IEFA

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

From planning your journey to leaving your family and friends and settling into a new environment, becoming an international student is challenging. But the benefits of being an international student are undeniable – international students enrich their host communities while gaining invaluable personal and professional advantages.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

As I reflect on my journey through higher education, I find myself looking back on a career that began in the small, rural community of Calhoun in Lowndes County, Alabama. It was there that I first understood the profound impact that education could have on a person’s life.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Student groups at Morgan State include organizations for African students, Caribbean students, Latinx students, and international students. Our students have a professional advisor on my team who works with them until they earn 24 credits with a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.0 That’s the Morgan legacy.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The Empowering Futures Gift was earmarked to fund scholarships, advance medical education and research, support faculty expertise, increase athletic competitiveness and make possible numerous student-centered initiatives. I don’t just do the internal work; I really do enjoy the community engagement work too.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

They’ve actually dropped, and they have not rebounded from their COVID numbers.” “The imperative has been there, but now even moreso,” said Gordon adding that it is critically important to expand outreach to populations who have been historically served equitably in international education. “In

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Student affairs leader Quamina Carter did not take a traditional route to higher education. There, she had opportunities to work with the school’s student affairs division and began to learn that she was “sort of good at that side of the camp,” she says. “So, in higher education and student affairs from CGU.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 5, 2024

A good portion of those donations were given to various kinds of institutions of higher education, many serving students from underserved backgrounds. PCC’s Community Excellence Grants program allows faculty, staff, and students to propose ideas in service of the school, its diverse campus, and its nearby communities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The 2024 Spotlight Award recipients are: Oklahoma State University (Stillwater, Oklahoma) for its Afghan Family Project, Syracuse University (Syracuse, New York) for its International Student Success Model, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute (Worcester, Massachusetts) for its Global Projects for All initiative.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2023

Ortega, president of CGS, noted that this increase in international graduate students calls for institutional sensitivity to best serve these students. Support requires real understanding of the cultural context that helps shape the experience of students,” said Ortega. “In

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 25, 2023

She said she chose to take on the USC appointment as her first faculty position and to continue in academia, in part, because she wanted to help uplift others. “I I want to influence people, especially international students and scholars, and really help and support them, lift them up to help them pursue their dreams.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2023

UMGC is open access, which means there are students from different backgrounds and preparation levels. In terms of retention, Carter says hiring supportive faculty is a huge component. “We Graduate students tend to gravitate towards online, but even within online there are various modalities in which courses are offered. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 21, 2024

The decision followed a survey of more than 3,000 students, faculty, staff, administrators, Board of Trustees, and alumni, the majority of whom agreed with transitioning to university by name and status. Officials expect the change also will help the New York City institution attract a more globally diverse student body.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 3, 2023

Grade, middle, and high schools are the part of our educational system where the United States suffers in comparison with other developed counties. Our colleges and universities are among the top in the world, but according to the Program for International Student Assessment, U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 8, 2024

The average age of the students has decreased to 23. Hamel notes that the residential students are a mix of Maine locals, people from other states in New England, and international students. Also, becoming more adept at identifying students dealing with housing insecurities and not relying on the students to self-report.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

MAY 1, 2024

Resources such as Achieving the Dream’s Holistic Student Supports Redesign toolkit provide evidence-based, practitioner tested tools and guides that help institutions from initial needs exploration through successful evaluation and refinement of holistic advising models. We need this in higher education as well,” Cardona said at the summit.

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Timely MD

DECEMBER 13, 2022

What can higher education do to better prepare students for the workforce? To answer the question about how to mentally prepare students to enter the workforce, the organization published an extensive white paper. Expand the range of campus offices engaged in educating students about the college-to-career transition.

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IEFA

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Harvard, Stanford, MIT and Caltech are just a few big names international students dream about. A college is a specific educational institution or establishment. It is one that offers higher education as well as specialized professional or vocational training. What is a College. Size of Institution.

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Timely MD

MARCH 4, 2024

TimelyCare Student Success Coaching Q&A With Dr. Nicole Guerrero Trevino Vice President for Student Success LinkedIn Tell us about your career journey and dedication to student success in higher education. Why are we seeing a growing demand for student success resources in higher education?

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NACAC's Admitted

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

A few specific areas of measurement include: Dining hall options for students with religious dietary restrictions such as halal, kosher, and vegetarian. Whether faculty are required or encouraged to include information about religious accommodation in their syllabi. You can reach her at bowling.187@osu.edu. 187@osu.edu.

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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. Celebrate their success and future promise.

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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.

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Timely MD

DECEMBER 13, 2022

What can higher education do to better prepare students for the workforce? To answer the question about how to mentally prepare students to enter the workforce, the organization published an extensive white paper. female students, students with parents born outside the U.S.,

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EAB

MARCH 7, 2023

A chunk of which, a large chunk of which was a corporate communications team at a global education company. So I spent a lot of time with higher education institutions and their leaders. AS: Yeah, and I'm glad you brought up the term flashpoints here is what we typically use at EAB and of course in higher education as well.

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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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EAB

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Just to provide you with some context, adult learners now make up 42% of total higher education revenue. As the college-going rate of recent high school graduates really continues to fall and decline, attracting and enrolling adult learner students is more important now than ever. BD: Thanks, Todd.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 24, 2025

Casteen, who served as UVA's seventh president from 1990 to 2010, was honored by Diverse: Issues In Higher Education in 2013 with the prestigious Dr. John Hope Franklin Award for his exceptional commitment to diversity and inclusion in higher education. As a teacher, mentor, colleague and friend, he was beloved."

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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 29, 2025

Harvard University A federal judge has extended a temporary restraining order preventing the Trump administration from implementing its decision to revoke Harvard University's authorization to enroll international students, a move that could affect roughly 25% of the institution's student body. District Judge Allison D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 4, 2025

It demanded academic departments be ideologically reshaped, student organizations dismantled, and faculty policed for anything considered activism. The federal memo reads like a wish list from those who have long wanted higher education to retreat from efforts to repair the racialized inequality that plagues this country.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 28, 2025

The students were grateful for support from counselors, from faculty, Tomaneng said. We already know that DEI programming increases student engagement and leads to student success. A few of these graduation celebrations were for international students. They have feared revocation of their visas.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 21, 2025

billion in federal research grants, marking a significant escalation in tensions between higher education institutions and the federal government over campus speech and academic freedom. Harvard President Dr. Alan Garber has framed the university's stance as defending fundamental principles of higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Trump as the 47th president of the United States on Tuesday, has signaled alarm across the k-12 and higher education landscape, leaving some educators worried that the former president will make good on his promise to eliminate the U.S. The election of Donald J.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 29, 2025

Trump vowing to tighten immigration during his time in the White House, leaders at colleges and universities are working around the clock to protect international students and Dreamersundocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as childrenfrom policies that could affect their safety and ability to pursue higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 6, 2025

Vigil at Columbia University Nina Berman Faculty and staff members from multiple universities gathered early this week in silent protest against the detention of three international students by the Department of Homeland Security, vowing to continue weekly vigils until all detainees are released.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

After a steep pandemic decline, the number of international students studying in the U.S. The total number of international students increased 4% to almost 950,000, and the number of new international students soared 80% to nearly pre-pandemic levels. NAFSA f ound that international students contributed $5.5

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2024

But, when higher education experts were asked to reflect on 2024, each described a year loaded with exceptional pressure and stress. 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.

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