Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 22, 2025

Spike Lee The Atlanta University Center Consortium has announced the launch of Season Three of the Spike Fellows at Gersh program, continuing its partnership with Oscar-winning director Spike Lee and The Gersh Agency to create pathways for students from historically Black colleges and universities into entertainment industry careers.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

When LaShelle Williams-Franklin arrived at Howard University as a first-generation college student from Cleveland, Ohio, she had her academic LaShelle Williams-Franklin plan perfectly mapped out. The organization offers professional development through webinars, internship placement assistance, and mentor matching.

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Student Research Foundation

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Academic Information Colleges and universities want to know about your current education and previous experience. Letters of Recommendation Depending on the colleges or universities you are applying to, there may or may not be a section to submit letters of recommendation. Just make sure to include everything that is relevant to you!

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 30, 2025

Major universities hit hardest include Johns Hopkins University, which announced 2,200 layoffs directly attributed to declining federal research funding, and Harvard University, which faces a $2.2 The economic impact extends far beyond university campuses. Massachusetts, with over $3.4

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

One of Rich's notable achievements at CCNY was the formation of a Public Service Career Hub, which more than doubled student placement in public service internships and jobs. The initiative's success earned the 2023 Exemplary Model Award from the American Association of University Administrators.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 24, 2025

Columbia University has announced significant policy changes after the Trump administration revoked $400 million in federal funding over campus protests related to the Israel-Hamas conflict. The university's Board of Trustees endorsed the reforms after meeting with federal agencies to discuss changes the school has implemented. "We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 22, 2023

Smith University (JCSU), effective Aug. Dr. Valerie Kinloch and Trustee Steven Boyd Kinloch is currently the Renée and Richard Goldman Dean of the University of Pittsburgh School of Education. Valerie Kinloch , will become president of Johnson C. Kinloch is also a 1996 graduate of JCSU and a member of the school's Board of Trustees.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 17, 2024

Mellon Foundation has awarded a total $25 million in grant funding to five public colleges and universities to establish paid internship programs for humanities majors. ODU will provide internship placements and related programming for 750 humanities students over five years.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 27, 2023

Holy Family University is partnering with the Bucks County Workforce Development Board in Pennsylvania on a $1.3 million grant for former Holy Family University and other Pennsylvania undergrads who were near degree completion but withdrew before obtaining diplomas or certificates. Dr. Anne M. 1, 2021, or later; have a GPA of 2.0

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 21, 2024

For the past three years, students at National University (NU) have been given the chance to bolster their in-classroom learning with integrated real-world work experience via a partnership between NU and work-based learning platform Riipen.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 7, 2024

That can be problematic, to the extent that both of those placements are kind of associated with longer-term student trajectories.” And so, to not find that for the gifted placement was super interesting to me." In the beginning when we started this work, I had that hypothesis.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

These two educational fields rely extensively on tests, often exclusively, to make educational and placement decisions that negatively affect Black student school engagement and performance, which contributes to underachievement – performing lower than they are capable of performing, as shared in our opening statements. Dr. Donna Y.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Sacramento State — home to the largest number of Black students within the California State University (CSU) system — is launching what will become the nation’s first-ever Black Honors College. Ford, EHE Distinguished Professor of Education and Human Ecology at The Ohio State University, said that she is impressed by this effort. "I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

president of Denmark Technical College, a two-year Historically Black College and University (HBCU) in rural Denmark, South Carolina. Denmark Tech’s overall job placement rate upon graduation or training completion is 93%. “Technical jobs are some of the most lucrative paying careers out there,” said Dr. Willie L.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

That's been a requirement for Lewis, the Carol Grotnes Belk Distinguished Professor of Urban Education at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and the executive director of the university's Urban Education Collaborative, the convener of the conference which first launched in 2014. Dr. Chance W. But that's the reality."

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

When cultural ways of being and cultural differences are framed as assets rather than problems, unnecessary special education referrals, labeling, and placements will decrease. Hines is associate professor and program coordinator of counselor education at Florida State University. c. Disciplinary overrepresentation. Dr. Donna Y.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

GATE, Advanced Placement). Hines is a professor in the Division of Child, Family, and Community Engagement at George Mason University. Ford is a Distinguished Professor of Education and Human Ecology at The Ohio State University. Dr. Donna Y.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 20, 2024

Students in the New York tri-state area will have a new opportunity this summer to explore a lucrative career in healthcare, thanks to a partnership between Mercy University and Medical Sales College (MSC). Dr. Brian Amkraut, vice president for Workforce Credentialing and Community Impact at Mercy University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2023

In addition, there are concerted efforts to stamp out diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in public sector hiring, water down or even cancel the Advanced Placement African-American Studies program and whitewash K-12 social studies curricula of uncomfortable truths about how this nation has historically treated Black Americans.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 2, 2023

University of North Carolina , will stretch far beyond the freshman lecture hall. While the 6-3 decision will certainly have a negative impact on undergraduate campuses, the Supreme Court decision to strike down race-conscious admissions practices in most colleges and universities will be felt in all aspects of industry and civil leadership.

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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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The College Board has released a revised framework of its African American studies Advanced Placement (AP) course, a course that has received plenty of criticism from both advocates and critics this year. Strayhorn, vice provost and director of research for the Center for the Study of HBCUs at Virginia Union University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 22, 2024

It is not news that colleges and universities are expensive,” said Michael Koppenheffer, EAB vice president, Enroll360 marketing, analytics and AI strategy and a contributing consultant to the paper. “It The company does marketing on behalf of colleges and universities and engages with families around the country. Ernest Brevard Jr.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 1, 2023

Jobs for the Future (JFF), a nonprofit driving workforce and education transformation, in partnership with the University of Phoenix released the report “Professional Social Capital: A Key to Black Economic Advancement.” She further noted that getting feedback from Black learners and workers helped shape the framework.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The legislative ramblings in Florida and other states seeking to remove Black history from the curriculum and revise Black history should give us pause about what historical information students will enter university with. Our fifth move is decolonizing experiential learning or field placement.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Dr. Nicholas Bell Further entrenching this racialized injustice is more recent research that inappropriately uses achievement covariates in statistical models to make universal problematic claims that Black and Latinx students are underrepresented in special education. Gallaudet University Press. public schooling. Beacon Press.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

“I have no issue with College Board putting African American Studies into practice in high schools,” said Dr. Marvin T Chiles, an assistant professor of African American history at Old Dominion University. Strayhorn, a professor of higher education at Illinois State University. “As Dr. Charles H.F.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 30, 2024

When my (former) husband, a university dean, would accompany me to meetings, I still felt outnumbered and on the defense. Ford is a Distinguished Professor of Education and Human Ecology at The Ohio State University. Even after getting my doctoral degree and could attend the meetings as ‘Dr. Ford’, I was never called such.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The struggle between diversity and the SAT continues today; while research universities remain largely unchanged after 50 years with professors focused more on course requirements than teaching methods or testing analytical skills, debates rage over whether or not colleges should drop their requirement for SAT/ACT scores. Dr. Ivory A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2023

Gonzales said that while at Central Arizona College (CAC), he was encouraged by Dr. Terry Calaway, who was serving as president of CAC at the time, to enroll in the Community College Leadership Program at the University of Texas at Austin. There, Gonzales earned an Ed.D. He became president of GateWay Community College in MCCCD in 2013.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 14, 2024

Workers in rural America are almost just as likely to have good jobs as those in urban areas but face a number of distinct disparities as well, according to a recent report from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce (CEW). The report’s authors suggested that the U.S.

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Student Minds

MAY 20, 2023

After spending my academic year on a placement abroad in Germany, I will be leaving the lifestyle and routine I’ve settled into, and the new home that I’ve made for myself. ⭐ Emily T (Student): As a History and Modern Languages student, my third year will be spent on a placement abroad. Written by the Student Minds Editorial Team.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

gifted and talented, Advanced Placement, Honors). Jarrett Murphy is a school psychology doctoral student in the College of Education and Human Ecology at The Ohio State University. Ford is a Distinguished Professor of Education Human Ecology at The Ohio State University. Dr. Donna Y.

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Student Minds

JANUARY 26, 2023

Whether you are looking for support for your own mental health at university or supporting a friend, help is available. I am Muskaan, a Psychology Undergraduate from Queen Mary University of London. I am currently on my placement year working in a school. How are you?"

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2023

was not until my master’s program at the University of Missouri-Columbia that I had my first Black instructors. For example, we add culture to everything associated with gifted and talented education, Advanced Placement, special education, discipline, college and career readiness, and counseling. It Dr. Edward Fletcher Jr. Dr. Donna Y.

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NACAC's Admitted

APRIL 16, 2023

Do you have a four-year university in town with an access mission? Instead, numerous students are listing their dual-enrollment college credit on the admission applications of four-year colleges and universities. Academic roadblocks: What trends are the staff in your college’s placement testing office and registrar’s office seeing?

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EAB

JUNE 1, 2023

Building on their early success, Mott’s Second Chance Pell Program Coordinator, Mary Cusack , recently turned to a long-standing transfer partner in the region, Ferris State University. Program administrators have also sought to build out wraparound support for students going home, including resources for workforce placement.

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