Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Although they still utilize grades, these initiatives grant high school students access to real college courses, helping them build early success and experience in higher education. Dual enrollment programs present another compelling solution. Rather than just assessing readiness, these programs help ensure it.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Incoming transfer students can enroll in courses early to guarantee that they have access to coursework. Necessary support is provided through GANAS (Gaining Access ’AND Academic Success), an innovative access and retention program that serves community college transfer students. Morales, president of CSUSB. Currently, 60.1%

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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

MARCH 21, 2024

We want to design into our education programs experiences for that student, whether its peer advising, internships, project-based learning, [or] civic engagement. We want to curate the co-curriculars and other experiences they could have that will be rich for them,” Milliron said.

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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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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

MAY 1, 2024

Department of Education and IHEP convened the summit focused on holistic advising and wraparound support services. One Million Degrees offers coaching, mentoring, and financial and professional guidance. Another critical component of advising is helping students envision and achieve their career goals.

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Active Minds

APRIL 22, 2025

By tailoring events for both undergraduate and graduate students and collaborating with mental health professionals, UC Riverside ensures widespread access to resources throughout their community. Every Wednesday, we host SWIFT mental health clinicians in our space, allowing students to connect with and access mental health support.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 16, 2024

Educators and doctoral students offered advice and shared career experiences Tuesday in an effort to guide aspiring graduate students seeking to become teachers and to promote resources that students could access along the way. Marcus Penny In a Jan.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2024

The State of Higher Education 2024 Report documents how current, prospective, and stopped-out students view post-high school education pathways, their access to them, their value, and experiences. The study includes responses from more than 14,000 U.S. economy depends on it.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 7, 2023

Program participants get access to early advising from their college of choice, academic counseling, and financial aid, while not having to face specific tests or transfer application fees. This agreement also creates SAU’s third national HBCU Urban Access Hub. “I

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College Aid Services

JULY 24, 2024

Following a recent upgrade, several users reported that NSLDS Reports Tool did not accept their valid credentials when they attempted to log in through the NSLDS Professional Access portal.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 30, 2024

The data come a few weeks after ED announced more than one million FAFSA forms had been submitted and the form were accessible 24/7. billion in aid and ensure that all students can access the maximum financial aid for which they are eligible. “The The updated SAI tables allow students to benefit from an additional $1.8

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

On the topic of academic success, schools should keep an eye out for dips in single-term GPA – instead of just cumulative GPA – to use as early warning signs of a struggling student and provide early guidance through faculty and advisers accordingly, the report recommended.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 20, 2023

Higher education leaders face an obligation to Kansas families to remove barriers to access and success and ensure that our system lives up to the ideal of equal opportunity for all. Although these actions are helpful, they have not moved the needle toward closing access and success gaps. Structural change is needed.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

serving as executive chairman and Sharpton as senior adviser. It's time we reverse this decision and allow transplant recipients to have access to more and better tools – not less." Al Sharpton Together, they have established the national Healthy Equity in Transplantation Coalition, with Al B!

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 15, 2024

Donovan Livingston, award-winning educator, spoken word poet, and public speaker, has spent his career in education bridging the gap between his artistic sensibility and commitment to college access, and social justice. “A He would eventually continue this work with organizations like the College Advising Corps and the Upward Bound Program.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Joy Gaston Gayles opened the 47th annual conference for the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) in Las Vegas with a call to disrupt the systemic oppression keeping marginalized populations from accessing higher education and burning out academics working toward greater diversity, equity, and inclusion. “If

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 27, 2023

The students will have access to mentoring, networking opportunities, and advising, internship, and volunteer healthcare experiences through a Regional Hub of Healthcare Opportunity (RHHO) at the UCR medical school.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Created in 2005 by Excelencia in Education, Examples of Excelencia is a national initiative that recognizes institutions and nonprofit organizations that identify, aggregate, and promote evidence-based practices that improve Latinx student access in higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 8, 2023

He will be appointed to the Department of African and African-American Studies in Arts & Sciences and serve as a senior adviser to the chancellor. McBride will become the inaugural Gerald Early Distinguished Professor at Washington University in St. Louis, effective Aug. Dr. Dwight A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 20, 2024

I wanted to create a place where students have access to high-quality programs and facilities and can learn the skills they need to succeed in a rapidly changing world," said Alex Cohen, president of the Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation. Adams said the goal is to make a positive difference in people's lives. "I

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Counselors' Corner

JANUARY 3, 2024

As we return to our students, and during a time when the world is focused on goal setting, what better time to look at our profession and consider the big-picture changes that would improve college access. Early introduction to college advising K-8 students don’t need college advising if their parents went to college.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

million grant from the California Department of Health Care Access and Information – will select undergraduates for training, advising, and support to increase readiness for medical school. Belinda Campos UC PRIME Pre-Health Pathways (UCPPP) – it is receiving funding from a five-year, $3.6

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 9, 2023

In 2019, Oglethorpe partnered with TheDream.US , a national scholarship program that helps provide access to a college education for immigrant youth who came to the country at a young age without documentation. Seek out information and updates to better advise and support students. As the scholar advisor to TheDream.US Be informed.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 1, 2025

Since 2015, Stout has served as president and CEO of Achieving the Dream (ATD), a network of over 300 community colleges, with the goal of being accessible hubs of learning, credentialing and economic mobility that eliminate inequities in educational and workforce outcomes. Shes helping colleges implement evidence-based reforms.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Through deliberate, intentional efforts to bring in students from traditionally underserved populations, WVC’s dual enrollment programs are not only building opportunity and access but impacting enrollment as well. But dual enrollment doesn’t just offer larger enrollment numbers.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The historic gains made in recent years resulted from colleges and universities across the country focusing on eliminating disparities in educational access and student access based on race, gender, and socioeconomic status. Overall, learners who engaged with academic advising services have experienced an 8.1

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Counselors' Corner

JANUARY 7, 2025

This will affect how college counselors advise student athletes in high schools, even though counselors wont have nearly enough information to read all the tea leaves, leaving the potential for bad choices, wrong choices, and unhappy parents. This could get ugly. Because, you know, that suggests theres a chance. Not this year.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Community colleges could potentially serve as a valuable source for immigrants to access affordable postsecondary education, upskilling and reskilling opportunities, and workforce preparation, the report noted. For one, the accessibility and flexibility that community colleges offer is often considered an advantage.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Before and during COVID, most of these students vanished from our most affordable and accessible institutions – our community colleges. It means the institution changes how we develop faculty and advise students – where all 6,662 Compton college students benefit. All employees see themselves as student success advocates.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

On the panel, “Selecting Evidence-Based Advising Strategies to Improve Student Outcomes,” Thompson spoke about equity being a top priority, noting that, if higher education does not serve its most disenfranchised populations, then it is failing. Department of Education and the Institute for Higher Education Policy.

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Active Minds

JUNE 26, 2023

The struggle of hiding such a critical part of my identity, paired with a lack of accessible mental health resources in Alabama, led to the lowest point in my life to date. Through the Active Minds Mental Health Academy , I obtained the resources needed to begin building a platform of my own that I could utilize to make advocacy accessible.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 3, 2024

The money will mostly go toward staffing – directors, program managers, academic advisers, and peer mentors – and student resources, such as books, school supplies, and transportation, Wheelock said. It is in service of the foundation’s goal to expand access to liberal arts education, she said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Approximately 80% of the students who access EAP are Latino. Therefore, the program works closely with other departments of the college, particularly admissions and advising, to identify students who would benefit from EAP. “We It also added professional development for all the tutors and faculty. This recognition] means a lot.”

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Counselors' Corner

MAY 31, 2023

Throughout the year, counselors take to social media to express concern, vent, or simply whine about the inequities of the college advising process in the US. Take a look at the statement below, then put together a 600-word (more or less) answer you think could increase college access and equity.

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Civitas Learning

JANUARY 9, 2025

This approach fosters proactive, collaborative support by enabling the coordination of services such as academic coaching, advising, financial aid, and career guidance. Research from the Brookings Institution on college access and completion interventions shows that comprehensive programs can drive meaningful improvements in student success.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 5, 2024

With the $30 million gift came no advised direction, restrictions, nor stipulations, Boekelheide says, calling Scott’s donation a “windfall” and a “vote of confidence” in what PCC was doing. Northeast College’s College Access Scholarship and Renton Technical College’s McCarthy Bridge Grant program are two examples.

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