Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 25, 2024

The recently released "Project 2025: The Conservative Promise" paints a dystopian picture of American higher education, overrun by a "woke" ideology that supposedly threatens our nation's very foundations. This could stifle critical thinking and limit students’ exposure to diverse perspectives.

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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

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

We’re also one of the largest enrollers of Pell Grant students in the country, enrolling about 30,000 Pell students every semester.” But part of the challenge, he says, “is that 80% of our students self-identified as having minoritized backgrounds, and 60% were Pell students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

That data show that the students who attend the summer bridge program build great resilience skills, and resilience leads to retention. 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.

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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. The metrics include course completion, retention, program completion and program completion with wage gains. For 41 years, Dr. Karen A. Dr. Stout is a thought leader, says Dr. Steady H.

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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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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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