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MARCH 10, 2025

The comprehensive report, titled Flourishing: Bolstering the Mental Health of Students at HBCUs and PBIs," examined mental health indicators among 2,504 students across 16 HBCUs and two predominantly Black institutions (PBIs) during the 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 academic years.

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OCTOBER 22, 2023

Shai Reshef, President and Founder, of University of the People, is the recipient of the 2023 Yidan Prize. The Yidan Prize comes from the Yidan Prize Foundation , a Hong-Kong based philanthropy founded by Charles Chen Yidan. Recipients of the prize receive $3.9

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FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In fall of 2023, 5.3% more students than the previous year were able to successfully transfer to a new institution. That’s according to the latest report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, a nonprofit studying data from a majority of postsecondary institutions in the U.S.

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OCTOBER 5, 2023

Our fall 2023 Send Silence Packing® tour kicked off last month, and we spoke with this semester’s tour coordinators, TJ and Jehlad, about their passion for mental health, why programs like SSP are so important, as well as the advice they would give to other young adults who are passionate about mental health advocacy.

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JANUARY 30, 2025

of working-age adults holding a degree or credential in 2023, according to a new report released by the Lumina Foundation. in 2023, an increase of 17 percentage points, but not enough to reach 60% by 2025. Post-high school educational attainment in the U.S. has reached a record high, with 54.9% in 2008 to 54.9%

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JANUARY 7, 2025

in 2023-24, only 4% of English learners, 8% of foster youth, and 8% of homeless students graduated. The initiative comes as recent data shows significant graduation disparities among vulnerable student populations in San Diego County. While the overall graduation rate reached 84.6%

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DECEMBER 9, 2024

According to the 2023 Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE) for returning students and the 2023 Survey of Entering Student Engagement (SENSE) for first-year students, 66% of the student respondents to both surveys indicated they felt nervous, anxious, or on edge to the point where it was affecting their lives.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2024

As of fall 2023, 69% of the student population at CSUSB identified as Hispanic or Latino. In 2023, Cerritos adopted their Students First Framework, a homegrown initiative to provide strategies over the next decade to reach its goal of graduating more students in less time. “In Morales, president of CSUSB. years, compared to 4.2

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

will retire at the end of the 2023-24 school year. North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (N.C. A&T) Chancellor Dr. Harold L. Martin, Sr., Dr. Harold L. Martin – the first alum to lead N.C. A&T – is the longest serving chancellor in the University of North Carolina System and among the U.S.’s

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FEBRUARY 26, 2025

While Congressional appropriations for CCAMPIS have increased from $50 million in the 2018-19 academic year to $75 million in 2023-24, the Joint Center argues that further funding increases are necessary. Increase CCAMPIS program appropriations to raise grantee funding, fully cover childcare expenses, and reach more student parents.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2025

His tough and controversial leadership decisions, set against a backdrop of the university's retreat from diversity efforts, led to a 2023 investigation into the center's finances and culture. And similarly, it paled in comparison to the stage IV metastatic breast cancer diagnosis his wife, Sadiqa Kendi, received in 2023.

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MARCH 5, 2025

White students were the only group to see a decline in transfer enrollment from fall 2023 to fall 2024. Brooklyn College, a four-year institution part of the City University of New York (CUNY) system that has seven community colleges, had 1,175 transfer students enrolled in fall 2024, an 8% increase in the number of transfers from fall 2023.

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College Aid Services

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Schools must also reconcile their Federal Work-Study (FWS) and Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant (FSEOG) awards in G5 with the amounts… More March 3, 2025 Deadline Set for Final Closeout of 2023-24 Campus-Based Awards The post March 3, 2025 Deadline Set for Final Closeout of 2023-24 Campus-Based Awards first appeared on College (..)

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JANUARY 7, 2025

VSU's new student-parent housing program, launched in November 2023, provides dedicated campus apartments for six student parents and their young children. Generation Hope's partnerships with organizations like Sinai House in Washington, DC, and Virginia State University demonstrate how targeted interventions can make a difference.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2024

In fact, in a report released in September, the American Association of University Women (AAUW) found that women working full-time, year-round earned 83% of what men earned in 2023 — a decline from the previous year’s 84%.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2025

In Fiscal Year 2023, the most recent evaluation year in the classification cycle, the University's productivity was significantly higher than the R1 base criteria, recording just under $85 million in research expenditures and awarding 96 doctorates in an array of fields, Jones said. Dr. Bruce A.

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MARCH 17, 2025

This financial aid threshold has increased four times since 2004, moving to $85,000 in 2023. According to the Gazette , this financial aid expansion at Harvard follows the 2004 launch of the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative which covered tuition, food, and housing costs for students from families with annual incomes of $40,000 or less.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The college has also partnered with the Jakes Divinity School since 2023 to offer a T.D. Jakes Foundation, Paul Quinn College received another $236,000 earlier this year to build the Corporate Work Program and housing security funds. Jakes Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree, the first graduate program the school’s history.

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JANUARY 8, 2025

In September 2023, she was promoted to interim vice president of enrollment and retention, reporting to King. Prior to her role at MATC, Martinez Powless accumulated 17 years of higher education experience at Marquette University and MATC, working in administration, enrollment, student affairs, and multicultural outreach.

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JANUARY 8, 2025

for college presidents The study comes as the system marks historic milestones, including the 2023 appointment of Dr. Sonya Christian as the first woman to lead the California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office. of leaders, more than 2.5 times their representation in California's population Latine leaders comprise 20.1%

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MARCH 6, 2025

He was inducted as an AERA Fellow in 2022, served as Division G's vice-president from 2020-2023, and was elected to AERA's Executive Board. A former middle school teacher who founded a rites of passage program, Morris has been actively engaged with AERA since 1995.

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MARCH 20, 2025

Charitable contributions to American colleges and universities increased by 3 percent in the 2023-2024 academic fiscal year when adjusted for inflation, according to a report released Thursday by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE).

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NOVEMBER 25, 2024

According to university officials, the institution has reduced its expenses by approximately $17 million this fiscal year compared to 2023. Together, we will work diligently to rebuild our foundation.” The cuts include 67 staff positions, 37 full-time faculty positions and 32 adjunct faculty positions.

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OCTOBER 31, 2024

The impact of these closures is stark with the number of these news desert counties rising from 204 in 2023 to 208 this year. More than 7,000 newspaper jobs vanished between 2022 and 2023, compared to a few hundred the year before, further adding to the local news crisis.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2024

APLU officials said that under Martin’s leadership, North Carolina A&T continued to grow its student enrollment, increasing from 10,613 to 13,885 students in 2023. In 2014, it became the nation’s largest historically Black college and university (HBCU).

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NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Supreme Court decision in June 2023 to ban race-conscious college admissions, and the fallout since then, have been sobering, including for Asian Americans who were swayed by SFFA. Despite the media attention and racialized division that this case drew, the U.S.

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DECEMBER 3, 2024

“This is an HBCU-centric program, and we are unapologetic about it,” says Dr. Elfred Anthony Pinkard, who served as president of Wilberforce University from 2018 until his retirement in 2023.

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JANUARY 23, 2025

Mitra said as of fall 2023, 60% of the student population at QCC were full-time and 40% were part-time. Its not relying on the high schools anymore; it really is being creative in terms of your enrollment strategies, populations perhaps that were underserved, and also looking at those career changers, said Mitra.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Between 2022 and 2023 alone, 92 colleges abandoned legacy preferences, representing an 18% decrease that coincided with the Supreme Court's landmark decision to ban race-conscious admissions. The practice has seen particularly steep drops since 2015, when nearly half of all four-year colleges considered legacy status.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Note that for 2023, Blacks were the most targeted racial group; of 48,470 race-based crimes, most (14,615; 30%) were against Blacks. The answer to this complex question is simple - systemic racism is a reality. The FBI Hate Crime reports show that most bias/hate crimes are against racial and ethnic groups. This pattern exists most years.

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JANUARY 17, 2025

Loves current focus is a web-based citizen science project called Name That Neutrino that she and her students created in 2023, seeking a multitude of volunteers to participate in the process.

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DECEMBER 16, 2024

A 2023 survey from the Pew Research Center found that nearly 60% of young adults feel stressed by political content on social media, with Black users reporting higher levels of anxiety related to racialized discussions.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Lowery-Hart previously spent almost a decade as president of Amarillo College in Texas, where he was recognized with the Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence in 2023. “But, because of those realities, leading with love is harder than it’s ever been.”

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APRIL 4, 2024

The fastest-growing industries require workers with disproportionately higher education levels compared to industries with slower growth (Carnevale et al, 2023). The findings are consistent across all regions studied by NCI&I – across red states and blue states, geographic regions, and urban/suburban/rural areas (Johnstone, 2023).

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FEBRUARY 18, 2025

between fall 2020 and fall 2023. Chattanooga State saw its fall-to-fall persistence rate increase by 7.1 percentage points from 2019 to 2022. Even more impressive was the jump in credit completion rates, which rose from 54.6% percentage points.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2025

In recognition of his contributions to the field, UC Berkeley's sociology department received a $100,000 gift in 2023 to establish an endowment in his honor following his retirement. His scholarly impact was profound, with his published works receiving over 50,000 citations.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Logan Powell Frank Mullin The university reports that about 18% of its new 1,725-student class come from groups historically underrepresented in higher education, a decline from 27% in 2023. Black enrollment declined to 9% in 2024, from 15% in 2023; Hispanic enrollment decreased to 10%, from 14%; and white enrollment fell to 43% from 46%.

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