Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Serving as the heart of knowledge and scholarship in higher education, academic libraries are uniquely positioned to advance and support digital and data-driven storytelling and archival efforts, especially as they relate to marginalized communities. Communities along the U.S.-Mexico

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Higher education stakeholders have been transfixed by declining student enrollment numbers in the past decade, which were only exacerbated further by the pandemic. The Class of 2027 at the University of South Alabama is one of the largest in school history, bumping first-year enrollment by 19% compared to last year.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Data gathered by Excelencia in Education, a nonprofit organization working to improve and accelerate Latinx student success in postsecondary education, showed that in 2021, there were 401 emerging HSI institutions across 43 states. Demographic changes have led to an increasing number of Latinx students attending higher education.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 4, 2023

As universities “ascend” from one Carnegie Foundation classification to another, alarm bells often go off—particularly among those who study higher education. To answer these questions, we turned to data, peer institutions and history. Towson, like many institutions, identifies a set of institutional peers.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

It will take unconventional practices and policies to undo a history of harms and truly foster a society where all people can achieve their full health potential. The university aims to enroll approximately 1,750 students, or about one-third of its student population, in the health sciences field by 2027.

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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The college centers the histories, traditions, cultures, experiences, struggles, and accomplishments of diasporic communities of color, making connections between the local and transnational. The addition of 54 new faculty from underrepresented groups means the university has its most diverse group of faculty in its 200-year history.

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University Business

JANUARY 19, 2024

In all that she’d learned in her 40 years of working in higher education, Lori White had found herself in entirely new territory. This also marked the first time in DePauw University’s history that a woman and a person of color was stepping in. The pandemic, an event timestamped in the history of U.S.

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