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JANUARY 10, 2024

In 2020, the Arizona State Legislature passed Jake’s Law , a multi-faceted piece of legislation aimed at increasing access to behavioral health services (including mental healthcare) in schools, improving mental health parity in health insurance, and reevaluating the state of youth mental health in the state of Arizona.

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JULY 23, 2024

In some ways, 2020 seemed like it would be a watershed year for diversity officers. Given the spate of high-profile murders of Black Americans, we witnessed a surge of national empathy. In a short span of time, many college and university leaders within predominantly white institutions (PWIs) rushed to support DEI initiatives.

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OCTOBER 31, 2022

Between July 2020 and July 2021, the U.S. Median rents for a one bedroom in Tribeca, where BMCC is located, soared from their low of $3,079 in November 2020 to $5,500 in 2022. For almost two years after March 2020, New York state placed a moratorium on evictions , and rent increases were frozen in rent-regulated apartments.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Since the racial reckoning of 2020, sparked by the murder of George Floyd at the hands of a Minnesota police officer, many institutions have announced cluster hires of either minoritized faculty or professors who study issues like race and justice. And an increasingly popular one. But she was concerned that it might not last. “I

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MAY 15, 2024

million in pledges since July 1, 2020. FAMU trustee Belvin Perry praised Friday-Stroud, who presided over record numbers in giving but previously expressed her desire to return to the School of Business and Industry full-time. The university reported that Friday-Stroud and her fundraising team have raised $75.3 million in cash and $10.7

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NOVEMBER 3, 2022

In 2015, 65% of state high school graduates were going straight to college, but by 2020, down to 53% were attending college the year after high school. Students who complete the program will earn college credits. Indiana has been seeing a decline in Indiana residents pursuing higher education.

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APRIL 19, 2024

The facility closed in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic and associated budget reduction efforts. “CAC is proud of our longstanding relationship with HCC and the opportunity to partner in providing expanded whole-family support for HCC’s students and our community.” The college was awarded a $1 million grant in 2023 from the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 17, 2024

District Court for the Western District of Texas in 2020, amid similar challenges to race-conscious admissions policies include the so-called Harvard affirmative action case. President and Fellows of Harvard College. Students for Fair Admissions v. University of Texas at Austin was filed in the U.S.

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JUNE 10, 2024

She also served as a department chair and interim associate dean in the College of Education and Integrative Studies as well as an associate vice president for student success.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 16, 2024

Synchrony first engaged PWNA during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, supporting provisions of food and other essentials to tribes. “We believe education and skills building can be key for youth seeking a better future for themselves and their families. We're proud to support PWNA."

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OCTOBER 20, 2022

Robnett The study – published in the journal PLOS ONE – looked at anonymous chat summaries from Fall 2020 of 230 students in two introductory biology lecture courses with synchronous remote video instruction. Dr. Rachael D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 10, 2023

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. UAGM - Gurabo’s retention rate between 2016 and 2020 remained at or above 75%. 6 and 7, 2020 at a 5.8 Between 2010 and 2020, U.S.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2022

It was most pronounced from 2016 to 2020, where we dropped about 25% of our enrollment. When he became president of IRSC in late 2020, Moore brought business acumen to his new role. In December 2020, philanthropist MacKenzie Scott gave the college its largest ever donation: a $45 million unrestricted gift.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

“After he returned from service in the Vietnam War, the VA denied Mr. Monk’s applications for education, housing, and disability benefits for decades, before finally agreeing in December 2020 that he was, in fact, eligible all along,” a Yale Law School Veterans Service Clinic announcement read. The VA denied an average of 29.5%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 26, 2024

DJ Windsor American Institute for Boys and Men Historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) experienced a drastic decline in Black student enrollment during the decade between 2010 and 2020, according to a new report from the non-partisan research group, American Institute for Boys and Men (AIBM).

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FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The garage – it closed to the public in 2020 due to the pandemic – will cost $10 per vehicle per day for inspection, diagnosis, and repairs. Mott Community College’s automotive department is reopening its student service garage to the public starting Feb. 13, giving drivers a low-cost option for auto repairs again, ABC12 News reported.

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DECEMBER 1, 2022

State agencies and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention spoke of a mental health emergency among youth and schoolchildren in 2020, citing steadily rising rates of suicide from 2010-2020. “I Phil Murphy This comes amid rising suicide and depression among students.

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JANUARY 4, 2023

According to the Department of Education, about six million students received Pell Grant funding in the 2020 – 2021 academic year. In spring 2020, Black male retention at Whittier dropped to 30%. The total student loan debt reached $1.75 trillion by the end of 2022, according to the U.S. Federal Reserve. “On

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OCTOBER 24, 2022

According to the American Bar Association (ABA), only 5% of attorneys in 2020 were Black, compared to 13.4% To qualify, Tougaloo students must complete the program application no later than the end of freshman year; maintain a minimum 3.4 Students may be allowed to count 30 credit hours from SIU toward their bachelor’s degree.

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AUGUST 4, 2023

Some faculty at Spartanburg Community College (SCC) are criticizing what they allege is heavy-handed governance and changes without faculty input by the school administration since new leadership in 2020, The Post and Courier reported. SCC’s current president Dr. Michael Mikota took office in summer 2020.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

At the start of 2020, there was robust availability of online higher education, but no one anticipated that a worldwide pandemic called COVID-19 would soon usher in a new world of distance learning. “The Making the shift and continued development Luoma was on Yale University’s faculty initiatives team when the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

According to the report, using HSGPA alone as a prediction for first-year GPAs fell dramatically in 2020 and 2021. In 2020 and 2021, a 2.5 “Following the onset of COVID, the predictive power of the HSGPA has decreased.” Before the pandemic, in 2017, a student who had a 2.5 HSGPA would be predicted to earn a 2.0 GPA in college.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

These individuals often have a high level of expertise in a content area as well as leading teams effectively (Yelich & Berg, 2020). Given that less than 1% of Americans have served in the military, administrative leaders across all education sectors often have a learning curve.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2023

During the 2021-2022 school year – when travel and study abroad programs were still affected by the pandemic – 188,753 students pursued opportunities abroad for academic credit, marking a drastic rebound from the 2020-2021 school year total of 14,549. This rebound showcases how study abroad is more than halfway back to pre-pandemic levels.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 7, 2023

In 2020, FAMU received $2,600 less per student than the UF and relies more on state funding than its white counterpart, according to Forbes. The suit names the state of Florida; the State University System’s board of governors and Chancellor Ray Rodrigues; the State Board of Education and Commissioner Manny Diaz Jr.; Ron DeSantis.

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DECEMBER 15, 2023

Employment rates for the Class of 2020 were 58.6% The survey found Class of 2022 employment rates nearly match those for the pre-pandemic Class of 2019, at 64.6% overall and 59.7% overall and 53.6% full time, while rates for the Class of 2021 rose to 60.2% overall and 55.3%

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

On a national level, community colleges have seen a 20% decrease in male students since 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic, a ccording to officials. The hope is that this effort will attract people to pursue higher education who may not have considered it before. These declines were worse for male students of color.

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OCTOBER 31, 2022

Rick Torres NSC will help OneTen find opportunities to expand employment pathways, identifying postsecondary institutions where potential candidates self-reported as Black or African American, last participated in postsecondary coursework from 2010-2020, and lack a four-year degree. “We

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MAY 22, 2024

from enrollments four years ago [in spring of 2020,]” said Shapiro. Public four-year institutions and private, nonprofit four-year institutions are both still down about 1% from where they were spring 2020.” Doug Shapiro, vice president of research and executive director of the Research Center.

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JULY 23, 2024

CRE2 was established in 2020 to bring the research force of WashU to study how race and ethnicity are integral to the most complex and challenging issues of the time. McBride, who is currently a senior advisor to the chancellor and the Gerald Early Distinguished Professor in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Dr. Dwight A.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

When the same trends were juxtaposed with the recently released data, there was a slight decline in giving, but the pandemic years of 2020 and 2021 were two of the best giving years on record with $486.26 billion and $516.65 billion in charitable giving, respectively. And herein lies our greatest opportunity.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 3, 2023

In 2020, the year of the racial reckoning following the killing of George Floyd, preliminary estimates showed a 453% increase in foundation funding to HBCUs. “I And studies show that Black HBCU graduates earn $900,000 more in their lifetimes than Black graduates from predominantly white institutions or Black workers without college degrees.

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JUNE 6, 2023

He is a 2022-23 American Council on Education fellow, a 2020-21 American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) Millennium Leadership Initiative protégé, and a member of the Higher Education Leadership Foundation. Lawrence holds a Ph.D.

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JUNE 27, 2024

percentage points from our fall 2020 cohort to our fall 2022 cohort,” said Matos. for the fall 2020 cohort to 55.4% “We’re happy to share that our one-year retention has increased overall 2.3 For Black and Hispanic males, those increases are larger. Our one-year retention rate for Black males over that same period increased from 47.4%

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JANUARY 18, 2024

10, 2020, in Santa Barbara, California. The university noted contributions to be made in memory Taylor’s memory may be made to the Marie Fielder Center for Democracy, Leadership, and Education at Fielding. Dr. Orlando L. Taylor delivers an inspiring speech to a full house Jan.

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MARCH 12, 2024

GAO analyzed the most recent HSI data on college student and institutional characteristics (2021–2022), finances (2020–2021), HSI grant programs (2017–2022), and COVID-19 pandemic relief funds (2021). GAO surveyed a representative sample of HSIs in the U.S., including Puerto Rico, and received generalizable responses from 169 colleges.

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APRIL 21, 2024

for the Class of 2020. Bill Adams That's according to Bill Adams, managing director of ABA accreditation and legal education, citing e mployment data for the graduating law class of 2023, as reported to the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar by ABA-approved law schools accepting new J.D.

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