Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2023

million undergraduates, typically deliver the minimum economic return to students, according to a recent report from the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP). Threshold 0 is met if a student in question earns at least a high school graduate and enough to recoup their investment in college within ten years.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 9, 2022

California adults with some college, no degree (SCND) are about to receive a leg up. Four higher education organizations have come together to target and return SCND students, helping them complete their degrees and keep California on track to economic success. Dr. Su Jin Jez, executive director of California Completes.

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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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Insight Into Diversity

JULY 1, 2024

Despite this shift, many colleges and universities still favor applicants with familial ties to alumni. A recent report by the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP) highlights the significant impact of these policies on furthering disparities in college access, particularly for Black, Hispanic, and low-income students.

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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. Listen to this episode here , and find out more about The Key here. Ad keywords: forprofit Is this diversity newsletter?: Hide by line?:

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The study draws on responses from 11 focus groups and an online survey of 1,675 people between the ages of 18 and 30 who decided not to go to college or stopped out of a college program. “What’s making people choose something other than college?

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University Business

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

.” “The highest-paying jobs in rural areas are in white-collar, blue-collar, and protective services occupations, and blue-collar and protective services occupations are more likely to employ men,” Martin Van Der Werf, report co-author and CEW’s director of editorial and education policy, said in the press release.

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IHEP

DECEMBER 20, 2023

By: Mamie Voight As the year draws to a close, we at the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP) are taking a moment to reflect on the strides we’ve made and the work left to do to advance our mission – building a more equitable and just society through higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 24, 2024

Department of Education (ED) and the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP) held the Attaining College Excellence and Equity Summit: Holistic Advising and Wraparound Services in Washington, D.C. Secretary of Education Dr. Miguel A. On Wednesday, the U.S. He also spoke about building effective partnerships. “In

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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

APRIL 6, 2023

brought innovation, excellence, and inclusion to community colleges. De los Santos, a posthumous recipient of a 2023 Diverse Champions Award, is remembered by colleagues as a great friend, an outstanding mind, and a determined educator who placed access and equity at the center of his work. Alfredo de los Santos Jr. Richardson Jr.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

In April, Dr. 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.

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IHEP

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Like many students across the country, Coleen began her journey to a four-year degree at a community college. When I was 18, I realized that I was going to be paying for college on my own and it hadn’t really hit me before, like exactly how much it costs,” Coleen explained. FOUR-YEAR INSTITUTIONS.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Image: Amid faltering enrollment rates and increased national scrutiny of the price and worth of a college education, Colorado is weighing a new formula to measure the “economic value” of degree programs offered by the state’s public institutions of higher education.

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HESA

MAY 24, 2023

This has been rattling around in my mind since HESA was asked to make a submission to the Ontario Blue-Ribbon Panel on Post-Secondary Education Financing. We were given a list of six questions – pointedly, they came from the Ministry of Colleges and Universities and not the Panel (the politics behind that must be pretty interesting).

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

One of the biggest challenges students face is determining their return on investment for obtaining a college degree. In this podcast, Dr. Drumm McNaughton speaks with the person who generated and crunched these numbers, Michael Itzkowitz , president of the HEA Group and former director of the College Scorecard under President Obama.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 15, 2023

Image: The Education Department is planning to use undercover agents—known as “secret shoppers”—to monitor colleges and universities that receive federal financial aid for potentially deceptive practices. The department’s decision to use secret shoppers is “four decades overdue,” he said.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Inside Higher Ed : How appropriate is it for federal and state governments to judge colleges based on the value they provide? For most Americans who are considering college or who enroll in college, they say they’re doing it to find a job, to enter a career, to make a decent living.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

Word in January that the University of Arkansas system is contemplating buying Phoenix raises fascinating questions about the state of for-profit higher ed and how to regulate the increasingly blurry landscape of postsecondary education and training. Is our public policy still overly focused on those institutions?

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Department of Education, higher education lobbyists and policy experts say. “Their priorities are going to be much more about building a record with an eye toward 2024,” said Frederick Hess, director of education policy studies for the American Enterprise Institute, a right-leaning think tank.

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