Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

To earn the Seal of Excelencia a college or university must demonstrate an intentional, institutional focus on advancing Latino student success by aligning data and practice. Colleges and universities that have received the Seal of Excelencia enroll 17% of Latino students in the U.S. and graduate 19%.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Fairfield University's Marion Peckham Egan School of Nursing and Health Studies has received a $2.59 million grant through the Advanced Nursing Education Workforce Program of the Health Resources and Services Administration. “We 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

APRIL 9, 2025

UNCF recognized that these institutions need more than just emergency support or short-term grants. The big innovation here is not only sharing our number one asset curriculum but also enabling the growth of a technological infrastructure that could be game-changing for HBCUs. But then we had a snag.

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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

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Morgan State University, a Historically Black university in Baltimore, has been awarded the 2022 ETS/CGS Award for Innovation in Promoting Success in Graduate Education: From Admission through Completion from The Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) and ETS. Its instructional curriculum is built on a series of four courses.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

Young will serve as director of the new Center for African and African American Studies at Florida A&M University. MacArthur Foundation granted a total $550,000 to support the center; each gifted FAMU $275,000. Dr. Darius Young Young is a history professor at the FAMU College of Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

The city and area hold a large population of people from places such as India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, along with more recent refugees from Afghanistan and Syria, according to Dr. Jason Oliver Chang, director of the Asian and Asian American Studies Institute at the University of Connecticut. Census Bureau’s 2020 Census.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 11, 2024

Expanding access to high-value industry-recognized credentials within the realm of higher education is a vital step toward addressing the trend of people exiting colleges and universities without a degree. A recent article in Diverse: Issues In Higher Education highlighted that “there are still 36.8

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 17, 2023

Brown University President Dr. Christina H. Dr. Christina Hull Paxson The award – sponsored by the TIAA Institute, administered by the American Council on Education (ACE) – commends current college or university presidents or chancellors for outstanding institutional leadership and broad impact on higher education and society.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 17, 2024

He also will maintain his University Professor and Provost Professor appointments in the USC Rossier School of Education, Marshall School of Business, and Price School of Public Policy. Naslund Chair in Curriculum and Teaching. More than $4 million in National Science Foundation grants have funded her work. Dr. Jessica T.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 15, 2024

Amid these challenges, Bowie State University has taken a proactive step to counter the shortage with The Bowie Black Male Educators Project. By securing inaugural grant funding from the U.S. Dr. Rhonda Jeter is an AACTE Board Member and dean of the College of Education at Bowie State University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Title: Assistant Professor, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Tenured: No (tenure track) Age: 32 Education: B.A., criminology, law & society, University of California, Irvine; M.S., counseling, University of Wisconsin-Madison; and Ph.D., Dr. Cristobal Salinas Jr.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

As researchers, practitioners, and healthcare workers reflect on the events of the last two and a half years, programs related to public health have become a priority at many colleges and universities. In response, colleges and universities are seeing increased interest in courses and programs that address issues of public health.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Half of the top 20 bachelor’s degrees of Black STEM PhD recipients from 2010–20 were earned at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Many of the projects involve faculty at the doctoral-granting institutions…to work with faculty at, let’s say, an HBCU on curriculum development,” said Espinosa.

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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. population representing a 13% growth from the year 2000, according to the Latino Policy & Politics Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles. totaled 62.5

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2024

With enrollment hovering at 13,885 as of fall 2023, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (N.C. A&T) is the largest historically Black university in the country. At present, none of the nation’s 101 HBCUs has Research 1 status, which refers to doctoral universities with high research activity.

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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

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. There are currently nearly 600 HSIs across the country. of enrollment.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 20, 2023

Bright By assisting with putting the following seven measures in place, colleges and universities can help to open pathways to entrepreneurship, accelerate workforce participation in emerging industries, and advance economic opportunity: 1. Dr. Marcus A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

Starting with programs for middle and high school students, through supports for graduate students, the Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity (CEED) at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) has provided inspiration, insight, encouragement, and community for engineering students. Watford says.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Baccalaureate Level The College Assistance Migrant Program (CAMP) Washington State University (Pullman, WA) The College Assistance Migrant Program (CAMP) is a federal program established in 1972 to help students from migrant and seasonal farmworking backgrounds obtain a college education. are Hispanic.

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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

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Byrne PHOTO COURTESY OF CUNY Becoming Dean of Macaulay Honors College, part of the City University of New York (CUNY), enables Dr. Dara N. That led Byrne to pursue her doctorate at Howard University. So, they get to feel like they’re in a small college in the middle of an enormous university system.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2023

University of Maryland Global Campus Dr. Pam Carter University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC) offers a broad range of programs, primarily online. We also have a lot of supports built into our curriculum,” she says. We take a look at institutions that have excelled at graduating a diverse student base.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

Erika Moore Title: Rhines Rising Star Larry Hench Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, University of Florida Age: 31 Education: B.S., biomedical engineering, The Johns Hopkins University; Ph.D., She arrived at the University of Florida in July 2020.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

million research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). We design the curriculum individually to students’ needs. There are also partnerships with laboratories at Princeton University and Northeastern University that provide students with research internships. It’s not one-size-fits-all,” says Espiritu. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 28, 2023

As a result, the college received a Title V grant, $3.5 In addition to more than 30 academic and certificate programs, there are bachelor’s degree programs offered in collaboration with Colorado University, Denver. As he prepares to retire Aug. Among the highlights of his presidency is serving a diverse student population.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

The city and area hold a large population of people from places such as India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, along with more recent refugees from Afghanistan and Syria, according to Dr. Jason Oliver Chang, director of the Asian and Asian American Studies Institute at the University of Connecticut. Census Bureau’s 2020 Census.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 22, 2025

Title: Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Tenured: Yes Age: 36 Education: B.A., Political Science, Tulane University; Ph.D., Remember why you got into this. Dr. Kevin Lawrence Henry, Jr., Kevin Lawrence Henry, Jr.,

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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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COE

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The 2023 award winners are Jeffrey Kahlden , director, Grant Management Services for Student Success at Dallas College ; Antonio C. Stephens , director, TRIO Center of Excellence, Saint Augustine’s University in Raleigh, NC; and Dolores Gomez , director, Student Support Services-Teacher Prep, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. “A

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AUGUST 13, 2023

Developed first by team members in Southern California and later expanded to Boston, the curriculum has helped students at the University of San Diego, California State University San Marcos, Boston College, and the University of Massachusetts Boston.

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COE

OCTOBER 2, 2023

She persevered and ultimately, she earned her associate’s degree from Quinnipiac College (now Quinnipiac University). For most of my childhood, my father took night school courses at the University of New Haven and eventually earned his master’s degree. Education Bill Blog Helping Veterans Make the Most of the G.I.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Unleashing the Power of empower at Southeastern Louisiana University February 7, 2024 — by Ron Abel Explore how Southeastern Louisiana University’s Upward Bound programs evolved with empower , seamlessly integrating to streamline operations and empower staff. Here’s to empower -ing education, one student at a time!

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COE

AUGUST 26, 2024

LEARN MORE AND APPLY Bronson Mills, from Oregon State University, emphasized the importance of cultural immersion, noting how the experience broadened his perspective. This sentiment was echoed by Jade Buchanan from Suffolk University, who noted that the experience taught her about the shared humanity that transcends geographical divides.

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NACAC's Admitted

APRIL 16, 2023

Do you have a four-year university in town with an access mission? Instead, numerous students are listing their dual-enrollment college credit on the admission applications of four-year colleges and universities. Here are some factors to consider: Your competition: Who are the education competitors for your community college?

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