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They Don’t Really Care About Us? Ensuring a Better Connection Between Research, Policy, and Practice to Ensure Success for Black Men in Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Aside from writing about the plight of Black men in higher education, in our scholarship, we have employed an anti-deficit approach to highlight critical factors that help to facilitate the access, retention, and persistence of Black men in college. This stifles Black student success and contributes to low graduation rates from high schools.

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Algorithmic Bias Continues to Negatively Impact Minoritized Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As institutions of higher education turn to AI machine learning and data-driven algorithms to make their work more efficient, a new study published in the American Educational Research Association (AERA) peer-reviewed journal , AERA Open , reminds administrators that algorithms can be racially biased.

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Cardona Calls for FSA Changes, But Experts Say the Damage is Done

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Trust needs to be rebuilt between the FSA, institutions, families and students they serve, said Jill Desjean, director of policy analysis at the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA). Jill Desjean, director of policy analysis at the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators.

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Replacing Affirmative Action with ‘Positive Practices’

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Because high schools that enroll substantial percentages of students of color are readily identifiable, colleges and universities must engage these designated school districts and, in conjunction with their administrative offices, create focused recruitment drives that begin the first day of the freshman year of high school.

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Bridging Research and Practice

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“We’re very fortunate to be one of the very few research universities to have two people of color leading it and that’s remarkable,” says Vasquez Heilig who is both Latino and Black. Montgomery—an accomplished economist who served in the Clinton and Obama administrations—is African American. “Now The school’s president, Dr. Edward B.

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Reconciling Contrasting Findings on Perceptions of Higher Ed

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

At almost the same time, Teachers College at Columbia University released a survey that seemed to augur much better: 69% of Americans said that they view public spending on higher education as an excellent or good investment, and strong majorities reported that higher education has benefits for both individuals and society as a whole.

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We are Not an ‘Issue’: We are Your Students of Color!!

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Finally, school counselors can assist students by providing short- term mental health services to eliminate obstacles to academic success ( American School Counseling Association ). b. Special education over-referrals and overrepresentation. Career and Technical Education Research, 43 (1), 77-98. Warren, N., &