Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 26, 2024

Pilar Huffman, director of professional development at Compton College and Believe in Students Curriculum Advisory Board Member. The curriculum’s first course, “The Students We Have,” is currently available for free to colleges throughout the nation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2023

In a unique move, Lafayette College announced that they would only consider up to six extracurricular activities , versus the maximum of ten that the Common Application allows students to list. These students often have less opportunity to try (and pay for) extracurriculars. When they are able to join, they often excel.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The report’s preliminary data indicates the most significant decline is at four-year institutions that serve low-income students. Institutions that have a large number of undergraduate students who receive Pell Grants also reported a decline in freshman enrollment of more than 10%.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

In 2015, the California State University chancellor put forth a challenge to the state’s university system: Graduation Initiative (GI) 2025. This was to be accomplished by the year 2025. “We We were the only one to meet and exceed all the chancellor’s targets,” says Dr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The new FAFSA formula removes the number of family members in college from calculations, and “in many cases,” will make students with college-attending siblings “be eligible for considerably less financial aid,” a 2023 Brookings Institute report stated. It then proceeded with its pre-announced delayed launch on Dec.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 1, 2025

Stout, recipient of the 2025 Diverse Champions Award, has focused her career on helping community colleges achieve outstanding student success. Forward focus ATD initiatives over the past decade have involved building capacity to support success for students of color and low-income students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

From 2010 to 2020, AAP had an exchange program with Vrije University in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, that targeted the exchange of low-income, first generation, and underrepresented students. Alexander is working with Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, to do a similar student exchange starting in the fall of 2025.

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Believe in Students

OCTOBER 10, 2024

I was overjoyed to have the concrete example of what these educators were willing to do for their students, for free (and often putting their own money in), in the midst of their own upended lives. Second, I had spent about fifteen years working to improve college success for first-gen, low-income students.

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The University Innovation Alliance

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Data from fall 2022 show that: Founding UIA institutions have produced over 118,500 additional degrees above baseline projections and are on track to double their 68,000 degree goal by 2025. The number of annual graduates from low-income backgrounds has increased by 50%.

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EAB

APRIL 18, 2023

Blogs What enrollment leaders need to know about the upcoming FAFSA changes Updated April 2023 As most of us in enrollment know, the FAFSA is set to substantially change for the 2024-2025 academic year. Anticipate Pell expansion Qualification for Pell Grants will change and should provide broader access and support for low-income students.

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The University Innovation Alliance

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Data from fall 2022 show that: Founding UIA institutions have produced over 118,500 additional degrees above baseline projections and are on track to double their 68,000 degree goal by 2025. The number of annual graduates from low-income backgrounds has increased by 50%.

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COE

MARCH 10, 2023

Yesterday, the Biden-Harris Administration released its budget request to Congress for Fiscal Year 2024 (Program Year 2024-2025). REGISTER HERE Thank you for your continued advocacy for TRIO programs and the first-generation, low-income students and students with disabilities you serve. billion in FY24.

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COE

MARCH 11, 2024

However, among several requests for flat or even decreased funding in the education arena, we are pleased to see that the President’s budget includes an increase of $20 million for the Federal TRIO Programs in Fiscal Year 2025 (FY25), which would fund TRIO during Program Year 2025-2026. Get in Touch Questions?

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College Planners of America

JANUARY 31, 2024

FAFSA.gov , the ED website intended to assist students by guiding and facilitating their completion of the FAFSA, does not currently have any information on it to guide students and parents through the confusing FAFSA procedures for 2024-25. “, a spokesperson told NPR.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 15, 2025

The panelists also highlighted the impact of Project 2025 and the potential shift of federal loan programs to the Treasury Department, which could change loan processes, interest rates, and repayment structures. It would really impact our underserved communities, low-income students, and first-generation college students, she said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2025

Its what they laid out in Project 2025; its what they told us that he wanted to do along the campaign trail, and now that day has come. We should be talking about how do we help more students graduate from college and go onto successful careers in the jobs that we need to fill in this 21st century economy. Currently, about 6.6

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The California State University system has announced a direct admissions pilot program to begin in 2025. Enrollment will begin in fall 2025. In the first year, 68 school districts and individual charter schools were invited to participate with a focus on low-income students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2024

From a spring full of student protest to the ending of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) measures in some states, the list of stressors is only likely to increase as time marches into 2025. With a Republican administration, experts agree that individual states are more and more likely to shape 2025.

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