Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2024

This fundamental change reversed thinking about the equal protection clause under the 14th Amendment and galvanized states to reconsider their stance on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Expanding the definition of diversity to include diversity of opinion may elicit honest conversations and intentional/inclusive strategies.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Brown, is to advance Latino student success in higher education by promoting Latino student achievement, conducting analysis to inform educational policies and advancing institutional practices. As of fall 2023, 69% of the student population at CSUSB identified as Hispanic or Latino.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Since its founding, Achieving the Dream has been focused on helping institutions deliver more equitable results in student success. A key focus to achieve these goals is incorporating race-conscious and equity-minded criteria into annual performance evaluations.

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AUGUST 26, 2024

What does student success mean? Some colleges associate student success with high graduation rates, others focus on alumni achievements, and then other colleges emphasize test scores and grades. Foundations continue to focus on awarding scholarships to students who navigate and matriculate in college with ease.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Undergraduate LAs operate as part of an instructional team, supporting both students and faculty to create more inclusive, learner-centered classrooms that improve student and faculty success. My goal is to have the LAs look like the students in the courses,” says Rahming. The concept is quite simple.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Delta’s Guiding Pillars: Equity and Completion Led by Gavin, the Delta faculty and staff are focused on two key pillars: equity and completion. One can never be excellent when we’re trying to have a sense of belonging and inclusive culture because there will always be somebody that doesn’t feel they’re a part of it for whatever reason.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

When it comes to equity in higher education, Dr. Tammeil Gilkerson has been a leader. Her work around students’ basic needs, supporting undocumented and mixed-status students, and achieving social justice through focused racial equity efforts has made her a rising star in community college leadership.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2024

Student success experts have prescribed potential solutions to declining Black student enrollment and retention numbers in California’s public universities in a recent report published by The California State University (CSU) Office of the Chancellor. strategies that directly support Black student success; 2.)

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 23, 2025

With the demise of affirmative action, threats to diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives (DEI), and policies in higher education there might not be an immediate increase in the number of Black men seeking to enroll in higher education. This stifles Black student success and contributes to low graduation rates from high schools.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (AGB) has launched a digital toolkit to help higher education governing boards proactively oversee equitable student success. This resource is a key element of AGB’s justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion initiative ,” said Henry Stoever, AGB president and CEO.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2025

This downgrade is not an isolated incident; instead, it is the culmination of destabilizing factors, including funding cuts and the dismantling of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, which are transforming the environment surrounding U.S. higher education. higher education institutions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Bartell, Sandra Robinson & Willie McKether Only two-thirds of new college students will complete their degree within six years. For Black, Latinx, and Native American students, this number is much lower. Often there is an assumption that faculty will see such engagements as too time-intensive and, therefore, not worthwhile.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2025

She has a record of achievement in a number of areas including student success, enrollment management, faculty development, research, academic program quality, strategic initiatives and partnerships, equity and inclusion, and fundraising.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

A dozen higher education institutions have been selected to participate in the Equitable and Inclusive Curriculum-to-Career Models Project, according to the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U). This work is necessary for advancing higher education, student success, and our economy.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 15, 2024

faculty, advisors, peers, ethnic organizations, targeted support programs) impact the outcomes of historically marginalized and underserved student populations,” he says. Institutional environments can affect college student success and failure. Notwithstanding, there is life after students leave campus.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 8, 2023

The City Colleges of Chicago (CCC) have made a pledge for educational equity, and institutional and organizational partnerships will help make that pledge a reality. The seven community colleges in the CCC system currently have a 30% completion rate for Black students and 33% completion rate for Latinx students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Furman University and 14 other institutions have collectively been awarded $8.625 million to improve inclusion for students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Alison Roark, associate professor of biology and program director.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 30, 2023

When it comes to improving mental health equity on college campuses, more work just needs to be done, mental health experts said during a webinar Wednesday. Then, we can start to address equity from that lens," said Dr. Shawnté Elbert , chief health equity officer at Columbus Public Health. It’s not enough to make statements.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

And with those assets, she has sought to improve student success at CGU and help coach rising student affairs leaders amid issues of turnover and fatigue in the field. Carter’s psychology background plays an important role in understanding and helping CGU bolster its student inclusion and success efforts, Jessup says.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 23, 2024

Within that school district lies Southwest Junior High (SJH), a school comprising mostly Latinx (96%) students. Dr. Cindy Trejo According to Dr. Cindy Trejo, author of a new report produced by the Rutgers University’s Samuel Dewitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity, & Justice, what the school does is simply “magic.” “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 19, 2024

I am concerned about what’s happening with local school boards, policies, this misnomer that we don’t have to be worried about diversity, equity, and inclusion and we can be a ‘color blind society,’ that it’s what we should be—which is not true,” said Tchen. The progress is tangible.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Energy and excitement filled the McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago, as over two thousand community college leaders, faculty, and staff gathered to share stories of access, equity, and inclusion at the 2023 Dream conference. But despite their efforts to increase access and opportunity for all, equity gaps remain. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 21, 2024

As a first-generation college student, a Black woman, and the child of immigrants, I have witnessed firsthand the transformative power of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs in higher education. Our higher education institutions must reflect this reality and prepare students for the world they will inherit.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Joy Gaston Gayles opened the 47th annual conference for the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) in Las Vegas with a call to disrupt the systemic oppression keeping marginalized populations from accessing higher education and burning out academics working toward greater diversity, equity, and inclusion. “If

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JUNE 6, 2024

Luke Wood “This distinctive recognition reaffirms Sacramento State’s commitment and dedication to serving the needs of our diverse student body, especially for our Black students,” said Sacramento State President Dr. J. We remain committed to advancing equity and social justice in every aspect of our institution. Luke Wood. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Kristina Londy Kristina Londy has been named director of student success and inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility at MiraCosta College in Oceanside, California.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 24, 2024

Katy Hall Such prohibited practices include diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. Katy Hall, requires that universities expand “student success and support” initiatives once targeting historically marginalized groups to include all students regardless of race, ethnicity and other "personal identity characteristics."

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 20, 2024

Bennett carries memories of these people and is constantly thinking about ways to honor their hyperlocal and global lens in equity work for student success through the Women’s Center. “By Today, the Women’s Center is part of the brand-new Cultural & Equity Center, which was completed during the pandemic.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

"I look forward to engaging and collaborating with Cal State LA’s talented students, staff and faculty to continue the institution’s journey to new heights in student success, research, scholarship and creative activity, and community engagement.” Clarke, Jr., chair of the Cal State LA Presidential Search Committee.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 25, 2024

Tomlinson has been named assistant vice president for equity and inclusion/student belonging at St. He served as the associate dean for student success and engagement and was the director of the R.I.S.E. Tomlinson Sharod L. John’s University in Queens, New York. Network and veterans affairs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 31, 2024

Back in February, more than 1,000 practitioners from hundreds of colleges across the nation gathered in Orlando, Florida, to exchange evidence-based approaches to accelerating student success and equity. Lumina Foundation CEO Jamie Merisotis delivers a keynote address at the DREAM 2024 conference.

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JANUARY 8, 2025

Access and equity in higher education remain pressing challenges. Learn how flexible work supports academic success in our blog post. Financial pressures, inflexible schedules, and limited opportunities often prevent students from fully engaging with their academic experience.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2024

The more we work as a community – one that is uniquely interconnected and striving toward a common goal – the greater our chances of being able to produce more equitable results in higher ed, specifically for the growing population of students in need of our support. But funding is only one piece of the puzzle.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

Across the country, state legislators have been debating—and in several cases passing— legislation that censors teaching and learning, threatens academic freedom, and limits or eliminates diversity, equity, and inclusion offices and efforts both on and off campuses.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 24, 2024

Studying the data, intentional collaboration, and asking students what they need are keys to improving outcomes. Department of Education (ED) and the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP) held the Attaining College Excellence and Equity Summit: Holistic Advising and Wraparound Services in Washington, D.C. On Wednesday, the U.S.

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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? But it does depend on what each community college in our region tells us they most need.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

This, despite the fact that under-represented minority students earn over 20% of STEM bachelor’s degrees, according to National Science Foundation data. But, without minoritized teachers and mentors, it will be hard to get students from under-represented backgrounds involved. You can’t be what you can’t see,” said York.

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