Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

At a time when the Latino population in the United States is growing and students are still facing daunting obstacles, Excelencia in Education is recognizing nine institutions for their clear and decisive commitment to Latino student success with the Seal of Excelencia. It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 7, 2023

Having an advocate or mentor is critical We found that the presence of a mentor in the life of the trustee was critical to the participants’ successful selection or election as trustee. Research revealed that all but one of these award-winning colleges had a board-influenced diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) mandate. Dr. Carl B.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 14, 2023

Gonzales The ability to recruit and retain a diverse and talented workforce is imperative to ensuring the success of a community college system. Furthermore, there has been a growing focus on student success, completion rates, and workforce development within community colleges.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

A parallel process will be taking place simultaneously as coaches of the nation’s collegiate basketball teams seek out the players who they think will add to the success of their teams and bring glory and revenue to their institutions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Data gathered by Excelencia in Education, a nonprofit organization working to improve and accelerate Latinx student success in postsecondary education, showed that in 2021, there were 401 emerging HSI institutions across 43 states. Emerging HSIs have a Latinx undergraduate enrollment rate between 15% and 24.9%. asks Delgado.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

However, to move beyond a slogan, community college leaders need to examine how they are creating bridges of empathy (Yelich Biniecki & Berg, 2000) and pathways for success (Kirchner & Yelich Biniecki, 2019) to serve active duty and veteran service members and their families. Dr. Susan M.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Even though the landscape of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in higher education may have changed over the last three years, institutional and academic search firms say their commitment to identifying leaders, staff, and faculty who embody the essence of DEI work remains strong. and even around the world to fill key vacancies.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 2, 2023

The campaign, initiated by the student international officers of the college honor society Phi Theta Kappa, uses evidence-based statistics and first-hand success stories to spread the message that community colleges offer a smart option for individuals to achieve their educational goals.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 26, 2023

“This is an important segment of the college-bound market and [GBC] continues to make inroads in successful recruitment of Hispanic students, especially with the expansion of the Goizueta Scholarship to now cover full tuition and in some cases room and board,” Eby said. Obviously, the number one thing is student success,” she continued.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

I stepped out of a tenure-track role and into an administrative position, where I could create programs to help students be successful.” As successful programming became established, the programs were replicated for women and other underrepresented minorities. Initially, she worked with Black students. Watford says.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Despite all the talk about diversity, equity, and inclusion, the highest echelons in the Academy remain white and male. How did this small percentage of Black administrators facilitate their success against the odds? Only 15% were men of color, and 13% were women of color. These findings remain consistent across several studies.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

When a donor and an advancement officer become partners and ambassadors for the mission-driven work of their nonprofits, they are more than likely to realize optimal success. An effective advancement operation realizes the value of the donor cycle and strategically defines success with a donor-centered philosophy. Smothers Sr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

A more recent Supreme Court ruling relates to restrictions on affirmative action in higher education, which negatively impacts the opportunity for low-income Black and other minority students to make a successful high school to college transition.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Dr. Tiffany Beth Mfume, associate vice president for student success and retention, says her office is involved from the time a student is admitted to the university until he or she graduates. Once students transition out of that first-year format, the success and retention office continues to work with them through graduation. “We

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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). That has been very successful in attracting more underrepresented minority students, and interestingly, women into our program,” Elliott says. “If We create an environment that supports them.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

And what the ongoing success of Columbia’s HBCU Fellowship means is that there is a “scalable design” that other schools can also adopt, says Strayhorn. “What the fellowship has shown us, has shown Columbia, has shown higher ed, is that no matter the historically Black college.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 10, 2023

Another core initiative of the presidency is making sure that NJIT is accessible to students of all backgrounds, including low-income students, and fostering a welcoming and inclusive campus community.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2023

When she arrived at Mary Baldwin, her vision included getting to know the community, elevating existing programs, and supporting the school’s diversity and inclusivity. Diversity and inclusivity are priorities for Fox. Fox describes it as “phenomenally successful” with graduation rates around 90% and licensure pass rates near 100%.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Dr. Roberta Rincon “The ADVANCE program has been a game-changer for higher ed,” says Dr. Travis York, director of inclusive STEMM ecosystems for equity & diversity at the American Association for the Advancement of Science. These will include faculty demographics, promotion and tenure success rates, and median salary rates by field.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

There’s Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ announcing a new legislative proposal that would prevent public institutions of higher education from using any funding, whether public or private, to support diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 7, 2023

Commodore said as these women move forward in their presidencies, she hopes to see meaningful institutional change, such as being thoughtful and reflective on critiques the schools received about diversity, equity and inclusion, and bringing about cultural shifts. The reality is that leadership at an institution is a team of people.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Response to the pandemic In 2022, Claflin, an HBCU institution in Orangeburg, South Carolina, was an AACN Diversity, Inclusion and Sustainability in Nursing Education Lectureship Award Winner. “Those barriers lead to a lack of access to quality education for our minority students and students from disadvantaged backgrounds.”

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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. Lawrence Chatters We continue to make progress in our country toward being more inclusive, but the digressions have been painful. There are numerous benefits we gain from being able to share our successes and challenges with others.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Other issues in the news will include diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). He is currently expanding that line of inquiry by exploring inclusive philanthropy and fundraising at four-year colleges and universities. “My Bonner now focuses on inclusive excellence. That, too, could end up in court.” With the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Mantella, president of Grand Valley State, issued and completed a 15-point plan for racial equity as a clear statement on providing foundational knowledge around diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and emphasizing commitment to the university’s values. Bernal, chief of staff to the president and vice president for inclusion and equity.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 29, 2023

As more states with conservative leaders pass laws to end or curtail diversity initiatives in higher education, a number of higher ed stakeholders say they are intensifying efforts to ensure access and success for the very students who are being targeted. Crazy Bull is referring to South Dakota Gov.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 11, 2023

School counselors can serve as a gateway to providing all students with opportunities that will help them toward academic success, socio-emotional development, and college and career readiness. It bewilders us that the priority seems to be for policing not protecting, for sanctioning not supporting.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 6, 2023

brought innovation, excellence, and inclusion to community colleges. In time, scholars came to realize that emphasis needed to be put on student success through student services and counselors for students underprepared for college work. “El In a precedent-setting career in higher education, the late Dr. Alfredo de los Santos Jr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Forty bills were brought up to limit diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. In the coming year, Harper expects to see plenty of bills that copy the attacks on CRT and DEI that have been successful so far. And the U.S. Supreme Court gutted the use of affirmative action in college admissions.

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