Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The project plays counter to dismantling of diversity, equity and inclusion, to this desire to silence, as we try to create a more diverse, equitable society,” said Hughes-Watkins. It took a village, Hughes-Watkins said, from the interning students conducting research, to the advisory board and community liaisons, to create the report.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Julian Vasquez Heilig Lori Gottschling For Vasquez Heilig—a prominent public policy researcher who has carved out a national reputation both in and outside academic circles for his scholarship on equity and innovation—the pendulum at WMU is swinging in the right direction. Equity has long been a part of Western Michigan University’s DNA.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

As vice president of student affairs, Carter reports directly to CGU President Dr. Len Jessup and the Board of Trustees. She is involved in myriad school matters including campus life, international students services, disability services, the Clery Act, and financial aid as well as diversity, equity, and inclusion.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

This era saw a significant rise in global academic partnerships, student exchange programs, and an increasing influx of international students seeking educational opportunities abroad. Institutions were driven by the recognition that a global perspective is essential for preparing students for an interconnected world.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2023

Webster University The mission of Webster University, a private institution in Missouri, prioritizes diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). We’ll focus on first-gen students, military and veterans, women, international students and different populations of underrepresented students. …

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 5, 2024

Approved proposals came from a wide range of departments and fields and included funding requests for ideas such as nutrition-themed exhibits, a peer leadership and mentorship program for international students, a study abroad program in Hawaii, and a diversity career panel series for students from marginalized communities.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

MAY 1, 2024

“It wasn’t always easy to know where to go if I needed advice on what classes to take, what to declare for my major, how to get financial aid,” Cardona shared in a keynote at last week’s Attaining College Excellence and Equity Summit. Not knowing where to find guidance is a common challenge faced by many of today’s college students.

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EAB

DECEMBER 21, 2022

From DEI initiatives to post-COVID outcomes, explore EAB’s top content of 2022 below: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice for Higher Ed. More institutions are exploring equitable approaches when supporting students through the research, tools, and insights provided. What the mental health crisis means for student success leaders.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

EAB and its project partners introduced the reverse admissions model in October 2021 through two programs called Greenlight Match (enabling institutions to reach first-generation, low income, and historically underserved students in the US) and Global Match (enabling institutions to reach diverse international students from over 90 countries).

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EAB

JULY 17, 2023

Factors Contributing to Move-In Melt Based on our last year’s data, we saw move-in melt primarily happening in two student groups: international students and students without financial aid packages where the enrollment team believes they may be eligible for need-based aid.

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EAB

MARCH 7, 2023

Are our international students somehow affected one way or another? AS: So it might not directly impact the mission of the institution, but immigration policies and labor standards might impact the families of those, or students who are students from different countries, international students, of course.

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EAB

JULY 11, 2023

So I would say in that regard, I've met some of these students last year when they were visiting, and some of the students I may have met when they were in middle school because they come to visit us. We have another organization on campus that works with first generation students. Why do you need that? What do you do?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

I love the work that I get to do in diversity, equity, and inclusion, but at times it can be exhausting. This work was here before me, and this work will be here after I am gone. I will not let it break me. These are words I whisper to myself during my difficult moments. The thread that ties all these areas together is mental health.

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John Hopkins University Student Well-Being Blog

MARCH 27, 2025

This session was created with international students in mind, but is open to all graduate students. This event is designed to help international students better understand protections and resources available to them, but is open for everyone. U/T Visas: Potential options for international students impacted by GBV.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 24, 2025

During his two decades of leadership, Casteen oversaw significant increases in the enrollment of women, international students, and students from underrepresented minority groups. As a teacher, mentor, colleague and friend, he was beloved."

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 23, 2023

NCAA President Charlie Baker According to organizers of the forum, that kind of activism is needed now more than ever, given the growing assault on colleges and universities who are being pressured to do away with equity, and inclusion efforts and penalized if they refuse to do so.

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Active Minds

AUGUST 21, 2023

In her leisure time, Hannah finds joy in reading, discovering new facets of the Bay Area, where she currently resides as an international student, and experimenting with various cuisines! At De Anza, she served as the college’s Active Minds Chapter president. She even started her own nonprofit, Beyond Taiwan.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 14, 2025

The core of my leadership was formed by the combined strengths of my own layered identities, and my practice and decision-making, whether focused on my commitment to racial and social justice or simply my ability to listen to students and colleagues, is shaped by the multilayered identities I bring to leadership.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 22, 2025

The Department of Homeland Security terminated Harvard's Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification after the university refused to provide conduct records of international students requested by DHS last month. The targeting of international student enrollment represents a new frontier in debates over campus diversity.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 4, 2025

The letter demanded a comprehensive restructuring of Harvards governance, hiring, admissions, and student life. It instructed the University to dismantle diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs under whatever name, and to cease any admissions or hiring practices that consider race, gender, or even proxies for race.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 28, 2025

The latest survey shows that 87% of AAPI adults worry about increases in student loan debt. Also, 65% of AAPIs polled oppose federal funding cuts to colleges with diversity, equity, and inclusion programs. We already know that DEI programming increases student engagement and leads to student success.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 18, 2025

Enforcement actions against diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs and potential immigration cuts present further challenges. International student enrollment is also at risk, with the potential for visa reductions or eliminations threatening institutions reliant on these students, who generally provide higher net tuition.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 12, 2024

Whether that was true action statements, donations, or implementing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) training, everyone was scrambling around, trying to be reactive change agents. Also, I’m concerned with how this will affect our international students. Seems like the color-blind movement.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Department of Education and continue his crackdown of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives at colleges and universities across the nation. Our commitment to students, staff and faculty from around the world remains steadfast, as does our belief in their essential role in our nation's economic vitality and competitiveness."

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2024

From a spring full of student protest to the ending of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) measures in some states, the list of stressors is only likely to increase as time marches into 2025. But, when higher education experts were asked to reflect on 2024, each described a year loaded with exceptional pressure and stress.

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