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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MARCH 6, 2025

Tomlinson was Virginias Teacher of the Year in 1974 and received an All-University teaching award at the University of Virginia in 2008. The model supports teachers in recognizing and addressing students varied strengths, needs, interests, cultures, and school experiences to maximize each learners possibilities.

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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 22, 2024

The year: 2008. During our post-mortem, we realized that the political rhetoric surrounding the 2008 presidential race had hijacked our discussion. Our focus on truth-digging also inspired me to examine the role Obama’s Muslim-sounding middle name played in the 2008 election. I was teaching undergraduates in the Deep South.

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MARCH 6, 2025

Additionally, she is the author of Being Black, Teaching Black: Politics and Pedagogy in Religious Studies (Abingdon, 2008), Black Church Studies: An Introduction (Abingdon, 2007) and Dear Sisters: A Womanist Practice of Hospitality (Pilgrim Press, 2001).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Castillo, who has served as the Vice President for Finance and Administration at TAMIU since 2008, will oversee the university’s operations following the unexpected passing of President Pablo Arenaz. Castillo has been named the Acting President of Texas A&M International University in Laredo, effective immediately.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

In terms of gender, outcomes from the fall 2017 cohort gave rise to the widest gender gap in completion rates since 2008 – a 7.2% gap compared to 2008’s 7% gap. Continuing trends all the way back to 2011, Asians continue to have the highest six-year college completion rates (74.8%), followed by white students (68.5%).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 2, 2023

Since taking on the BMCC position in 2008, she has expanded student affairs services to better support well-rounded learning experiences and remove obstacles to student success.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Since taking the helm of IHEP in 2008, Cooper’s been out front influencing national education policy. -based Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP), one of the nation’s premiere education research and policy centers, Dr. Michelle Asha Cooper has a vision.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2023

Lumina, a private nonprofit working to increase learning opportunities for all after high school, has been tracking credential and degree attainment for adults from 25 to 64 years of age since 2008. In 2008, only one state had set a degree or certificate attainment goal for its own population: Hawaii.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Khator, a scholar in the field of global environmental policy, is the eighth chancellor of the University of Houston System and the 13 th president of the University of Houston , dual titles she’s held since January 2008. She is the first foreign-born president of the university and the second woman to hold the position.

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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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FEBRUARY 22, 2024

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

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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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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 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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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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FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Prior to her time at Fairfield, Dr. Bilias Lolis worked as a school psychologist in Stamford Public Schools, ultimately becoming district chair of school psychological services in 2008.

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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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MARCH 5, 2025

She is the 2008 recipient of the MANA National Latina Organizations Las Primeras award as the first Hispanic female to command a warship in the U.S.

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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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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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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

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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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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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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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

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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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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Patter by Pat Thomson

JANUARY 26, 2025

In the UK, for example, the 2008 Concordat for the employment of research staff includes a mention of publication: 14. Still working with the researchers, albeit on other projects. Should this be a concern? This is not just my view. There some relevant guidance around contract researchers and their employment.

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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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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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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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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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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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