Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 1, 2023

A new study by Yale University finds that Black students are more likely to leave medical school than their white peers. student at Yale School of Medicine and lead author of the study, said when research and innovation are equitable, physicians are better equipped to care for diverse populations. "To Mytien Nguyen, an M.D.-Ph.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

"I look forward to engaging and collaborating with Cal State LA’s talented students, staff and faculty to continue the institution’s journey to new heights in student success, research, scholarship and creative activity, and community engagement.” Dr. Berenecea Johnson Eanes Eanes will become the university's first woman president. “A

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 7, 2023

In fact, most studies concerning African Americans have focused on the retention of students or faculty (Wolfe & Dilworth, 2015). Smalls In a perfect world, governing boards and leadership demographics would mirror the student population (Higgs, 2014). Equity is a clear part of the vision and mission of the college.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Engaging with college students was regular from early on,” says Gray. Dr. DeLeon Gray Gray is an associate professor of educational psychology and equity at North Carolina State University. Black and Belonging serves students, ages 12-18, specifically emphasizing those who attend predominantly Black K-12 public schools.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

In 2018, when Dr. Tim Renick took on the role of senior vice president for student success at Georgia State University (GSU), the university’s demographics were rapidly changing. We’re also one of the largest enrollers of Pell Grant students in the country, enrolling about 30,000 Pell students every semester.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 2, 2023

Economic issues still impact many community college students, a large number of whom are adult learners or have extensive family obligations. Students navigate housing and food insecurity, transportation issues, and other limitations to access. Also, ensuring that there’s equity in the experiences of our students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Pass this on to your students and prioritize their mental and emotional wellbeing rather than trying to instill a strict work ethic. Mark enrolled at the New School, where he earned a master’s degree in international affairs in 2012. The students keep me hopeful. That experience proved to be life-altering.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Over the past three years, she has spearheaded impressive initiatives at the university that now touts an enrollment of more than 14,000 students. “As Early on, the university welcomed Black students—several from families comprising the Old Settlers community—at a time when many colleges and universities were reluctant to do so.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

GCU, located in New Jersey, also has women in other school leadership positions as well, such as director of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives; director of career services, the director of financial aid, and the director of global education. And because it's already built into the culture, students are expecting that dynamic.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Byrne to bring her commitment to access and equity to a new area of public higher education. Justice and equity are driving forces in most everything I do.” Macaulay is a highly selective honors college for students in the CUNY system. Students meet with Macaulay Honors College Dean Dara N.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 25, 2024

Pass this on to your students and prioritize their mental and emotional wellbeing rather than trying to instill a strict work ethic. Mark enrolled at the New School, where he earned a master’s degree in international affairs in 2012. The students keep me hopeful. That experience proved to be life-altering.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

As a mixed-race person — Lopez is Japanese and white, and she is married to a Latino — she brings her diverse racial identities to the lens of her research and work, and that has proved useful to many of her students. “I I talk about being mixed-race with my students a lot,” she says. ‘A It’s been the highlight of my career.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 19, 2024

Lingle Higher education and professional policing can be perceived as mutually exclusive endeavors, an odd dichotomy given that police officers are community members and students first. However, values such as cultural appreciation and equity-minded decision-making often elude officers who interact daily with people from diverse backgrounds.

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Civitas Learning

JANUARY 9, 2025

Today’s most influential leaders recognize that student success goes beyond traditional measures like retention and graduation rates. A study of Civitas Learning partner institutions reinforces this wisdom, revealing that 39% of students experience a change in their likelihood to persist within a single term.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Banks chronicled the history of Black AERA leadership in a March 2016 article, titled “Expanding the Epistemological Terrain: Increasing Equity and Diversity Within the American Educational Research Association,” that appeared in the journal Educational Researcher. Ball, the Charles E. Dr. Joyce E. King, the Benjamin E.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 11, 2024

Matthews in starting what was initially a monthly newsletter on Black Issues In Higher Education , we now know the power of pathways in helping Black boys like me go from being a nerdy high school student in Richmond, Virginia, to a tenured professor at a flagship state university where the governor once stood in the Schoolhouse Door.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

At a time when the Latino population in the United States is growing and students are still facing daunting obstacles, Excelencia in Education is recognizing nine institutions for their clear and decisive commitment to Latino student success with the Seal of Excelencia. It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 20, 2022

As the NCAA’s director of minority inclusion since 2010, Ford has been on a mission to create a culture of inclusion and equity for student-athletes, coaches and administrators from diverse backgrounds. Ford’s wish: “To see in my lifetime that the work I am doing now is no longer needed.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

Starting with programs for middle and high school students, through supports for graduate students, the Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity (CEED) at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) has provided inspiration, insight, encouragement, and community for engineering students.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Institutions have a critical role to play in recruiting and admitting a more diverse student body and creating the supports necessary for all students to complete. These widening gaps are the result of attainment rising for everyone, but rising more rapidly for students in the highest income quintile. Full-time students only.

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Civitas Learning

MAY 11, 2023

Higher education leaders recognize that achieving improved student outcomes requires more than a quick fix. Those who’ve found the most success understand that financial stability requires investing in a student success model that supports students and fiscal health.

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EAB

JANUARY 30, 2023

Accountability comes in many forms: to state or governing agencies, students, key performance indicators, operating measures, and more. educational policy is a focus on using evidence, or data, to inform decisions about institutional and educator quality, budgetary decisions, and what and how to teach students” (3). link] Hillman, N.,

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Civitas Learning

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Providing them with a unique opportunity — and an imperative — to provide pathways to social and economic mobility to students and the surrounding community. Amid this steady decline, the University of Cincinnati continues improving retention and graduation rates, setting enrollment records, achieving diversity goals, and closing equity gaps.

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Timely MD

MAY 9, 2023

play an important role for students and communities, providing a quality education that prepares students for jobs or to transfer to four-year colleges and universities. Given that over 40% of undergraduate students in the U.S. Given that over 40% of undergraduate students in the U.S. citizens, and 5% are veterans.

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The University Innovation Alliance

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

As we approach our ten-year anniversary of accelerating student success innovation across higher education to drive social and economic mobility nationwide, I am grateful and humbled that this movement has expanded and evolved to inspire so many institutions and student success leaders beyond the UIA.

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The University Innovation Alliance

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

As we approach our ten-year anniversary of accelerating student success innovation across higher education to drive social and economic mobility nationwide, I am grateful and humbled that this movement has expanded and evolved to inspire so many institutions and student success leaders beyond the UIA.

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The University Innovation Alliance

MAY 8, 2024

Inside the UIA’s 2023 Annual Report bridget Thu, 05/09/2024 - 00:10 Image Graduation Higher Ed Leadership Student Success University Innovation Lab This coming October, the University Innovation Alliance (UIA) will celebrate ten years of collaborating with higher education institutions to increase their graduation rates.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Giving Tuesday launched in the United States in 2012 after beginning as an idea in 2011 from the Chicago nonprofit Mary-Arrchie Theater Company. For example, if a teacher wants to purchase a new rug for student activities like circle time, they can use DonorsChoose to raise money. History of Giving Tuesday.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 12, 2024

The case stemmed from a reverse affirmative action lawsuit filed by white student Cheryl Hopwood, who was denied admission to the University of Texas law school. The Berkeley-based nonprofit organization promotes social equity through education, using a cradle-to-career reach across four distinct demographic groups. Gavin Newsom.

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EAB

APRIL 18, 2023

DK: Many institutions, at least 500 or more have turned to OPMs to help them find new students, increase yield, or quickly ramp up new programs that they're bringing online. So this was, we were trying to prevent predatory practice, especially when it came to student recruitment, enrollment or the disbursement of federal financial aid.

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EAB

APRIL 18, 2023

DK: Many institutions, at least 500 or more have turned to OPMs to help them find new students, increase yield, or quickly ramp up new programs that they're bringing online. So this was, we were trying to prevent predatory practice, especially when it came to student recruitment, enrollment or the disbursement of federal financial aid.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 11, 2023

He has been one of the top performing students every year of his short educational experience. Ford We write this being very mindful of Mason and the need for school counselors to be effectively prepared to work with minoritized students. All school counselors must have this paradigm to engage all students.

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EAB

AUGUST 8, 2023

EAB’s Jonathan April is joined by Kimberly Williams from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan to talk about creative ways to attract out-of-state students from underserved populations. So, I'm especially excited that today's webinar focuses on how institutions can help underserved students visit campus.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2024

We and many others have written about how Black males are the most disenfranchised students in our nation’s schools. Giving all of our students access to contemporary literature that centers Black youth perspectives is not only important in decolonizing literature education but also in presenting a holistic view of Black childhood.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Gay will be the second Black woman to lead an Ivy League university, following Dr. Ruth Simmons, who served as president of Brown University from 2001 to 2012. Experts in higher education, diversity, equity and inclusion celebrated the news, hoping it could signal to other institutions that it is time for more diverse leadership.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 29, 2023

As more states with conservative leaders pass laws to end or curtail diversity initiatives in higher education, a number of higher ed stakeholders say they are intensifying efforts to ensure access and success for the very students who are being targeted. However, she noted, Native student enrollment is declining across the country.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 22, 2023

In schools across the nation, there has been a heightened awareness of the need for students to earn postsecondary degrees – as there is substantial evidence that it leads to better labor market outcomes and a higher quality of life. We have a long way to go to achieve equity in the academy for Black males.

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