Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 6, 2025

The annual Centering Black Children in Education (CBCE) conference is drawing students, educators, researchers, families, and change-makers from around the globe for a week of learning, resistance, and community building—all centered on one revolutionary premise: Black children are not problems to be fixed, but possibilities and promises to be protected, (..)

Educational research

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 23, 2025

McMickens, Morris Thomas, and Calvin Hadley There is deep concern about the status of Black men in higher education. A recent report about the enrollment of Black men in postsecondary education indicates that Black men comprise 4.6% million students enrolled in colleges and universities. or a little over 850,000 of the 18.6

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 20, 2025

From the rise of anti-DEI rhetoric to the elimination of critical educator preparation grants and the erosion of support for education research at the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), the pattern is clear: dismantle the very systems designed to ensure equity and opportunity in education.

Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 21, 2025

Adriana Villavicencio When Mai Tran began searching for a kindergarten for her daughter in a large urban school district, she found herself gravitating toward schools with substantial Asian American student populations. Schools with more Asian students often have higher test scores and more rigorous programs.

Compliance

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 30, 2025

As a soon-to-be septuagenarian, current university faculty member and educational researcher, the guiding principle learn throughout life resonates with me. Both then, as K-12 educator and grandmother of six, and now in my university work, my life is iteratively enriched through intergenerational learning.

Therapist

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 4, 2025

billion is a staggering amount of public investment thats what states collectively spent in just one year on state-funded preschool, according to the latest report from the National Institute for Early Education Research. Shelley Rouser y any measure, $11.73

Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 30, 2025

She will lead IHEP’s research directors and analysts while stewarding a research portfolio aimed at identifying strategies that work to improve college access, completion, and value for all students. Before joining IHEP, Velez served as Director of Education Research at RTI International.

Educational research

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2025

Berger is an award-winning scholar and social justice educator who is making higher education more accessible to underrepresented students. She is an associate professor of history and art history and director of African and African American Studies at George Mason University.

University

IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

AUGUST 5, 2025

Just before its August recess, the Senate passed a spending bill that signaled undeniable, bipartisan support for our nation’s federal education research and data infrastructure. Department of Education (ED) and charged by Congress to collect and analyze statistics about our nation’s students, educators, schools and colleges.

Administration

Patter by Pat Thomson

MARCH 20, 2025

How much and how often do doctoral researchers get into the literatures about the doctoral experience ? Higher education research is a growing field witha number of journals, learned societies and conferences. The higher ed research covers a range of concerns, including doctorates.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 3, 2025

The board conducted extensive outreach to the UVA community, hosting listening sessions with faculty, students, and alumni. "We As a longtime member of this community, I care deeply about UVA's education, research and patient-care mission and look forward to continuing that important work together."

Financial aid

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2025

The IES was established under the Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002 to produce and disseminate education research, statistics, and analyses. For over two decades, it has served as what the plaintiffs call "the backbone of education research in the United States."

Administration

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 10, 2025

Political considerations are playing an unprecedented role in college selection, with nearly one-third of prospective students removing schools from consideration for political reasons, according to a new study released Tuesday by education research firm EAB.

Mental health

IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

JUNE 23, 2025

Federal lawmakers have long recognized robust postsecondary data as a cornerstone of evidence-based higher education policymaking. Unfortunately, the Trump Administration’s FY2026 budget request threatens to harm the integrity of our education research and data system.

Educational research

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 11, 2025

The setback represents a significant hurdle for proponents of enhanced support for Black students in California higher education, coming just months after the state made history by becoming the first in the nation to establish a Black-Serving Institution designation through Senate Bill 1348, signed into law by Governor Newsom in September 2024.

Grant

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 1, 2025

"We must foster a competitive marketplace both amongst accreditors and colleges and universities in order to lower college costs and refocus postsecondary education on improving academic and workforce outcomes for students and families." History suggests the latter is more likely."

Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 15, 2025

Education researchers took legal action this week against the Trump administration, filing a lawsuit to halt what they describe as the unlawful dismantling of the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), the research arm of the Department of Education. Levine, executive director of AERA.

Educational research

Ed.gov Homeroom

JANUARY 13, 2025

By: Emily Lamont, Chief of Staff; Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education, U.S. Department of Education; with special thanks to Dr. Carolyn S. Lee, Education Research Analyst; Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education, U.S.

Adult education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 6, 2025

The University of California is universally regarded as the preeminent public research university in the world, and I am deeply honored to have an opportunity to join the many talented faculty, staff, and campus leaders in their vital work, Milliken said in a statement. "It

Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2025

Her research focuses on the way that education policy affects and shapes the access and success of minoritized students in higher education. She primarily investigates student financial aid/finance, admissions policies, and policies that influence the ability to create an inclusive & equitable campus climate.

Student financial aid

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 11, 2023

The American Educational Research Association (AERA) has announced the 15 winners of its 2023 awards for excellence in education research. Their contributions to education research, across all career stages and fields, have made and continue to make a difference in the lives of students and educators.”

Educational research

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 15, 2024

As institutions of higher education turn to AI machine learning and data-driven algorithms to make their work more efficient, a new study published in the American Educational Research Association (AERA) peer-reviewed journal , AERA Open , reminds administrators that algorithms can be racially biased. It becomes biased.”

Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2024

Early elementary school teachers view chronically absent students less positively, even when they cause no trouble in the classroom, according to a new study published in AERA Open , a peer-reviewed journal of the American Educational Research Association. Michael Gottfried The study by Drs. Gottfried and Phil H.

Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Beth Schueler University of Virginia Policy debate is a competitive activity in which students engage in structured argumentation about public policy issues, often requiring in-depth learning about policy areas. The impact was almost entirely concentrated among reading subskills that involve more analysis and argumentation.”

Literacy

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Holding students back a year may have its benefits, according to a recent study published by the American Educational Research Association (AERA). Opponents of the practice have argued that grade retention is punitive and can harm students socially and emotionally, Hwang said. As of 2019, 18 U.S.

Retention

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 7, 2024

Black students in elementary school, particularly Black boys, are less likely to be identified for special education when their teachers are also Black, according to a new report published by the American Educational Research Association (AERA).

Placement

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

I (Ford) was reading a commentary on the top number of “issues” facing education/ educators and became even more outraged and indignant on terminology used to describe children who live in poverty, Blacks, and other minoritized students. b. Special education over-referrals and overrepresentation.

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The American Educational Research Association (AERA) has published new research on digital leisure reading habits, suggesting a mostly nonexistent relationship between digital reading and improved reading comprehension with ‘slightly positive’ effects in higher ed. student at the university.

Educational research

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 12, 2024

The Utah Prison Education Project (UPEP) at the University of Utah is admitting its first cohort of fifteen degree-seeking students incarcerated at the Utah State Correctional Facility. It is never a given that academic research will translate directly and impactfully to the transformation of our local communities,” said Laanan.

Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

In October 2022, the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES) released a new report where, again, Black students lagged behind white students on the National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP) also known as the Nation’s Report Card. Black students know more than what those damn tests claim to measure.

Placement

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 11, 2024

Earning a college degree is still a sound investment, although the rate of economic return varies across college majors and student demographics, according to a new American Educational Research Association (AERA) analysis of 5.8 million Americans. It relied on 2009–2021 data from the U.S.

Financial aid

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Indicators of high school grades and standardized test scores that account for available school, neighborhood, and family resources are strongly associated with those students’ college success, a recent study published by the American Educational Research Association (AERA).

Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

I love seeing my feed blow up w/ the news that numerous research proposals adopting critical & intersectional approaches to advancing justice in math & STEM higher ed were accepted as presentations during the 2024 @AERA_EdResearch Annual Mtg in Philadelphia. Congrats, colleagues!” Dr. Donna Y.

Mathematics

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

For institutions looking to measure their DEI efforts, the tool of choice has typically been campus climate assessments, surveys of groups like faculty or students that provide an aggregate picture of the impact of a college’s endeavors. The instrument also revealed that some basic DEI practices were less common.

Retention

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The American Educational Research Association (AERA) has published new research on digital leisure reading habits, suggesting a mostly nonexistent relationship between digital reading and improved reading comprehension with ‘slightly positive’ effects in higher ed. student at the university.

Educational research

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 14, 2024

With harsh sanctions for violations, the policies broadly chill students and faculty from engaging in protests and demonstrations.” Free inquiry and free expression are indispensable for the transmission of knowledge, the development of students, and the well-being of democracy.

Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 20, 2022

based Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP), one of the nation’s premiere education research and policy centers, Dr. Michelle Asha Cooper has a vision. Since taking the helm of IHEP in 2008, Cooper’s been out front influencing national education policy. As president of the Washington, D.C.-based

Educational research