Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 2, 2024

“I very much think it has been invigorating for me over the years to see the data-driven decisions that lead us to doing things with our students that are amazing,” she says. Having served as vice president for student affairs at Cal State, Fullerton, from 2012–19, Eanes was familiar with the Cal State system.

Retention

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

DECEMBER 7, 2024

has awarded doctoral students with its 2024 MCT Scholarship. The significant advances they will drive in higher education will serve as a testament to the enduring legacy of Dr. Martino Harmon, who is also the Vice President for Student Life at the University of Michigan. The Dr. Melvin C. Terrell (MCT) Educational Foundation, Inc.

Scholarship

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 23, 2025

to approximately 19 million students, which is above pre-pandemic levels. A point noted in last falls data was that the number of 18-year-old freshman saw the biggest decline, particularly at public institutions that serve low-income students. Undergraduate enrollment is almost 16 million, only 1% below 2019 levels. Dr. Brian R.

Low income student

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

JANUARY 8, 2025

Prior to her role at MATC, Martinez Powless accumulated 17 years of higher education experience at Marquette University and MATC, working in administration, enrollment, student affairs, and multicultural outreach. In September 2023, she was promoted to interim vice president of enrollment and retention, reporting to King.

Student affairs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 22, 2025

While colleges are beginning to support formerly incarcerated students, few have strategies to address the needs of students like Maria loved ones of incarcerated peoplemany of whom are college students themselves. They are caregivers, financial supporters, and students navigating higher education under immense pressure.

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

As the holidays approach, today’s colleges and universities are increasingly marked by overflowing donation bins containing canned goods collected by every student organization and faculty department to stock the campus food pantry. Over the last decade the food pantry became a higher education trend. In many ways, it’s a sign of progress.

Financial aid

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 7, 2025

I dont really have fears, Whitaker told The Catalyst, an independent student newspaper at Colorado College. Women are leading institutions with amazing student outcomes, raising significant resources and building innovative partnerships, she notes. I think things through, I get information, I prepare myself for all outcomes.

Educational leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Black male students are frequently perceived as problems (DuBois, 1903) and must navigate both direct and indirect deficit ideologies and practices. we examine how Black male students and professionals in higher education face discrimination, microaggressions, and Racial Battle Fatigue.

Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 5, 2025

Graham has been named Vice President for Student Affairs at Florida Memorial University. Graham has held institutional administrative posts in enrollment management, student engagement, student success, and strategic initiatives at both 2-year and 4-year institutions including both HBCUs and PWIs. Graham Tymon M.

Student affairs

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

AUGUST 11, 2025

DeQuan Smith-Murry As the Morehouse School of Medicine seeks to expand its reach by establishing regional campuses throughout the nation, providing effective and efficient student services will be paramount to its success. That job falls to Dr. DeQuan Smith-Murry, assistant dean of student affairs at Morehouse’s medical school.

Student wellbeing

Knack

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

These constraints make it difficult to provide the high-quality academic and student support students deserve. By leveraging the expertise and scalability of private organizations, colleges can strengthen both academic and student affairs in meaningful ways.

Student affairs

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

Civitas Learning

JULY 22, 2025

Subscribe: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Youtube Music | Transcript At Austin Community College (ACC), student support isn’t just a department—it’s a campus-wide effort. Creating a Structure for Success ACC’s journey began by organizing students into ten career-aligned areas of study, a decision grounded in the Guided Pathways model.

Advising

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 31, 2025

Sonia De La Torre Sonia De La Torre has been named Vice President of Student Services at Fullerton College. De La Torre most recently served as Dean of Student Equity at Long Beach City College.

Student affairs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 4, 2025

I was a low-income student and proud Howard University graduate. is an associate professor & program director of Higher Education & Student Affairs in the Department of Advanced Studies, Leadership, & Policy in the School of Education & Urban Studies at Morgan State University. but it has been a journey.

Low income student

CFAA College Financial Aid Advisors

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Higher education becomes even more expensive when students receive their financial aid offers – and theyre smaller than everyone hoped. Some schools allow students to appeal for additional aid if they can demonstrate extenuating circumstances. These jobs are often on campus and designed to accommodate student schedules.If

Financial aid

Civitas Learning

APRIL 17, 2025

Start by asking these three essential questions to ensure your investment drives real results: How will this software help more students succeed? Begin by asking: How can this tool help us support more students? What features will help us be more proactive, scale support, and still create a student-centered environment?

Advising

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2025

DAndra Mullis a seasoned student affairs leader and practitioner-scholar, who is dedicated to leading organizations and initiatives that uplift and enable a comprehensively excellent student experience.As

Student affairs

John Hopkins University Student Well-Being Blog

JULY 31, 2025

Note: this post originally appeared as an email sent to Hopkins students. Dear Students, The cybersecurity team has identified several phishing attempts and a potential cybersecurity risk targeting Johns Hopkins students. services that claim to support course registration). Additional guidance can also be found at [link].

Student affairs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Realigning TM 2 to enhance the leadership initiatives for our member schools at the executive level is essential to the future of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), historically Black community colleges (HBCCs) and predominantly Black institutions (PBIs) and the students they serve, says Dr. Harry L.

Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 28, 2025

in Higher Education and Student Affairs from the University of South Carolina; Ph.D. in higher education and student affairs. For Ford, that sit-down also typifies the kind of concern for underrepresented students that is direly needed at colleges and universities in the U.S.

Student affairs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Did the 2024 election cycle demonstrate the increasing influence of young Black voters, many of whom are students at these schools? For many Black students, HBCUs provide not only an education but also a sense of belonging and empowerment, which is often absent in Predominantly White Institutions (PWIs).

Educational leadership

John Hopkins University Student Well-Being Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Not just the kind you munch on during a study session, but an acronym for well-being to help students remember the importance of the following factors: Sleep Nutrition Activity Connectivity Knowledge, and Self-care It’s paramount to tend to these things in times of increased stress, like the end of an academic term. Student Well-Being Blog.

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Alvin Poussaint For more than five decades, Poussaint served as a beacon of change at Harvard Medical School (HMS), where he worked as faculty associate dean for student affairs and founding director of the HMS Office of Recruitment & Multicultural Affairs. Dr. George Q.

Education

John Hopkins University Student Well-Being Blog

MARCH 27, 2025

Event: World Health Day at Peabody Date: Monday April 7, 2025 Time: 12:00pm – 1:00pm Location: Peabody Plaza, Peabody campus Registration: [link] Details: The fair is an opportunity for our students to engage and receive resources on JHU’s eight dimensions of well-being. Lunch is provided. Snacks will be provided.

International student

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 9, 2024

These programs receive far less attention and funding than they deserve, as most philanthropy continues flowing toward exclusionary colleges and universities that enroll few if any parenting students. What parenting students do in order to navigate college would astonish most people.

Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 10, 2025

Just months later, Antoinette “Bonnie” Candia-Bailey, vice president for student affairs at historically Black Lincoln University of Missouri, died by suicide after alleging workplace bullying. The program continued shortly afterward. Historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) aren’t exempt. Where else do we go from here?

Advising

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2025

Vega has been awarded several national grants to pursue critical research agendas including a national grant from the Spencer Foundation to explore the experiences of higher education and student affairs professionals with policies related to undocumented students.

University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2025

Systemic equity gaps and disparities continue to persist across demographic groups, particularly impacting our most vulnerable students. Additionally, the rising cost of college tuition disproportionately affects students from lower-income families, further exacerbating the barriers to higher education.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 6, 2025

As we serve and advocate in contexts that have made clear through their policies and practices, we are not protected, and neither are our students and colleagues. We need to rethink the way that we offer class assignments, particularly reading and writing tasks, to ensure student comprehension of content, subjects, and materials.

Humanities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 13, 2025

Harvard Medical School's decision to rename its Diversity, Inclusion and Community Partnership office has sparked significant reaction from students and observers, marking Harvard’s latest move to reshape its diversity infrastructure amid shifting political pressures.

Inclusion

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 30, 2025

Declining birth rates, changingstudent expectations, shifting public sentiment, and persistent underfunding place extraordinary pressure on institutions that have long served as lifelines for students of color and first-generation learners. Deal Design refers to how institutions create value through the student's experience.

Literacy

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

He currently serves as past chair of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators Certified Financial Aid Administrator Program. Slaughter earned a bachelor of music degree in vocal performance from the Eastman School of Music and a master of science in student affairs administration from Indiana University.

Director of financial aid

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 10, 2024

SEATTLE-- Prominent student affairs practitioners of color shared powerful stories of leading in higher education amid major challenges, including the recent COVID pandemic and ongoing attacks to diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. As such, Shivers said, it's important that student affairs professionals practice self-care.

Student affairs