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Study: Latino Students Use Practical Strategies to Finance College Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. Brown, President of Excelencia in Education, in the report's foreword.

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Indispensable Instructional Designers at Professional Schools 

Faculty Focus

There are many ways to design a course in higher education, but why do it alone? As the educational landscape continues to evolve, the role of an instructional designer (ID) has become necessary. As higher education continues to evolve, professional schools must adapt to meet the changing needs of their students and their profession.

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Why Data Alone Won’t Improve Retention

Faculty Focus

Data has become the cornerstone of decision-making and institutional strategy in today’s higher education landscape. To truly support student success, we must move beyond the metrics and prioritize the human connections that make higher education meaningful. Simply put, data is not enough. Dr. Rebecca L.

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Will GenAI narrow or widen the digital divide in higher education?

SRHE

Although higher education is expected to narrow this divide and build students digital confidence, our findings revealed the opposite. Building on these findings, this blog asks a timely question: as Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) becomes embedded in higher education, will it help bridge this divide or deepen it further?

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Dubai’s growing student population fuels TNE expansion

The PIE News

By 2040, were anticipating that we will more than double enrolment in higher education, Nitesh Sughnani, director of university ratings at Dubais Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA) told delegates. Supply is growing exponentially, and the education sector has to respond, said Sughnani.

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CUNY’s Black Male Initiative Marks 20 Years of Success Amid National DEI Pushbacks

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The Black Male Initiative (BMI) officially began in 2005, when the New York City Council approved funding for BMI throughout the whole of the City University of New York (CUNY) system, 25 institutions in total. Those members of city council who instituted this funding back in 2005 had moved on to positions in the state senate, says Quash.

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Open universities: between radical promise and market reality

SRHE

Yet, as higher education is increasingly reshaped by market logics, can open universities still claim to be engines of social progress, or have they become institutions that now reproduce the very inequalities they sought to dismantle? This struggle over education is central to the survival of democracy.