB

AUGUST 28, 2023

Unmeasurable Goals “Increase academic excellence” “Become a student-centric university” “Improve Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” Nearly every strategic plan talks about “academic excellence,” but I have never seen it defined in a measurable way. how will we know if we have achieved “academic excellence” or “equity”?)

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The research includes interviews with financial aid staff and parents; reveals key insights about inclusion, stigma, and financial challenges; and offers actionable insights to improve relationships. Satisfaction often came down to how easy it was for parents to fill out documents and pay school expenses.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Key Communication Features to Look For When evaluating financial aid solutions, look for these communication features: Online Portal: A user-friendly online portal allows families to access information, submit documents, and communicate with the school securely. Bilingual support helps address cultural barriers.

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EAB

DECEMBER 14, 2022

One of Carleton College’s five pledges in its Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity plan is to increase representation of Black, Latine, Indigenous, and other underrepresented groups in staff roles—a commitment their Chief Technology Officer Janet Scannell has taken concrete steps to deliver. Lydia Dishman. Fast Company.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Financial aid processing solutions that offer automated document verification, self-service capability, secure data management, and privacy protection for families’ financial information offer those advantages to K-12 private and independent schools. At the same time, schools can increase the number of families they’re able to help.

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Catherine Cronin

APRIL 21, 2022

Just Knowledge is a community-focused, open knowledge research project guided by three core ideals: justice , equity and openness. The third aim is to work together with community partners in each initiative to explore context-appropriate, equity-focused, open approaches to knowledge sharing.

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COE

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

She said she spent 15 years writing her book “The Warmth of Other Suns,” documenting stories about the 20th-century migration of 6 million Black Americans away from the Jim Crow South. “My mission,” she said, “has been to use the power of language and narrative to change the way we see ourselves and our country.”

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

Over the first two years of centralization, nearly all issues were remedied inclusive of streamlining job descriptions, organizational structures, compensation, professional development opportunities, hiring and promotion criteria, caseload numbers, technology usage, and documentation practices.

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EAB

AUGUST 7, 2023

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice It is the strong point of view of EAB research that diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice (DEIJ) are not only mission-critical but margin-critical. To learn more about participating in the collaborative, reach out to your Strategic Leader.

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Believe in Students

APRIL 1, 2024

Attacks on efforts at increasing diversity, equity, and inclusion. We also released a series of reports documenting the impact of our emergency aid distribution over the last three years, including one that showed that more than 90% of students who received emergency grants were able to persist to the next semester of school.

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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.

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COE

JANUARY 7, 2024

empower showcased the application online, highlighting mandatory fields and allowing document uploads. Kent : I describe empower as a robust platform that covers everything you need, from online forms to documentation. It handles applications and secondary documentation seamlessly.

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Catherine Cronin

APRIL 14, 2022

Robeyns has documented in detail how the Capability Approach has made a “crucial foundational contribution to the growth of the human development paradigm” ( 2017 ). Since 1979, many theorists have built upon and expanded Sen’s original work (e.g. Making resources legally accessible (e.g.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The wide-ranging bill, introduced by Senator Jerry Cirino, proposes several substantial changes to Ohio's public universities, including a ban on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives, restrictions on faculty strikes, and the introduction of a mandatory civics course.

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COE

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Recording notes about our students is now a breeze, ensuring that every counseling session and important detail is documented. Schedule a demo empower ’ s individual student services tracking goes beyond grades and testing, providing insights into financial aid, application status, and other crucial data.

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