Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 29, 2024

ATI, formed in 2016, comprises regional and flagship public institutions and leading private colleges and universities. Rhodes College joins the collective of 137 public and private colleges and universities nationwide who work collaboratively to expand access and opportunity for highly talented low- and moderate-income students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

Aaron Thompson, president of the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE), participated in the Attaining College Excellence and Equity Summit put together by the U.S. percentage point increase in dual credit participation among low-income students from the 2016 senior class to the 2021 senior class.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The December-published study, " The Role of Minoritized Student Representation in Promoting Achievement and Equity Within College STEM Courses ", examined the effects of having URM and first-gen students in undergraduate STEM classes. Mary Murphy, a professor of psychological and brain sciences at Indiana University Bloomington. "I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 30, 2023

Lynn Holzman This year for only the second time in the 41-year history of NCAA women’s basketball (the previous time was 2016), the NCAA Divisions II and III National Championships were decided at the Women’s Final Four site. The NCAA’s new constitution has principles on gender equity and diversity, equity and inclusion.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2024

Class of 2022 data revealed that only 48% of Black, first-year students who enrolled in the CSU in fall 2016 earned their degree in six years, according to the Black Student Success Workgroup Report. Dr. Thomas A. Parham and Saúl Jiménez-Sandoval, co-chairs for the workgroup.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Colleges and universities can make the benefits even more meaningful by accepting SNAP on campus (Oregon State began doing this in 2016 and Penn State recently began as well) and/or exempting SNAP recipients from meal plan requirements. The average benefit for a single adult is around $2,000 a year and it is higher for students with children.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The research projects cover topics such as energy storage, nutrition, food insecurity, liquid fuels, education, artificial intelligence (AI), the humanities, robotics, and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).

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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. King was followed in 2016-2017 by Dr. Vivian L. Dr. Joyce E.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

There is also training on diversity, equity, and inclusion, featuring modules on implicit bias, intersectionality, and micro and mac ro- aggressions. In recent years, Alabama has been the #1 state in terms of opioid prescriptions written, with 121 per 100 people in 2016.

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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. With the attacks on diversity, equity, and inclusion within higher education, HBCUs are “even more relevant and important today,” he says.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 22, 2023

The funding comes as part of a California program to tackle issues of equity in higher ed and the workforce. A 1998 proposition eliminated most bilingual programs in California schools, and although it was reversed in 2016, there is still a shortage of teachers who speak multiple languages.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

But even before she began teaching at the collegiate level in 2016, López taught and mentored youth. It not only contributes to increasing Latine students’ educational and political opportunities, but it also contributes to the advancement of methodological techniques to study contemporary issues of equity in politics.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2023

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. Now is the time for colleges and universities to be vocal and open about their position on the need to have students of color among their student population.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The Marie Fielder Center encourages research that addresses today’s educational and social problems through transformational change, equity, education, and justice.

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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. Justice and equity are driving forces in most everything I do.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 15, 2023

Melissa Fuesting, senior survey researcher for the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources “This was a pattern that was going on before the pandemic and is continuing on after the pandemic,” she said, noting that tenure-track faculty haven’t received a raise that met or exceeded inflation since 2016.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 10, 2024

SEATTLE-- Prominent student affairs practitioners of color shared powerful stories of leading in higher education amid major challenges, including the recent COVID pandemic and ongoing attacks to diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Since 2016, Latino graduation rates have increased by 16%, while the rate for all students increased 5%. “We Beck, administrators, faculty, staff, and student leadership have used data and intentional practices to re-center campus culture around an equity-minded student success agenda and solidify strategic direction in closing equity gaps.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 27, 2024

Kimbrough, executive in residence at the University of South California’s Race and Equity Center, president in residence at The Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions, and former president of two HBCUs: Philander Smith College in Little Rock, Arkansas, and Dillard University in New Orleans, Louisiana. Just ask Dr. Walter M.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2023

Webster University The mission of Webster University, a private institution in Missouri, prioritizes diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). When we launched IMBA (online) in 2016, we disrupted business education in that we offer an MBA for under $24,000,” says Elliott. “We

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EAB

DECEMBER 2, 2022

I recently had the opportunity to participate in a media interview with Brandon Wolf , a survivor of the 2016 mass shooting at Pulse nightclub in Orlando and a civil rights activist. Content warning: this blog contains discussions of gun violence and hate speech.

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EAB

JANUARY 30, 2023

New Directions for Institutional Research, 2016 (166), 47-59. Strategic framing: How leaders craft the meaning of data use for equity and learning. The Review of Higher Education, 40 (3), 391-426. link] 1353/rhe.2017.0013 2017.0013 Kirby, Y., & Floyd, N. link] McLendon, M., Hearn, J., & Deaton, R. J., & Guerra, A.

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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. We've recently distilled some of our learning into three UIA playbooks that we invite you to download for free. Proactive Advising.

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Scholarship America

APRIL 13, 2023

Lee served as Vice President, Business Strategy and Operations at Ellucian, a private equity-backed EdTech software / SaaS company, leading strategic growth programs and operations excellence, and helped Ellucian successfully be acquired by Blackstone and Vista Equity Partners in September 2021. “As

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Catherine Cronin

AUGUST 24, 2022

We cannot talk about digital literacies, of course, without also considering data literacies. The systems we rely on for teaching, learning and scholarship are both digital and datafied. ” Power acts in and through digital technologies and information systems in myriad ways.

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Catherine Cronin

APRIL 14, 2022

Critical approaches to open education often focus on issues related to access, equity and agency: Access arguments are foundational in every rationale for open education, i.e. how to enable access to education for all. Czerniewicz, 2016 ; Bali et al., Beetham, 2016 ). Making resources legally accessible (e.g.

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AUGUST 10, 2023

The 2021 task force also noted that simply going test-optional or test-free will not in and of itself universally improve equity. EqRC is studying the implications of equity in admission for historically excluded populations.

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The University Innovation Alliance

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The UIA reflected that with web shows elevating topics and guests that directed attention to the issues and values we prioritize: equity, student success, experiences and outcomes for traditionally underserved communities, and diverse leadership. We hope you'll let us know what you think of these resources and how we can improve them.

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Scholarship America

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Angel Pérez is a renowned national leader and noted speaker on issues of education equity, access, and success in American education who brings a valuable perspective to our advocacy efforts supporting students from diverse backgrounds,” said Mike Nylund, president and CEO of Scholarship America.

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Supporting Student Success

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The research findings presented below draw from analysis of the National College Health Assessment (NCHA) 2016 Canadian Reference group, which included 42,642 students from 42 postsecondary institutions (colleges and universities) across Canada (ACHA, 2016; Ezekiel, In Press). American College Health Association (2016).

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Catherine Cronin

MAY 6, 2022

Just Knowledge’ is a community-focused open knowledge research project guided by three core ideals: justice, equity and openness. Teresa noted that Suchith Anand gave a detailed explanation of the ‘Geo for All’ project in this ALT webinar in 2016. Four community initiatives in the west of Ireland are participating in the project.

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The University Innovation Alliance

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

The UIA reflected that with web shows elevating topics and guests that directed attention to the issues and values we prioritize: equity, student success, experiences and outcomes for traditionally underserved communities, and diverse leadership. We hope you'll let us know what you think of these resources and how we can improve them.

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Civitas Learning

JUNE 13, 2024

From 2016 to 2022, the total Fall headcount decreased by 25%, and retention and graduation rates told a similar story. Fall-to-spring retention rates stood at 78.4%, while fall-to-fall retention rates were 47.90%. Analysis also uncovered specific minority populations that were disproportionately affected.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

In January 2015 to January 2016 Java was the top requested programming language skill by employers in San Francisco, with SQL a close second. How One Institution Created a Blueprint for Improving Student Equity Across Campus. Programming Languages Requested in the Top Technology Hubs Nationwide. Description. Get more insights.

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EAB

APRIL 14, 2023

9% increase in six-year completion rates for students who started in fall 2015 compared to fall 2016. Even more impressively, there has been a 4% improvement in completion rates when compared to the fall 2008 cohort. February 21, 2023 Our partners implemented strategic advising campaigns at 40 schools in 27 states. Here’s what we learned.

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EAB

DECEMBER 19, 2022

From enrollment declines to widening equity gaps, we are just beginning to come to come to terms with the disruption the pandemic had on our industry. Being able to see so many of you in person and have deep discussions about the theme of this year’s conference—building better student experiences for a new tomorrow—was a much-needed boost.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 12, 2024

Distinguished Professor of Law at UC Berkeley School of Law and, in 2016, co-founded Opportunity Institute with Ann O’Leary, who served as chief of staff to California Gov. The Berkeley-based nonprofit organization promotes social equity through education, using a cradle-to-career reach across four distinct demographic groups.

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