Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 7, 2023

High-performing Black, Latino, and students from low-income backgrounds are not getting equal access to advanced math courses that more affluent or white students do, according to a new report from the Education Trust and Just Equations.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

In 2009, he returned to his undergraduate alma mater, Xavier University in New Orleans, an HBCU and the only Black Catholic institution in the world. From there, Williams’s career took off.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

The graduation rate for URM at four-year public institutions (4YP) increased 9 percentage points from 2016-17 to 2022-23, and the graduation rate for low-income students increased 10 percentage points in that time period. Funding for low-income students in Kentucky’s performance funding model has increased.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Justin Ortagus, an associate professor of higher education administration and policy and the director of the Institute of Higher Education at the University of Florida, examined over 40,000 student transcripts from a diverse, high-enrollment community college from between 2009 and 2019.

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The University Innovation Alliance

APRIL 1, 2024

Prior to these positions, she was Assistant Provost at Colorado Community College System from January 2009 to December 2016. He has won three National Awards for Education Reporting from the Education Writers Association, including one for a 2009 series of Inside Higher Ed articles on college rankings. Dr. Sacks holds a Ph.D.

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