Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 18, 2023

Latino student success in higher education is not where it needs to be, according t o findings from Latino student success organization Excelencia in Education. Deborah A. Santiago "Our mission is to accelerate Latino student success in higher education,” said Dr. Deborah Santiago, lead analysis researcher and CEO of Excelencia CEO. "One of the challenges we face, in looking at this data, is that acceleration is not happening for Latino student success in a way that we need to.

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Counseling Today

JULY 18, 2023

The Counseling Today staff won five awards in APEX 2023, the 35th annual awards program recognizing excellence in publishing. The post Counseling Today recognized with five awards appeared first on Counseling Today.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 18, 2023

Six community colleges have received $150,000 each from Lumina Foundation to bolster their digital and mobile presence to better connect with and recruit students. The six schools are Iowa Lakes Community College, Bismarck State College, Blackhawk Technical College, South Piedmont Community College, Central Wyoming College, and Guam Community College.

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Counseling Today

JULY 18, 2023

Treating stress that stems from racial discrimination and oppression can help address the mental health inequities Black clients face. The post Treatment strategies for race-based traumatic stress appeared first on Counseling Today.

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Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 18, 2023

Russell Morrow Russell Morrow has been appointed assistant dean of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the College of Business at Ohio University. Morrow holds a bachelor’s degree in media arts and video production and master’s in college student personnel, both from Ohio University. He also earned a doctorate in educational administration from Ohio State University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 18, 2023

Rhodes College will receive an $800,000 grant to expand their research on racial equity, discrimination, and justice in the Memphis and Mid-South region. Awarded by the Andrew Mellon Foundation, the nation’s largest supporter of the arts and humanities, the college has announced the creation of the Institute for Race and Social Transformation. “We are grateful for support from the Mellon Foundation,” said Dr.

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COE

JULY 18, 2023

House Subcommittee Level Funds TRIO in Bill That Cuts Overall FY24 Funding by 28% July 18, 2023 — by Maureen Hoyler Level funding is a tremendous victory for organized TRIO. It is only your advocacy that protected TRIO to this point. Today, COE learned that the Federal TRIO Programs were level funded in the FY 2024 (Program Year 2024-25) Appropriations bill reported out of the House Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services (LHHS).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 18, 2023

Over 1,000 HBCU college administrators, including 40 presidents of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), assembled in Atlanta this week to kick off the United Negro College Fund’s 2nd annual UNITE Summit for Black Educators. The three-day event is hosted by the UNCF’s Institute for Capacity Building, whose mission is to partner with HBCUs and Predominantly Black Institutions (PBIs) to help propel student success.

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Thrive Alliance Group

JULY 18, 2023

A school social worker or school mental health counselor can’t do the job of a clinician Every school district is feeling the pain of soaring student mental health issues: declining academic performance, disruptive classroom behavior, and an enormous burden on school staff. Some districts are trying to solve the problem by placing more social workers as mental health counselors in schools.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 18, 2023

Dipayan Banerjee, a fifth-year doctoral student at Georgia Institute of Technology with a passion for teaching, is pursuing research that can have a societal impact regarding logistics and supply chain management as well as equity and fairness in the context of transportation. Banerjee excels at both teaching and research, according to Dr. Damon P. Williams, associate dean for inclusive excellence in the College of Engineering at Georgia Tech.

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EAB

JULY 18, 2023

Blogs Didn’t meet your graduate enrollment goals? Here’s what to do next. 4 ways to revitalize your graduate and adult learner marketing strategy, from a former university CMO If your institution fell short of its graduate enrollment and net tuition revenue targets last fiscal year, you’re not alone. In our recent survey of graduate enrollment leaders, 50% said they missed their enrollment goals.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 18, 2023

Earl Warren Earl Warren has been named vice president for institutional advancement at Talladega College in Alabama. He served as director of university development at Jacksonville State University in Alabama. Warren holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in sports management from Jacksonville State University.

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The University Innovation Alliance

JULY 18, 2023

16 Ways Higher Ed Leaders Combat Burnout bridget Wed, 07/26/2023 - 06:00 Burnout Higher Ed Leadership Inside Higher Ed Weekly Wisdom Burnout is a real concern for higher education leaders. With so many people looking to you for direction and inspiration. Surrendering to mental exhaustion diminishes your ability to serve them. Once the new academic year's first blush of excitement wears off, burnout looms as you realize that you're in it for the long haul.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 18, 2023

Robert M. Dixon Robert M. Dixon has been named interim president of Rust College in Holly Springs, Mississippi. Dixon holds a bachelor’s degree in physics and mathematics from Morehouse College in Atlanta, a master’s in nuclear physics from Rutgers University in New Jersey, and a Ph.D. in theoretical nuclear physics from the University of Maryland.

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College Planners of America

JULY 18, 2023

In two recent cases, Chief Justice John Roberts, joined by all five conservative justices, held that race-based affirmative action violates the equal-protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1965. According to the majority opinion written by Roberts, the use of affirmative action by colleges to enable them to assure diversity in their student bodies violates the guarantee of equal protection of the law and the prohibition against racial discrimination

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CFAA College Financial Aid Advisors

JULY 18, 2023

College applications won’t open until the fall. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t a lot to do for rising high school seniors and their families right now. The first major step is to decide which schools your student is planning to apply to in the. The post Learn How to Create a Strategy for College and Financial Aid Applications appeared first on CFAA.

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EAB

JULY 18, 2023

Blogs The Case for ChatGPT: Leveraging AI for Admissions Tasks How to use AI to save time and be more efficient (with 10 starter prompts) It’s official: now is the time to learn about AI. Actually, it’s more likely that you already use AI and don’t realize it. If you subscribe to popular services like Amazon, Google Maps, and Siri , you’ve already been introduced to the magic of artificial intelligence.

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NCLC Student Loan Borrower Assistance

JULY 18, 2023

On Friday, July 14th, the Department of Education announced that it was sending notice to 804,000 borrowers who had spent 20 to 25 years in repayment on their federal student loans that their remaining balance would be canceled. This announcement marks the first big wave of loans being forgiven through the Income-Driven Repayment (IDR) programs that were first created in the 1990s.

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EAB

JULY 18, 2023

Podcast The Eight Dimensions of Student Wellness Episode 158. July 18, 2023. Welcome to the Office Hours with EAB podcast. You can join the conversation on social media using #EABOfficeHours. Follow the podcast on Spotify , Google Podcasts , Apple Podcasts , SoundCloud and Stitcher or visit our podcast homepage for additional episodes. EAB’s Lindsay Schappell, Matt Mustard, and Ed Venit explore the eight dimensions of wellness as they related to keeping students engaged, healthy, and on path aca

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 18, 2023

The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to strike down affirmative action in college admissions in June has left universities, nonprofit organizations, Richard Kahlenberg and other higher education stakeholders with a single question: What are the best paths forward? As fall approaches, higher ed institutions are looking to socioeconomic status to fulfill the proxy that race once held to help diversify student bodies.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 18, 2023

The U.S. Department of Education (ED) has released data on how many borrowers in each state are eligible for automatic loan relief under its recent fixes to Income-Driven Repayment (IDR) plans. President Biden and Education Secretary Dr. Miguel Cardona This comes as part of ED’s effort this year to rectify past errors and make sure borrowers have accurate counts of monthly payments qualifying toward loan forgiveness.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 18, 2023

After the U.S. Supreme Court struck down President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness program last month, he vowed that his administration would not give up the fight, swiftly announcing plans to offer debt relief under an alternative authority , the Higher Education Act of 1965. Unlike Biden’s initial plan, which was accomplished by executive order, his second effort requires a process known as negotiated rulemaking, in which stakeholders get a chance to negotiate potential regulations.

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