Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2025

Queens College is one of The City University of New Yorks 25 colleges. A 2023 report by the Community College Research Center found that only 16% of community college students earned a bachelors program within six years and just 10% of low-income students did.

Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 16, 2025

Since 1964, the TRIO federal program has helped low-income students, first-generation college students, students with disabilities, and veterans earn college degrees. TRIO helped me as a first-generation college student in ways my family couldn’t. The Ronald E. Thomas in Minnesota. Thomas (Minnesota).

Mentoring

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Michigan State University (MSU) will offer in-state tuition to out-of-state Native American students through their Native American Tuition Advantage Program (NATAP), beginning in Fall 2025. NATAP] was to really focus on what is inhibiting [Native] students from participating on our campus and becoming our students and our alumni.”

Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 9, 2025

Before assuming his role as Chancellor, he served as president of an HSI (Hispanic-Serving Institution) , Co lorado State University Pueblo, and prior to that, as president of Pikes Peak Community College. Garcia’s career path has been anything but conventional. Yet they often struggle with retention and graduation metrics.

Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Williams’s parents had met during their time at Southern and A&M College, a historically Black college and university (HBCU) in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Williams was raised Catholic and attended private institutions—he was often the only Black student in his class, or one of the few. Everyone didn’t feel that way.”

Placement

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2025

a nonprofit based in Atlanta, GA, which served as a strategic partner to the Atlanta Public School District as well as hundreds of colleges and universities across the nation to increase the number of low-income, first generation, Atlanta students of color graduating from high school and college.

Low income student

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 4, 2025

ecently, Ralph Lauren released his latest collection "Polo Ralph Lauren for Oak Bluffs" in collaboration with Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)—specifically Morehouse College and Spelman College. I was a low-income student and proud Howard University graduate. R Dr. Steve D. Mobley, Jr.

Low income student

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 15, 2025

The threat to shut down ED isnt new, said Dr. James Earl Davis, a professor and endowed chair of education at Temple University. Without it, she cautioned, there would be no federal civil rights division to protect students from cases of discrimination. Lynn warned that the U.S.

Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2025

former Secretary of Education under the Obama administration and the current Chancellor of the State University of New York. How do we close the gaps in performance, particularly for our lowest income students, for our students with disabilities, he said. Currently, about 6.6

Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 1, 2025

The legislation would also eliminate subsidized loans, which currently spare undergraduate students from accruing interest while in school. The bill includes a three-year exemption for students enrolled as of June 30, 2026, but future students would face higher costs.

Low income student

COE

JULY 9, 2025

The rain was incidental—it kind of added a little drama to it — but what really mattered was that a Member of Congress had chosen to champion first-generation, low-income students, and students with disabilities at a time when TRIO’s very existence was in question.

First generation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Student debt issues loom, and problems due to the rollout of the 2024-25 FAFSA linger. Institutions continue to see presidential resignations, and the leaders of the future try to figure out how best to oversee colleges and universities. Lets take a look at the year that was as plans develop for the road ahead. Dr. Everrett A.

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 18, 2025

higher education sector from stable to negative, citing recent and potential federal policy changes that have created a more difficult operating environment for colleges and universities nationwide. Most R1 universities have negotiated indirect cost rates up to 60%, making the potential impact severe.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 7, 2025

Welch, President and CEO of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU), acknowledged the advocacy community's partial success while expressing concern about the bill's broader impact on state budgets. These reductions are expected to particularly impact low-income students and strain state higher education budgets.

Higher education

The College Pod

JUNE 8, 2024

University Scholarships : Merit-based and need-based scholarships awarded by the college. Student Loans : Both subsidized and unsubsidized loans. Work-Study Programs : Opportunities for students to work part-time on campus. Instead, the Department of Education forwards your FAFSA and SAI information to your chosen college.

Financial aid

COE

JUNE 11, 2025

Targeting TRIO for complete elimination in its most recent budget proposal to Congress, the Trump Administration wrongly claimed that “access to college is no longer the barrier it once was for low-income students.” Education Bill Blog Helping Veterans Make the Most of the G.I.

First generation

COE

JUNE 3, 2025

The Trump Administrations claim that access is no longer an obstacle for low-income students is flatly contradicted by data and by the lived experience of more than 6 million TRIO alumni. Hamm Supporters of TRIO assembled on Capitol Hill in March during COE’s annual Legislative Conference.

First generation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 24, 2025

Casteen III University of Virginia President Emeritus Dr. John T. As president, he transformed UVA into a world-class university. During his two decades of leadership, Casteen oversaw significant increases in the enrollment of women, international students, and students from underrepresented minority groups.

Low income student

NACAC's Admitted

AUGUST 8, 2025

The Common App opened the 2025-2026 application season with new equity-driven features, including a required question on student responsibilities outside school, expanded direct admission, and improved scholarship notifications for first-generation and low-income students. Access challenges remain front and center.

Title IV

COE

JULY 15, 2025

COE’s award will accelerate the adoption of evidence-based SSS practices, ensuring that colleges nationwide thoughtfully invest in the success of first-generation and low-income students.” The selection process unfolds in two stages. Award for Exceptional Contributions to Educational Opportunity by Terrance L.

First generation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 17, 2025

As a former college professor and university administrator, I take these attacks both personally and seriously. More than 50 universities are under investigation due to false and manufactured complaints against successful DEI programs, ones specifically designed to ensure that every person feels seen and heard.

Low income student

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 11, 2024

Radford University Class of 2027 Radford University in Virginia has received a $1.2 million grant from the state to support its Pell Grant-eligible and low-income students for four years. It will monitor each students’ academic success and engagement, continuing to look for gaps and working to close them.

Low income student

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 29, 2024

Jennifer Collins “I am grateful to have the opportunity to engage with other colleges and universities dedicated to expanding access and opportunity,” said Rhodes College President Dr. Jennifer Collins. ATI, formed in 2016, comprises regional and flagship public institutions and leading private colleges and universities.

Low income student

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 4, 2023

29, the new federal spending plan is set to increase the Pell Grant in 2023, allowing low-income students a chance to access up to $7,395 each year. Toldson, professor of the counseling psychology program at Howard University and national director of education innovation and research at the NAACP, agreed. Dr. Ivory A.

Low income student

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

When Dr. Sachelle Ford became the first director of the DukeLIFE program at Duke University in January 2020, she brought with her the experience of being a first-generation college student. Dr. Sachelle Ford, director of the DukeLIFE program at Duke University. Vanessa Ford, senior university director at the Mentor Collective.

Low income student

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Texas A&M University-San Antonio has received a $3 million grant to address economic issues and expand technology access for its student population. Texas A&M University-San Antonio The money – in the form of a “Caminos Hacia el Éxito” (Pathways to Success) grant from the U.S.

Grant

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 13, 2023

chair of the Department of African American Studies (AAS) at Princeton University, will be stepping down from the role, The Daily Princetonian reported. Dr. Eddie S. It’s just time,” Glaude said. It’s time for a new leader, younger energy.” I know that AAS is going to be going on to … continuously better and bigger things.”

Low income student

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Bennett Bennett, a behavioral scientist, is currently vice provost for undergraduate education and professor of psychology & neuroscience, global health, and medicine at Duke.

Low income student

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

This year’s program — which includes 116 member colleges and universities from 34 states — will enable students to regularly see, learn, and act on their offers directly in the application. It includes outreach and resources to counselors and families with students receiving direct admissions offers.

Low income student

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

With this as a backdrop, the Education Writers Association gathered a panel of experts to discuss social mobility as part of its annual Higher Education Seminar, hosted at the University of California, Riverside. The panel on social mobility at the University of California, Riverside. Or vice-versa.

Low income student

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

Starting this fall, the City University of New York (CUNY) has replaced traditional remedial math and English courses with more equitable “corequisite” courses, an accomplishment in CUNY’s seven-year effort. And these students had to pay tuition and use federal and state financial aid for such courses. Dr. Félix V.

Low income student

College Aid Consulting Services

JANUARY 5, 2024

Navigating Financial Aid at the 20 Most Searched Colleges and Universities. With the rising cost of higher education, many students and their families are concerned about affordability. University of California, Irvine (UCI) UCI is known for its strong research programs and diverse student body.

Financial aid

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The effects—both positive and negative—were particularly strong for minoritized and low-income students. The numbers for Hispanic students were nearly the same.

Community college

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 26, 2024

Believe in Students is urging those who work in and surrounding higher education to address the critical need now as colleges are enrolling an increasingly first-generation and low-income student population.

Curriculum

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 24, 2023

Dr. Sade Bonilla, an assistant professor of policy, organizations, leadership and systems division at the University of Pennsylvania. When controlling for academic preparation, male and female students apply to college at statistically the same rate. The findings are even more striking when disaggregated.

Low income student

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

The graduation rate for URM at four-year public institutions (4YP) increased 9 percentage points from 2016-17 to 2022-23, and the graduation rate for low-income students increased 10 percentage points in that time period. Funding for low-income students in Kentucky’s performance funding model has increased.

Low income student

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Political propaganda and the ongoing culture wars have made life more difficult for teachers who try to help their students understand the importance of diversity and inclusivity. “I Why are we creating more barriers for students?” asked Johnson, who is also the chair of the Education Department at Ottawa University in Kansas.

Teaching