Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

In a groundbreaking achievement that marks a significant milestone for historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), Howard University has become the first HBCU to receive the prestigious Research One (R1) Carnegie Classification, placing it among the nation's most elite research institutions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 23, 2025

million students enrolled in colleges and universities. Collectively, as researchers, we have about 50 or more years of experience conducting empirical studies on Black men attending diverse institutional types, ranging from predominantly White institutions, community colleges, and historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs).

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 20, 2023

In the spring of 2022, at least 15 colleges and universities , including my own, Alfred University, jointly awarded honorary degrees during our commencement exercises. Scholarships, for example, are an especially effective means to help Ukrainians build a better future for their nation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2025

Service to humanity is the hallmark of philosophy, and in many ways, it shaped who I am and what I'm about in my day to day. With a budget of approximately $1.8 billion and nearly 200 employees, he helps to leads the largest federal entity dedicated to funding educational research. since 2018. Dr. Jerlando F.L.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 26, 2023

Would it be judged on scholarship, influence, or some other elements? It’s noteworthy, I think, that while US college rankings measure selectivity or reputation or resources or contributions to social mobility, these tools don’t assess program quality or productivity or contributions to breakthrough knowledge.

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Edu Alliance Journal

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Background Established in 1832, Wabash College is a private liberal arts institution dedicated exclusively to undergraduate education for men. As one of the nation’s few remaining all-male colleges, Wabash upholds a tradition of academic rigor, personal responsibility, and close-knit community engagement.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

Nina Lyon-Bennett will be heading a scholarship initiative for students pursuing degrees related to agriculture and family and consumer sciences at UAPB and Fort Valley State University. A&T College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences. A&T is leading NEXTGEN.

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Edu Alliance Journal

MARCH 3, 2025

March 3, 2025, by Dean Hoke : This profile of the College of Wooster is the fourth in a series presenting small colleges throughout the United States. Background The College of Wooster, founded in 1866, is a private liberal arts institution located in Wooster, Ohio. states and 76 countries.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 25, 2025

CMU Competition Cultivates Future Leaders Central Michigan University (CMU) College of Business Administration recently hosted the Next-Gen Central Event, an immersive experience designed to introduce high school students to the world of business, management, and enterprise operations.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 23, 2023

Recently, I was a finalist for a job opportunity and was asked “how do you plan on [re]engaging the college community”? My response included a statement that if offered the job, I would be willing to get into a dunk tank, sell tickets for student scholarships, and challenge my colleagues to join me in the activity.

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

JANUARY 15, 2025

Families may analyze cost, scholarship opportunities, and academic flexibility, while students might focus on extracurricular activities, study-abroad opportunities, and campus life. Transparent communication is keyclearly outlining tuition fees, application requirements, and scholarship opportunities builds trust.

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Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 3, 2024

College professors aren’t the only ones exploring ways AI can help them serve students more efficiently. Particularly for those with smaller admissions offices, this frees up admissions officers to focus on the other, necessarily nuanced aspects of the application process, like awarding scholarships and financial aid packages. “If

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

There’s a pervasive sense among many adults with humanities degrees that In the wake of deconstruction, poststructuralism, postmodernism, semiotics and the cultural, linguistic and discursive turns, literary studies, in particular, like other core humanities disciplines, is in deep trouble. The field has fragmented.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 12, 2024

But Dr. Erin Castro’s dedication to UPEP over the last eight years is a shining example of scholarship with real societal impact.” Erin Castro, the associate dean and associate professor who co-founded the initiative with 12 undergraduate honors students in 2016.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

million students enrolled in college, just under 170,000 studied abroad in the 2021/22 academic year. That’s less than 6% of all American college students. Funding opportunities are particularly abundant for first-generation and other underrepresented college students who add language and area studies to their undergraduate majors.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Land-grant universities are building new colleges , HBCUs are racing to secure better funding and even liberal arts colleges are reviewing their general education curriculum. These developments have thrust some higher education leaders to defend the place the humanities hold in the halls of our most prestigious institutions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 6, 2024

Morehouse College has received an anonymous, $20 million gift to expand academic programs and professorships at the college.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Colleges and universities itching to strengthen their students’ workforce readiness may seek to partner with employers. However, Devon Player, a 2023 graduate of Whitman College (Wash.), owes her budding career for the Walla Walla Community Council to the work of the college’s career and community engagement center.

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Marcia J. Ballinger, Ph.D.

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Lorain County Community College is the community’s college, providing pathways to rewarding careers in all fields, including liberal arts and the humanities. This semester, the first cohort of the Mandel program came together, comprised of students with interests in the arts, writing, communication or the humanities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 1, 2023

HB 982 will create the Pilot Program for Human Services Careers, changing eligibility criteria for the Maryland Loan Assistance Repayment Program for Police Officers and the Maryland Police Officers Scholarship Program to include probation agents. It also establishes the Pilot Program for Human Services Careers Scholarship.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

But all of that changed in 2022, when Steele saw a listing for a job at the University of Rochester’s Warner School of Education and Human Development. We’ve seen a rise in hate,” says Dr. Bridget Kelly, an associate professor and student affairs & diversity officer at the University of Maryland’s College of Education. Dr. Robin L.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Narrow, self-serving yardsticks for assessing impact of scholarship, teaching, and service. If a faculty member is assigned more teaching and/or more service, and has less time available for scholarship, they should be evaluated accordingly. The criteria should be read aloud, prior to evaluating that dimension.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 18, 2023

Rhodes College will receive an $800,000 grant to expand their research on racial equity, discrimination, and justice in the Memphis and Mid-South region. We are grateful for support from the Mellon Foundation,” said Dr. Jennifer Collins, president of Rhodes Colleges.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 31, 2023

Image: Lebanon Valley College in Pennsylvania hosted a full-day advising and career exploration event in lieu of classes on March 21, giving students an opportunity to access resources and develop their success plans. The college offered students an event attendance incentive: a chance to win a $500 scholarship.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 24, 2023

Author of Global Intersectionality and Contemporary Human Rights, Bond’s scholarly work centers on women’s rights in sub-Saharan Africa, women’s rights in the United Nations, and critical race feminism in human rights. from Colorado College, a J.D. Bond holds a B.A.

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The PIE News

JUNE 13, 2024

MetaApply’s core purpose is to solve problems by combining cutting-edge technology with human intervention. It offers customised searches based on student requirements, enabling the shortlisting of suitable courses, colleges, locations, costs, exams, and more with a single click.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 9, 2023

Virginia Commonwealth University’s (VCU) medical college was “intimately connected” to slavery in the mid-1800s, according to a report commissioned by VCU and published last month, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported. The 2021 law also asked schools to establish a scholarship or economic program for students with a connection to slavery.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Simmons busily prepared to deliver the 2023 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. At the heart of those questions was a deep curiosity about how she overcame seeming insurmountable odds to become a world-renowned college administrator. “I

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University Business

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Not a week goes by without new laments about the decline of the humanities and social sciences. When STEM disciplines integrate the humanities and arts , learning outcomes include critical thinking, resilience, self-efficacy and other valuable traits, such as “recruitment, learning and retention of women and underrepresented minorities.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 27, 2023

She also serves as project director of the Males for Alabama Education (MALE) initiative, a state-funded program scholarship and mentorship program for minority men walking the teacher education pathway. Once we received funding from the state, I was able to collaboratively develop the program,” Strachan said. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 11, 2024

She stood up to the principal and affirmed my humanity. She let me know, ‘You are a full human being, and they’re going to have to recognize you.’” Rema,” says she has learned from her own experiences to defend our collective humanity. That memory shows up in Vassar’s demeanor today as an advocate for racial justice.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2024

Affirming Multivocal Humanities is an initiative that champions the insightful scholarship and teaching taking place in these disciplines — those that are too often undervalued and even undermined in American society today,” said Mellon Foundation President Dr. Elizabeth Alexander. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

This is necessary but must include intentional and proactive scholarship and resources on racial identity development. Since their creation, tests have disproportionately hindered access to gifted and talented education (GATE), AP, college acceptance (particularly to elite higher education institutions), scholarships, and so on.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 13, 2024

As a first-generation college graduate and the first-ever female, Hispanic president of St. Education is a human right regardless of one’s background, and access and support should be readily available to those in need. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas, I deeply understand the value of higher education for all.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

Leslie Hall, director of the HBCU Program at the Human Rights Campaign — the largest LGBTQ lobbying organization in the U.S. A 2022 report from the UCLA School of Law Williams Institute and the Point Foundation, an LGBTQ scholarship fund, noted that 32.6% of non-LGBTQ people. About 45.5% of LGBTQ people reported hearing slurs, and 10.3%

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 31, 2022

Blog: Beyond Transfer Millions of community college students are pursuing their higher education journeys right now. Many aspire to transfer to a four-year college or university. Now that we can look at data from the fall 2017 cohort, we see just three percent of community college transfer students enrolled at selective schools.

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HEPI

JANUARY 4, 2024

Professor Guo spent 34 years at Imperial College London studying AI, data mining, machine learning, and large-scale data management before becoming Provost of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2022. In academia we still place a great deal of emphasis in scholarship on the capacity to recall and recite.

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