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. Brown, is to advance Latino student success in higher education by promoting Latino student achievement, conducting analysis to inform educational policies and advancing institutional practices. Santiago and Sarita E.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2025

I was always advocating for students rights and issues, working with administration, leaders, and university presidents advocating for university students, says Briscoe of her time at ASU. Her mentors at ASU, Briscoe says, truly encouraged her to understand the significance of education and valuing Black thought.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2025

While community colleges play a crucial role in providing accessible and affordable education to diverse student populations, many still struggle to fully accommodate students with disabilities, according to insights from community college students, faculty, and higher education experts. Its not innate for everyone, says Trent.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The report provides an outline for how faculty, staff and administrators can infuse the curriculum with informative material, forge partnerships with community-based organizations and create opportunities for students to learn and practice the relevant skills. Unfortunately, access to higher education is often limited by cost.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

We believe this project will have a profound impact on student success and well-being, empowering them to focus on their education and future.” Jakes Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree, the first graduate program the school’s history. In 2010, In 2010, the college converted its football field into a farm.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Beyond the media smokescreen, Asian American and NHPI students face a diverse range of challenges on the road to college access and success. Asian American and NHPI populations, among the fastest-growing in the nation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Postsecondary education provides graduates with greater access to job opportunities and higher earning potential throughout their lifetimes. But broadband access varies across regions, states, and even towns. 95% of households have access to broadband. 95% of households have access to broadband. But just south of Colo.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Bumphus CEO of the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) at the end of 2025, capping a remarkable 15-year tenure that helped reshape higher education access nationwide. But Bumphus maintains that the real measure of success lies in the millions of students who have benefited from community college education during his tenure.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The program, branded as a "Leadership Level Up," is specifically designed to bridge the gap between classroom leadership and district-wide administration. It offers a pathway to leadership positions that have historically been difficult to access.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Alexander is very accessible, very approachable for students,” says Dr. Claudia Salcedo, who adds that administrators can sometimes be perceived as separate from the students they serve. It is providing greater access for students from low-income, first-generation backgrounds. Then, you see the successes.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2024

In kicking off the panel, Mathis recognized the likely diversity of, and respect for, varying contexts and cultures represented among participants, including community college trustees, senior administrators, and other state and association leaders from across the country. in press, p. Dr. Carl B. Dr. Terry A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

One of the reasons that many of these efforts haven’t made as much difference as they could have is the administrative burdens that they place on students—the difficulty of the steps that students and their families must go through to apply for financial aid, or even to college at all. “By said Gándara. “Or

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 2, 2023

Students navigate housing and food insecurity, transportation issues, and other limitations to access. The purpose of community colleges is to increase access to higher education for the most vulnerable populations.” Achieving the Dream works with corporations, foundations, and other partners to support community colleges.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

As an assistant professor of educational leadership and policy studies (ELPS) and coordinator of the college student personnel program at University of Tennessee, Knoxville, she is working to achieve that goal with her scholarship and her administrative responsibilities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

In my 30-year journey as a university president, I learned that successful leaders are not those who simply speak quickly, but rather those who learn to listen carefully and ask thoughtful questions. It’s about showing genuine care and respect for others, regardless of their backgrounds or beliefs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

I didn’t understand why everybody didn’t have access. And I was determined to have access,” says Williams. I made sure everyone had access, especially my Black classmates and friends,” says Williams. Tapping into access became a deliberate decision. He became what he calls “a student for everybody.” “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 13, 2024

Education is a human right regardless of one’s background, and access and support should be readily available to those in need. Our responsibility as educators and administrators is to intentionally address their needs through a highly personalized holistic education plan tailored to their interests and goals.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The college recognized that the campus needed a safe space for males to get together, interact and learn from each other as well as to access resources,” says Jamal Biggs, director of the QCC MRC. Serving students Lakeland Community College in Ohio created its MRC in 1996 after seeing the success of its women’s center. Dr. Roderick L.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Undergraduate LAs operate as part of an instructional team, supporting both students and faculty to create more inclusive, learner-centered classrooms that improve student and faculty success. At FSU, the program has also worked to increase access to STEM majors. “My from FSU but has since found fulfilment as an administrator. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2025

According to Ess Pokornowski, Reintegrating students face a unique set of overlapping challenges: they are leaving a total institution where choice, communication, access to healthcare, access to technology, and opportunities for education and gainful employment are all dramatically limited.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

An example of where even completing a FAFSA—a requirement of North Star Promise—can clash with Native American culture is provided by Tiffany Gusbeth, vice president of student success services of the American Indian College Fund (College Fund). There are 11 federally recognized American Indian tribes in Minnesota.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 24, 2024

In his speech titled, "From Mirage to Oasis: The Role of Higher Education in Advancing Opportunity for All," Baston noted that food and housing insecurity and access to the internet, are among the litany of challenges that continue to serve as barriers to student success. Dr. Michael A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Affirmative action policies have been instrumental in increasing access and opportunities for historically marginalized groups in higher education. These administrators (e.g., Zoom) communities of practice that allow administrators to work collaboratively to reflect on best practices and implement appropriate strategies.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2025

They needed long-term, data-driven, institutionally customized strategies to build financial resilience, promote academic innovation, and drive student success models that work for their institutions. DIVERSE : In addition to policymakers, faculty, and administrators, students play a major role in UNITE.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Students' decisions to pursue and complete higher education are shaped by access to information, available resources, and the quality of their college experience. The foundation emphasizes the need to focus on both recent high school graduates and adult learners returning to education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 25, 2025

This is the topic we took to task in Fostering Healthier Campuses: Applying Sense of Belonging Theory to Student Affairs Research and Practice at the recent annual meeting of NASPAStudent Affairs Administrators in Higher Education. Any blueprint for belonging must consider these factors as part of the masterplan in design.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 26, 2024

Legislators are looking to enshrine the Postsecondary Student Success Grant (PSSG) program, a student outcomes-centered federal effort, into law through new legislation this March. It secures its place in federal education policy, making it less susceptible to annual budget fluctuations or shifts in administrative priorities.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 12, 2025

My success has been shaped by failures, triumphs, and uplifting others along the way. Over the course of my education and career, Ive carried life baggage and self-doubt, made mistakes, and experienced obstacles that impacted my success. I began teaching College Success courses to first generation, low income, multicultural students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2024

Hauser had always admired the institution because of its unique, tax-based funding, its open-access dual-mission purpose, and its location, nestled into the scenic western slope of the Rocky Mountains. She’s solidified the administration, faculty, and staff, which was previously prone to attrition.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

City Colleges of Chicagos participation in our Value Data Collaborative aligns with its vision to serve as the citys most accessible engine of socioeconomic mobility and racial equity. CCC is leveraging the Postsecondary Value Framework to predict economic mobility outcomes early.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 19, 2024

The Institute for College Access and Success (TICAS) has released its latest policy recommendations to make postsecondary education affordable and completable for all students. “It Because you can’t have student success without those things.” Can students get childcare, or food? Can they have healthcare?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The 2023-2024 Digital Learning Pulse Survey revealed that three-quarters of higher education trustees, faculty, and administrators believe GenAI will noticeably change their institutions — and help solve ongoing issues. But only 16% of faculty and 11% of administrators feel prepared for change.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Kristina Londy Kristina Londy has been named director of student success and inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility at MiraCosta College in Oceanside, California.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Phil Murphy’s administration’s goals to increase college completion and get 65% of state denizens a high-quality credential by 2025. “As We must take a whole-of-government approach to supporting New Jersey students and understanding their unique challenges to help ensure their postsecondary success.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Bridges’ expertise in areas including student engagement, learning environments at minority-serving institutions, and evidence-based strategies for student success will be an invaluable asset to the IHEP team,” said IHEP Board Chairperson Dr. Peter Nwosu. Dr. Brian K. AT UNCF, Bridges oversaw and led its Frederick D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Because community colleges educate the fastest growing segments of our society, their success will go a long way toward determining the extent to which our nation and its people thrive. The bad news: graduation rates remain under 50%, and many students who do graduate are not set up for success.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2025

With over 25 years of administrative, research, and teaching experience in various higher education settings, Vega transitioned to academia as a faculty member and has significantly contributed to the Master of Arts in Higher Education program at Montclair State University since 2017. Vega earned her Ed.D.

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