Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Financial aid, retention, and faculty/staff representation are part of the Seal,” says Dr. Deborah Santiago, co-founder and CEO of Excelencia in Education, who says she is delighted to see institutions with intentional practices actively working toward increasing Latino representation in key positions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

“Macaulay can provide an elite education — or a model that exemplifies the best of what higher ed has to offer — but without elitist recruitment or admissions processes,” says Byrne, who has been a faculty member at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (part of CUNY) since 2003. She concluded the fellowship and joined the faculty of John Jay.

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Counselors' Corner

APRIL 9, 2025

Tuition increases of ten, twelve, even eighteen percent werent uncommon, and since budgets for financial aid didnt get a similar boost, many students who thought they were set with their first choice either discovered new levels of debt to stay where they were, or the need to shift to Plan B at the last minute.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2024

The increasingly aggressive stance toward the sector among both federal and state politicians, growth in faculty departures, ongoing staff burnout, and persistent dearth of enrollment among low-income, rural, and male-identified students are all troubling too. The sector can’t take any more punches.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 16, 2023

Grad students serve as teaching fellows, facilitating discussion sections and grading student work. In addition to the representational advantages, minoritized faculty may present material in a way to which students of color can more easily relate. There’s this additional resonance.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Students and faculty became aware that Cazenovia might have to close when it defaulted on a $25 million bank loan earlier this fall. But the college’s financial problems had been building for years. Cazenovia has announced teach out agreements with ten schools and says that more are to come. It’s] the gold standard,” said Burns.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

We’re rethinking financial aid and student loans in new and innovative ways. They see ChatGPT writing papers, maniacal zealots indoctrinating young minds with woke, left-wing ideology, or, alternatively, right-wing idealogues banning books and prohibiting the honest teaching of history. Others are much more pessimistic.

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Timely MD

DECEMBER 18, 2024

A lack of diverse counselors, advisors, and faculty can prevent students from utilizing available resources. Financial concerns: Many students fear that seeking supportespecially for mental healthwill lead to unaffordable costs. Work with financial aid offices to develop emergency funds that can be accessed without daunting paperwork.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

The faculty and staff overseeing EPW know each student personally. “I Developing individual supports for each student.” “It is estimated that over 7 million people speak Spanish in Texas,” says Rueda-Acedo, who from 2005–13 was the sole faculty member. Latino faculty at UTA closely mentor the students.

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College Planners of America

JUNE 11, 2025

Administrative bloat is a term used to refer to steep growth in administrative staff relative to college faculty and students. Some colleges have more administrators and staff per student than they have faculty. The ratio between faculty and administrators has shrunk.

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IEFA

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

While schools in other countries are making strides, those in developed Western nations currently excel in offering top-tier faculties, cutting-edge research facilities, and unmatched opportunities – whether in the form of diverse academic programmes, internships with leading global companies, or pathways to high-paying jobs post-graduation.

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The University Innovation Alliance

OCTOBER 6, 2022

"I was passionate about technology," he recalled, "so I was able to persuade the board and the faculty and my colleagues to open up a new graduate center. And we did the first full degree program in e-commerce, the first master's of arts in teaching with the Internet. Let's do it away from campus, 20 minutes away down in Brattleboro.

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EAB

JANUARY 10, 2023

Office Hours : EAB’s in-house podcast features compelling conversations with higher ed leaders in enrollment, institutional research, and financial aid, as well as discussions with EAB’s deep bench of experts. The Best Higher Ed Podcasts For 2023.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

They also provided more hands-on training for faculty and students to spur wider adoption of the Navigate student success platform and improve communication during the registration process. We're an HSI, 76% of our student body is part-time, 33% are Hispanic, 57% are female, 83% are on financial aid, 59% are first gen.

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EAB

JULY 21, 2023

the fact is our students are consumers, and the level of customer service from enrollment management and student service offices, as well as faculty, sends a direct message to students about how much we support their success." Essentially, by spending less time on clerical tasks, students can spend more time on their studies.

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EAB

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Tuition and Financial Aid. Tuition and financial aid, or discounting, have long been important strategies for yielding undergraduate classes. Second, both tuition and financial aid are important to the calculation of net tuition revenue (NTR) and achieving the financial goals of the plan.

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The University Innovation Alliance

AUGUST 9, 2024

Eubanks Davis explained how the idea for Braven germinated during her years with Teach For America. I was obsessed with making sure that the staff pipeline represented the students we had the privilege of teaching. I was obsessed with making sure that the staff pipeline represented the students we had the privilege of teaching.

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Student Research Foundation

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

So many of my fellow classmates seemed at home, not just among the beautiful buildings and green spaces, but also with the small nuances of the higher education experience — from skillfully finding the right courses to simply approaching faculty and staff for help. published by Mainstay. points higher than non-first-generation students.

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EAB

AUGUST 25, 2023

How to effectively manage people: Faculty, staff, and school leadership Independent school leaders are responsible for a host of management duties, including faculty recruitment, professional development, performance evaluations, and determining compensation, so it’s no surprise that people management was our most requested topic.

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The University Innovation Alliance

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

After earning an undergraduate degree here in accounting, he returned as a faculty member in 1998, serving 11 years as a professor and 12 years as business school dean. He also told us: "I come from a line of three generations of faculty members here at the University of Utah.

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The University Innovation Alliance

OCTOBER 27, 2023

We handpicked instructors who are particularly effective in teaching introductory-level courses. So, what we've tried to do is find new interventions that can help deal with these really crippling DFW rates that not only hold up students academically, but also interfere with their eligibility for financial aid.”

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EAB

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Particular areas of focus for Art include: student access, diversity, inclusion, expression, and success; faculty diversity, inclusion, and expression; and institutional accountability and accreditation. The Court didn't address financial aid and scholarships. It didn't address recruitment, outreach, or pathways programs.

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The University Innovation Alliance

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

She explained her own approach: “My biggest strategic focus right now is on faculty impact. The emphasis must be on professional development to handle innovation, because if we don't teach faculty how to enhance teaching excellence and use innovation, we've failed as institutions.

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The University Innovation Alliance

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

She explained her own approach: “My biggest strategic focus right now is on faculty impact. The emphasis must be on professional development to handle innovation, because if we don't teach faculty how to enhance teaching excellence and use innovation, we've failed as institutions.

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Believe in Students

OCTOBER 31, 2023

I paid for college at my dream school (a small liberal arts college) through student loans, financial aid grants, a tiny amount from family, work-study jobs, and a scholarship or two, desperately patched together to make everything add up so I could afford to keep going to school year after year.

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The University Innovation Alliance

MARCH 15, 2023

Academic Affairs is this incredible infrastructure for research, for teaching. But there are times in which the tables change and crisis emerges, something happens on your campus, something happens to a faculty member, something happens to a student, the world keeps spinning, and you can't stop. I think it's very valuable.

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The University Innovation Alliance

MAY 25, 2023

That's how I like to teach.' Innovating as an Organization We like to end Innovation Spotlight interviews by asking our guest for an example of an innovative individual or organization that could teach higher ed something important. It's not so different from Plato sitting at one end of a log and you all sitting at the other end.

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The University Innovation Alliance

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Every step of the way, something pushed me to decide to go to college, to become a faculty member. Now we’re trying to measure and understand how our faculty and staff are engaged. I was a faculty member in a graduate program where I had a colleague, Karl Kuhnert , who studied leadership.

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The University Innovation Alliance

JUNE 9, 2023

Dr. Willis began her educational career in 2007 teaching at Florida A&M University before transitioning to Tallahassee Community College. Starting in 2010, Dr. Willis served as an Assistant Professor of History, department chair, faculty senate president, and Executive Dean of Centers at Lone Star College (Houston, Texas).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 15, 2024

It’s become financially burdensome in a way that’s not worth it to some.” The new organization plans to offer official credentials, teaching law school faculty, staff, and administration best practices for DEI. There has been a lack in general of including DEI into the pedagogy of legal education,” says Cruz.

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EAB

AUGUST 29, 2023

And in general, our researchers have identified the following traits, there are five of them that we think are gonna have a material impact, not only on teaching these students effectively once they enroll, but actually getting their attention and gaining their trust and engagement during the recruitment process. So I think there's that.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

I’m putting my time and energy into my education and volunteer efforts and living on campus on my scholarship and financial aid,” she says. Dual rules This situation is equally upsetting for many members of the faculty and staff. “As I don’t like teaching in a system that gives some students more opportunities than others.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 22, 2023

Teach Black males and their families about the hidden curriculum (e.g., Involve families in the college-going process. Get them involved during meetings and offer professional development that educates and empowers. Then, as our partners, they can better support their sons. in order to be successful in college.

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EAB

MAY 9, 2023

So there are easy things that I've seen visiting community colleges, I visited a community college in Maine where the financial aid staff all went to lunch at the same time. JM: So yeah, it's great when they pass her course, she teaches remedial English. But some community colleges have managed to do it.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Between 2022 and 2023, government entities introduced 57 measures to restrict the teaching of critical race theory in colleges and universities. In North Dakota, House Bill 1446, which would have allowed college presidents to dismiss tenured faculty, was defeated in part because of these fears. And the U.S. Ron DeSantis.

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Student Loan Hero

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

To learn more about Perkins loan cancellation and apply, speak with your loan servicer and school’s financial aid office. Federal employee student loan forgiveness Whether or not you qualify for PSLF, federal employee student loan forgiveness could be another option for aid. How do you apply? Which loans are eligible?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

This has led to faculty and teachers at all levels, from higher education to K-12, becoming increasingly hesitant about what they teach, research, or even how they approach admissions or financial aid, fearing potential backlash. Those fears are likely to grow under a second Trump presidency.

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