Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 7, 2024

Terrell (MCT) Educational Foundation, Inc. has awarded doctoral students with its 2024 MCT Scholarship. The MCT scholarship recipients are accomplished graduate students who will be future leaders in higher education, said Terrell, who is the foundations chair emeritus. The Dr. Melvin C. Janella Benson is a Ph.D.

Scholarship

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2025

Title: Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education, University of Oklahoma Age: 38 Education: B.S., Student Affairs and Higher Education, Indiana State University; Ph.D., Early on, Briscoe saw herself as a student leader.

Mentoring

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

CUNY student at BMI conference Black and Brown students, particularly men, have historically struggled to enroll in higher education, and many that do fail to complete their degrees. Students can receive text messages from BMIs AI mascot, checking in on an upcoming test to see how prepared a student may or may not feel.

Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 8, 2025

Prior to her role at MATC, Martinez Powless accumulated 17 years of higher education experience at Marquette University and MATC, working in administration, enrollment, student affairs, and multicultural outreach. Martin has since retired, and the college is now led by President Anthony Cruz, who is Hispanic.

Student affairs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 22, 2025

Terrell Educational Foundation has selected three master's students from diverse institutions across the United States for its 2024-2025 MCT Araceli Negrete Scholars program, with a focus on investigating student mental wellness in today's challenging environment. The Dr. Melvin C. Dr. Martino Harmon, MCT Foundation Chair.

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

While that generosity of spirit is appreciated, we think it’s time to say thanks and ask how those collective energies could be harnessed to fight students’ hunger, rather than just feed them. Over the last decade the food pantry became a higher education trend. In many ways, it’s a sign of progress.

Financial aid

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 22, 2025

While colleges are beginning to support formerly incarcerated students, few have strategies to address the needs of students like Maria loved ones of incarcerated peoplemany of whom are college students themselves. These family members are a largely invisible population within the basic needs movement in higher education.

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2025

Sara Goldrick-Rab students is too often marginalized, even overlooked, in campus programs addressing issues like food and housing insecurity. That is largely because these justice-impacted students are often invisible to educators, their identities simply erased.

Humanities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 23, 2025

Mitra, vice president of student affairs and enrollment management at Queensborough Community College (QCC) in New York City, who was previously interviewed by Diverse about the NSCRC report last fall, said the college did see an increase in new student enrollment, but that included transfers and readmits. Dr. Brian R.

Low income student

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 18, 2025

Gaby Pacheco The detention of Dreamers has intensified the spotlight on immigration issues in higher education. A 19-year-old nursing student at the University of Utah with no criminal record, Goncalves was stopped by a Mesa County (Colo.) He was unaware the information would be used in other ways.

International student

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 29, 2024

“The formal work of AANAPISI at UCLA is in its very early stages, but it builds upon a legacy of programs in many different units across the campus such as academic and student affairs, admissions, academic support and retention programs, and alumni affairs,” said Yoo.

Retention

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The path to higher education success has many obstacles and barriers for Latinos across the U.S. The mission of Excelencia in Education, founded in 2004 by Dr. Deborah A. Department of Education, the Upward Bound program works with students from six area high schools that are identified as potential first-generation college students.

Retention

Knack

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

By leveraging the expertise and scalability of private organizations, colleges can strengthen both academic and student affairs in meaningful ways. Public-private partnerships offer a strategic way to bridge resource gaps, enabling institutions to maintain critical services and drive innovation despite limited budgets.

Student affairs

CFAA College Financial Aid Advisors

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Higher education becomes even more expensive when students receive their financial aid offers – and theyre smaller than everyone hoped. This can free up funds for other areas of your education. Reach out to your academic department or student affairs office to inquire about these opportunities.

Financial aid

Civitas Learning

APRIL 17, 2025

In higher education, successful implementation often means rethinking long-standing processes, habits, and team dynamics. Start by asking these three essential questions to ensure your investment drives real results: How will this software help more students succeed? Are You Enabling for Impactor Just Implementing Tools ?

Advising

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2025

DAndra Mullis a seasoned student affairs leader and practitioner-scholar, who is dedicated to leading organizations and initiatives that uplift and enable a comprehensively excellent student experience.As

Student affairs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Realigning TM 2 to enhance the leadership initiatives for our member schools at the executive level is essential to the future of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), historically Black community colleges (HBCCs) and predominantly Black institutions (PBIs) and the students they serve, says Dr. Harry L.

Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 28, 2025

Title: Assistant Professor, Department of Teacher Education and Higher Education, University of North Carolina at Greensboro Tenured: No Age: 36 Education: B.A. in Higher Education and Student Affairs from the University of South Carolina; Ph.D. in higher education and student affairs.

Student affairs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Alvin Francis Poussaint, whose tireless advocacy for diversity in medical education transformed Harvard Medical School and influenced generations of physicians from underrepresented backgrounds, died late last week. The Harlem-born psychiatrist was no stranger to the pages of Diverse: Issues In Higher Education.

Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

HBCUs have long been centers of education, leadership, and political activism. For many Black students, HBCUs provide not only an education but also a sense of belonging and empowerment, which is often absent in Predominantly White Institutions (PWIs). Historically, HBCUs have been at the forefront of political change.

Educational leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2025

She is an associate professor and graduate program coordinator for the MA in Higher Education at Montclair State University. from the prestigious Higher and Postsecondary Education program at Teachers College, Columbia University. Vega earned her Ed.D.

University

John Hopkins University Student Well-Being Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Meet with a Health Educator/Coach to improve well-being (including sleep) through goal setting and behavior change. This office is committed to fostering an accessible and inclusive culture for students with disabilities. This office provides health promotion and education through events, consultations, and peer educators.

Mental health

John Hopkins University Student Well-Being Blog

MARCH 27, 2025

Event: World Health Day at Peabody Date: Monday April 7, 2025 Time: 12:00pm – 1:00pm Location: Peabody Plaza, Peabody campus Registration: [link] Details: The fair is an opportunity for our students to engage and receive resources on JHU’s eight dimensions of well-being.

International student

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The intergenerational benefits of a college education are massive, and they begin accruing when both parent and child are in school at the same time. The good news is that two-generation models are increasingly common in higher education, and evaluations of both short and longer-term effects are promising, especially for Black families.

Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 10, 2025

Each ride was more than dollars and cents; it was a manifesto: women’s work—and the invisible labor and mothering sewn into its seams—belongs at the heart of education. At HBCUs, we educate people out of supporting us, sending our best scholars elsewhere for graduate and professional degrees. Center women’s labor here.

Advising

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2025

Twelve years ago, in his book Strategic Diversity Leadership: Activating Change and Transformation in Higher Education , DEI scholar and thought leader Dr. Damon A. Additionally, the rising cost of college tuition disproportionately affects students from lower-income families, further exacerbating the barriers to higher education.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 13, 2025

Additionally, the Office of Recruitment and Multicultural Affairs will be absorbed into the Office of Student Affairs as part of the restructuring. Harvard's moves come as the Trump administration has intensified pressure on higher education institutions over diversity, equity and inclusion programming.

Inclusion

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. The Path Forward HBCUs and MSIs are more than educational institutionsthey are engines of social mobility and cultural affirmation.

Literacy

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

He currently serves as past chair of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators Certified Financial Aid Administrator Program. Slaughter earned a bachelor of music degree in vocal performance from the Eastman School of Music and a master of science in student affairs administration from Indiana University.

Director of financial aid

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 21, 2024

Amelia Parnell, vice president for research and policy at NASPA — Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education was named the organization’s president. From 2005 through 2012, she served as education policy analyst for the Florida Legislature. “Dr.

Student affairs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 10, 2024

SEATTLE-- Prominent student affairs practitioners of color shared powerful stories of leading in higher education amid major challenges, including the recent COVID pandemic and ongoing attacks to diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. The panel was organized by the Melvin C.

Student affairs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 19, 2024

The winners of this year's Most Promising Places to Work in Student Affairs gathered at the American College Personnel Association (ACPA) conference in Chicago to accept an award jointly presented by ACPA and Diverse. Student Affairs staff and students from Elon University, one of this year's honorees.

Student affairs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2023

With the goal of infusing scholarship into practice, thousands of student affairs practitioners from colleges and universities across the nation gathered in Boston to strategize about the future of the profession. Terrell Educational Foundation. The panel included Drs. This has translated as mentoring in my professional life.

Student affairs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 10, 2023

D’Andra Mull will become vice chancellor for student affairs at University of Colorado Boulder, effective Jun. Mull previously was vice president for student life at the University of Florida and held leadership roles at The Ohio State University before that. Terrell Educational Foundation. “I

Student affairs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 23, 2023

Jonelle Knox When I reviewed the question posed to me about [re]engaging the college community, I started thinking about a missed opportunity that many colleges and university leaders are not taking advantage of; the collaboration of student affairs and human resources to create [re]engagement activities.

Student affairs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Affirmative action policies have been instrumental in increasing access and opportunities for historically marginalized groups in higher education. Collaboration among various departments, including academic affairs, student affairs, and equity and diversity offices, ensures a comprehensive approach to student and administrator support.

Student affairs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Title: Assistant Professor of Higher Education Leadership and Policy Studies, School of Education, Howard University Tenured: No Age: 38 Education: B.A., educational leadership and policy, University of Texas at Austin, College of Education Career mentors: Dr. Victor B. Palmer, Howard University; Dr. Audrey J.

Leadership