Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

A new report from the Center for Community College Student Engagement (CCCSE) indicates that while 8,836 entering students at 40 community colleges around the country indicate that they intend to transfer to a four-year institution, the number that actually do is remarkably low.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Born and raised in Brazil, Reis' academic background is in communication and journalism. Carolinas reputation for highly talented students, thought leadership by faculty members, dedicated professional staff and a deeply engaged and supportive alumni network is widely known and respected among its peers.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Attendees from across the country and even across the Atlantic tuned in as Lowery-Hart shared how leading with love transforms community colleges and institutions of higher education into places where students, and the whole community, thrive. “[Dr. Entrenched bureaucracy must give way to data and student voices.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 27, 2025

Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) play a vital role in advancing educational opportunities for Latine students across the United States. This significant responsibility has prompted researchers to examine how these institutions prepare academic advisors to effectively serve their diverse student populations.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 2, 2024

“I very much think it has been invigorating for me over the years to see the data-driven decisions that lead us to doing things with our students that are amazing,” she says. Having served as vice president for student affairs at Cal State, Fullerton, from 2012–19, Eanes was familiar with the Cal State system.

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Student Minds

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Alyssa-Caroline shares her experience with autism, ADHD, and inaccessibility in professional communication. But, for a neurodivergent person like me, there is nothing quick or casual about verbal, aural professional communication— especially when that communication rarely accompanies (or even offers) the support of notes or handouts.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

But like other free tuition initiatives for Native American students, it’s not quite as simple as it sounds. One of the concerns I have is many college-bound students do not have the tools or the know how of securing adequate funding before they go to college,” says Dr. Karen R. The basics are very appealing. Dr. Gresham D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Therefore, it is imperative - non-negotiable - that educators, practitioners and decision makers see them as the best and brightest and communicate to these capable Black males that they have purpose, they are innovators, and they have gifts and talents that will enhance and enrich our society for generations to come. Communicate.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2025

s legacy through the Martin Luther King Day symposium, an academic credit workshop where both students can earn academic or continuing education credits for their participation in the event.The course is offered at no additional cost, regardless of a students credit load.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 8, 2025

Prior to her role at MATC, Martinez Powless accumulated 17 years of higher education experience at Marquette University and MATC, working in administration, enrollment, student affairs, and multicultural outreach. Martin has since retired, and the college is now led by President Anthony Cruz, who is Hispanic.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 19, 2023

Community colleges serve the most diverse students in all of higher education. The professors come to the students for much of the face-to-face learning, thus making this program highly accessible to working adults. She excluded herself to avoid bias, so there were 22 students in the group studied.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 11, 2025

Bellisario College of Communications at Pennsylvania State University since 2014 and has been a member of the Penn State faculty since 2003, was announced as the 10th president of Quinnipiac University in Connecticut. A first-generation college student, Hardin earned a Ph.D. in mass communication from the University of Georgia, an M.A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 30, 2025

Thus, with our unprecedented longevity, its important for the traditional image of college students, those transitioning from high school and primarily in the second and third decades of life, to evolve. For college students, intergenerational learning is more than interacting with older adults.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2025

Loves current focus is a web-based citizen science project called Name That Neutrino that she and her students created in 2023, seeking a multitude of volunteers to participate in the process. Love is active in STEM mentoring and enrichment programs that target students, especially girls, in high school and the lower grades.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

National Association of Colleges and Employers New grads and employers agree on what student proficiencies are necessary — graduating seniors ranked communication, critical thinking, and teamwork as the three most important competencies for a job candidate to develop to be considered career ready on a 2023 NACE student survey.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 13, 2024

Student newsrooms at select historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) can expect thousands in additional monetary support soon thanks to an initiative at Howard University. The Center for Journalism & Democracy plans to award some $200,000 to 10 such newsrooms at through its inaugural Newsroom Innovation Challenge.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 7, 2024

Two political leaders allege that a Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) form error is preventing students with contributors, including parents and spouses, who do not have a Social Security Number from completing the U.S. Department of Education’s new FAFSA form.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

Ja’Bette Lozupone Title: Director of Student Affairs, Montgomery College Age: 41 Education: B.A., communications, Hood College; M.A., communications, Hood College; and D.O.L., But Lozupone wasn’t ready for the responsibility of being a college student. “I Ja’Bette Lozupone had always been a star at school.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 25, 2024

Two new reports and an online dashboard from the Community College Research Center (CCRC) at Teacher’s College, Columbia University, are part of an ambitious effort to tell the story of transfer students. No state is doing well in terms of getting their community college students to transfer and complete,” said Velasco Rodriguez.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 24, 2024

Excelencia in Education, an organization working for increased access and completion of Latinx students in postsecondary education, has released its latest report on programs that have qualitatively and quantitatively shown to improve and increase the success of Latinx students in higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 24, 2024

The center provides services that students need, such as a childcare center, a food pantry, clothing distribution, and social workers on staff. The radio/television gives me the ability to speak, write, and communicate in a way so that people understand and feel what I believe,” says Walker-Griffea. I’m a great facilitator.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 9, 2024

Colclough hatched an idea — what if they could develop professional learning environments easily accessible for all faculty in North Carolina’s community colleges, and what if that development could move the needle on student success? That trend is experienced across all student groups, not just in certain demographics. “No

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

The nonprofit Common Application, which offers an online tool that many students use when looking to pursue an undergraduate education, is not being used by enough students who are from lower-income backgrounds, according to the organization’s inaugural Equity Innovations Guide. labor force. labor force.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 12, 2025

A new study reveals alarming trends among college students nationwide, with seven in ten considering taking a break or dropping out entirely due to mounting pressures. The survey, conducted by higher education virtual health provider TimelyCare, highlights the significant challenges threatening student success across American campuses.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 6, 2023

As associate director of the university’s Center for Advancement of Teaching, Rahming oversees FSU’s Learning Assistant Program, which has yielded impressive results in helping students excel in some of the school’s high-enrollment, lower-division courses that provide the foundation for learning in late courses.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Florida A&M University’s (FAMU) School of Journalism & Graphic Communication will receive a $1 million multi-year grant from Disney to support journalism students, the Tallahassee Democrat reported. ABC News President and FAMU alum Kimberly Godwin announced the grant at FAMU’s Homecoming Convocation in October.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 28, 2023

It’s crucial for historically Black schools to understand these students if the HBCU boom is to be more than a blip. It’s crucial for historically Black schools to understand these students if the HBCU boom is to be more than a blip. They were over 20% more likely to say this than Black students as a group.)

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Ford and hearts as they seek to provide Black students with rigorous and relevant instructional styles and strategies. Specifically, whether intentional or unintentional, harm has been done to students/learners. Combined and individually, curriculum and/or instruction can traumatize students, in this case Black students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 15, 2023

Leonard Taylor will become director of the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) at Indiana University Bloomington, effective July. I am very excited to join the IU community during this next chapter of my journey,” said Taylor. “I in communication arts, communication science, and rhetoric also from UW-M.

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College Aid Services

DECEMBER 23, 2024

FSA has provided guidance for institutions on obtaining written consent from their students to share FAFSA data with a third party in compliance with FERPA regulations.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2024

College students who graduate as English majors actually find jobs at about the same rate as those who major in other subjects, according to a recent report commissioned by the Modern Language Association (MLA). Along lines or race and ethnicity, Black and Latino graduates in the humanities typically earn less than their white counterparts.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Combined with the Apple App Store, which first debuted in 2008 with 500 phone applications, in less than 20 years, technology has revolutionized how the average consumer communicates, entertains themselves, and obtains information. Remarkably, of those attending, 32% of all community college attendees are first-generation college students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 28, 2023

It’s crucial for historically Black schools to understand these students if the HBCU boom is to be more than a blip. It’s crucial for historically Black schools to understand these students if the HBCU boom is to be more than a blip. They were over 20% more likely to say this than Black students as a group.)

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2024

Chaos: the word experts chose time and again to describe the current state of student debt relief efforts and loan repayment. Since President Biden’s first attempt to clean the slate for millions of student borrowers was struck down by the U.S. million Americans have student loan debt, according to the Federal Student Aid office.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2024

A new issue brief from the American Council on Education (ACE) calls on institutions to take care to ensure that voting resources offered to their students are nonpartisan and that their communications with students are received that way.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Higher education is a ladder to social and economic mobility and stability, and learning certain skills like leadership, critical thinking, problem-solving and communication, can make the difference in a graduate feeling their time in postsecondary education was both worth the expense and helped them achieve life goals.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 6, 2024

Karrie Dixon “Being a part of this incredible community of scholars, innovators and leaders on the sloping hills and verdant green is a dream come true,” said Dixon. This is about providing the best education we can for our students to achieve their purpose and take flight.”

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