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AccessLex Provides Update to Legal Education Data Deck in New Release

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

"While we've seen incremental improvements in some areas, the data clearly indicates that significant work remains to ensure equitable access and outcomes for all aspiring lawyers." Black law students receive the highest average total aid packages at $54,200, but 87% of this amount comes in the form of federal loans rather than grants.

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Access Must be Front Burner for Community Colleges

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Students navigate housing and food insecurity, transportation issues, and other limitations to access. The purpose of community colleges is to increase access to higher education for the most vulnerable populations.” Achieving the Dream works with corporations, foundations, and other partners to support community colleges.

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Unapologetic Leadership for Black Learner Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Over half a million – 579,000 to be exact – Black students have left the American higher education system since 2011. Before and during COVID, most of these students vanished from our most affordable and accessible institutions – our community colleges. But we need to look closer at the data.

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Report Examines Fragmented Reentry Services for Formerly Incarcerated Individuals Attending College

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

For years, advocates for higher education in prison programs worked to see Pell Grants reintroduced for incarcerated individuals. Their inclusion, their belonging, well-being and their ability to access and use campus basic needs, that for me was one of the really big takeaways.” There is not a one-size-fits-all model.”

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New Research Shows Benefits of Summer Pell

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

For most of its 50-year history, the Pell Grant has not covered summer classes, with two brief exceptions: 2009-2011 and 2017 to the present. Part-time students can use leftover traditional Pell Grant money to take summer classes, so they don’t qualify for summer Pell.)

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Valued or Devalued: Considering the Status of African Americans in Historically White Colleges and Universities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

There is great concern that African American student enrollment is reported to have declined by 29% from 2011 to 2019, representing a decrease of 600,000 persons. Harvey serves as Distinguished Scholar at the American Association for Access, Equity and Diversity in Washington, D.C. Dr. William B.

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Conference Welcomes New Members Fighting for Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Energy and excitement filled the McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago, as over two thousand community college leaders, faculty, and staff gathered to share stories of access, equity, and inclusion at the 2023 Dream conference. But despite their efforts to increase access and opportunity for all, equity gaps remain. “We

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