Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 19, 2025

I usually start my answer with a statistic some find surprising: despite the headlines, post-high school educational attainment in the U.S. hold a degree or credentiala 17% increase since 2008. Let me be clear: no student or family should go into more debt than they feel an education is worth. is at an all-time high.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Alvin Francis Poussaint, whose tireless advocacy for diversity in medical education transformed Harvard Medical School and influenced generations of physicians from underrepresented backgrounds, died late last week. The Harlem-born psychiatrist was no stranger to the pages of Diverse: Issues In Higher Education.

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University Business

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Each year, the Commonfund Higher Education Price Index provides a snapshot of colleges’ expenses. higher education institutions rose 5.2% “HEPI is an inflation index designed specifically for use by institutions of higher education,” the report reads. Based on the report, inflation for U.S.

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HEPI

MARCH 7, 2023

This institution’s position here in London was core to why my student experience was so good, as we got to benefit from studying amidst all the cultural, political and educational institutions situated in the capital. It was led by Peter Hennessy, who is even more famous now – as Lord Hennessy – than he was in the past.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 12, 2025

Prior to that, she was Dean of Instruction for Transfer and Pre-College Education at Highline, from July 2008 to March 2017. She also holds a certificate in Closing the Achievement Gap from Harvard University Graduate School of Education.

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HEPI

JANUARY 24, 2024

Mathias Cormann, Secretary General of the OECD, on the value of higher education in developed countries. Never mind that the 50% target he refers to relates to tertiary education, I am certain he is not alone in believing that too many people go to university. In 1998, 20% of adults in the OECD had a tertiary education.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

DECEMBER 21, 2023

In the past, it was a rite of passage: Students graduated high school and enjoyed a final summer at home before heading out to the next stop on their educational journey. The phenomenon starts with the financial crisis of 2008 and relates… For many, college wasn’t a matter of whether they would attend but where they would go.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

PHILADELPHIA-- In a significant recognition of their transformative efforts in higher education, Chattanooga State Community College and Southwestern Oregon Community College have been awarded the prestigious Leah Meyer Austin Award by Achieving the Dream (ATD).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Combined with the Apple App Store, which first debuted in 2008 with 500 phone applications, in less than 20 years, technology has revolutionized how the average consumer communicates, entertains themselves, and obtains information. Consequently, renormalizing consumer expectations for end-user experiences.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 11, 2024

What does Diverse: Issues In Higher Education mean to you? Daniels Of course, I was not reading academic journals and higher education publications then. Over the years, I’ve observed at least seven (7) best practices in Diverse: Issues In Higher Education that other media outlets might be well-served to emulate: 1.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 23, 2022

This is the case in politics, but it’s also true in higher education. Shifts in demography, the economy and cultural values have far greater influence than the stories that dot the higher ed press. What were the most important events in higher education in 2022? How about the defunding of higher education?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

They shared their convictions with their two sons, including the importance of education and social service. It took him awhile to connect the dots from his passion to higher education. Williams was raised Catholic and attended private institutions—he was often the only Black student in his class, or one of the few. Rovaris, Sr.,

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HEPI

APRIL 4, 2023

On 22 June 2023, John Cater will complete three decades as the Director and Vice-Chancellor of Edge Hill University, rendering him the longest-serving head of a higher education institution in the UK. HEPI is marking the occasion by publishing his thoughts on higher education in 2030. Thirty years ago, I was a geographer.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

When the Great Recession hit the University of California system in 2008, it marked a major “inflection point” in the life of Dan Greenstein. In his six years as PASSHE chancellor, Dan Greenstein took a bold—and sometimes controversial—approach to repairing a public university system in a downward spiral. Did it work?

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The PIE News

OCTOBER 21, 2022

“This mainstream acceptance of online education… is forcing institutions to consider new directions” Even before the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, findings from the Strada-Gallup 2017 College Student Survey suggested that the majority of college and university students did not feel ready to start their careers.

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HEPI

JANUARY 18, 2025

These are the remarks by Alison Payne, Research Director at Reform Scotland, at the HEPI / CDBU event on funding higher education, held at Birkbeck, University of London, on Thursday of this week. The graduate endowment was then scrapped by the SNP in February 2008.

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The PIE News

APRIL 15, 2024

The legislation aims to mitigate the exodus of tens of thousands of Greek students to universities abroad and internationalise higher education, but students opposed to the bill said it would devalue degrees from state universities. Today more than 40,000 Greeks study abroad. It is a major source of brain drain.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 13, 2025

We also find critical historical analysis essential when we think about US higher education and student loan debt from a People's perspective. Annual volume of private loans skyrocketed, from $5B in 2001 to over $20B in 2008, when 14 percent of all undergraduates had one. Department of Education (ED) acquired an additional $20.4

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Castillo, who has served as the Vice President for Finance and Administration at TAMIU since 2008, will oversee the university’s operations following the unexpected passing of President Pablo Arenaz. Castillo Castillo brings more than 30 years of management experience, having held key roles in both higher education and the corporate sector.

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Higher Education Inquirer

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

[Editor's note: The National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity (NACIQI) was authorized and reconstituted by the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008. For additional information about our ongoing investigation , please visit the Higher Education Inquirer.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 2, 2023

Her higher education journey began with an associate degree from BMCC. Her vision is to provide students with a holistic higher education experience, focusing not only on academic achievement, but also personal growth and development with a desire to be lifelong learners.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

As I reflect on my journey through higher education, I find myself looking back on a career that began in the small, rural community of Calhoun in Lowndes County, Alabama. It was there that I first understood the profound impact that education could have on a person’s life.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

More than half of all working-class Americans hold a college degree or credential beyond high school, according to a new report from the Lumina Foundation, a higher education advocacy group. Lumina Foundation has monitored local, state and national college attainment rates since 2008.

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University Business

MAY 17, 2024

And neither is enrollment, according to a new analysis that also examines appropriations through the lens of the Great Recession of 2008. economy, according to the latest “ State Higher Education Finance Report ” from the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association. ” The 10.2

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

of Pennsylvania at 2008’s commencement Amy Gutmann earned nearly $23 million in 2021, her last full year as president of the University of Pennsylvania, according to federal tax filings. By Julia Piper and Nick Perez Matt Rourke, AP Amy Gutmann as president of the U.

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SRHE

JANUARY 13, 2023

What does it mean to feel ‘safe’ within the higher education classroom? As a result, we felt we had several core unanswered questions which drove our research, including: how then as educators do we manage the complexity of experiences, when topics are differently experienced?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 20, 2022

based Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP), one of the nation’s premiere education research and policy centers, Dr. Michelle Asha Cooper has a vision. Since taking the helm of IHEP in 2008, Cooper’s been out front influencing national education policy. As president of the Washington, D.C.-based

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 12, 2024

“Chris Edley was a smart, caring, determined advocate for justice who could move easily and powerfully through the mazes of top levels of law, politics, and research,” said Orfield, who is Distinguished Research Professor at UCLA Graduate School of Education and co-director of The Civil Rights Project at UCLA. Gavin Newsom.

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University Business

AUGUST 18, 2023

Back in 2009, only 14 cents of every higher education dollar went toward faculty pensions. Now, those payments consume a hefty 43 cents of each higher education dollar spent by the state. The post Supreme Court decision demands a hard look at Illinois higher education costs appeared first on University Business.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The year: 2008. During our post-mortem, we realized that the political rhetoric surrounding the 2008 presidential race had hijacked our discussion. Our focus on truth-digging also inspired me to examine the role Obama’s Muslim-sounding middle name played in the 2008 election. I was teaching undergraduates in the Deep South.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2023

Lumina, a private nonprofit working to increase learning opportunities for all after high school, has been tracking credential and degree attainment for adults from 25 to 64 years of age since 2008. In 2008, only one state had set a degree or certificate attainment goal for its own population: Hawaii.

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Higher Education Inquirer

APRIL 19, 2023

US higher education enrollment has been declining slowly and consistently since 2011. The declines have been small enough for many people outside of higher education to miss this phenomenon. In 2026 and 2027 we expect a more significant drop: a result of declining fertility rates during the 2008-2009 recession.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 29, 2022

The president of the National Education Association called the lack of classroom teachers a “ five-alarm crisis.” The flow of new teachers through the pipeline has slowed to a trickle, in part due to years of declining enrollment in education programs.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

percent, the lowest investment return since the Great Recession of 2008. This year’s endowment demonstrates a decrease of $1.9 billion compared to last year’s $37.7 billion endowment. University investments generated a loss of 1.5 That year, the University investments suffered a loss of 23.5 This year’s decrease comes after last year’s 46.9

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Renu Khator’s noted place in American higher education is about diversity and begins with the numbers. Khator, a scholar in the field of global environmental policy, is the eighth chancellor of the University of Houston System and the 13 th president of the University of Houston , dual titles she’s held since January 2008.

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University Business

JUNE 8, 2023

Hawkins served from 2008 to 2020 on the Osceola County Commission. The post Legislator with no higher education experience tapped to lead South Florida State College appeared first on University Business. Fred Hawkins, R-St. Hawkins went on to get elected to the House in November 2020. Read more from the Tampa Bay Times.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 14, 2023

colleges and universities rose 4 percent in fiscal year 2023, according to data from the annual Commonfund Higher Education Price Index released Wednesday. It’s the second-highest rate of inflation since fiscal year 2008, when the HEPI was at 5 percent. Inflation for U.S.

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