Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 23, 2025

McMickens, Morris Thomas, and Calvin Hadley There is deep concern about the status of Black men in higher education. A recent report about the enrollment of Black men in postsecondary education indicates that Black men comprise 4.6% million students enrolled in colleges and universities. Palmer, Larry J. Walker, Tryan L.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Interest in Tennesse’s free tuition program for its community and state technical colleges is promising, to say the least, as the number of applicants for its Class of 2025 broke last year’s record by more than 700. The proportion of applicants who chose to enroll in the state technical college system also hit an 18% high.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The University of Wyoming (UW) and five community colleges in the state are building a faculty network to share best practices and make science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education more inclusive. These relationships will also be cultivated through various projects and initiatives.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 8, 2024

The profile of the average community college student is changing. While two-year institutions still have significant populations of adult students and people desirous of enhancing their career options, there is a growing number of first-time college students, age 18 to 22, that are seeking a traditional college experience.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 17, 2024

Drexel University is offering tuition at half the cost for students who have earned an associate degree from any accredited community college in the U.S. Now, the university is expanding the program to benefit community college graduates across the country. cumulative GPA. cumulative GPA.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

PQC is the only minority-serving, federally recognized Work College in the nation. This is so much more than a traditional real estate project or campus housing development—it’s a statement about what higher education can be for all of us – those who attend our schools and those who do not,” said Dr. Michael J.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Capital University will now offer scholarships covering up to full tuition and mandatory fees to eligible transfer students from Columbus State Community College (CSCC) who are pursuing bachelor’s degrees. This latest expansion of Capital’s Main Street Scholarship will commence with enrollment Fall 2023.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 11, 2024

million gift upon Howard Community College in support of programming and scholarships in its science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) division. million gift upon Howard Community College to help support it science, technology, engineering, and mathematics division.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 30, 2024

Education Northwest, an Oregon-based nonprofit organization promoting education for all, unveiled the results on Tuesday of a first-of-its kind, nine-year study of the partnership between Tacoma Community College (TCC) and the Tacoma Housing Authority (THA), called the College Housing Assistance Program (CHAP).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

With higher education costs rising since the turn of the century, some question whether a college degree has the value it once did. In a recent Gallup poll, only 36% of adults expressed confidence in higher education. However, a quick look over the data confirms there is still great value in higher education.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Approximately 29 percent of community college students say they’ve experienced food insecurity, while 14 percent report housing insecurity — and for students of color and those from low-income backgrounds, the challenges are even greater, according to a 2022 survey* by the Center for Community College Student Engagement (CCCSE).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The path to higher education success has many obstacles and barriers for Latinos across the U.S. The mission of Excelencia in Education, founded in 2004 by Dr. Deborah A. Department of Education, the Upward Bound program works with students from six area high schools that are identified as potential first-generation college students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 8, 2023

Testing and research giant ETS, is offering a number of scholarships for underrepresented students who demonstrate academic excellence. Green Scholarship; the Dr. Lillian M. Those selected will receive a full tuition-only need/merit scholarships for the 2023–2024 academic school year. The $20,000 Lenora M.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 16, 2024

Austin Community College District (ACC) is proposing to make college tuition free for all high school seniors in Central Texas. The Austin Community College District plans to present a formal plan for a free tuition pilot program to its Board of Trustees in February. That is a game changer.”

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Today's Learner

OCTOBER 29, 2024

They said education would be my ticket out of poverty. In college, students asked me to proofread their essays, and I shared successful tips on how to study and organize their time. Lacking financial means, I became a work-study student and received scholarships and loans to pay my tuition.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Facing a national shortage of early childhood educators , the Community College of Vermont (CCV) and the Southwestern Vermont Medical Center (SVMC) have teamed up for an innovative solution: paying students to reduce their hours at their jobs in favor of taking more classes. SVMC’s initial idea was to fund scholarships.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2023

Clatsop Community College will become the first higher education institution within the traditional homelands of the Chinook Indian Nation to grant free tuition to tribal members, The Oregonian reported. “By

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 7, 2023

The Colorado Community College System has announced transfer agreements with two historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs): Saint Augustine’s University and Texas Southern University. SAU will also offer scholarships to Bridge to Bachelor’s students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2023

The United Negro College Fund (UNCF) has received $190 million, its largest philanthropic corporate gift, for a scholarship program. Pamela Everhart The money – from Fidelity Investments – will go towards launching the Fidelity Scholars Program, which will have renewable, need-based scholarships and wrap-around support services.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Looking back seven years later, Holmes says the Incarcerated Reentry Program (IRE) from Rio Salado College gave him a new life map. Early prison education programs were led by religious reformers like the Quakers who brought literacy and moral education to the Walnut Street Prison in post-revolutionary Philadelphia.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 12, 2024

The Utah Prison Education Project (UPEP) at the University of Utah is admitting its first cohort of fifteen degree-seeking students incarcerated at the Utah State Correctional Facility. It is never a given that academic research will translate directly and impactfully to the transformation of our local communities,” said Laanan. “It

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2025

Dr. Monica Parrish Trent, CEO, Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA) Foundation (Formerly with Achieving the Dream). She exemplifies the empathy and innovation that women bring to leadership in higher education. Today, women serve as CEOs, university presidents, political leaders, and cultural pioneers.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 7, 2023

A new bill has been introduced in the Texas legislature that would revamp how the state gives its community colleges money, KXAN reported. Gary VanDeaver, would alter the funding formula for money that the state gives its 50 community college districts, effective Sept.

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Insight Into Diversity

MAY 14, 2023

Since its inception 21 years ago, the Point Foundation has become the largest scholarship-granting organization for LGBTQ+ college students in the country. In the 2018-2019 academic year, the organization awarded scholarships to 98 students. At one time, the organization received over 1,500 applications for only 20 scholarships.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

Smith Title: Associate Professor of Higher Education; Provost Faculty Fellow, University of Cincinnati Age: 39 Education: B.S., Miller, professor of higher education and public policy at the University of Arkansas, about Dr. Everrett A. Everrett A. psychology, Middle Tennessee State University; M.S.,

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The Exploring Transfer program at Vassar College is a summer intensive that immerses currently enrolled community college students in an academically rigorous environment, providing vital support and encouragement so they can ultimately continue their education at a competitive four-year institution. This is about equity.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 26, 2024

Baker More than 170,000 residents enrolled in academic courses or registered for adult education and workforce training during the 2023-24 school year, according to the Alabama Community College System (ACCS). Baker, chancellor of the Alabama Community College System.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Ipsen The global 2023 Progress, Accomplishment, Thriving, Hope (PATH) Scholarship consists of $10,000-$25,000 grants to higher ed institutions to help students with expenses such as housing, tuition, and food. Two-year public colleges are at the heart of the U.S. Awardees outside the U.S. will be announced in the coming months.

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Inside Higher Ed

JULY 3, 2024

The Tennessee Higher Education Commission recently reported the largest year-over-year increase in the state’s college-going rate since the 2015 launch of Tennessee Promise, a last-dollar free tuition scholarship for community college students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 1, 2023

Wes Moore has signed into law bills to promote volunteerism, enhance the state workforce, and financially support education. Wes Moore “Leaving no one behind means delivering a world-class education to all of our children, ensuring Marylanders are safe in their communities, and offering one-of-a-kind opportunities to serve,” Moore said. ​

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

But while the state is spending millions to close the gap by expanding access to college credentials and good jobs, those efforts will fall short without a crucial, under-the-radar reform effort—transforming the delivery of developmental education. What’s at Stake? And they follow through. It was a common-sense move.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

With higher education costs rising since the turn of the century, some question whether a college degree has the value it once did. In a recent Gallup poll, only 36% of adults expressed confidence in higher education. However, a quick look over the data confirms there is still great value in higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 19, 2024

Tina Tchen, left, and SLN CEO Yolonda Marshall sit in conversation at the Whole Girl Education National Conference. Secondary and postsecondary education must play key roles in the future of the American democracy. Tchen told listeners that, at this moment in time, education and democracy are walking “on the knife’s edge.” “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The University of La Verne is joining the African American Male Education Network & Development Organization (A2MEND) in a partnership aimed at fostering educational opportunities and supporting the academic journey of its students and members. Award amounts will vary depending on program and incoming student status.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

But by 2016, Allen decided to return to school and complete her education. After earning her high school diploma, she received a Longleaf Commitment scholarship, a last dollar scholarship created by North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper through federal pandemic relief funding. Cooper gathered together to share the state’s progress.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The American International Recruitment Council has announced the 2023 recipients of the Sir Cyril Taylor Memorial Scholarship for Study in the US. Nine US HEIs will receive up to $10,000 to award scholarships to disadvantaged or underrepresented students from the UK to enrol at their institution during the 2023/24 academic year.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 27, 2024

While some, including community colleges, are building more housing on campus, it’s just as important that colleges and universities partner with nonprofits and private developers to create affordable housing for their students off campus. and at the Community College of Philadelphia it is $7,500.

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