Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 11, 2025

Dr. Hope Barnes When I, Hope Barnes, started teaching at the age of 22 in Baltimore, Maryland, I was excited and eager to shape and mold the minds of the future. Without much context for this new city and community, it was a culture shock. Being African American in a predominantly African American community was not the issue. This community in South Baltimore wasn’t the safest place to work or live.

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College Planners of America

JUNE 11, 2025

College tuition rises much faster than general inflation, a fact that has been well known for some time. Lately, however, sky high tuition has colleges on the horns of a dilemma. Limited in ways to grow revenue such as offering new programs or recruiting more foreign students while approaching a “demographic cliff” in the population of college-age people, all but the most elite colleges need to cut costs and lower tuition to remain viable.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 11, 2025

The American Association of State Colleges and Universities has named 26 senior-level higher education professionals to participate in its 2025-2026 Millennium Leadership Initiative, as the premier leadership development program continues its mission to diversify college and university presidencies. The cohort begins programming June 11-14 in Washington, D.C., marking the 26th iteration of the initiative that has produced 166 college and university presidents and chancellors since its 1999 launc

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College Aid Services

JUNE 11, 2025

Ensuring your E-App and Policies & Procedures (P&P) manual are in sync is not just best practice—it’s essential for maintaining compliance and demonstrating administrative capability. In this timely and practical webinar, we’ll explore how to effectively connect your institution’s E-App with your internal policies to support accurate reporting, strengthen audit readiness, and align with evolving… More » Aligning Your E-App with P&Ps: A Compliance-First Approach – Webinar

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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 11, 2025

W hen it comes to leadership and inclusion, outgoing UC Riverside chancellor Dr. Kim A. Wilcox has a simple rule. “If you go to a university and the vice presidents are not very diverse, that’s the president’s fault because they hire all the vice presidents,” Wilcox says. “And if the deans aren’t diverse, that’s the provost’s fault because he or she hires all the deans.

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HEAG

JUNE 11, 2025

Financial aid professionals are no strangers to pressure. Tight deadlines, shifting regulations, backlogged verifications, and an endless stream of student needs can push even the most passionate staff member to the brink. Couple this with the need to commit to working overtime during certain periods of time, and this constant high-stress environment can take a.

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COE

JUNE 11, 2025

Why Trump’s Budget Proposal Betrays a Generation of Low-Income College Students June 11, 2025 — by Alejandra Campoverdi and Aaron Brown, Ph.D. Despite decades of proven success in expanding college access and economic mobility for low-income and first-generation students, the federal TRIO programs now face elimination in the President’s budget—prompting over 10,000 alumni to urge Congress to protect this vital engine of opportunity.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 11, 2025

Dr. Keith Curry T he enactment of California Senate Bill (SB) 1348 formally established the California Black-Serving Institutions (BSI) designation to recognize the State’s public community colleges and universities that enroll a student body that is 10 percent Black or enroll at least 1,500 Black students, among other criteria. While SB 1348 does an effective job of clearly identifying measurable and verifiable indicators of Black-Servingness, there is a need to articulate further and contextua

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 11, 2025

Compton College President Dr. Keith Curry is calling on California's top state leaders to include funding for a Black-Serving Institutions grant program in the state budget after legislation establishing the program stalled in the legislature due to fiscal constraints. Dr. Keith Curry In a letter sent Wednesday to Governor Gavin Newsom, Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas, and Senate President pro Tempore Mike McGuire, Curry expressed disappointment that Assembly Bill 335, which would have created a $

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