Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2025

Berger is an award-winning scholar and social justice educator who is making higher education more accessible to underrepresented students. She is an associate professor of history and art history and director of African and African American Studies at George Mason University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 7, 2024

In this new role, he is expected to guide policy research at the assessment organization with the goal of advancing equitable access to quality education and fair assessment for learners. The chair is named after Gordon, a prominent psychologist and education researcher. Dr. Odis Johnson Jr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 3, 2024

Supreme Court’s decision to strike-down of Affirmative Action last year, it was important to examine how much access Black and Latino students have to these elite schools, said report author Sandra Perez, a higher education research analyst for Ed Trust. “We Stanford University also got an F, with an access score of 53.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

“We see how introductory courses like Calculus play a unique role as a gateway or barrier for racially minoritized students in terms of access to STEM majors and careers,” he says. “We Ford envisions him having an impact on recruitment and retention. He’s bringing innovative approaches.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2024

“The school’s mission-vision aligns with my work as a scholar and leader, and I believe the school is poised to reach new heights in the areas of K-12 and higher education, human development, exercise, health, and wellness.” in educational organization and leadership from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 20, 2022

-based Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP), one of the nation’s premiere education research and policy centers, Dr. Michelle Asha Cooper has a vision. Since taking the helm of IHEP in 2008, Cooper’s been out front influencing national education policy.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

In the wake of the COVID pandemic, where so many researchers pivoted to Zoom to share their scholarship during webinars, Burt thought that he needed to create a new way to make his research more accessible to others outside of the academy.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Over 270 sessions were offered at the conference, including a keynote address by Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings, one of the world's most prolific educational researchers. During the COVID pandemic, a number of Black children were only able to access the internet through their smart phones. That is why we're here today," he said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

To frame it any other way dismisses both the historical and contemporary contexts and centrality of race and racism in decisions to remove these specific students from the general education system, forcing them into a system that suppresses their opportunities and contributes to miseducation. Educational Researcher , 44 , 278–292.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

Means Title: Assistant Professor, School of Education, University of Pittsburgh Age: 39 Education: B.A., counselor education (student affairs), Clemson University; and Ph.D., My interests in higher education are focused on access,” Means said. “I sociology and political science, Elon University; M.Ed.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 25, 2023

Experts on American perceptions of higher education said that the polls collectively reveal that American views are nuanced. Zach Hrynowski, an education research consultant at Gallup, thought that Americans were differentiating between higher education itself and the systems that organize it.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

The goal was to bring new and exciting events and speakers that were accessible to students and to build awareness and provide some educational and engaging programming and resources that would offer a sense of community and belonging to our students,” says Roth.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

It goes back to the support that they have,” said Dr. Erin Dunlop Velez, director of educational research at RTI International and one of the report’s authors. “If you look at Black students who get STEM PhDs, so many of them start at HBCUs. The differential persists in graduate schools. Velez said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

From the very beginning, we thought the notion, the concept, the feeling about creating ethnic studies centers at that point in time would be a good thing for education, research, and teaching,” said Morgan Chu. And over the years, we saw that it was a very good thing. “It

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Organizational exemplars who have been selected by their peers to lead national scholarly organizations include such esteemed figures as Aldon Morris from the American Sociological Association, Gloria Ladson-Billings from the American Education Research Association, and Caroline Turner from the Association for the Study of Higher Education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Since their creation, tests have disproportionately hindered access to gifted and talented education (GATE), AP, college acceptance (particularly to elite higher education institutions), scholarships, and so on. Career and Technical Education Research, 43 (1), 77-98. Warren, N., & & Hernandez-Gantes, V.M.

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EAB

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Press Release PowerSchool and EAB Partner to Simplify College Admissions and Expand College Access for Millions of Students Users of the Naviance platform will now have easier access to offers of college admission and financial aid via EAB’s Concourse technology September 12, 2023 FOLSOM, CALIF.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 27, 2022

It reminded me of that feel, touch, and access that land-grant schools provide and that it’s a pride point for Michigan State. They carry out their work where access is a priority, but excellence on the back end is also a priority.” “It said to me that hard work was in the DNA of the institution,” says Jackson. “It

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

American Educational Research Association, American Psychological Association, & N ational Council on Measurement in Education ; Association of School Psychologists; Association of School Counselors; Council for Exceptional Children; National Association for Gifted Children)?

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EAB

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Please access the survey here. This is a nationwide survey administered by EAB, an educational research organization that partners with hundreds of school districts across the country. The survey will close Tuesday, November 1 st.

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EAB

JANUARY 18, 2023

EAB among firms named to the 2023 GSV EdTech150, chosen from over 4,000 education technology companies. EAB is also known for its data and analytics solution, Edify , created specifically for higher education. These capabilities help more students—especially underserved students—enroll and succeed in higher education.

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The University Innovation Alliance

MARCH 15, 2023

Chancellor Reyes stressed the importance of understanding just how much work a top leadership position can be: "The more we provide people access to what this lifestyle is, what this job entails, the more you will be having people that can come in completely knowing this is and wanting to immerse themselves and give themselves to it.

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Catherine Cronin

APRIL 14, 2022

Although I now work independently in open education research and policy, my work between 2019 and 2021 related to practice and policy in the Irish HE sector, as Digital and Open Education lead for Ireland’s National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education.

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The LTC Blog

AUGUST 27, 2017

Consider including syllabus statements from relevant Carleton offices and take a look at Tulane’s accessible syllabus website. The syllabus should make proper use of the pronouns “I”, “you”, and “we” to appropriately signal what the students should do (“you”), what the instructor will do (“I”), and what will be communal (“we”).

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

There may be some costs to locating this responsibility in an AVP—one is that the role would sit squarely in the administration, which many faculty see as separated from their work as educators/researchers. A sense that there is a gulf between admin and the faculty can prevail on campuses, and would need some attention in this model.

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EAB

AUGUST 7, 2023

Professional and Adult Education Adult learners are a unique audience whether they are served through traditional graduate programs, non-credit offerings, degree completion programs, or short-format credentials across on-campus, online, and hybrid modalities. But the administrative infrastructure of a campus has an equally key role to play.

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Supporting Student Success

APRIL 1, 2021

Higher education leaders, faculty and staff members, college counselors, and college access advocates met virtually to discuss obstacles and opportunities to support rural students’ success. Geography of college opportunity: The case of education deserts. American Educational Research Journal , 53 (4), 987-1021.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2025

Her research focuses on the way that education policy affects and shapes the access and success of minoritized students in higher education. She primarily investigates student financial aid/finance, admissions policies, and policies that influence the ability to create an inclusive & equitable campus climate.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 24, 2024

Brown II, CSJ executive director and research scientist, says in recent years higher education research has shifted away from HBCUs to minority-serving institutions more broadly. Plans are underway for a 2025 convening that will explore the topic of reparative justice in higher education. Dr. Harry L.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 25, 2023

It is the weekend, and we are in Chicago, having just attended the four-day 2023 AERA (The American Educational Research Association) Annual Meeting, "Interrogating Consequential Education Research in Pursuit of Truth." Is it the easy access to guns? A few of us decide to meet for adult beverages.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 16, 2023

Harris, a senior fellow in the Brown Center on Education Policy at Brookings and founding director of the Education Research Alliance for New Orleans at Tulane University, has also noted in his research how the pandemic has negatively affected academic confidence. Dr. Douglas N.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

link] Many scholars have documented the critical importance of youth having access to spaces of joy and homeplaces in which they learn to matter. Beyond single-identity spaces of Black mattering: Homeplaces for Black LGBTQ+ identities in K-12 schools. Theory into Practice. Theory into Practice.

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COE

MARCH 14, 2024

As the first activity of COE, once it became an incorporated organization in 1981, the annual Policy Seminar has grown into a three-part event that includes the largest convening of college access and success professionals who come to Capitol Hill exclusively to fight for the Federal TRIO Programs (TRIO). billion today.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

During Howard’s second year in the graduate program, Gay, his “academic mother,” suggested that he attend the American Educational Research Association’s meeting in 1996. Almost immediately, he encountered some resistance from educational researchers who claimed that their area of research does not focus on race.

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Active Minds

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Where might we have to go to access care? Providers, treatment centers, and support foundations alike are working day in and day out to ensure that the appropriate care is accessible to all. However, the unfortunate reality is that, for many people, this terrifying request only brings more questions. How will we afford it?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Being unaccredited meant students could not access Title IV federal student aid, and the college did not receive any ARP funds. Dietra Trent, a Hampton alumna, was appointed executive director of the White House Initiative on Advanced Educational Equity, Excellence and Economic Opportunity through Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

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