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FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Prior to the 2015-16 season, Sports Illustrated named him the No. Paige won the Skip Prosser award as the Mens Basketball Student-Athlete of the Year in 2015. He is the teams all time leader in free throw percentage (.865). 2 high-impact senior in the nation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2025

In 2015, I faced a negative credit outlook from Moody's, a challenge that jeopardized the "fresh start" I was brought in to achieve. Leaders must challenge conventional models, as Dorothy and her companions did when confronting the Wizard, and advocate for policies that protect vulnerable institutions and students. Dr. Ronald A.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Earlham College has received nearly $1 million for a summer immersion experience for Indiana high school students. through its Indiana Youth Programs on Campus initiative – is part of a statewide investment of more than $29 million to help students explore their interests, learn skills, and consider college. 18-23 and 25-30.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2023

s national college completion rate has remained stagnant, with rates even falling for some populations, according to a new report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center (NSCRC). This year’s edition examined enrollment and completion for college students who started in Fall 2017 through June 2023, a cohort of approximately 2.4

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 25, 2024

Two new reports and an online dashboard from the Community College Research Center (CCRC) at Teacher’s College, Columbia University, are part of an ambitious effort to tell the story of transfer students. No state is doing well in terms of getting their community college students to transfer and complete,” said Velasco Rodriguez.

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MARCH 15, 2023

Women’s liberal arts institution Wellesley College students voted Mar. The nonbinding vote came after a recent debate between students and Wellesley’s administration – the latter has resisted such a change. Since 2015, Wellesley has allowed transgender women to apply for admission.

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MARCH 6, 2025

Prior to her current role, was the executive director of the Wisconsin Technical College District Boards Association, an organization representing the trustees of the 16 Wisconsin technical colleges district boards, since 2015.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 8, 2024

But a decade ago, in 2015, Gallup found that most respondents (57%) had high confidence in higher education, while 10% had little or none. This, the survey concludes, is primarily because Republican respondents feel colleges are pushing liberal political agendas on students.

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MARCH 21, 2024

Amelia Parnell, vice president for research and policy at NASPA — Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education was named the organization’s president. Parnell has been with the organization since 2015 and will bring deep industry and organizational knowledge to her new role.

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DECEMBER 11, 2023

Nicholas Bowman The presence of underrepresented racial minority (URM) and first-generation college students in a course is related to higher STEM grades for all students in the class, especially for the minority students themselves, according to a recent study published in AERA Open.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Obtaining an associate degree helps students climb higher on the economic mobility ladder than they would be able to with only a high school degree, and a bachelor’s degree enables them to climb much higher. Most community college students intend to transfer. What causes the disconnect between intention and reality? Dr. Linda L.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 19, 2023

Community college students assigned to corequisite mathematic courses instead of remedial courses not only graduate faster, but earn higher wages. That’s the findings of a study that has been tracking 900 community college students since 2013. The 900 students were randomly placed in either a remedial course or a corequisite course.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 13, 2023

Glaude has been chair since AAS , originally a certificate program, became a department in 2015. As a student, as a scholar, as a Black student, as an FLI [first-generation, low-income] student, it was everything that I needed for it to be,” said Kiara Gilbert, who had Glaude as her junior paper and senior thesis adviser.

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MARCH 14, 2023

More college students than ever were anxious, depressed, and struggling with suicidal thoughts last school year. It’s a disheartening finding from the Healthy Minds Study (HMS), which conducts an annual online survey of nearly 96,000 college students on 133 American campuses that was released last Friday.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 24, 2023

They educate close to 40% of American undergraduates — nearly 6 million students. Community college students are more likely to be Black, Hispanic, and from lower-income backgrounds than four-year students. The bad news: graduation rates remain under 50%, and many students who do graduate are not set up for success.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2023

Since the 2015 launch of Graduation Initiative 2025, a state-backed project to improve graduation rates, the California State University system (CSU) has made significant progress, with students from all groups earning degrees at higher rates. The graduation rate gap between Black and white students is 22.2

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JUNE 3, 2024

The first, the Educational Preparedness Program (EPP) , offers courses, academic support, and career-building resources to currently and formerly incarcerated (CFI) students. The program makes available “blended courses” that bring CFI students and Marquette undergrads into the same classrooms.

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AUGUST 16, 2023

Shana Stoddard Having first come to Rhodes as a William Randolph Hearst Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in 2015, Stoddard has cemented a role for herself at the school over time, attaining the position of associate professor of chemistry in 2022. “I She said it allows students to better understand the significance of what they’re learning.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2024

The United Negro College Fund comprises 37 member colleges and universities in support of students’ education and development through scholarships and other programs. It follows a $50 million grant from Lilly Endowment in 2015 that enabled UNCF to launch the Career Pathways Initiative to help enhance career outcomes for students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 10, 2023

Asian Americans face lower odds to be admitted into colleges and universities than white students with similar test scores, GPAs, and extracurriculars. The researchers looked at 685,709 first-year college applications from 292,795 Asian American and white students to selective U.S. Earlier this year, the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2024

More students earned certificates than any year in the past decade, while associate degrees awarded fell to its lowest point in a decade and bachelor's degrees awarded fell to its lowest since 2015–16 academic year. These decreases happened whether the student was a first-time credential earner or had earned a credential before.

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JULY 29, 2024

Wheelan “To see the increases in student achievement and know that we had a little something to do with it has been extremely rewarding,” said Wheelan, who has led the accrediting body for the past two decades. “I This commitment has been to the benefit of every student who has attended a member institution,” Hansen said. “Dr.

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JUNE 30, 2024

The data indicate that considering legacy status when making admissions decisions is associated with decreased college access for Black and Hispanic students, as well as for students living with low incomes. million undergraduate students enrolled in institutions that considered legacy status when making admissions decisions.

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OCTOBER 27, 2023

The leader of a Native American higher ed student access organization was recognized and commended by the Bank of America as a Neighborhood Builders Social Equality Awardee (NBSE). The prayers and dreams of my ancestors give me the strength to work for that transformation for our students today and for future generations.”

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JULY 23, 2024

I look forward to working this year with the faculty, staff, students, and alumni as we lead the nation in our teaching, research, and land-grant and clinical activities,” said Fuchs, who starts in the role Aug. Fuchs served as the university’s 12th president from January 2015 to February 2023, before taking a yearlong sabbatical.

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DECEMBER 16, 2022

Charlie Baker Baker will finish his second term as governor in January, a role the Republican has held since January 2015, but has returned to Democratic hands with the election of Maura Healey, who will be the state's first openly gay governor.

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MARCH 18, 2024

He said the plan will lead to a six-week summer internship program for high school students and leverage the “Mobile Energy Lab” program he founded in 2015 at Wayne State to engage Detroit middle schoolers.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 2, 2024

He was UDC’s ninth and longest-serving president whose tenure spanned from 2015 to 2023. His leadership at Jackson State University and the University of the District of Columbia has ensured opportunities for countless African American students to access and thrive in higher education.

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MARCH 31, 2024

Back in February, more than 1,000 practitioners from hundreds of colleges across the nation gathered in Orlando, Florida, to exchange evidence-based approaches to accelerating student success and equity. Stout, who has led the organization since 2015. ATD is not just a conference,” says Dr. Karen A. We are not leaving Florida behind.

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JANUARY 30, 2024

Wade Scholars will benefit low-income, high-achieving students. Funds to establish the program will support two students per year with full room and board scholarships for their first two years on campus. The program launched with funds from the Wade’s World Foundation and continues with monies from fundraising.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 1, 2024

An AERA fellow, she was elected to AERA’s Executive Board and Council from 2018 to 2021, has been liaison to AERA’s Graduate Student Council and International Relations Committee, and co-edited Review of Research in Education, an AERA peer-reviewed journal.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

"As part of the coalition of wrestling organizations that has supported women's wrestling through the NCAA Emerging Sports for Women process, this is a huge milestone for our sport and for our NCAA women student-athletes,” he continued. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 27, 2024

In 1996, she returned to campus as a dean, and, in 2015, she became president of her alma mater. Dignity prepares students to have an ethical approach to life, the idea that every individual counts,” says Kinsella. It not only revitalizes the campus but also brings new fields of study to the students and faculty.

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JANUARY 26, 2024

Beasley’s example of exemplary leadership and public service will inspire our students, broaden their perspectives and enhance their international understanding.” The flag was finally removed from the State House grounds in 2015 after nine people were killed in a mass shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2022

She has been president at A&M-San Antonio since 2015. “Dr. It is a bittersweet moment as I am extraordinarily proud of all the students, faculty, staff and alumni of A&M-San Antonio,” Teniente-Matson said. Last year, she discussed being a first-generation college student on Diverse's " In the Margins" podcast. .

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NOVEMBER 30, 2023

They are increasingly recognizing the importance of community engagement in fostering civic responsibility, addressing societal challenges, and enriching the educational experience for students. Students at MSIs, who are often from low-income homes, which requires them to work, often face a civic empowerment gap.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

We use the term and notion of resegregation in special education to describe the overrepresentation of Students of Color in special education, an issue that continues to persist today. In fact, these resegregated practices cause short-term and long-term harm for Students of Color (National Center for Learning Disabilities, 2020).

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