Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2025

Dr. Brian K. Bridges New Jersey's groundbreaking state-funded teletherapy program has delivered more than 78,000 counseling sessions to college students since its 2023 launch, according to new data released by the New Jersey Office of the Secretary of Higher Education. The partnership with mental health provider Uwill has served 18,223 students across 45 public and independent institutions statewide, representing the nation's first comprehensive state-level investment in free teletherapy service

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Steve Keating

JUNE 5, 2025

I dont know about you but it seems to me that there are a lot more people running around with short fuses than there used to be. I might even be one of them. This might seem strange coming from someone as active on social media as I am, but on balance I dont think social media has been good for society. I work hard to try and add meaningful content online, the type of content that can help people reach their full potential.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2025

Senator Alex Padilla Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) and Representative Judy Chu (D-Calif.) have introduced bicameral legislation to restore graduate students' access to subsidized federal loans, a benefit eliminated more than a decade ago that advocates say has created barriers to advanced education for students from underrepresented backgrounds. The Protecting Our Students by Terminating Graduate Rates that Add to Debt (POST GRAD) Act would allow graduate students to receive Federal Direct Sub

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Knack

JUNE 5, 2025

This year, at the Knack Partner Awards, we recognized institutions that lead the way in peer tutoring, student support, and academic innovation. Our Top School category honors the five campuses with the highest tutoring usage across all Knack programs. These partners didnt just support students. They anticipated needs, scaled access, and built trusted programs rooted in equity and student success.

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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

JUNE 5, 2025

Dr. Daryl Minus Dr. Daryl Minus will become the sixth permanent president of Eastern Shore Community College, effective July 1, the Virginia Community College System announced last Thursday. Minus is currently the vice president of enrollment management and student success at Southside Virginia Community College. Minus brings two decades of administrative experience across Virginia, North Carolina and California community college systems.

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Student Loan Planner

JUNE 5, 2025

The Trump administration this week announced that hundreds of thousands of Social Security recipients would be shielded from student loan collections actions, at least temporarily. The announcement represented a reversal of the administration’s position issued less than two months ago that the Department of Education would resume aggressive collections actions against those who are in… The post One Group of Borrowers Gets Relief, But Others Still at Risk: The Latest on Student Loan Collect

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2025

Dr. Charles Lee Isbell Jr. In a move that signals both continuity and transformation in higher education leadership, Dr. Charles Lee Isbell Jr. has been named the 11th chancellor of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, bringing with him a distinguished record of academic innovation and an unwavering commitment to expanding access in STEM fields.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2025

Jason King Jason King has been named senior vice president for legal affairs and general counsel at Hofstra University. King most recently served as associate vice president of strategic risk management and chief legal officer at The University of Texas at San Antonio, a role where he oversaw institutional risk and provided legal counsel to university leadership.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2025

Last month, during Mental Health Awareness Month, posters went up on campuses across the country, and social media hashtags trended. Now we’re in June, and the conversation begins to fade—while students' struggles do not. We cannot afford to relegate mental health to a single month on the calendar. Mental health is essential to student well-being and must be central to the work of educators, advocates, and policy leaders throughout the year.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2025

Dr. Gregory J. Vincent Howard University's alumni-led Mecca Society has formed a strategic partnership with the 360 NIL Group to enhance name, image and likeness opportunities for the historically Black university's student-athletes, the organizations announced this week. The collaboration aims to strengthen Howard's ability to recruit and retain top athletic talent amid intensifying competition from other universities offering lucrative NIL deals to prospective student-athletes.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2025

Last month, during Mental Health Awareness Month, posters went up on campuses across the country, and social media hashtags trended. Now were in June, and the conversation begins to fadewhile students' struggles do not. We cannot afford to relegate mental health to a single month on the calendar. Mental health is essential to student well-being and must be central to the work of educators, advocates, and policy leaders throughout the year.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2025

America is in the throes of a moral contradiction. On one hand, lawmakers across the country are advancing anti-abortion bills under the banner of “pro-life” values. On the other hand, many of these same leaders are eliminating programs that give Black and Brown youth a shot at life after birth, programs like Job Corps. This contradiction lays bare the truth: the fight over reproductive rights were never about protecting life; it was about controlling it.

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