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. Students for Fair Admissions alleged the university improperly considered race in admissions and discriminated against white applicants in violation of the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

Technical jobs are receiving fewer applications from younger generations. According to Handshake, a network of institutions and employers that helps connect students with early career opportunities, trade careers saw 49% fewer applications in 2022 than 2020.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 20, 2023

Diversity of the US Public Health Workforce Pipeline (2016-2020): Role of Academic Institutions ,” developed by researchers at the GW Milken Institute School of Public Health and the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH) looked at public health student diversity from 2016-2020 using a Diversity Index (DI).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2023

A report from the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) shows international graduate applications increased for the fourth consecutive year and a shift continued in the countries applying. The report titled, “International Graduate Applications and Enrollment: Fall 2022,” details the responses from 370 institutions, which represents 48.7%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 10, 2024

Jay Hartzell The requirement will be applied during the fall 2025 semester application period, Aug. The move follows four years of test-optional undergraduate admissions at UT Austin, which suspended the standardized score requirement in the spring of 2020 due to limited testing availability during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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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. for white applicants, the suit claims.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The school will begin accepting 2024 applications on Aug. Since 2020, Purdue has been “test flexible” due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which hindered many students’ access to testing sites. Purdue University will resume SAT/ACT test score requirements for admissions, beginning with students applying for Fall 2024 admission.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Since 2020, almost 60% of Village residents have been Latino and have completed their degree or certificate programs in an average of 3.4 From 2021 to 2024, the percentage of Latinx faculty applicants increased by 15%. years, compared to the collegewide average of 5.2

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 10, 2023

Josh Grossman The findings were revealed in a working paper titled, " The disparate impacts of college admissions policies on Asian American applicants,” written by researchers from multiple universities including Stanford, Brown, University of Michigan, and Harvard. Grossman, a Ph.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 31, 2024

It notes that the George Floyd Memorial Scholarship, created on June 4, 2020, requires applicants be an undergraduate student who is “ Black or African American, that is, a person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 24, 2022

To qualify, Tougaloo students must complete the program application no later than the end of freshman year; maintain a minimum 3.4 To qualify, Tougaloo students must complete the program application no later than the end of freshman year; maintain a minimum 3.4 of the population. .

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 30, 2024

At the end of 2020, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) launched the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP), which was designed to give low-income households a discount each month on their internet bill, even offering a one-time coupon of up to $100 to buy a laptop, desktop computer, or tablet.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Though the number of graduate school applications increased by 3.9%. In 2020, all of the higher education sector was affected. Additionally, researchers found lower amounts of graduate certificates and degrees being conferred to students between the 2020-21 and 2021-22 school years. and those enrolling full-time fell 3.7%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2023

The researchers also varied applicant pools, in some models trying to realistically represent who would apply, and in some models, using the entire graduating high school class. No models considered legacy admissions, athlete preferences, and other advantages that typically favor richer, white applicants, because data was not available.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2024

Bowen Cho Beitiks opened fellowship applications in January 2023 to early-career scholar-activists with project proposals related to disability studies or disability justice. Beitiks and three panelists selected the first cohort of 11 fellows — all queer or transgender, mostly people of color — from more than 300 applicants.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Applications from under-represented students increased by 10% during his first academic year. It was 2020, shortly after the murder of26-year-old Breonna Taylor. In his three years there, he created the Office of Diversity, Inclusion, and Community in Emory’s Graduate School and the Emory Diversifying Graduate Education (EDGE) program.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

At the height of the pandemic in 2020, without ever visiting the campus, Dr. David A. In 2020, that plan became concrete, and the search was on to find a director who could do that. Practical applications Canton encourages students to identify what they are passionate about. Photo courtesy of David Canton.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics revealed a decline in postsecondary instructor employment between May 2020 and May 2021 (1,369,930 versus 1,340,560). institutions down 70% from 2019 to 2020. Guadalupe Vasquez King As a result of these and other factors, professors are fleeing the profession.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 26, 2024

The data shows that, from 2011 through 2020, there was a 39% drop in Black male enrollment in colleges across the United States. The declining enrollment of Black male students nationally tells us we are not looking at the term student success from a lens of understanding and care.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 21, 2024

Johns Hopkins University plans to require undergraduate applicants to submit ACT or SAT scores for admission in fall 2026. Johns Hopkins University Gilman Clock Tower Johns Hopkins University The university will require ACT or SAT scores for applicants seeking entry for the fall 2026 semester.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The report, based on 2020 data from 543 public four-year institutions, graded schools by comparing the percentage of minoritized students to the percentage of minoritized faculty. Griffin, professor and dean of the College of Education at the University of Maryland. That the student body is diversifying much faster than the faculty is. ”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 2, 2023

As the Hispanic population in America has grown, so, too has the number of Hispanic-Serving Institutions, from under 200 in 1994-95 to 571 in 2020-21. It’s growing increasingly hard for HSIs to get funding this often-transformative funding: only 40% of eligible HSIs received Title V dollars in 2020.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2023

Howard was the unanimous choice out of the four applicants, all of which were strong, according to the Air Force, which is funding the UARC. Howard had previously received a grant from the Department of Defense in 2020 of $7.5 The Department of Defense had announced a plan to create a UARC affiliated with an HBCU last June.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

In 2020, the California State Auditor’s office reported that the University of California was not in compliance with NAGPRA and CalNAGPRA, stating that the university system had “inadequate policies and oversight” and lacked tribal representation on campus and systemwide committees, leading to “inconsistent practices” for repatriation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

If the applicants all happen to be white, well, that is the most qualified pool. Assumption two, the pool of applicants is not filled with friends and family and just hook-ups from the thinking inside the box, lid closed committee. We often hear, “We can’t find any,” and “We are hiring the most qualified”.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

college visits, application preparation, and scholarship information) and work-based learning opportunities (e.g., college visits, application preparation, and scholarship information) and work-based learning opportunities (e.g., STEM programs/academies), college preparatory and college going activities (e.g., internships).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 8, 2024

As of now, we have over 300 applications for next fall from students that have applied for housing,” says Nicholas Hamel, vice president and dean of student services at Central Maine Community College (CMCC). Another 100 more have indicated on their admissions application that they may have interest.

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Student Research Foundation

AUGUST 19, 2024

million applicants and 7 million applications—a 30% increase from 2019-2020. With the enormous number of applications being submitted, it can be challenging to figure out how to stand out among them. Activities and Personal Essay The next section in the application encompasses your activities and personal essay.

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College Aid Services

JANUARY 25, 2024

Congress passed the FAFSA Simplification Act in 2020 to overhaul the application process for federal aid and expand students’ access to grant funding with a new analysis formula. Some of the largest changes include: the Student Aid Index, modifications to the family size definition, and reforming policies for the Federal Pell Grant.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

Census Bureau’s 2020 Census. Their time at Hartford will be tied to the five-year duration of the grant, which the applicants are hoping to extend, Rola explains, adding that the faculty search is now ongoing. “That encompasses a whole other set of diverse ethnicities, covering Hindu, Sikh, Muslim, [and] Buddhist folks.”

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NCLC Student Loan Borrower Assistance

JULY 18, 2024

That means that for now, the Department can only use its old, less borrower-friendly rules to decide new borrower defense and closed school discharge applications for student loan relief. However, in recent months, borrowers have reported that they have waited for months for a decision on their application. Cardona lawsuit.

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Counselors' Corner

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Our ability to use those scores ran into significant challenges when COVID broke in 2020, leading us to go to a test optional policy. If the reviewer feels the scores may help, or will help, the applicant’s file, they will be left in the file. This leaves the submission of test scores entirely up to the applicant.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 22, 2025

As an undergraduate, Henry applied to a summer research opportunity program, writing his application essay about culturally relevant pedagogy and critical race theory from his dorm room, unaware that Ladson-Billings herself was at Wisconsin.

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Student Loan Hero

DECEMBER 1, 2022

1: Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) opens. Mid-December: Decisions arrive for early action and early decision applicants. March – April: Decisions arrive for regular decision applicants. 30, 2020, but later extended several times until Dec. This free application opens every year on Oct.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

We have a wonderful program called Pathways, where we do outreach to middle schools, high schools and community colleges, providing application clinics and parent academies,” says Dr. Leroy M. Since its launch in 2020, Latino enrollment has increased. Morishita, interim president at CSULA. matching that of the overall student body.

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EAB

JANUARY 26, 2023

Applying to more colleges: In 2021, the average number of college applications submitted by new college freshmen rose to 7 from 6 applications the year before. rate in 2020. Between 2009 and 2020 one-year retention rates fluctuated between a low of 49.3% read the blog: Pell eligibility for incarcerated students 5.

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