Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 29, 2024

Jennifer Collins “I am grateful to have the opportunity to engage with other colleges and universities dedicated to expanding access and opportunity,” said Rhodes College President Dr. Jennifer Collins. Rhodes College has announced its membership to the American Talent Initiative (ATI) collective.

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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.” Also, ensuring that there’s equity in the experiences of our students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 4, 2023

29, the new federal spending plan is set to increase the Pell Grant in 2023, allowing low-income students a chance to access up to $7,395 each year. Coupled with the $400 increase in the 2022 fiscal year, this is the largest two-year increase ever in the history of the grant. With President Biden’s signature on Dec. Dr. Ivory A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Energy and excitement filled the McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago, as over two thousand community college leaders, faculty, and staff gathered to share stories of access, equity, and inclusion at the 2023 Dream conference. But despite their efforts to increase access and opportunity for all, equity gaps remain. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 19, 2023

Faculty from the University of Kentucky (UK), Vanderbilt University, and University of North Carolina Greensboro have received a $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support underrepresented minority faculty at predominantly white institutions (PWIs).

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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. In academic year 2021-22, 45.1%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Borough of Manhattan Community College and the Institute for Justice and Opportunity at John Jay College of Criminal Justice have teamed up to create a new degree-granting Prison-to-College Pathways (P2CP) program for incarcerated students at Otisville Correctional Facility in upstate New York.

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Close the Gap Foundation

OCTOBER 18, 2024

San Francisco Bay Area, CALIFORNIA – October 2024 – Close the Gap is honored to announce that we have been awarded the prestigious STEM Action Grant from the Society for Science. This grant enables us to expand our reach and provide even more students with the transformative opportunities they deserve.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 15, 2024

It is a systemic crisis that impacts student outcomes and educational equity. Dr. Rhonda Jeter The shortage of Black male teachers can be attributed to various systemic barriers, including fewer career incentives and limited access to professional development. By securing inaugural grant funding from the U.S.

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EAB

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Blogs How Change Leadership Propelled University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Journey to Equity Change leadership acts as a vital bridge between intent and action. Create a Sense of Urgency UWM recognized the pressing need to address equity gaps in student success. What does effective change leadership look like in practice?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 24, 2024

Katy Hall Such prohibited practices include diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. Utah higher education leaders are considering steps toward compliance with a new law, HB 261 , that prohibits an institution of higher education, public education system, and governmental employer from engaging in discriminatory practices.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 5, 2024

Reynold Verret The initiative is an effort to advance racial wealth equity by addressing systemic underinvestment and underrepresentation in Black institutions and communities through philanthropy.

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COE

APRIL 7, 2023

From College to Careers: The Pell Institute Receives $748,000 Ascendium Grant to Explore Career Development within TRIO Programs April 7, 2023 — by Terry Vaughan III The research will examine how TRIO programs can work with existing career services to provide comprehensive career support to learners.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The leader of a Native American higher ed student access organization was recognized and commended by the Bank of America as a Neighborhood Builders Social Equality Awardee (NBSE). It is an honor to be recognized along with other activists who build community and opportunity through race and equity work,” Crazy Bull said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

It examines over 200 indicators to determine who accesses a variety of educational environments and experiences, to explore how student trajectories and outcomes differ by race and ethnicity, and to provide an overview of the racial and ethnic backgrounds of faculty, staff, and college presidents.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 1, 2024

has awarded a grant worth nearly $1 million to the Howard University College of Medicine to promote HIV prevention among Black women and girls. million in grants to the medical school’s Department of Pediatrics and Child Health and 18 other organizations as part of its new Setting the P.A.C.E. Gilead Sciences Inc. Setting the P.A.C.E.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 14, 2023

graduate and undergraduate college students, according to Leanne Davis, managing researcher at Education Northwest, an organization committed to advancing equity in education. The study is conducted every three to four years by the National Center for Education Statistic (NCES), said NCES statistician Dr. Tracy Hunt-White.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Franklin County public schools in Massachusetts have been given a $200,000 grant, which they will use to partner with Greenfield Community College (GCC) to create an early college pilot program, the Greenfield Recorder reported. said Peggy Fallon, GCC’s dual enrollment coordinator.

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The University Innovation Alliance

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Completion Grants: Innovative Financial Aid for Today's Students. Completion Grants. In 2021, we published our Completion Grants Playbook , and our CEO Bridget Burns joined the Chronicle's Assistant Managing Editor Ian Wilhelm to co-host this virtual conversation about helping under-resourced students complete their degrees. .

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2024

Accompanying the skills gap is a serious employment equity issue. The programs offer access to hundreds of occupations in high-growth and emerging industries. Credit toward a college credential for prior learning Dr. Sonya Christian Another strategy that colleges are using is to assess and grant credit for prior life experiences.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

By: Mamie Voight Earlier this spring, IHEP reached an important milestone: 30 years of developing research to address the nation’s most pressing higher education challenges and promoting college access and success for all students. We will continue our CTA advocacy.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2024

Fielding Graduate University Taylor was a national leader on issues of diversity and inclusion in higher education, particularly those relating to access and equity, preparing the next generation of researchers and faculty members in the nation’s colleges and universities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 27, 2024

The program also provides access to mentors for early career faculty and trains them in grant writing, op-ed writing, teaching, and how to achieve a better work-life balance. Gasman said that offering the ELEVATE program free of cost is also critical as many MSI faculty lack travel and professional development funding.

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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.” GSU’s student support team created a system of automatic micro-grants, which would be auto distributed to students in need. GSU began relying on predictive data to proactively assist students.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

JANUARY 9, 2024

New Mexico’s Opportunity Scholarship is a first-dollar program, in which state grants are applied before other types of aid, like Pell Grants, which can be used to cover living costs and other non-tuition expenses. Students may attend either a two-year or four-year New Mexican public institution.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2024

If these educators can access PSLF, we can help our youngest children, their families, and their communities.” Retention levels of those who received the grant were 96% across the state. “It “Early childhood educators help young children learn, grow, and thrive. Under Secretary of Education James Kvaal. “If

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Dr. Levon Esters Esters is currently the associate dean for diversity, equity, and inclusion and faculty affairs for Purdue University’s Polytechnic Institute and professor of agricultural sciences education. Levon Esters will become vice provost for graduate education at Penn State and dean of its Graduate School, effective May 1, 2023.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 31, 2023

Dr. Nancy Seay The effort entails an 18-month study – funded by a $500,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation – to identify features neighborhoods should have to promote resident health. However, one thing that makes neighborhoods different from each other is access to health-supportive resources.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 7, 2024

Harvey serves as Distinguished Scholar at the American Association for Access, Equity and Diversity in Washington, D.C. Dr. William B.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Among the Latino students who faced food insecurity, 45 percent of students sought access through Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits. Pell Grants were utilized by 61% of the students. These challenges were consistent across those enrolled at two-year colleges and four-year institutions. economy.

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Active Minds

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Addressing racial inequality is one of the key components of this effort to ensure marginalized communities have access to the same opportunities and resources as others and recognize the unique challenges faced by different marginalized groups, especially when it comes to mental health.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

JULY 28, 2023

After 18 years of dedication to our organization, Team IHEP is bidding a bittersweet farewell to a true champion of college access, student success and educational equity. Her determination to advance college access and success for first-generation, students of color, and students from low-income communities is an inspiration.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

DECEMBER 20, 2023

We welcomed new colleagues, celebrated a long-time equity champion , and commemorated 30 years of advancing equitable college access and success. Policy and Advocacy We engaged with federal, state, and institutional policymakers, to advance policies that improve data, access, affordability, and quality in higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2024

Going into COVID was an emerging big need around basic needs, tech access, food insecurity, housing insecurity, and they really stepped up and made emergency student aid an agenda.” Pell Grant recipients in California got more in aid than their non-Pell peers,” said Rodriguez. The need became clearer.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Black Americans slowly gained access to higher education, with Alexander Twilight credited as the first Black man to receive a bachelor’s degree in 1823. This was decades prior to the passage of the Second Morrill Act of 1890, which created separate land grant institutions for Black Americans. The first college in the U.S,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 29, 2023

million grant from the Andrew W. Curtis Center for Health Equity, Research, and Training at the University of Michigan and Dr. Howard Stevenson, Constance Clayton Professor of Urban Education and African Studies and Director of Racial Empowerment Collaborative at the University of Pennsylvania. Funded by a $1.4 and James L.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 5, 2024

PCC’s Community Excellence Grants program allows faculty, staff, and students to propose ideas in service of the school, its diverse campus, and its nearby communities. According to the college, the internal grant awards total approximately $1 million a year. PCC is a place where we have a lot of creative thinking,” Boekelheide says.

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