Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 1, 2023

During her time at Moraine Valley, Haney oversaw the Title III-Strengthening Institutions Program Grant for its Increasing Access to Career Pathways Initiative by the U.S. Department of Education. Crawley Leadership Award.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 6, 2024

The Student Voting Campaign Brief provides information to assist administrators at colleges and universities in promoting access to voter registration at their institutions. The program was established in 2016 through the partnership of Campus Vote Project and NASPA - Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2025

One of our most defining initiatives started in 2016: the Career Pathways Initiative (CPI), a $50 million investment by the Lilly Endowment. It was an idea ahead of its time at the time of its launch, very few funders, organizations, or institutions were talking about capacity building.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Dr. Sara Goldrick-Rab Today, thousands of institutions recognize that millions of students need – and certainly deserve – access to food assistance. During the pandemic Congress took bipartisan action to reduce those burdens, expanding access to SNAP for millions of people, including students. The U.S.D.A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

identified as place-bound , according to the American Council on Education (ACE) Center for Policy Research and Strategy (Hillman, Nicholas, & Weichman, 2016). Marta is one of approximately 25 million adults in the U.S. Despite increased opportunities for online educational programming, their analysis concludes “.it’s

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

CPE’s 2024 Higher Education Matters Progress Report shows the graduation rate for URM in the Kentucky Community & Technical College System (KCTCS) increased 15 percentage points from the 2016-17 academic year to the 2022-23 academic year. The 2024 Higher Education Matters Progress Report shows a 16.1 Offutt has been with CPE since 2018.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Yale also became more financially accessible: the number of incoming freshmen who qualify for Pell grants doubled from his first year to 22% at present. In 2016, he was criticized when Yale decided not to remove the name of John C. Salovey’s tenure was not without controversy, however. Calhoun—a former U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Title: Assistant Vice President for Diversity, Access and Inclusion; Associate to the President, University of Nebraska Jenkins has served as the University of Nebraska’s associate to the president and assistant vice president for diversity, access and inclusion since August of 2016.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 10, 2023

Being an HSI gives institutions access to grants and funding that must be used to better support and serve Latinx students. Even though UAGM - Gurabo enrollment dropped from 17,167 in 2016 to 13,553 in 2020, Méndez Méndez and other leaders made conscious decisions that would keep the cost of tuition level. 6 and 7, 2020 at a 5.8

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

When building partnerships with TCUs, we recommend leading with the relationship as the priority and discontinuing efforts to pursue partnering for the purpose of exploiting Indigenous communities and institutions for increased access to resources intended for those communities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

For students who started community college in 2016, which means a portion of their six years overlapped with COVID, 35% obtained a credential. This form of upward transfer, that really represents an increase in access for lower-income students to more selective and more competitive colleges,” said Shapiro. “It respectively.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Through carefully targeted programs and partnerships that remove barriers to educational access and success, these leaders hope their latest numbers portend future growth. It was most pronounced from 2016 to 2020, where we dropped about 25% of our enrollment.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 6, 2022

And for this updated 2022 report, those working on it will have access to data regarding student race/ethnicity, information not available for the report’s previous 2016 edition, said John Fink , senior research associate and program lead at the CCRC.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

In 2016, he was tapped to lead the school’s law center, which was founded at the historically Black university (an HBCU) in 1947. Pierre, a seasoned legal scholar, had been serving the Southern University Law Center in numerous roles since 1990, first as a faculty member and then as an administrator.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 10, 2024

She spoke of the emotional labor involved in helping people feel inspire, even as the nation continues to grapple with a racial backlash and questions abound over who should be able to access higher education. He said that Powell "embraced compassion and restoration and was not afraid to share it without reserve."

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2023

Access to admissions is being denied under the guise of trying to achieve a color-blind society. Since 2016, that discrimination has been even more open and very visible. The genesis of this ruling has its roots in the 2016 presidential election. The expectation is that similar declines will be seen across the country.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Assistant professor and program coordinator Eleisha Moreno, who has worked with EAP since 2016, says this recognition from Excelencia in Education is validating. In 2016, EAP reduced the number of courses in its course sequence, increased tutoring services and added embedded tutoring. This recognition] means a lot.”

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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. From December 2016 to July 2022, when she left to begin her new position, she served as associate provost for undergraduate retention and dean of undergraduate studies. Students meet with Macaulay Honors College Dean Dara N.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

In recent years, Alabama has been the #1 state in terms of opioid prescriptions written, with 121 per 100 people in 2016. The needs of the community surrounding Alabama A&M University (AAMU) , an HBCU, were quite different. The ravages of the opioid crisis meant that Alabama was in desperate need of social workers.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

It was July 2016, and the list of Black men and women killed by police had grown by two names in just two days. All instruction will be virtual, live, and accessible across the country. Alton Sterling. Philando Castile. For teacher and producer Brandi Webb, those names were the last straw. I’m hoping for a positive change.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 18, 2023

“This outcome would be a radical act by the court, which is supposed to respect its own precedents, especially precedents like this one that were recently affirmed,” said Turnage Young, citing the 2016 Fisher v. The University of Texas case on race-conscious admission, also led by Edward Blum.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Because they are receiving unnecessary services and may not have access to the general education curriculum and classroom. In fact, perceived learning difficulties may result from limited access to academic opportunities, a lack of culturally relevant teaching, low-quality teaching, and resource inequalities. Dr. Donna Y.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

AUGUST 22, 2023

Given these parallels, IHEP’s 2016 report, Toward Convergence: A Technical Guide for the Postsecondary Metrics Framework , with its detailed definitions and background information, can serve as a useful resource for PSSG applicants and awardees. The report’s analysis also identified points of consensus within the field. The result?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas, partners with over 62 high schools across the state, facilitating college access for Latino, rural, and other marginalized communities. Since 2016, Latino graduation rates have increased by 16%, while the rate for all students increased 5%. “We Edward’s President Dr. Montserrat Fuentes.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2023

UMGC is open access, which means there are students from different backgrounds and preparation levels. When we launched IMBA (online) in 2016, we disrupted business education in that we offer an MBA for under $24,000,” says Elliott. “We Because we focus on that demographic, we have built that in as part of our mission,” says Carter.

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Civitas Learning

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Insights help teams create tailored support plans, but many institutions find it difficult to access quality data. Foster a Data-Driven Culture What’s Preventing Institutions from Accessing Quality Data? So, how can schools access clean, usable data? Enhance Data Integration and Centralization 4.

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Symplicity

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

In fact, in a 2016 study by the Institute of Education Sciences , only 13 percent of students with a disability disclosed. With technology, students who self-disclose through a private form to their accessibility or disability services offices, do not have to continuously share what accommodations they need.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

JUNE 22, 2019

To do that, they need access to better information about student outcomes. In fact, the Veterans Affairs and Education Departments signed , but never implemented, a data-sharing agreement in 2016 that would provide data on veteran student loan debt.

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#RealCollege Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2021

When her classes all went online during the COVID-19 pandemic, she was desperate for help because she could no longer access the computer lab on campus. In its first year of operation (2016–2017) the FAST Fund pilot assisted 26 students. An additional $2,500 was raised locally.

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EAB

JANUARY 30, 2023

In the first blog post in this series , I discussed the necessity of a sufficient technology infrastructure to facilitate curation, access, and retrieval of data. For these professionals to maximize their returns, however, they must have access to adequate data resources and systems that will allow them to perform these analyses.

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Iowa State University Extension and Outreach

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The Growing Together Iowa Mini-Grant Program , www.extension.iastate.edu/mastergardener/growing-together-iowa, has provided funding for the Master Gardener donation garden projects since 2016. The funding helps volunteers buy materials such as seeds, fencing, and harvest supplies to support food pantry donation gardens.

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The University Innovation Alliance

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Between 2016 and 2020, the UIA conducted a randomized control trial study of proactive, predictive analytics-enabled advising for first-generation and Pell-eligible students across 11 campuses. MAAPS demonstrated the value of an accessible, coordinated approach to advising. Proactive Advising. Build a career readiness-first culture.

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The University Innovation Alliance

APRIL 20, 2023

We launched this tool in May 2016 for our incoming students, thinking maybe we'd have 6000, 8000 exchanges with the students before the beginning of fall classes. With student access to easy answers, we reduced summer melt by about 30+%. In four months, we had over 180,000 exchanges. The students knew it was a bot.

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EAB

JANUARY 26, 2023

Some states, like Washington, California, and Illinois, have implemented policies that require public colleges to assist students with access to basic needs. 9% increase in six-year completion rates from the fall 2015 cohort to fall 2016. Thus, community colleges need to invest in basic needs to stabilize enrollment.

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Supporting Student Success

APRIL 1, 2021

Higher education leaders, faculty and staff members, college counselors, and college access advocates met virtually to discuss obstacles and opportunities to support rural students’ success. This was the start to the excellent Rural Student Success Unconference hosted by the University of Georgia, March 19-20, 2021. References.

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Timely MD

AUGUST 29, 2024

“For high-achieving students, sometimes they can feel as though if things don’t go their way, their dreams are dashed and they can’t meet the goals they set for themselves,” Dr. James Raper, Associate Vice President for Health, Wellbeing, Access and Prevention at Emory, told Inside Higher Ed.

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Scholarship America

APRIL 13, 2023

Dr. Lee was also a winner of Consulting Magazine’s Top 25 Consultants award in 2016. “I I have a deep respect for the organization’s long-standing mission on education access and I believe Scholarship America has a pivotal role to play in the higher education, leveraging its scale and insights.”

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