Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 16, 2024

National Board-Certified Teachers (NBCT) bring enhanced skills, knowledge and a commitment to continuous improvement which translates to better student learning outcomes and ensures a more equitable education system. This process facilitates the introspection required for transformative teaching and learning our students deserve.

Mentoring

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 22, 2025

Terrell Educational Foundation has selected three master's students from diverse institutions across the United States for its 2024-2025 MCT Araceli Negrete Scholars program, with a focus on investigating student mental wellness in today's challenging environment. The Dr. Melvin C. Terrell, foundation namesake and chair emeritus.

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 25, 2025

A landing page for student-facing websites at University of Michigan and Amherst College, just to name a few. There can be no question that this reflects a growing infrastructure to support belonging for all faculty, staff, and students in higher education. Figure 1 is a visual representation of points shared in the session.

Student affairs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 2, 2025

As a first-generation Black graduate student attending a large PWI research one university, I recognized the importance of leveraging my cultural assets to persist Jason K. From mentors, professors, and members of my cohort, I realized that this journey is not meant to be traveled alone. Segrest through my program. and McGee and White.

STEM education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

There are 31 different BMI programs, but each has the same overall goals: increase the enrollment and matriculation, retention, GPA, and graduation rate of underrepresented students. As a student, [the program] did help. There is institutional commitment to looking at financial support for students unable to pay tuition.

Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 11, 2025

The program provides participants with mentoring from experienced presidents, shadowing opportunities, and comprehensive training on the complexities of modern higher education leadership. "We The immersive experience includes direct mentoring relationships with sitting presidents and chancellors.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 14, 2025

Title: Assistant Professor of Higher Education and Student Affairs Administration, University of Vermont Tenured: No Age: 34 Education: B.A. Dr. Brittany Williams, an assistant professor of higher education and student affairs administration at the University of Vermont (UVM), always had a knack for Dr. Brittany Williams learning.

Scholarship

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 27, 2024

However, being asked to return as a mentor each year since 2018 without being pregnant again has shown me that those tears were much more than a hormone-induced reaction. They want to work with students who have similar backgrounds and experiences. They want to work with students who have similar backgrounds and experiences.

Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 10, 2025

After attending Murray State University in Kentucky, Bumphus began his career in higher education as a director of residence halls at his alma mater, where he discovered his passion for student development. At just 24, he became a dean of students, followed by a vice president position at 29, and a college presidency before turning 40.

Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 7, 2025

When Breeden first arrived on campus, she was searching for a sense of belonging and found that and more as she navigated toward a calling to transform student affairs, advance equity, and reimagine the relationship between universities and Black communities.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 22, 2025

His journey to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he would eventually become both student and professor, was equally serendipitous. When he was accepted and assigned Ladson-Billings as his mentor, it proved to be a match made in heaven. Political Science, Tulane University; Ph.D.,

Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 15, 2025

The programs we represent are built to produce leaders who are prepared to confront structural inequities, who understand the unique experiences of marginalized students, and who are trained not only in policy and administration, but also in advocacy, activism, and care. HBCUs see these maladies not as challengesbut as a calling.

Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 7, 2025

While mentoring provides valuable guidance, she argues that women in higher education need presidents who can create and provide concrete opportunities that prepare them for the presidency. I dont really have fears, Whitaker told The Catalyst, an independent student newspaper at Colorado College.

Educational leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Positions such as data scientists, medical and health service managers, physician assistants, and epidemiologists highlight the immense potential need for students entering these fields. Similarly, Hispanic students earned 12% of STEM bachelors degrees, despite comprising 15% of all bachelors degree recipients (Pew Research Center).

Student success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2025

physics, Temple University Career mentors: Dr. A.J. Loves current focus is a web-based citizen science project called Name That Neutrino that she and her students created in 2023, seeking a multitude of volunteers to participate in the process. Title: Associate Teaching Professor, Drexel University Tenured: No Age: 40 Education: B.S.,

Collaboration

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2025

California's community colleges find themselves caught in a 60-year-old funding constraint that increasingly hampers their ability to serve todays students, according to a new report from the Community College League of California. In 1961, college students were predominantly white, traditional-age students who attended full-time.

Student success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Brown, is to advance Latino student success in higher education by promoting Latino student achievement, conducting analysis to inform educational policies and advancing institutional practices. There must be deliberate and continuous assessment to identify and implement strategies that improve Latino student achievement.

Retention

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2025

Dr. Moores influence extends far beyond his own accomplishment, said Jackson, who has known Moore since their days as graduate students and have collaborated with him on a number of initiatives and projects, including the International Colloquium on Black Males in Education.

Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 23, 2025

As a professor, she prepares health science students to address systemic inequities through empathy, understanding occupational injustices, and recognizing how power dynamics shape healthcare outcomes. She says that she aims to help students recognize how power, equity, and inclusion shape healthcare outcomes.

Therapist

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 13, 2025

Urban Education Policy, University of Southern California Career mentors: Dr. Alicia Dowd, Pennsylvania State University; Dr. Leslie Gonzales, University of Arizona; Dr. Julie Posselt, Dr. Royel Johnson and Dr. Estela Bensimon, University of Southern California. Psychology, San Diego State University; M.A.,

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 12, 2025

million students. I would not be here without mentors and allies who saw in me what I didnt always see in myself. Now, I see mentorship as reciprocala process where both mentor and mentee learn and grow. I understand firsthand the challenges students face because I have lived them.

Mentoring

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

The benefit for me is that I had really great mentors who just really encouraged me and provided me with opportunities to explore. Continually going back to that same campus was ideal because I still was able to connect with mentors and faculty and staff and it really just nurtured my journey in higher education, she says.

Mentoring

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 3, 2025

Across the country, community colleges and universities are seeing fewer students enroll, a trend that could have long-term consequences for both individuals and the economy. A shrinking student population means fewer trained workers entering key industries, bringing about economic decline as the demographic cliff continues to grow.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Diversifying representation sends a signal to students, faculty, and other stakeholders that leadership is attainable, and education serves as a gateway to socio-economic gains for communities and the citizens they serve. In a perfect world, governing boards and leadership demographics would mirror the student population (Higgs, 2014).

Inclusion

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Aikin Regents Endowed Chair at The University of Texas at Austin, he mentored hundreds of administrators who went on to leadership positions at community colleges across the country. But Bumphus maintains that the real measure of success lies in the millions of students who have benefited from community college education during his tenure.

Community college

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 15, 2025

University of California, Irvine (Civil and Environmental Engineering) Career mentors: Dr. Stephen Mattingly, UTA; Dr. Melanie Sattler, UTA Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty: Stay resilient and persistent. Title: Associate Professor Tenured: Yes Age: 40 Education: B.S Aim for steady progress.

Access

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Over half of Asian students and nearly 40% of white students earn a college degree within eight years of high school graduation, while less than 20% of low-income, Black, or Latinx students reach the same milestone. For adult learners, who make up a significant portion of the student population, the challenges are distinct.

Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

When these students join in problem-solving with professionals, their chances for advancement increase, along with self-efficacy. Role models/mentors. Such interactions and connections offer role models for these students to see that they are not alone. Self-reflect. Dr. Carter G.

Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 16, 2025

Cruzado, who will assume the role on July 1, brings a deeply personal connection to the land-grant university mission, having begun her higher education journey as a first-generation college student at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagez. The university has achieved record retention rates and a 61% increase in four-year graduation rates.

Grant

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 30, 2025

Thus, with our unprecedented longevity, its important for the traditional image of college students, those transitioning from high school and primarily in the second and third decades of life, to evolve. For college students, intergenerational learning is more than interacting with older adults.

Therapist

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 30, 2025

The TRIO programs assist and empower students from disadvantaged backgrounds, especially low-income, first-generation college attendees, and those with disabilities. TRIO programs not only support students but also invest in staff, cultivating leadership and scholarship among those who walk the same paths as our students.

First generation

Student Research Foundation

DECEMBER 18, 2024

As students get closer to graduation, most have accumulated an impressive high school education and some work experience. But, as students gain more experience, they may wonder how to best showcase it. Here are our tips for high school students on how to use LinkedIn. But, thats okay!

Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 11, 2025

Our students faced poverty, gun violence, drug wars, and an atmosphere of despair and hopelessness. I preface this because even though my students and I share an identity of being Black, our intersecting identities had implications on our lived experiences and how people perceived us. Fast forward 11 years. Dr. Donna Y.

Scheduling

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 14, 2025

And how do they inform the ways I navigate campus culture and focus on student success? I came to America as an International student and became a legal immigrant. We endeavor to develop practices and protocols that reaffirm our Latinx students sense of belonging, and we aspire to go beyond the Black/white racial dichotomy.

Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Seventeen years ago, Congress established the designation, enabling universities to secure federal funding to address the unique challenges faced by these students. Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander students, for example, have historically faced lower admission and graduation rates at the university. Approximately 35.1%

Retention

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 30, 2025

sociology, emphasis in Black studies, University of California, Santa Barbara Career mentors: Christine Rodriguez, J.D., At the campus level, Gomez is faculty advisor for the student organization Semillas de Centro America, which seeks to sustain a supportive community for Central American students and community members.

Teaching

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 2, 2025

For me, one of the most rewarding parts of being aprofessor is when a student tells me that a text I assignedreally resonated with them and made them feelseen for the first time, she says. Working with mentor Dr. Laura Hyun Yi Kang,Tran was able to refine my focus and identify U.S. empireas a key organizing rubric for the project.

Curriculum