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Class of 2022 Employment Rates Return to Pre-Pandemic Levels

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Employment rates for Class of 2022 graduates returned to pre-pandemic levels after two relatively down years, according to results of a new survey. The survey found Class of 2022 employment rates nearly match those for the pre-pandemic Class of 2019, at 64.6% with a full-time employment rate of 59.1%. overall and 59.7% overall and 53.6%

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Report: Class of 2022 Average Starting Salaries Higher than Those of Previous Class

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The report, NACE’s Summer 2023 Salary Survey, found that the overall average salary for graduates increased from $55,911 for the Class of 2021 to $60,028 for the Class of 2022. This notable increase for the Class of 2022 comes on the heels of the overall average salary for Class of 2021 graduates inching up just 1.2%

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UNCF's Desireé C. Boykin Awarded 2022 Vanguard Award from Higher Ed Leadership Foundation

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Boykin has recently been awarded the Higher Education Leadership Foundation’s (HELF) 2022 Vanguard Award and inducted into its Sankofa Hall of Leadership. Boykin “We believe it is important to honor those who are strengthening the bridge to sustainability and thriving that our ancestors so carefully built and curated,” the foundation said.

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New Jersey City University Continues Financial Recovery After 2022 Fiscal Crisis

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Twenty months ago, in June of 2022, New Jersey City University (NJCU) declared a financial crisis. Andrés Acebo Its then-President Dr. Sue Henderson announced that she’d be stepping down.

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Report: HBCU Humanities Programs Show Resilience Amid National Decline

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Between 2014 and 2022, humanities degree completions at HBCUs decreased by 15%, compared to sharper declines at non-HBCU institutions. In 2022, HBCUs awarded 8.8% In 2022, HBCUs awarded 13.5% were awarded to students from minoritized racial and ethnic groups in 2022, more than double the 18% reported in 1997.

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Report: Student Interest in Pursuing Careers in Education on the Decline, But Enrollment in Intro Teaching Courses Rises

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in 2022, according to researchers’ analyses of ACT data. in 2022 compared to 6.9% In Tennessee, the 83% in 2022 marked an increase from 80% in 2021. In Tennessee, in 2022, white students made up 78% of those intending to major in education, followed in second by Black students, who made up 9%. the year before.

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Advancing Black Males in STEM is My Passion — Here’s How I Got There

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To provide a backdrop, in 2022, 798,534 students were enrolled in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) graduate programs in the United States (National Science Foundation, 2022). Of those, 2% (16,111) were Black males. In the same year, Black males in engineering earned 1.8%