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Data and Collaboration are the Key to Preserving Higher Ed’s Hard-Fought Equity Gains

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Since the mid-1970s, the Latino college student population has increased fivefold, with one out of every five college students being Latino by 2017. The university was founded to close an educational access gap in a major American city not served by a public university. During the same 40-year period, Black enrollment doubled.

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Meet Shai Reshef, the 2023 Yidan Prize Winner

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The global challenge of access to higher education means that its life-changing impact in terms of opening minds, improving employment and earnings remain out of reach for many. In 2017, a partnership was forged between the University of the People and the University of Edinburgh.

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Report: Latinos Essential to Growing STEM Workforce

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Latinos are key when it comes the nation’s engineering and technology workforce, according to a new joint report from the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) and the Latino Donor Collaborative (LDC). And as business owners, Latinos made up 50% of net new small businesses from 2007–2017. are immense. of the U.S.

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Report: Pandemic Dealt a Blow to Internationalization

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The report found that although 47% of institutions saw accelerating internationalization between 2017 and the start of the pandemic, only 21% described acceleration between 2020 and 2021. Rutgers was one of the many schools that broadened access using technology.

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Spotlighting Rural Communities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

My interests in higher education are focused on access,” Means said. “I My first full-time job after earning my master’s degree was to return to Elon to help start a college access and success program,” he recalled, adding the program was designed for students from low-income families or first-generation college students.

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

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“Related to student success, CEED has a robust center that includes tutoring, mentoring, and advocacy for students to ensure they are on the path to achievement and graduation,” adds Dr. Karen Eley Sanders, associate vice provost for College Access. for students who entered in 2017. They also challenge and hold students accountable.

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Community Colleges Build Workforce Through Partnership and Student Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Fundamental to all of this is the need to develop strategies born out of active and collaborative partnership, not merely looking within our own spheres.” In 2017, Carnegie Math Pathways received funding from the federal Department of Education to launch the program with Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs) like KBOCC.