Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Another unsettling finding is that, while 2024 CCSSE respondents who are Pell Grant recipients reported intent to transfer at roughly the same rates as non-Pell Grant recipients, the Tracking Transfer report shows that only 11% of low-income students who started at a community college earned a bachelor’s degree in six years.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 20, 2023

Yet less than 12% of resident 18-to-24-year-old students enrolled in our public universities are Hispanic. We see similar enrollment gaps for African American students, rural students, and low-income students. About 60% of our state university students graduate within six years. Mathis of the John E.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

But this delay may make some students, particularly first-generation college students who are new to the admissions process, even more wary and hesitant, said Dr. Jorge Burmicky, an assistant professor of higher education leadership and policy studies at Howard University. "If

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Despite this recognition, the place-bound student is often absent from meaningful equity efforts in higher education that seek to confront and overcome structural inequalities affecting opportunities for low-income students and students of color. The Roueche Center Forum is co-edited by Drs.

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The University Innovation Alliance

APRIL 1, 2024

But that day, I had the opportunity to advocate for my own institution, and we ended up with a great result.” Personal Paths to Educational Leadership We like asking about what informed our guests’ leadership style, and President Sacks offered this wonderful anecdote: “My family did not have horses.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Efforts by the Biden administration to pass a rule on student loan forgiveness was a major story from 2023 that will again be front and center in the new year. Bonner II, who holds the Wilhelmina Endowed Chair in Educational Leadership at Prairie View A&M University, an HBCU, brings a different perspective. Dr. Fred A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Smith, an associate professor of higher education and coordinator of the doctoral program in urban educational leadership in the School of Education at University of Cincinnati, noted further moves to clamp down on DEI could impact academic freedom of faculty. Dr. Everrett A. Enrollment will begin in fall 2025.

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