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Experts Gathered to Discuss Challenges Facing Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Even though there are wonderful colleges and universities across the states and country, they can’t find enough students to enroll, and every year there are headlines about colleges folding or being acquired.” Public universities and private universities all have very different kinds of funding allocations,” said Dirks.

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Report Provides Frank Data on Black PhD Holders in STEM Fields

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Sloan Foundation and RTI International have engaged in a study of Black and Hispanic individuals who have achieved PhD degrees in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields. Half of the top 20 bachelor’s degrees of Black STEM PhD recipients from 2010–20 were earned at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).

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The Transformational Power of Higher Education

The University Innovation Alliance

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.