Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 12, 2025

The survey, conducted by higher education virtual health provider TimelyCare, highlights the significant challenges threatening student success across American campuses. These statistics paint a concerning picture of the state of higher education in America, where completion rates are increasingly threatened by external factors.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2025

In a move that signals both continuity and transformation in higher education leadership, Dr. Charles Lee Isbell Jr. has been named the 11th chancellor of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, bringing with him a distinguished record of academic innovation and an unwavering commitment to expanding access in STEM fields.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The path to higher education success has many obstacles and barriers for Latinos across the U.S. The mission of Excelencia in Education, founded in 2004 by Dr. Deborah A. Incoming transfer students can enroll in courses early to guarantee that they have access to coursework. Santiago and Sarita E. Morales, president of CSUSB.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 12, 2023

Under the University of Vermont’s (UVM) new open-access academic press, authors and readers will not have to pay fees to publish or access published materials. Entwined in UVM Press’s diamond open-access model is a sentiment of shared responsibilities and a commitment not to profit, according to its website.

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College Aid Services

MARCH 17, 2025

The outage is scheduled to occur from midnight to 11 a.m. Eastern time (ET) on Sunday, March 23, 2025 Users will not have access to COD… More COD System Implementation for 2025-26 Outage Scheduled for March 23rd The post COD System Implementation for 2025-26 Outage Scheduled for March 23rd first appeared on College Aid Services.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 24, 2024

Department of Education (ED) and the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP) held the Attaining College Excellence and Equity Summit: Holistic Advising and Wraparound Services in Washington, D.C. Speakers addressed evidence-based practices, collaboration, access, and advising. Secretary of Education Dr. Miguel A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 26, 2024

Friday marked the 34th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), a landmark civil rights law that unlocked opportunity for disabled people in many areas of public life, including in the workforce and higher education. Lisa Marsh Ryerson The number of students with disabilities at U.S. This is an unacceptable disparity.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2024

Lumina Foundation and Gallup's State of Higher Education 2024 Report Lumina Foundation and Gallup While interest in higher education is increasingly high among adults, many perspective students see cost as a hindrance while some current students are dispirited by emotional stress, according to a new study by Lumina Foundation and Gallup.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Unfortunately, even as places of work and education are opening their doors again, not everyone is eager to walk back through them. As the pandemic recedes, many universities have started to roll back the online and virtual offerings that helped higher education survive the public health crisis.

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College Aid Services

MAY 1, 2024

Users without a Social Security Number (SSN) will have access to the 2024-25 FAFSA thanks to a series of changes that the Department has recently implemented to address the ongoing issues for this population.

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Knack

JANUARY 8, 2025

Access and equity in higher education remain pressing challenges. Financial pressures, inflexible schedules, and limited opportunities often prevent students from fully engaging with their academic experience. Learn how flexible work supports academic success in our blog post.

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Active Minds

APRIL 2, 2025

We are beyond excited to announce a historic milestone in Active Minds journey: weve surpassed our goal of reaching 1,000 K-12 schools in 1,000 days , and we did it months ahead of schedule ! We knew that connecting with K-12 schools and offering accessible, impactful mental health resources would be key to creating lasting change.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 30, 2023

One of the realities of moving up the executive leadership ranks, whether in higher education or other sectors, is that the higher you ascend, the fewer people you have with whom to commensurate or in whom to confide. In fact, access to an executive coach is frequently a benefit included in the contract of many newly-hired executives.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 11, 2024

However, for most students not seeking upward transfer, the transfer process is more of an unfortunate necessity — a strategy for students to access courses they couldn't complete at their home institution, helping them stay on track for graduation. The following fall, nearly 200 Jarvis students took such courses.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 18, 2024

A college education gave Aracely Bahenat access to a career in health care that enabled her to provide a better life for her three sons and escape violent domestic abuse. One size doesn’t fit all in higher education. Faculty and staff must work to center their schedules around the learner, not vice versa.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 6, 2025

Sarina Willis Despite growing skepticism around the value of higher education and increasing calls for alternatives to a college education, a bachelors degree still carries immense weight in the job market. By 2031, 72% of all jobs in this country will require education and training beyond high school. This isn't changing soon.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Burt “Aspiring to a career in engineering can be daunting for Black males and a less traveled road they are expected to pave themselves,” said Burt, a UW-Maidson professor of education and director of the Wisconsin Equity and Inclusion Laboratory (Wei LAB). Dr. Brian A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 12, 2023

The professional development program, “Fifty Years Later: The Vietnam War Through the Eyes of Veterans, Vietnamese, and Southeast Asian Refugees,” is funded by The National Endowment for the Humanities and will educate 30 scholars. A schedule of events and presentations can be found here. The program will run Jun. 19-23 virtually.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 13, 2024

The report gives a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the benefits and challenges of an abbreviated calendar — particularly considering many districts face budget constraints, teacher shortages, and need more flexibility in educational delivery.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The number of academic credits a student takes per year has ties to their likelihood to graduate and complete their college journey, a new report from course scheduling company Ad Astra found. Siloes in the schedule build often lead to unintended barriers to student progression. It analyzed data about 1.3

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

Approximately 300,000 undergraduate student parents are currently enrolled at institutions of higher education in the state of California. While pursuing their education, they grapple with a number of challenges in a higher education system that has historically overlooked their needs and experiences, according to the report.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

JUNE 17, 2025

As cyber-risk increases across the education sector, safeguarding every student’s and family’s financial data is more critical than ever. The education sector has become one of the most attacked industries in the U.S.—and Data breaches in the education sector are becoming more common and even more costly.

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Active Minds

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Even a small percent of billionaires’ net worth could be spent funding public goods like education, healthcare, and infrastructure, while also covering issues like poverty and student debt. Of the many things I would change about the world, one of them would be to increase access for higher educational opportunities.

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Good Tutors Finder

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

At-Home Tuition: A Parent’s Guide to Choosing the Right Option in Switzerland Introduction As a parent, I understand the challenges of finding the right support for your child’s education. Get Started The Case for Online Tuition When our family schedule got busier, we decided to try online tutoring. Why Consider Tuition?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2023

Milliken The program will offer 24/7 access to services such as on-demand mental health and emotional support; scheduled mental health counseling; psychiatry; health coaching; peer support; and digital self-care content. “We The Board of Regents has consistently and proactively addressed this need.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2023

college enrollment is a lingering concern for both educators and policy makers. At least some of the enrollment loss is due to misinformation and misconceptions about the relationship between employment and educational attainment. The institutions are open-access, affordable, and conveniently located. Dr. George R. attend them.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Many of these students face economic hardships, insufficient access to mentorship, and a lack of preparatory resources, all of which contribute to their struggle in navigating the medical education landscape. Dr. Marcus A. Bright However, inspiring stories like that of George Pickens show us that change is possible.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2024

The first cohort of fellows — whose projects ranged from a first-of-its-kind campus accessibility ranking to a digital zine examining the intersection of anti-Blackness, fatphobia, ableism , and incarceration — gathered at SFSU for a month-long workshop in July 2023. The dorms on the SFSU campus weren’t fully accessible.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

To ensure these parents succeed, we should highlight year-round the practices and policies that support their needs, including access to childcare, family-friendly campuses, and flexible course schedules. Strengthening opportunities for student parents to access high-value schools and degrees is a leading factor in their success.

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Civitas Learning

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Higher education leaders strive to create a course schedule that is both efficient to build and easy for students to enroll in necessary courses. Despite this intention, course schedule planning is often a reactive process that can lead to increased workloads for staff and frustration for students during active registration periods.

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Student Minds

JANUARY 6, 2025

Scheduling calls can help you stay in touch with those who matter a lot to you. Remember that your home university is there for you throughout your year abroad and the reason you pay a percentage of fees that year is for continued access to services (including mental health support). Need support?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Prompted by California Assembly Bill 2881, introduced by Senator Marc Berman in 2022, the legislation provided priority registration for students with dependents and mandated the development of a centralized webpage offering parenting students access to both on-campus and off-campus resources.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 24, 2023

A merger would give medical students experience in a university hospital, private hospital, and safety net hospital, with access to more clinical clerkships, electives, and patient experiences without current administrative barriers, said Dr. Brian Strom, chancellor of Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences. A merger would take five years.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Higher education leaders and states can take a number of additional steps to bolster academic success, reenrollment, and degree completion for students who started college but never finished. Online courses and programs were both praised by comebackers and suggested by the report’s authors for the flexibility in scheduling that they provide.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Dr. Ethan Sanford The study’s findings, published in the “ Journal of Pediatric Surgery ,” may indicate inequities in access to surgical care, but causes for the gap are not identified nor listed. Every child in America deserves access to the right surgical care at the right time, regardless of skin color.".

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The FAFSA Simplification Act, scheduled to go into effect this year, will cut the number of questions on the notoriously difficult application for federal aid—which is also used in calculations for state and institutional awards—from 108 to 36 for most students. Dr. Gregory S.

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College Aid Consulting Services

JANUARY 5, 2024

With the rising cost of higher education, many students and their families are concerned about affordability. Houston Community College (HCC) HCC offers affordable entry into higher education with financial aid options geared toward transfer students and those in a certificate programs.

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