Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 15, 2024

Duke University is discontinuing its Reginaldo Howard Memorial Scholarship Program, a program for top applicants of African descent. The merit scholarship, established in 1979, is named after the first African American President of the Associated Students of Duke University. Supreme Court ruling on Students for Fair Admissions, Inc.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 12, 2023

Terry-Ann Jones Terry-Ann Jones has been named the deputy provost for undergraduate education at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Jones holds a bachelor’s degree in political science and Latin American and Caribbean studies from York University in Toronto and a master’s and a Ph.D.

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Knack

APRIL 9, 2025

Bridget Yaden from Pacific Lutheran University (PLU), the Knack team explored what it truly means to design student support that reflects the evolving needs of todays learners.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Even though there are wonderful colleges and universities across the states and country, they can’t find enough students to enroll, and every year there are headlines about colleges folding or being acquired.” Public universities and private universities all have very different kinds of funding allocations,” said Dirks.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 18, 2024

Eight scientists at The Ohio State University have been elected to the 2023 class of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellows. Dr. Meg Daly , professor of evolution, ecology and organismal biology and associate dean of undergraduate education. Scott Gaudi , professor of astronomy.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2024

Latinos in Higher Education: 2024 Compilation of Fast Facts was authored by Dr. Deborah Santiago, co-founder and CEO of Excelencia , and research analysts Dr. Cassandra Arroyo and Lily Cuellarsola. colleges and universities, those of Mexican or Chicano descent constitute almost half (49%) of the population. Both schools are HSIs.

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Active Minds

MAY 10, 2023

I was a freshman at the start of the pandemic, so when the university canceled classes and sent everyone home to quarantine, I’d only had a taste of a typical college experience (literally one semester). Bonaventure University (SBU) Active Minds Chapter alleviated some of the isolation I experienced during the pandemic.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

Lidadi Agbomi Institution: Clemson University Graduate Program: Ph.D., Bioengineering Education: B.S., She entered her undergraduate education planning on becoming a physician, most likely an immunologist, to address issues of asthma and other autoimmune diseases. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 14, 2023

Lidadi Agbomi Lidadi Agbomi is beginning her doctoral program in bioengineering at Clemson University in August, but already has a CV filled with published research and presentations. Agbomi has worked closely with mentors there to investigate and research self-organizing neural units to model ischemic stroke and other neuropathology.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Throughout the report, “Exploring the Educational Experiences of Black and Hispanic PhDs in STEM,” it is clear that Black, and to some extent Hispanic, students have very different experiences than their white and Asian counterparts. Eleven of top 20 schools for Hispanic STEM PhD recipients were Hispanic Serving Institutions. “If

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 4, 2023

There are currently 25 AI institutes across more than 40 states, said Dr. Abi Ilumoka, program director for NSF’s division of undergraduate education. They bring together hundreds of people, their ideas, the various problems that they dabble in, and the various technical approaches for maximum impact,” Ilumoka said.

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Knack

MARCH 25, 2025

In a recent conversation with Steven Girardot (Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education at Georgia Tech), Keith Renshaw (Senior Associate Provost for Undergrad Education at George Mason University), and Ann Marie VanDerZanden (Associate Provost for Academic Programs at Iowa State University), we explored how public-private partnerships are transforming (..)

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IEFA

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The choice of University is one of the very strategic decisions for your career, and it must be approached thoroughly. Universities differ from one another according to many factors. Naturally, the choice of the University will be held in parallel with the program selection and what speciality you intend to study at the University.

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EAB

DECEMBER 20, 2022

With this in mind, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte decided to evaluate its institutional policies through an equity lens using EAB’s 360-Degree Student Equity Audit. It consists of faculty, undergraduate, and graduate student subcommittees to fully capture a university-wide lens. Ready to find out more? Learn more.

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The University Innovation Alliance

AUGUST 14, 2023

There is some bureaucracy to running a university. That's a different paradigm than universities typically operate under. That experience helped me really get in touch with my own feelings, how I felt about our campus and how valuable it is, and then think about what is it that makes a university. Faculty is a leadership role.

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Timely MD

JULY 6, 2022

Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCU). Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU). For rural students, college can be a key part of the response to the mental health crisis occurring at colleges and universities across the country. High Native-enrolling (nontribal) institutions. Public two-year colleges.

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Student Loan Hero

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The first four-year school to appear was the University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law (62.7%). Student Loan Hero researchers first calculated total expenses and revenues for state-controlled public postsecondary institutions (universities, colleges and trade and vocational schools) during 2019-2020. Less than 2 year.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2024

Getting into Howard University was a dream come true for Durmerrick Ross. Howard University. Ross eventually brought suit against the university, which settled with him in October 2023. Dr. Milton Fuentes, associate chair for undergraduate education and professor of psychology at Montclair State University, New Jersey.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Following up plans for educational access and equity with actions has become the hallmark of Grand Valley State University, which has a statewide presence in Michigan. After filing the FAFSA, the university will back end the federal student aid with university support.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 28, 2023

Before taking the helm, he was vice provost of undergraduate education at Stanford University. “But in order to prioritize my health and time with family, I have made the difficult decision not to serve the final (2024-25) year of my five-year term as President.” Elam stepped into the role in 2020.

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College Planners of America

JULY 18, 2023

University of North Carolina are the two lawsuits that led to the Supreme Court’s decision on race-conscious admissions. At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, just 20% of applicants were admitted in fall 2021. Court’s Decision Mainly Affects Top-Tier Institutions Students for Fair Admissions v.

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