Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Dr. Vanessa Siddle Walker, the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of African American Educational Studies Emerita at Emory University, served as president in 2019-2020 and was followed by Dr. Shaun R. Tate IV, the current president of Louisiana State University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Latinx participation in the Metro College Success Program learning community increased by 25% between 2019 and 2024. Sul Ross State University Sul Ross State University (SRSU) is a public HSI located in Alpine, Texas, with instructional sites along the U.S.-Mexico At present, 67% of the student body identifies as Latinx.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Billionaire Robert Smith’s pledge to pay off $35 million in student loan debt for the Morehouse Graduating Class of 2019 was not only transformational and liberating for those directly impacted, but it would also go on to cause a catalytic movement that resulted in several individuals to follow his lead. Dr. Roderick L. Smothers, Sr.

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Cal Newport

APRIL 28, 2023

According to a 2019 Glamour profile , Steel starts writing at 8:30 am and will continue all day and into the night. This is an incredibly hard challenge, yet it’s one that receives limited attention and generates almost no formal instruction. How does she pull this off? She works all the time.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

To have that entire program delivered and the instruction take place in Spanish is very intentional for the students that come to us and the employment that they seek. Starting in 2019, there has been no statistically significant difference in one-year or two-year persistence between these two groups.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

Additionally, in 2019, Rodriguez received an NIH/NCI Mentored Research Scientist Career Development Award, and she was awarded numerous other honors and grants dating back to her time at MIT, where she received three undergraduate research grants and awards.

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Civitas Learning

APRIL 4, 2024

This eliminates the need for students to search through multiple platforms to find details such as instructional modality, fees, and the part of the term in which the course is offered. Finding innovative, effective ways to overcome barriers to recruiting new students and retaining existing ones is imperative to JAX State’s future.

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EAB

JANUARY 31, 2023

For the fiscal year 2023, the institution’s unrestricted education and general (E&G) revenue budget was made up of 78% net tuition, 18% from the state share of instruction (SSI) in Ohio, and 4% from other sources. Additionally, Miami faces strong headwinds similar to those faced by many other institutions of higher education.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

In 2023, EAB learned that almost every issue—student success, employee engagement, and community interactions—had deteriorated since 2019, but the greatest concern was staffing shortages ( Read the 2023 Voice of the Superintendent Survey Executive Brief here ).

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EAB

MAY 8, 2023

Blogs Why chronic absenteeism is so high—and how district leaders can start fixing it The national chronic absenteeism rate has skyrocketed since the pandemic, from 16% in 2019 to an estimated 33% in 2022. Instruct trusted adults to identify attendance challenges and connect students to support. This is the highest rate since the U.S.

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EAB

JUNE 12, 2023

EAB’s new survey shows that 20 percent of students who indicate they will not enroll in college right after high school say their primary reason is that they believe college is not worth the cost, compared to just 8 percent who expressed this view in EAB’s 2019 survey.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

The college offered 157 online courses in spring 2019, compared to 329 course offerings in spring 2023, which is a 109% increase in the number of courses. The College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences at the University of Colorado–Colorado Springs has seen a rapid increase in online courses offered over the past four years.

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Student Research Foundation

AUGUST 19, 2024

million applicants and 7 million applications—a 30% increase from 2019-2020. Follow Application Instructions Finally, remember that each college has a slightly different admissions process. Double-check the requirements for each school you are applying to and be sure to follow their instructions and application recommendations.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

In 2019, EAB put together a “Building trauma-sensitive schools” handout that includes information from the U.S. The active shooter on campus in the spring of 2019 not only took lives but disrupted the community (and even our beautiful scale-up active learning classroom). It is no longer just personal, family, and generational trauma.

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The Advisor That Cares

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

That is significant learning” ( TEDx Talks, 2016, 14:56-15:27 ) Craig Mertler (2019) challenges us all “to think about some aspect of your life, that you would like to change. ” ( TEDx Talks, 2019, 9:43-10:17 ) Sir Ken Robinson (2010) “people do their best when they do the thing they love. 2019, March 20).

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EAB

JULY 17, 2023

As illustrated in the chart below, 67% of participants in our 2019 survey had started researching colleges by the end of their sophomore year. One of the biggest changes we observed in college search behavior is related to timing: students aren’t completing steps in their enrollment journey according to the “traditional” timeline.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2024

link] Comics and graphic novels can disrupt traditional texts by challenging the worship of the written word ( Torres, 2019 ), a feature of white supremacy that perpetuates textual hierarchies within educational spaces. Black Males in Secondary and Postsecondary Education ( Advances in Race and Ethnicity in Education, Vol. link] Dr. Edward C.

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EAB

APRIL 11, 2023

Let's get back to that event you mentioned earlier that was in LA with the folks from ASU and Dreamscape, tell us a little bit more about the format of the event and some of the takeaways for you in how higher Ed could integrate virtual reality as an instructional tool. So important part of the toolkit for admissions teams.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Said differently, homeplace is a “space where Black folx truly matter…where souls are nurtured, comforted, and fed” (Love, 2019, p. instructional practices, curriculum development, teacher-student relationships, classroom climate, etc.) Dr. Renae D. promotes agency, resistance, and liberation for Black students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 16, 2023

This is a sharp increase from pre-pandemic levels that showed 14 percent of students feeling this way in EAB’s 2019 survey. EAB notes that diminished access to in-person instruction during the pandemic created gaps in academic achievement and decreased opportunities for social development.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

There is also academic support, including tutoring for foundational classes in math and writing, Guided Pathways had been adopted over 300 colleges by the fall of 2019, and early results have been promising. The report pointed to one main reason that progress had been slow: the COVID-19 pandemic. According to Harris, this was to be expected.

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Timely MD

MAY 2, 2023

Addressing discrimination and harassment with clear policies and procedures Providing students with clear instructions for how to report bias and discrimination, as Northwestern University does for its students, is a key step.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 11, 2023

On August 24, 2019, Governor Ralph Northam signed Executive Order 39, which established the Commission on African History Education in the Commonwealth. This Commission was charged with reviewing Virginia’s history standards, instructional practices, content, and resources used to teach African American history in Virginia.

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SRI Education

JULY 28, 2023

2019; Oncioiu et al., Learning and Instruction, 52, 130–138. School-based interventions are widely available and effective at reducing bullying perpetration and victimization (Gaffney et al., 2021), and they are most effective when implemented before or at the transition to elementary school (Lebrun-Harris et al., 2020; Walters, 2021).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

A 2019 email from the department's human resources office revealed a goal of training 400 employees through this voluntary program, encouraging staff participation as part of the agency's strategic approach to workforce diversity. Their email access was immediately suspended.

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