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

JULY 12, 2024

I had an immediate epiphany: How timely Banks’ book is in these most troubling anti-EDI times (EDI - Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) I must not only continue to proactively teach my students the goals of multicultural education, but I must also remind larger audiences. Banks’ An Introduction to Multicultural Education. They are inseparable.

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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

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 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

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Dr. Sara Goldrick-Rab We started our process about a year ago by talking about what his college will cost, since I’ve extensively documented the consequences of paying too much. Why would I let anything, especially something as absurdly over-valued like “college search,” get in the way?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 18, 2023

Rhodes is a national liberal arts college where inclusive excellence and building a culture of belonging are central to our mission. Rhodes College The three-year grant will provide funding for the research and documentation of Memphians stories who are often absent from the narratives about the city.

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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

MAY 1, 2024

These organizations are collectively investing more than $2 billion toward efforts to improve equity in STEMM, said Dr. Travis York, director of Inclusive STEMM Ecosystems for Equity & Diversity (ISEED) at AAAS. The alliance launched in 2022 at the first White House Summit on STEMM Equity and Excellence.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 22, 2024

In the current moment, many of my colleagues are on the front-line combing through records and various document management systems looking for the answer to whether students completed their degree requirements — did they graduate? All institutions of higher learning have the source of truth in the form of an academic catalog or bulletin.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 3, 2024

When the revised Pell Grant regulations went into effect in July 2023, they contained a provision that college in prison programs must now document how they and/or organizations with which they partner provide reentry services.

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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. They were hiring three.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2024

It’s a fine-tuned empathy that drives her hunger for inclusion and education. It’s a way for students to stay connected, says Lord. Lord brings her background as a low-income, first-generation student with her in all her research and work. Lord has the ability to push institutional thinking into the 21st Century, says Allen.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 7, 2023

From March 21, 2023, to July 31, the Lewis Rice attorneys reviewed documents and conducted interviews with 41 NCAA staff members and 29 NCAA committee members. The NCAA has an Office of Inclusion as well as four diversity, equity and inclusion committees, but gender equity is also in the hands of the member institutions.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

This study, for us, was about seeking to understand the scale of the gender and race issues we face as a field and to document the disparities we see as baseline data to help track our progress towards more equitable work environments over time.” Susan Lyons, executive director of WIM and one of the report's authors.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 9, 2023

In 2019, Oglethorpe partnered with TheDream.US , a national scholarship program that helps provide access to a college education for immigrant youth who came to the country at a young age without documentation. Add inclusive language to admission materials and other student-facing resources where applicable.

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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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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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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 31, 2024

It’s not in a document that can be discoverable in court, or that would make a school liable of violating the law. The new Harvard numbers only proves that the SCOTUS ruling has only left us further than ever from where we want to be in an inclusive and diverse America. That’s what happens when you buy into the colorblind fantasy.

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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

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Through our work we found that when given the chance to document their experiences fat students overwhelmingly focus on the ways they do not fit in furniture, chairs, and generally within classroom spaces. As a group of scholars and researchers we were interested in such a focus and established the #FatOnCampus research project.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 31, 2024

It’s not in a document that can be discoverable in court, or that would make a school liable of violating the law. The new Harvard numbers only proves that the SCOTUS ruling has only left us further than ever from where we want to be in an inclusive and diverse America. That’s what happens when you buy into the colorblind fantasy.

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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

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 10, 2023

It has been documented exhaustively that diversity contributes to positive learning outcomes, and work teams that consist of individuals with varied backgrounds, perspectives, ethnicities, races, belief systems, cultures and socio-economic statuses are proven to achieve greater results than those that lack such diversity.”

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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

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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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. This technology allows schools to access verified IRS tax data in real time, eliminating the need for families to upload complex financial documents and cutting down administrative processing time.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

In general, it’s really opened conversations about flexibility and thinking about how we can use technology to be more inclusive to provide opportunities.” We created a document so that the faculty can have an idea of what asynchronous activities they can embed in their courses to have the students be more productive.”

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

DECEMBER 23, 2024

This, in turn, benefits the entire school community as it fosters a more diverse and inclusive learning environment. Five Benefits a Financial Aid Solution Should Offer Juggling spreadsheets, chasing missing documents, and stressing over award decisions? Read the full blog here. Read the full blog here.

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Catherine Cronin

JANUARY 11, 2025

That project was restarted in 2024 and I was privileged to work with GTM and colleagues at the University of Galway to document oral histories and create a publishable digital map. A key focus of this work was documenting the project’s vitally important ethical approach including consent, ownership, access, and language.

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Civitas Learning

JUNE 1, 2023

To achieve an integrated and holistic student support network, leaders understood that faculty and staff needed one place to easily document their student interactions and access important student data. They can document their own interactions and actions to contribute to the full picture of that student’s experience.

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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. Sessions on innovative approaches to financial aid and tuition modeling provided administrators with new strategies to make financial aid more accessible and efficient.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

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. First, lets look at how we define, value and seek equity. So, whats still missing?

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