Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 18, 2024

A college education gave Aracely Bahenat access to a career in health care that enabled her to provide a better life for her three sons and escape violent domestic abuse. Four in every 10 college undergraduates leave school before completing a degree. Julie Peller Aracely is hardly alone.

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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. Lastly, a college or university’s commitment must be sustained over time. and graduate 19%. Morales, president of CSUSB.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

This week’s episode of The Key analyzes the implications of recent news that a nonprofit affiliated with the University of Arkansas System might buy the former giant among for-profit colleges.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 25, 2024

This document, a roadmap for the next conservative presidential administration, frames diversity and inclusion efforts as a coordinated attack on American values, advocating for a radical restructuring of federal education policy that would have devastating consequences for historically underrepresented students.

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ACPA

MARCH 20, 2025

This Black feminist framework seeped into the higher education space with the creation of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and expansion of Black student enrollment (Sturdivant, 2024). Supporting and advocating for our colleagues is more important now more than ever with threats to DEI. link] Chance, N.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 2, 2024

Department of Education works to fix the broken system, it’s time for community college leaders to remind Americans that these important institutions exist. All is not lost if only we embrace the expansive and flexible opportunities offered by our community colleges. That idea hurts everyone, especially in times like these.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Ellis The National Council of Churches vehemently opposed the Supreme Court’s ruling on affirmative action in college admissions. In the report, Bishop Vashti Murphy-McKenzie, NCC President and General Secretary notes: “Race has been a factor in making employment, housing, banking, health care and education decisions for centuries in America.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 3, 2024

Dr. Katharine Meyer, fellow in the Governance Studies program at the Brown Center on Education Policy at the nonprofit Brookings Institution. Katharine Meyer, a fellow in the Governance Studies program at the Brown Center on Education Policy at the nonprofit Brookings Institution.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Image: Campus and faculty leaders in the California Community College system are eagerly anticipating the selection of a new chancellor this week. Meanwhile, the system, like community colleges across the country, experienced significant enrollment declines during the pandemic. “We had a very strong pool,” she said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 13, 2023

Supreme Court is expected to deliver a devastating verdict to advocates of affirmative action. Now, Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce has released a report on the potential impacts of the decision and how higher ed and governments can react. In as little as two days, the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 21, 2024

NASPA is well-positioned to advocate for student affairs professionals around the world and, by doing so, we can demonstrate our commitment to student success and the association’s vision for fulfilling the promise of higher education. “As From 2005 through 2012, she served as education policy analyst for the Florida Legislature. “Dr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 22, 2022

College students have been shown to be likelier to pass courses with race-matched instructors, likelier to receive higher grades in those courses, and likelier to persist in school. Griffin, the dean of the College of Education at the University of Maryland. Gershenson advocated for additional guest speakers of color.

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University Business

OCTOBER 27, 2022

However, there are additional external factors that directly impact both K-12 schools and higher education. “Advocate for educators’ effective teaching practices and expertise in schools to maintain and enhance a positive school climate,” she writes.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Image: After years of lobbying, the so-called 90-10 loophole that advocates argued encouraged some for-profit institutions to aggressively recruit military service members and veterans is closing under final regulations effective July 1 that were announced Thursday. The for-profit industry doesn’t plan to oppose the new regulations.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

This week’s episode of The Key analyzes the implications of recent news that a nonprofit affiliated with the University of Arkansas system might buy the former giant among for-profit colleges.

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University Business

APRIL 25, 2024

While public perceptions of the value of going to college have diminished in recent years, experts argue the lifelong earning potential for someone with a bachelor’s degree is worth the investment. The post Amid falling public confidence, forum speakers defend value of a college degree appeared first on University Business.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 10, 2023

Department of Education hoped the “listening sessions” they arranged this week would provide consensus on whether to stop letting colleges pay outside companies a share of tuition revenue when they help recruit students, they were surely disappointed. ” Colleges have given OPMs too much authority over their programs.

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HEPI

APRIL 20, 2025

The Impact of Gender Dynamics on Higher Education Participation Men are increasingly opting out of higher education. The widening gender gap in college enrolment reveals a troubling trend: higher education is now facing what can be described as male flight. In the United States, this gap has expanded dramatically.

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Insight Into Diversity

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Supreme Court struck down the consideration of race-conscious admissions, a growing number of lawmakers, advocates, and higher education leaders have called for banning legacy status as a potential factor in the admission process. In the year since the U.S. Opponents of legacy admissions.—

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 26, 2023

Supreme Court’s decision to strike affirmative action, there are still ways to get diverse student populations into higher ed, experts and scholars said at a webinar hosted this week by California student success organization The Campaign for College Opportunity. And I don't think that that is the implication of this decision."

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 19, 2023

The criteria, which were expected to be finalized later this month following consultation, clarify the rules for international universities setting up Indian campuses, a shift first announced in the 2020 National Education Policy (NEP). “Academic autonomy has been and is a major concern at the moment,” he said.

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AACC

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

September 23, 2022 | Issue # 220 This week, 73 community college representatives were in Washington, DC, for AACC’s Advocates in Action meeting. They also gained insight into how Washington formulates higher education policy. These meeting participants heard from lobbyists, Capitol Hill staff, AACC staff, and more.

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Insight Into Diversity

JULY 5, 2023

In response to relentless anti-DEI measures, over 200 former college, university, and system heads have joined forces as the Champions of Higher Education coalition, an initiative created by PEN America , an organization that unites writers and their allies to celebrate free expression and defend the liberties that make it possible.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

Aaron Thompson, president of the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE), participated in the Attaining College Excellence and Equity Summit put together by the U.S. Department of Education and the Institute for Higher Education Policy. The data show that attainment gaps are narrowing.

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Higher Education Inquirer

MARCH 12, 2025

Best has been a well-known advocate for education reform and has built a network of relationships within both political parties. His close ties to Bush, a key figure in education policy, have been part of a broader pattern of OPM companies gaining influence across the political spectrum.

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Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 2, 2025

Enhancements to the Guaranteed Student Loan Program made borrowing more accessible, paving the way for more students to achieve their educational goals. His commitment to HBCUs reflected a broader emphasis on addressing systemic inequities in higher education.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 30, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Policy More than 80 percent of U.S. colleges and universities do not require applicants to take standardized tests like the SAT or the ACT. That proportion of institutions with test-optional policies has more than doubled since the spring of 2020. That includes the entire University of California system.

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The Student Affairs Collective

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

With challenges to undocumented and trans individuals rights, increasing college costs , and tensions around sexual assault response on campus , figuring out why public policy is important doesn’t take long. Student affairs professionals are among higher education’s best advocates for change.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Neither the state Department of Education nor the chancellor’s office responded to multiple requests for comment or for a meeting agenda, attendee list and other details. Inside Higher Ed contacted more than 20 colleges and universities seeking details about last week’s meeting.

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IHEP

APRIL 5, 2023

It’s also when college access and success advocates step up efforts to ensure the programs that improve college affordability and student outcomes get the support they need. President Biden’s FY24 budget proposal included several much-needed increases in higher education funding.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas, partners with over 62 high schools across the state, facilitating college access for Latino, rural, and other marginalized communities. It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students. We offer faculty workshops on culturally sensitive teaching.”

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

As the work of DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) in higher education has expanded, several institutions have recognized the need to create a clearer and more comprehensive pathway for individuals interested in serving as DEI advocates and leaders.

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HEPI

MARCH 14, 2024

Stand Alone has announced its closure and its higher education work is coming to an end. Will the sector continue to advocate for estranged students and drive policy change? Schools and colleges lack understanding of estrangement and the support available for higher education.

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HEPI

AUGUST 1, 2023

This blog was kindly authored for the HEPI 20th Anniversary Collection by Roger Brown, Emeritus Professor of Higher Education Policy and former Vice-Chancellor of Southampton Solent University. The 1987 White Paper Higher education: meeting the challenge had suggested two trajectories, one more conservative, one more ambitious.

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ACPA

JANUARY 17, 2024

Pruitt -Logan’s career of contribution to higher education began at Howard University in 1950 as Resident Intern and Women’s Counselor. She later held the positions of Dean of Women and Dean of Students at Albany State College in Georgia and in a similar position at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 12, 2024

1] Similar desiderata are explored in a recent Report of the Higher Education Policy Institute on the future of the Oxford to Cambridge Arc in the context of the regional working together of the other local universities. A provider of higher education may see itself as a member of a group in ways remote from the region.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

She recalled: “Coming out of World War II and the internment camp, my father’s family had no money, so he put himself through college, working three jobs. He would drop off his homework, stay for tests, and then drive off to his next job so that he could pay for college and graduate as an electrical engineer. She holds a B.A.

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