Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Nearly 3 in 4 college students are struggling to meet their basic needs, according to a new report released by The Hope Center. The report found that 59% of surveyed students experienced at least one form of basic needs insecurity related to food or housing.

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MARCH 28, 2025

Latino students are making pragmatic financial choices to pay for their education, and institutions are increasingly responding with tailored support, according to a comprehensive new report released today by Excelencia in Education. Santiago, CEO, and Sarita E.

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MARCH 4, 2025

The recent cancel lation of critical grants and contracts at the Institute for Education Sciences (IES) jeopardizes the future of congressionally mandated and statistically robust surveys on postsecondary education experiences and outcomes. Which Students Have the Most Difficulty Paying for College?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

A new study from the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies reveals that Black student parents at community colleges face significant barriers in accessing critical childcare support, potentially hindering their educational progress and economic mobility.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2025

Student Affairs and Higher Education, Indiana State University; Ph.D., Briscoe was called in as an expert on the safety of Black students on college campuses and the increasing number of hate crimes committed on campuses. Early on, Briscoe saw herself as a student leader. Business Marketing, Albany State University; MBA.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2024

The NCAA has awarded Division I Accelerating Academic Success Program grants to 17 schools for the 2024-25 academic year. The grants total over $1.5 million and are used to boost student-athlete academic achievement. Division I student-athletes are graduating at record rates, according to 2023 Graduation Success Rate data.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2025

Yet the humanity of formerly incarcerated Dr. Sara Goldrick-Rab students is too often marginalized, even overlooked, in campus programs addressing issues like food and housing insecurity. That is largely because these justice-impacted students are often invisible to educators, their identities simply erased.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 11, 2024

million grant from the state to support its Pell Grant-eligible and low-income students for four years. The funding will allow for the hiring of four new student support advocates, who will offer dedicated attention and guidance to these students as they pursue their degrees. Dr. Susan P.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Michigan State University (MSU) will offer in-state tuition to out-of-state Native American students through their Native American Tuition Advantage Program (NATAP), beginning in Fall 2025. After looking into and providing a solution to assist the student, Weatherspoon wanted to know what more the institution could do.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 17, 2024

Mellon Foundation has awarded a total $25 million in grant funding to five public colleges and universities to establish paid internship programs for humanities majors. To those ends, the humanities internship grants aim to make internship participation more widely available for humanities majors.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Gavin Newsom has signed a bill that gives community college students transferring to HBCUs a one-time grant of up to $5,000. To note, only 53 California community college transfer students enrolled at 39 HBCUs in 2021-22. “AB California Gov. Gavin Newsom Patrick T.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 22, 2025

Terrell Educational Foundation has selected three master's students from diverse institutions across the United States for its 2024-2025 MCT Araceli Negrete Scholars program, with a focus on investigating student mental wellness in today's challenging environment. The Dr. Melvin C. Terrell, foundation namesake and chair emeritus.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 26, 2024

Legislators are looking to enshrine the Postsecondary Student Success Grant (PSSG) program, a student outcomes-centered federal effort, into law through new legislation this March. Although the effort has received support generally, some higher ed scholars and advocates have levied some criticisms and concerns about it.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

A proposed federal financial aid policy could change the lives of postsecondary students, particularly Black and Latinx students, by allowing them to spend less out-of-pocket for their degrees and prevent the accumulation of student debt, which remains financially crippling for many graduates.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

An additional 1,600-1,700 students at Emory University received grants and scholarships instead of loans in their financial aid packages this fall, the Atlanta-based institution announced recently, more than doubling the number of undergraduates expected to finish school with limited or no debt. This allows us to enroll those students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

But like other free tuition initiatives for Native American students, it’s not quite as simple as it sounds. One of the concerns I have is many college-bound students do not have the tools or the know how of securing adequate funding before they go to college,” says Dr. “Communication is key on how the funding works to benefit students.”

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NOVEMBER 21, 2024

million grant from T.D. College officials added that the development project will expand student housing capacity by 300 percent. “We We believe this project will have a profound impact on student success and well-being, empowering them to focus on their education and future.” Thanks to a $1.5 Dr. Michael J. Jakes Foundation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The debacle surrounding the rollout of the new Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) affected the incoming fall class at three-quarters of private, nonprofit colleges and universities across the nation. The repercussions from this rollout will be felt – by students, families, and institutions – for years.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 16, 2025

Montana State University President Waded Cruzado has been named the next president of the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU), marking a Dr. Waded Cruzado historic appointment as she becomes the first Latina to lead the organization. She holds a Ph.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The issues closest to my heart—those that affect our students and education equity—are being largely ignored by the presidential candidates. The National Clearinghouse data already shows that at four-year colleges with high shares of Pell Grant recipients, freshman enrollment is declining by more than 10 percent.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The University of Houston has received two new grants designed to address barriers that prevent low-income and underrepresented students from pursuing STEM education. million collaborative grant from the NSF will support a new research focus for the St. and Christopher Wright of Drexel University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 12, 2023

There may be a loss in critical innovations that women could be making in the present, which damages prospects for developing more female STEM students in the future — as the saying goes, “you can’t be what you can’t see.” There also will be data on internal grant funding, start-up packages, and data from campus climate surveys.

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JANUARY 12, 2024

has awarded a $100 million unrestricted grant to support the United Negro College Fund’s capital campaign. The United Negro College Fund comprises 37 member colleges and universities in support of students’ education and development through scholarships and other programs. The Lilly Endowment Inc. United Negro College Fund Inc.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 27, 2025

The report, "Pathways to Opportunity: Examining Students' Academic and Economic Outcomes at HBCUs, TCUs, and MSIs," found that these institutions consistently outperform non-minority serving institutions in awarding degrees to their target populations and providing pathways to economic success for underrepresented students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 14, 2024

Department of Education has awarded more than $40 million in grant funding to help improve completion rates for underserved students. These awards will not only help find new ways to help students graduate; they will help change expectations.” Under Secretary of Education James Kvaal.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 17, 2025

Harvard University announced on Monday that Harvard will now be free for students from families with annual incomes of $100,000 or less and tuition-free for students from families with annual incomes of $200,000 or less, according to the Harvard Gazette. families to qualify for financial aid at Harvard.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 7, 2024

million grant to NCCU’s Department of Environmental, Earth and Geospatial Sciences (DEEGS) , as part of the more than $7 million shared among the universities, each attracting different student bodies. Akinleye “This grant presents a great opportunity for the DEEGS,” said Chancellor Dr. Johnson O. Dr. Johnson O.

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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. There must be deliberate and continuous assessment to identify and implement strategies that improve Latino student achievement.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

The Ellucian Foundation will award grants to 25 two-year colleges to help support students facing economic challenges. Ipsen The global 2023 Progress, Accomplishment, Thriving, Hope (PATH) Scholarship consists of $10,000-$25,000 grants to higher ed institutions to help students with expenses such as housing, tuition, and food.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Appalachian State University's College Access Partnerships in the Reich College of Education has been awarded a $35 million grant as part of the U.S. Dr. Heather Norris App State is one of 18 institutions nationwide this year to be awarded a grant through GEAR UP grant, a federally funded college access program.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 10, 2024

million, five-year grant from the National Science Foundation’s Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP) Program. The multifaceted goal of the grant is to support underrepresented minority students in STEM,” said Lentini. Molloy University has received a $3.5 It is good for the region.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

While at the helm of Clinton College, he has helped the institution secure millions of dollars in grants for new programming and presided over the transition of the school from a a two-year school to a four- year college. “Dr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 15, 2024

Mark Becker plans to leave his role as president of the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities (APLU) at the end of the year. “I He started as a graduate student studying statistics at The Pennsylvania State University in September 1980; he has been employed by an APLU institution or APLU itself ever since. “It

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2025

California's community colleges find themselves caught in a 60-year-old funding constraint that increasingly hampers their ability to serve todays students, according to a new report from the Community College League of California. In 1961, college students were predominantly white, traditional-age students who attended full-time.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

This includes the highest number of doctorates awarded to Black students at any college or university in America. An expert on HBCUs, Gasman added that the important research contributions across disciplines at Howard have significantly impacted students, communities (regional, national, and international), and leaders.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 4, 2023

Philander Smith College (PSC) will become a graduate degree-granting school after its Master of Business Administration (MBA) program was approved by the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) in November 2022. 1, 2023, and a 25-student cohort will kick off the 36-credit hour program this coming May. Dr. Roderick L.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 20, 2024

The Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation has awarded a grant of $116.2 I wanted to create a place where students have access to high-quality programs and facilities and can learn the skills they need to succeed in a rapidly changing world," said Alex Cohen, president of the Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation.

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