Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

. — remembers the joyful opening of the LGBTQ+ Resource Office on the main campus of Prairie View A&M University. The joy has now turned to sadness as a new law in Texas has dismantled diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) offices and programs at publicly funded universities. This academic year, 575 students are being supported.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 13, 2024

So, Ithaka S+R, a research organization that promotes student success and access to higher education, and the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) teamed up to compile standing research on postsecondary institutions and civic engagement to find out what is really going on behind the scenes. Dr. Ioana G.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Brian McKenzie The report, Graduate Enrollment and Degrees: 2012 to 2022 , publishes the findings of the longstanding CGS/GRE Survey of Graduate Enrollment and Degrees, which received usable responses from 558 colleges and universities this cycle and ran from November 2022 to May 2023. "We fall at Doctoral or Professional Universities (D/PU).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2024

To better serve these learners, institutions must build programs for the busy adults and first-generation students who make up significant and growing shares of today’s college population. Belonging is crucial to student success, so it’s important that students feel seen and supported by caring faculty and staff.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 6, 2023

On Wednesday, Alabama A&M University, the largest HBCU in the state, launched an effort to tackle the problem: AAMUTeach, a program allowing STEM majors to get a secondary school teaching certification while earning a bachelor’s, without any additional time or cost. The answer is yes. The program offers multiple entry points.)

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2024

This year, Excelencia also examined three specific areas of industry projected to grow by roughly 10% by 2031: STEM (statistics, technology, engineering and mathematics), healthcare, and educational professions. Dr. Elizabeth Béjar, provost at Florida International University. “So,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

Starting with programs for middle and high school students, through supports for graduate students, the Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity (CEED) at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) has provided inspiration, insight, encouragement, and community for engineering students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

population representing a 13% growth from the year 2000, according to the Latino Policy & Politics Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles. Delgado is himself a child of immigrants and a first-generation college-goer. The 2021 Latinx population in the U.S. totaled 62.5 million, just under 20% of the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 27, 2025

the world-renowned theoretical physicist credited with pioneering a concept known as supersymmetry you have to walk through an anterior conference room on the first floor of the John S. Toll Physics Building at the University of Maryland. I create mathematics that nobody else has created before me.

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COE

APRIL 7, 2023

The grant will fund research to develop an evidence-based theoretical model for sustainable, equitable career pathways within colleges and universities that house TRIO programs, specifically Educational Opportunity Centers (EOC), Student Support Services (SSS), and the Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program.

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The University Innovation Alliance

AUGUST 14, 2023

There is some bureaucracy to running a university. That's a different paradigm than universities typically operate under. That experience helped me really get in touch with my own feelings, how I felt about our campus and how valuable it is, and then think about what is it that makes a university. Faculty is a leadership role.

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Student Loan Hero

OCTOBER 31, 2022

We all know that scholarships are available from many colleges and universities, but some may be surprised to learn that corporate scholarships are also an option to pay for college. It provides scholarships to students in science, technology, engineering or mathematics (STEM) that attend a Historically Black College or University (HBCU).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2024

To this end, we provide P-12 educators; college/university faculty, administrators, and staff; and other education stakeholders a blueprint to collaboratively work with Black males through a culturally responsive lens. We also examine programs and interventions that have been specially designed to improve Black males' mathematics skills.

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EAB

AUGUST 29, 2023

I've led enrollment teams at multiple universities myself, and now I'm working with a number of institutions to identify best practices and to help leaders like you figure out what's gonna work to address your particular challenges. Let's just talk about Gen Z in general versus previous generations. It's hard to quantify.

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COE

MAY 8, 2023

Congress created the TRIO programs because it recognized that low-income, first-generation students often face significant financial and societal obstacles to accessing and achieving success in higher education. Among those affected was the University of Maine at Presque Isle (UMPI).

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COE

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The Council for Opportunity in Education Applauds the University of Louisiana-Lafayette for Inaugurating the Carmouche TRIO Alumni Association September 5, 2024 — by Terrance L. Hamm The Carmouche TRIO Alumni Association at UL Lafayette is among the first University-established alumni societies specifically for TRIO students.

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Active Minds

AUGUST 21, 2023

Rachna Edalur Pronouns: she/her/hers School: Texas A&M University About: Rachna is an applied mathematics major with a concentration in biological sciences at Texas A&M University. In her free time, Rachna enjoys reading and watching reality TV (especially “Survivor”).

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COE

MARCH 10, 2023

President Biden Continues to Prioritize Federal TRIO Programs in FY 2024 Budget March 10, 2023 — by Kimberly Jones The proposed increase will help put many first-generation, low-income students on the path to college access, success, and the American Dream. It is said that a budget reflects one’s values.

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