Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 19, 2025

Dr. Robin H. Holmes-Sullivan As a college president, I am often asked the same two questions: Why does college cost so much? and Is it really worth it? I usually start my answer with a statistic some find surprising: despite the headlines, post-high school educational attainment in the U.S. is at an all-time high. Just last month, the Lumina Foundation released a report demonstrating that54.9% of working-age adults in the U.S. hold a degree or credentiala 17% increase since 2008.

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Counselors' Corner

MARCH 19, 2025

by Patrick O'Connor, Ph.D. Now that most of the smoke is clearing from this years college application season, there seem to be some things juniors want to plan on doing that seniors, for better or worse, didnt have to worry about. Ready? Make sure to take the SAT, ACT, or both It wasnt all that long ago many, many colleges decided maybe test scores didnt matter that much after all, and went test optional, leaving it up to the student to decide if their test score really said very much about them

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 19, 2025

Historically Black and Predominantly Black community colleges across the South received an unprecedented $2.7 billion in federal pandemic relief funding, according to a new study released Wednesday by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies. The report, Equity and Emergency: COVID-19 Relief Funding at Historically and Predominantly Black Community Colleges in the South, examines how 39 institutions across 10 Southern states utilized Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund (HEERF) allo

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 19, 2025

The University of Pennsylvania is facing significant financial implications as the federal government halts $175 million in funding over policies regarding transgender student-athletes, raising concerns about academic freedom and institutional autonomy in higher education. The White House announced the funding pause Wednesday in a statement that characterized the university's policies as forcing women to compete with men in sports.

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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

MARCH 19, 2025

Randi Weingarten The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) filed a federal lawsuit Monday against the U.S. Department of Education, escalating tensions over what the union describes as an illegal and abrupt shutdown of student loan relief programs that has left millions of borrowers facing higher payments amid economic uncertainty. The 1.8 million-member teachers union claims that three weeks ago, education officials under the Trump administration removed application forms for income-driven repa

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