Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 3, 2025

We also frequently hear of employees putting their own busy schedules on pause to help their fellow colleagues, embodying what it means to be a Caring Campus. We celebrate our staff and faculty who go above and beyond in their interactions with students through weekly shoutouts.

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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. Currently, 60.1%

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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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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

JULY 26, 2024

As an educator and university president, I have seen firsthand the ADA’s transformative impact on our higher education systems — and how far we still must go before higher education is truly accessible and inclusive of learners from all backgrounds. UDL is the gold standard for accessibility practices. It’s our starting point.

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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

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

JANUARY 30, 2023

In fact, access to an executive coach is frequently a benefit included in the contract of many newly-hired executives. As one who lived by a schedule for more than four decades, I know firsthand the importance of schedules. Availability.

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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

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

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. Faculty and staff must work to center their schedules around the learner, not vice versa. Julie Peller is the executive director of Higher Learning Advocates.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 12, 2023

The goal is to help faculty create curricular materials for humanities courses and provide veterans and Southeast Asian students more access to meaningful content. A schedule of events and presentations can be found here. The program will run Jun. 12-16 residentially and Jun. 19-23 virtually.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 13, 2024

Conversely, the report noted that districts must contend with the mixed effects of schedule changes for families regarding childcare and access to school-based services.

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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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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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Good Tutors Finder

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Whether your child needs help with IB Physics , Swiss Matura Maths , or A-Level English , our expert tutors in Switzerland make learning accessible and effective. 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

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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Active Minds

DECEMBER 10, 2024

It could also mean restructuring economic systems to ensure fairer wages and compensation, a healthier work schedule, and opportunities for everyone to succeed without the extreme concentration of wealth. 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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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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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 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. During the spring semester of 2023, he maintained a rigorous study schedule, dedicating 2 to 3 hours each night to MCAT preparation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

For example, Child Care Access Means Parents in School provides federal funding for campus-based childcare programs. Other things that can benefit student parents, explained Jez, are flexible course schedules and broader childcare options. “Harnessing more data effectively is a critical first step in advancing student parent success.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2023

Still others, influenced by dangerous myths, are reluctant to attend an open-access institution like a community college. The institutions are open-access, affordable, and conveniently located. Classes are scheduled at times that are convenient for students, and students can attend part-time or full-time. Dr. George R.

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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. Their response was somewhere in the neighborhood of $35,000, when, in fact, the average at that time was around $12,500.

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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

MARCH 30, 2023

Union demands include $38,542 base salaries; harassment protections; an emergency fund for international workers; a community-based, non-violent, unarmed response program separate from the Division of Public Safety; child care subsidies; and more accessible gender-affirming care.

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College Aid Consulting Services

JANUARY 5, 2024

Harvard University As an Ivy League institution, Harvard meets 100% of demonstrated financial need without loans, making it more accessible than many assume. University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley) Berkeley’s financial aid program is robust, offering the Middle-Class Access Plan to help middle-income Californian families.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 24, 2024

Speakers addressed evidence-based practices, collaboration, access, and advising. His story illustrated the need for comprehensive advising with an essential focus on access. I also worked as a study consultant, where I was able to empower some of my peers by teaching them effective study strategies and time management scheduling.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

For students, variable class offerings in both modality and timing, along with online resources they can access on their own schedule, is vital to helping them succeed in the classroom and earn their degree. Textbook costs can run on average over $1,000 per year.

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Single Stop

AUGUST 24, 2023

Single Stop Expands Its Footprint to California Revolutionizing Californians’ Access to Essential Resources New York, NY– Single Stop today announces the launch of its operations in California, marking a new milestone in the organization’s mission to address comprehensive health and social support needs nationwide.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Online courses and programs were both praised by comebackers and suggested by the report’s authors for the flexibility in scheduling that they provide. The report’s recommendations revolve around themes of flexibility, accommodation, inclusivity, proactiveness, and continuous support.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 24, 2023

Athletes are faced with several barriers to eating well, including limited schedules and insufficient nutritional knowledge, Purdom said. These findings may also speak to the lack of food access, said study co-author Lauren San Diego , a graduate student at N.C. So I think this speaks to a larger problem of food access in general."

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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

MARCH 6, 2023

Anvarizadeh and the USC Chan Justice Collective , a coalition of roughly 100 students that has sprung up to support her, suspect something pernicious behind her demotion: racism, and a reluctance to truly do the work necessary to back up the school’s claims about diversity, access, and equity. Maybe that just makes people uncomfortable.”

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