Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Dr. Michele Perkins In the suit, Dr. Perkins –who led the school from 2008-2022 before becoming chancellor in September 2022 – claims she was unexpectedly released by the school during an Apr. 4 online meeting. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

“To have been recognized in 2022 with their highest distinction, the Leah Meyer Austin Award, was humbling.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 12, 2024

In 2008, he was a board member for the Obama presidential transition with general responsibility for healthcare, education, and immigration. He also held senior positions in five presidential campaigns, serving as policy director for Michael Dukakis; and senior policy adviser for Al Gore, Howard Dean, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The last time it was amended was in 2008. … Elliott, director of workforce policy at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies and one of the authors of the report.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

In 2008, a UK student and another man were arrested, accused of, but ultimately not indicted for hanging a life-size likeness of President-elect Barack Obama from a tree on the campus. . This is not UK’s first racist incident.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Financial crises and their impact on higher education (2008-2010) The 2008 financial crisis had far-reaching effects on higher education, ushering in an era of budget cuts, rising tuition fees, and an intensified focus on financial sustainability.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Economists have warned for more than a decade of a coming labor shortage due to birth rates that slowed at the start of the 21st century and fell further during the Great Recession of 2008-2009. This new reality has confused both employers and workers, forcing them to re-evaluate their strategies for success in a rapidly changing world.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

It was a beautiful, sunny day that turned into a lovely, brisk night on Tuesday, November 4, 2008, the night then Sen. Barack Obama was elected the 44 th President of the United States. That evening, I met with other scholars of color in graduate school for an election night party.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 26, 2024

Since joining Lumina in 2008, she has served as a strategy officer, director of equity and inclusion, and director of impact and research. Johnson is director of grants administration at Lumina Foundation , a private foundation committed to making opportunities for learning beyond high school available to all.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 7, 2024

Cassandra Hart The report, Teacher-Student Race Match and Identification for Discretionary Educational Services , analyzes administrative data from North Carolina elementary schools from 2008 to 2013 to determine whether having Black teachers would affect the rates at which Black students – and those of other races – are designated for either gifted (..)

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Amid the global economic crisis in 2008, Mark says he worried what he would do with his undergraduate degree in history from Tufts University. Trending issues like violent and non-violent protests, development, economic crisis, and economic and social rights have also occupied his scholarly orbit.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 17, 2024

What started as an innovative program to support limited-income and first-generation students at the University of Michigan in 2008 has since grown into a 16-institution collaborative program that has helped hundreds of first-generation students across the country find success in post-secondary education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Combined with the Apple App Store, which first debuted in 2008 with 500 phone applications, in less than 20 years, technology has revolutionized how the average consumer communicates, entertains themselves, and obtains information.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Thanks to the active engagement and voter turnout of college students of all races, ethnicities, genders, and social classes, Barack Hussien Obama, was elected America’s first Black president of the United States of America in 2008 and reelected for a second term in 2012.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

The initial wave of no-loan programs took place starting around 2008, when there was talk within the government about taxing endowments or forcing schools to spend them down. “I Bennett’s study found that no-loan programs increase Pell Grant recipients by approximately 10-15%.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 31, 2022

She’s been with the Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC) since 1980 and became its vice president for student affairs in 2008. Craig thought that rents would stay low for the next few years. Craig is no newcomer to NYC. But by the end of 2021, rents had jumped 36% and showed no signs of slowing, according to realty website Zumper.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 25, 2024

Amid the global economic crisis in 2008, Mark says he worried what he would do with his undergraduate degree in history from Tufts University. Trending issues like violent and non-violent protests, development, economic crisis, and economic and social rights have also occupied his scholarly orbit.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 11, 2023

Barack Obama in 2008, he said. He has been involved in local elections but has also been involved in state and national elections as well. Back in 2000, he was policy director for Sen. Bill Bradley’s presidential campaign, a position he held again for Sen. And in 2006, he served as general counsel for Cory Booker’s Newark mayoral election.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

percentage points, the largest gap since 2008. Completion rose across institutions for Asian and Native American students but fell for Black and Latinx students at four-year public and private nonprofit institutions. More women completed than men, bringing the completion gap to 7.1

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 11, 2024

Years ago, her work appeared in this publication via a story on the American Indian Science and Engineering Society (“Providing a Full Circle of Support,” March 6, 2008) 7. I recently became acquainted with the work of Native American journalist Mary Annette Pember in her podcasting. Remembering and rendering lives.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Tate IV, the current president of Louisiana State University. At the time, Tate was the Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor in Arts and Sciences and Chair of the Department of Education at Washington University in St.

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College Aid Services

MAY 28, 2024

Brandi entered higher education in 2008 as an Internal Financial Aid Auditor at ATI Career Training Center and has served in numerous leadership positions over the last 16 years in her home state of Texas. Our Team Spotlight for the month of May is Brandi Stanfill.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Counselors who implement the MSJCC in this manner have the opportunity to critically examine traditional counseling theories that were developed within a predominantly White and Western framework, that reproduce North American and European colonist ideology if not contextualized, and that neglect Indigenous approaches to healing (Tuck & Yang, 2012; (..)

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Student Loan Planner

DECEMBER 14, 2022

After the 2008 financial crisis, the government placed strict underwriting restrictions on mortgage lenders. To qualify for a traditional mortgage today, you typically need to show two years of steady income. You’ll also need a 20% down payment to avoid paying private mortgage insurance (PMI).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Those lectures became a fundamental first step into his career in higher education, and in 2008, he became special assistant to the director of the TRIO programs at GSU, a series of federally funded programs that assist low-income, first-generation, or otherwise minoritized students attend and graduate college.

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Active Minds

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Throughout the past year, we revamped our long-standing Send Silence Packing® exhibit after its original debut in 2008 to better meet the wraparound mental health needs of the communities we visit. In 2020, we launched our K-12 program and have been expanding ever since to reach middle and high schools nationwide.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

The program – founded in 2008 as part of Breakthrough’s larger support model – works to support students as they face the encounters and challenges of postsecondary education, offering resources such as academic advising, tutoring, emergency student support funds, legal aids, and tax services, according to CCST Director Dr.

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Symplicity

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

This is the first broad review of higher education in Australia since 2008. Heralded as the new “blueprint” for changes to higher education for decades to come, Australian’s Federal education minister Jason Clare has released the much anticipated Universities Accord.

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Patter by Pat Thomson

MARCH 24, 2024

He found 105 articles which had cited his book in the year 2008. This is a much bigger example of the kind of citation, what I am calling mal-attribution, that had irritated me. But when he got to the scholarly literatures, Abbott found that things were only marginally better. Of these a mere 13 used his work centrally in their arguments.

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Scholarship America

JUNE 1, 2023

Sharp cuts in state and federal funding, especially after the 2008 recession, led to a need to bring in more tuition revenue, and competition for enrollment has led schools to spend more on administration, services and amenities. The good news is that some states are beginning to reinvest in higher education.

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COE

APRIL 7, 2023

Popular Links About COE about TRIO PRograms about our president the pell institute press releases about our president emeritus From the Pell Institute Click to view the page: Reflections on Connecting Research and Practice in College Access and Success Programs Reflections on Connecting Research and Practice in College Access and Success Programs Click (..)

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Mongoose

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The 2008 economic recession caused a decline in U.S. There is a potential 10-15% drop in “traditional” incoming college students projected to occur starting in 2025. It is being called the Enrollment Cliff or the Demographic Cliff, but no matter what you call it, higher education will be affected.

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EAB

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Indeed, during the 2008-2009 recession, giving fell along with the economy, and it took three years for philanthropy to start growing again. Understandably, fundraisers don’t want to seem tone-deaf to the possible financial hardships or fears of their constituents. But there are also significant risks to halting solicitations altogether.

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EAB

JANUARY 26, 2023

Even more impressively, going back to the fall 2008 cohort there has been a 4% improvement in completion rates. The critical need for first-year momentum There is encouraging data showing community college six-year completion rates have steadily risen, even as the four-year college sector has seen flattening completion rates.

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techKNOWtools

JANUARY 27, 2023

I have been regularly blogging on here since 2008 (according to my #tbt Blog Survey ). It’s been a while since I’ve been here. Sorry blog. It’s me, not you. I’m not sure why I dropped off from posting last year, but know you’re not the only digital practice (e.g.

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NACAC's Admitted

AUGUST 10, 2023

Test Scores Aren’t Necessarily Predictive of Success in College The 2008 commission also made two important observations about standardized admission tests. As a result, the commission encouraged colleges to carefully examine the potential distorting effects of admission tests.

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The University Innovation Alliance

AUGUST 11, 2022

Tim Renick, who has led Georgia State University’s student success efforts since 2008, is the founding executive director of Georgia State’s National Institute for Student Success, and Professor of Religious Studies at Georgia State.

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