Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 2, 2023

Wayne State University has received $6 million for a cluster hire program to recruit and hire 30 new humanities faculty and create a Black Studies center. The grant also helps fund the launch of the Detroit Center for Black Studies, which will be faculty-led and help connect Black Studies faculty from Michigan institutions.

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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. They needed long-term, data-driven, institutionally customized strategies to build financial resilience, promote academic innovation, and drive student success models that work for their institutions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The second goal of the program is to help build a community and culture at the institution that is attractive to prospective Native staff, faculty, and students. “As It’s important that institutions are ready to receive Indigenous students, to serve them and to provide the support that is necessary once they arrive on campus.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 1, 2025

The announcement comes at a pivotal moment for the Durango, Colorado, college, which continues to grapple with its history as a former federal Indian boarding school while working to advance its commitment to student success, equity, and community engagement.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2025

Johnson has more than 30 years of higher education experience as a faculty member, researcher and administrator. Previously, she joined the IUPUI faculty in 1993 and ascended through the ranks as a department chair, dean and associate vice chancellor for undergraduate education, prior to her role as chief academic officer.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Texas A&M University-San Antonio has received a $3 million grant to address economic issues and expand technology access for its student population. Texas A&M University-San Antonio The money – in the form of a “Caminos Hacia el Éxito” (Pathways to Success) grant from the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Educators from a variety of community colleges shared how student success and sense of belonging is vital to meeting their local workforce needs, and how their unique geographic locations, demographic growth, and regional needs have influenced how they connect with big industry and small to mid-sized businesses.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2024

Daysha Jackson-Sanchez Through my conversations with other providers, as well as faculty and institutional leadership at colleges and universities across the country, I am increasingly optimistic that we are well-equipped to handle these shifts. Take the example of the courseware we deliver to students in gateway classes.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The second goal of the program is to help build a community and culture at the institution that is attractive to prospective Native staff, faculty, and students. “As It’s important that institutions are ready to receive Indigenous students, to serve them and to provide the support that is necessary once they arrive on campus.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2025

Project aims to diversify the business world by increasing the number of Black, African American, Latinx, Hispanic American, and Native American faculty members in business schools. This scenario parallels Elphaba's struggle inWicked, as she battles against systemic forces that seek to marginalize and suppress. Founded in 1994, the Ph.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2025

The absence of outcry speaks volumes, reinforcing the notion that the presence of these students on campus is tolerated rather than embraced. With the reinstatement of Pell Grant eligibility for incarcerated students in July 2023, approximately 760,000 incarcerated people can have college dreams.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 19, 2024

Recommendations include doubling the maximum Pell Grant, reforming the student loan system to protect borrowers, and ensuring that public benefit programs, like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) or Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), are reformed to support a student’s journey through higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

To do so, she focused on long-standing issues like program development and student support services, and by the time the Coast Community College District Board of Trustees approved her permanent position, progress was tangible. Grade-point averages were also higher for students who received the grants — 2.97 versus 2.49.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

At a time when the Latino population in the United States is growing and students are still facing daunting obstacles, Excelencia in Education is recognizing nine institutions for their clear and decisive commitment to Latino student success with the Seal of Excelencia. It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 2, 2023

However, the amount of Title V funding—federal dollars granted to expand opportunities for Hispanic students—has not kept pace, resulting in increased competition for the money. One of the main obstacles that schools have in applying for Title V grants is decentralized structures for doing so, the briefing found. Dr. Deborah A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The two-year project — supported by a grant from Lumina Foundation — builds on campus work initiated through AAC&U’s Curriculum-to-Career Innovations Institute. This work is necessary for advancing higher education, student success, and our economy.”

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Civitas Learning

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Faculty play a central role in building connections with students. Their regular interaction and academic and career guidance, especially within their areas of expertise, can significantly help students in their college experience.

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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

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Complete College America (CCA) is making the connection between the potential of student success at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and investment in cutting-edge technology. The partnership is designed to help HBCUs improve student experiences and outcomes. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The school is now eligible for Title V HSI funds that can support student recruitment, education, sense of belonging, and completion. 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. are white and only 21% are faculty of color.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2024

It is about taking a bold stance to break the old and create new systems and structures that support our students’ success. I’m ready to share my unapologetic Freedom Dreaming thoughts, the full realization of unapologetic leadership, put into practice, in the name of student success.

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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. And that is because many of our students are first-generation and low-income.” The Hartford campus itself holds a large percentage of first-generation students, according to Rola. “And

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Just Faculty Fellowship. According to the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, only 10.1% of STEM faculty are from minoritized backgrounds. This, despite the fact that under-represented minority students earn over 20% of STEM bachelor’s degrees, according to National Science Foundation data.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 3, 2023

Previously, she was senior vice president for research at the University of Arizona; vice president for research and innovation and dean of the graduate school at the University of Oregon; and faculty at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. In 2022, Espy was a San Antonio Business Journal Women’s Leadership Award winner.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 1, 2025

Stout, recipient of the 2025 Diverse Champions Award, has focused her career on helping community colleges achieve outstanding student success. To have an institutional-wide approach to student success. At the same time, the deans are talking to their faculty about the data in the classroom that faculty are using.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2024

Without Higher Education Emergency Relief (HEER) funding, experts say many community college programs would have closed, faculty and staff laid off, and more students forced to stop out on their pathways towards accreditation. Most colleges used need to determine the amount of money they would award to students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 26, 2023

These two-year and four-year institutions must also enroll a significant number of students who require needs-based financial aid. Institutions that receive HSI designation are then eligible to apply for various federal grants in support of their programming. Obviously, the number one thing is student success,” she continued.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Being Black-serving means we don't boast of programs that serve a finite number of Black students. It means the institution changes how we develop faculty and advise students – where all 6,662 Compton college students benefit. All employees see themselves as student success advocates.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The 2024 Spotlight Award recipients are: Oklahoma State University (Stillwater, Oklahoma) for its Afghan Family Project, Syracuse University (Syracuse, New York) for its International Student Success Model, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute (Worcester, Massachusetts) for its Global Projects for All initiative.

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#RealCollege Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Her professor directed her to the faculty union and its emergency non-profit, the Local 212 MATC FAST Fund. State and federal safety nets as well as college programs fall far short of meeting their needs, and some relief programs are mired in so much bureaucratic red tape that they frustrate more than help students in crisis.

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DECEMBER 12, 2022

The University Innovation Alliance's Three Playbooks for Student Success. Completion Grants. The University Innovation Alliance (UIA) operates as a multi-campus laboratory for student success innovation. Completion Grants. Completion grants are an emerging form of student aid.

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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. Equity Seeing so many African American undergraduate and graduate students excelling in STEM fields is inspiring to Smith-Jackson. Dr. Tonya L. Dr. Paula E. Ambition N.C.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 15, 2024

During his five-year tenure at Cal Poly, he led an expansion of outreach showcasing academic excellence and opportunities for student engagement. He also oversaw the growth in fundraising and grant procurement. The CSU plans to carry out a national search for Jackson’s replacement within the next year.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The federal government, on the other hand, uses a straightforward numerical definition to classify as Hispanic Serving Institutions any two- or four-year nonprofit degree-granting college or university where enrollment is at least 25% Latine. Investing in diversity among faculty, staff and administrators is a critical component.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2023

They conducted listening sessions and focus groups with more than 250 Black students, faculty, and staff. The workgroup also recommended a comprehensive enrollment marketing campaign aimed at Black students. Saúl Jiménez-Sandoval, president of Fresno State, and Dr. Thomas Parham, president of CSU Dominguez Hills.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Candidates of color confront racial biases, both internal and external, from search committees, board of trustees, and even faculty and staff. It’s not just a report on diversity, it’s about student success,” said Eloy Ortiz Oakley, president of College Futures and former chancellor of California Community Colleges.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Brown, Excelencia in Education has the stated mission to accelerate Latino student success in higher education. The intent is to bring attention to evidence-based practices that are making a positive difference for Hispanic students,” says Santiago, chief executive officer of Excelencia in Education. Santiago and Sarita E.

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