Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 30, 2025

Federal funding disruptions in 2025 have destabilized the foundation of academic public health across the United States, resulting in thousands of job losses, halted critical research programs, and billions in projected economic losses, according to a new report released by the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH). The report, titled "Broken Lifelines: The Economic Consequences of Defunding Academic Public Health," provides the first detailed analysis of how grant freezes

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Symplicity

MAY 30, 2025

Dear Career Services We hope this is a resource you can share with your students as they journey into the world beyond higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 30, 2025

Dwight Sanchez In todays hyper-competitive higher education landscape, the challenges facing Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) are immense. Declining birth rates, changingstudent expectations, shifting public sentiment, and persistent underfunding place extraordinary pressure on institutions that have long served as lifelines for students of color and first-generation learners.

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College Aid Services

MAY 30, 2025

The U.S. Department of Education has announced the interest rates for federal Direct Loans first disbursed between July 1, 2025, and June 30, 2026. These rates are determined annually based on the high yield of the 10-year Treasury note auction held before June 1, plus a statutory add-on percentage specific to each loan type. Prospective… More 202526 Direct Loan Interest Rates Announced The post 202526 Direct Loan Interest Rates Announced first appeared on College Aid Services.

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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

MAY 30, 2025

Dr. Tonya Smith-Jackson North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University Provost Dr. Tonya Smith-Jackson has been appointed chancellor of Rutgers UniversityNewark, marking a significant leadership transition for the public research university. Smith-Jackson, a human factors engineer who has served as provost and executive vice chancellor for Academic Affairs at NC A&T since 2013, will assume her new role on August 1.

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CAMPUSPEAK

MAY 30, 2025

With Pride Month just around the corner, I wanted to share a quick reminder with you: Pride is so much… The post Ebon Bell on Pride: Protest, Power, Liberation appeared first on CAMPUSPEAK.

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Knack

MAY 30, 2025

This week, Knack partnered with the New American Colleges & Universities (NACU) to host a virtual event highlighting how small, student-centered institutions are expanding access to academic support through innovative partnerships. The session featured perspectives from Michelle Apuzzio of NACU, Chris Hassey of Moravian University, and Jordan Carson of Hampton University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 30, 2025

Dr. Caroline Chamberlin Hellman Walk east across the Brooklyn Bridge and you glimpse City Tech, the City University of New Yorks college of technology. In The Great Gatsby , F. Scott Fitzgerald tells us that The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty of the world.

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COE

MAY 30, 2025

Federal Cancellations of Upward Bound Grants Signal Broader Threat to College Access Programs May 30, 2025 by Kimberly Jones Earlier today, Upward Bound programs across the country began receiving their long-anticipated continuation award notifications from the U.S. Department of Education. But alongside welcome news of funding extensions, at least three programs with June 1 start dates were met with a deeply troubling surprise: official letters of cancellation.

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