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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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News & World Report, in 2023, 59% of students graduating from the flagship state school, the University of Oregon, borrowed money to pay for it. The average debt, including both federal and private loans, for all students graduating from the University of Oregon in 2023 was$25,160.

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APRIL 10, 2025

million learners earned undergraduate credentials in the 2023-24 academic yeara modest 0.6% The annual Undergraduate Degree Earners report reveals shifting student preferences toward shorter, more affordable credential options in higher education. While more than 3.2 Certificate program completions jumped 12.6%

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MARCH 7, 2025

The fall of 2023 saw a historic moment when six of the eight Ivy League presidents were women. The tragic losses in 2023 of two Black women presidents Joanne A. A 2023 ACE study underscores the magnitude of this challenge, finding that the college presidency remains predominantly older, white, and male.

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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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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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APRIL 4, 2025

A 2023 report by the Community College Research Center found that only 16% of community college students earned a bachelors program within six years and just 10% of low-income students did. In 2023, CUNY s Board of Trustees charged the Universitys leadership including myself to fix the transfer system.

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APRIL 9, 2025

Faculty members who remained employed at the same institution from fall 2023 to fall 2024 saw more substantial gains, with a nominal increase of 4.7% However, the report emphasizes that faculty salaries have still not returned to their pre-COVID-19 pandemic levels. The Consumer Price Index for Urban consumers (CPI-U) increased by 2.9%

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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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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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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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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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APRIL 18, 2025

Among 235 responding four-year colleges surveyed by the American College Health Association, 154 offered student health plans to domestic undergraduate students, while 120 required students to have health coverage during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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APRIL 22, 2025

Black and Hispanic students comprised 22% of first-year enrollment in the 2023-24 academic year but accounted for 33% of non-transfer attrition. The class of 2023 saw 80% of graduates secure bar-passage-required employment, a one percentage point increase from the previous year. Bar passage rates continue to show racial disparities.

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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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MARCH 27, 2025

The center, which has been in development since 2023, will be housed at Howard University School of Law and will take a multidisciplinary approach to examining the 14th Amendment, connecting law, business, and the arts to advance understanding of its principles.

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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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APRIL 14, 2025

Where disabled people are not burdens but innovators In 2023 alone, over 500 anti-LGBTQ+ bills were introduced across U.S. Jane Fernandes Imagine a country where no ones right to exist, to move freely, to be seen, or to contribute is constantly up for debate. Where trans kids are not headlines but classmates.

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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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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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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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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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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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