Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2025

Nearly half are Pell Grant-eligible, and 68% experience at least one basic needs insecurity, with 24% self-identifying as homeless. In 1961, college students were predominantly white, traditional-age students who attended full-time. Today, they're far more diverse77% non-whiteand face challenges unknown to previous generations.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

million grant through the Advanced Nursing Education Workforce Program of the Health Resources and Services Administration. “We Through the program, the Egan School will develop curriculum on cultural competence, wellness, and telehealth. “It We are thrilled to be selected for this funding,” said Dr. Kathryn E. Dr. Kathryn E.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

His plans for the center include helping to advance African and African American studies as a discipline and to create a more substantial intellectual community through interdisciplinary collaboration among faculty, students, and the local community. “Dr. Darius Young is a transformational leader, thought partner, and historian.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Wayne State University has received $6 million to recruit and hire 30 new humanities faculty and create a Black studies center. and global histories, culture, social, economic, legal, and health systems. .

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

With a new federal grant that Chang and his fellow UConn faculty and staff members have secured from the U.S. The TEAS project is approaching the need to support its significant Asian student body from multiple angles, seeking out what would be the most beneficial: mentorship, mental health, and curriculum.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 17, 2024

DeCuir-Gunby, a prominent educational psychologist and racial equity expert who is on the faculty at the USC Rossier School of Education, has been named the next executive director of the USC Race and Equity Center. Naslund Chair in Curriculum and Teaching. She will replace Dr. Shaun R. Dr. Jessica T.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Dr. Lorelle Espinosa Velez hopes that faculty, administrators and policy makers at graduate schools read the report, recognize the barriers that exist for Black and Hispanic STEM PhD students and make an effort to remove those barriers. Four research questions were developed. There’s true partnership and collaboration.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The award applauds promising and innovative proposals to improve student success and degree completion at master’s and doctoral levels while promoting inclusiveness, with the winner receiving a two-year, $20,000 matching grant. Its instructional curriculum is built on a series of four courses.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Interim Provost Dr. Rani Roy says the school has already applied for two HSI grants and will find out in October whether they’ve been accepted. There is power in being a role model, he says, and that’s why he wants to make sure undergrads and graduates can see themselves represented in Lehman faculty, staff, and administration.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Dueñas says her work calls upon “researchers, educators, [and] even, at times, policymakers to think about the ways in which policies, curriculums, rules, bylaws. affect the day-to-day lives of students.” and she received a 2019 Graduate Peer Mentor Award at University of Wisconsin-Madison Graduate School, among others.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2024

The number of master’s degree and doctoral degree programs continues to grow and the faculty is achieving national and international recognition for its research. Smith-Jackson Over the course of more than 30 years as a faculty person and researcher, Dr. Godfrey A. Dr. Tonya L. Also, we’re getting people out of the silos. He says N.C.

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Student Research Foundation

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Then, well discuss key factors to consider when comparing programs, such as curriculum, resources, and major-specific opportunities. Youll want to consider your majors curriculum, school-wide requirements, and opportunities to customize your program. Well review what college majors are, including some of the best options available.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Bronwyn Cross-Denny, Christina Gunther, Sofia Pendley, and Jacqueline Vernarelli — recently secured a $1,495,472 HRSA (Health Resources and Services Administration) grant titled “Public Health Scholarship Program to Strengthen the Emergency Preparedness Workforce.” Dr. Lisa Kreeger The bachelor’s degree in public health at St.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 15, 2024

It also added professional development for all the tutors and faculty. Graduate Level Project upGRADS California State University, Fullerton (Fullerton, CA) Less than 10% of college and university faculty in the U.S. Excelencia in Education sees this as a program that is helping develop professionals and future faculty.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 17, 2023

Paxson – a globally renowned economist and public health expert – was honored for leadership of efforts bolstering health, education, and economic well-being, diverse recruitment, curriculums, and research about race, ethnicity, inequality, and justice.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 30, 2024

Established in 1992, this federal designation is granted to institutions with an enrollment that consists of at least 25% Hispanic students. I did not see myself reflected in the curriculum, my professors, or the administration. They are taking a hard look at the diversity of their faculty, staff, and curricula. of enrollment.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

“Macaulay can provide an elite education — or a model that exemplifies the best of what higher ed has to offer — but without elitist recruitment or admissions processes,” says Byrne, who has been a faculty member at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (part of CUNY) since 2003. She concluded the fellowship and joined the faculty of John Jay.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 28, 2023

As a result, the college received a Title V grant, $3.5 million over five years, that enabled the school to focus on mentoring, professional development for faculty and undergraduate research. Several Otero faculty members have summer research projects. It was eye-opening for students and faculty.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 20, 2023

Through cutting-edge research, faculty and students can work collaboratively with industry partners to develop pioneering technologies and solutions. This includes advocating for financial incentives such as tax breaks or grants to encourage investment in businesses run by women, minorities, and other marginalized groups.

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Civitas Learning

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Faculty play a central role in building connections with students. As Inside Higher Ed notes, “Students often turn to their faculty members for advice and support outside of academics, including career advice and mental health support, so positive student-faculty relationships are a critical piece of student success.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

Connecting Black students with each other made them feel stronger and more determined to support each other through the curriculum. “It Faculty from the College of Engineering and College of Sciences play an essential role. Faculty do it as part of their research and part of their service to the university and to the state.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2023

In terms of retention, Carter says hiring supportive faculty is a huge component. “We We also have a lot of supports built into our curriculum,” she says. We get students of color primarily through word-of-mouth and because of the fact that we have so many faculty members who are people of color,” Cummings says. Online, 18.1%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

million research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The faculty and staff overseeing EPW know each student personally. “I We design the curriculum individually to students’ needs. It is estimated that over 7 million people speak Spanish in Texas,” says Rueda-Acedo, who from 2005–13 was the sole faculty member.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 2, 2024

When transportation and lack of childcare became a barrier, this principal ran a pilot program at her site where university faculty came to her school to teach, students brought their children during evenings and weekends to learn together, and grants paid for schooling.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

With a new federal grant that Chang and his fellow UConn faculty and staff members have secured from the U.S. The TEAS project is approaching the need to support its significant Asian student body from multiple angles, seeking out what would be the most beneficial: mentorship, mental health, and curriculum.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

Warren Grayson and Dr. Jennifer Elisseeff, The Johns Hopkins University; and Dr. Michele Manuel and Dr. Cammy Abernathy, both of University of Florida Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty members: “Feel the fear and do it anyway! You are capable of more than you can imagine.” She arrived at the University of Florida in July 2020.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 22, 2025

After completing his doctorate in Curriculum and Instruction in 2016, Henry joined the faculty at the University of Arizona, where his understanding of race in America was enriched by exposure to border state dynamics and the intersection of Black, Indigenous, and Mexican communities. Political Science, Tulane University; Ph.D.,

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Believe in Students

OCTOBER 10, 2024

My job when I arrived was to figure out how to utilize incredibly generous philanthropic support to provide emergency grants to students. And in all the hundreds of hours of conversations I’d had about student success, I had never once talked to or about faculty members as part of the solution.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Harvard University, founded in 1646, existed to educate white male landowners (and their progeny) in a classical curriculum focusing heavily on ethics, politics, and religion. This was decades prior to the passage of the Second Morrill Act of 1890, which created separate land grant institutions for Black Americans.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Corporate Partnerships: Forge partnerships with corporations to secure additional funding for scholarships and grants. Creating an Inclusive School Culture: Diversity and Inclusion Training: Provide faculty and staff with training on diversity, equity, and inclusion to create a welcoming and supportive environment for all students.

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NACAC's Admitted

APRIL 16, 2023

This would include the speed and pace of English instruction and the teaching and curriculum approach used for math instruction.) Kenneth McGhee is the director of the DC Tuition Assistance Grant Program (DCTAG) within the Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE) in Washington, DC. OSSE is a NACAC member organization.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

A challenge for launching interdisciplinary programs is that faculty and deans can fail to see how participation will help their bottom line. Faculty may also feel at capacity already, in teaching out the curriculum for existing majors, and feel they can’t add another obligation. we’re already interdisciplinary!”

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

Blogs Implementing a caseload management model in a newly centralized division August 9, 2023 Melissa Grant Associate Dean of Advisement, Office of the Provost, Pace University The views and opinions expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of EAB.

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Believe in Students

APRIL 1, 2024

Questions about the motivations of faculty and students. Our faculty partners feel it. Yet, that same leader pointed to the antidote she has experienced: working in solidarity with other faculty, staff, and students on her campus and across the Believe in Students network to focus on building institutions that better serve students.

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College Planners of America

OCTOBER 27, 2022

A high GPA in a strong high school curriculum can be worth a lot of money. It includes a wide-range of metrics such as the percentage of students in fraternities and sororities, the number who live off campus, and faculty demographics. Colleges complete a data field named “Institutional non-need-based scholarship or grant aid”.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

Scroll down to read about each of the capstone projects in the fellows’ own words. Scholastica Student Success Improving success for pre-health students Joe Fritsch, Ph.D., Scholastica Student Success Improving success for pre-health students Joe Fritsch, Ph.D.,

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NACAC's Admitted

APRIL 16, 2023

This would include the speed and pace of English instruction and the teaching and curriculum approach used for math instruction.) Kenneth McGhee is the director of the DC Tuition Assistance Grant Program (DCTAG) within the Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE) in Washington, DC. OSSE is a NACAC member organization.

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