Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker announced his support for new legislation that would allow Illinois community colleges to offer bachelor's degrees in high-demand fields, Gov. The initiative comes as Illinois employers report growing demand for workers with bachelor's degrees in specialized fields.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 13, 2025

Title: Assistant Professor of Higher Education, Department of Educational Leadership, College for Education and Engaged Learning, Montclair State University Tenured: No Age: 37 Education: B.A., Higher and Postsecondary Education, Teachers College, Columbia University; Ph.D.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 29, 2025

A new report reveals that today's college students are navigating significant financial challenges while balancing competing priorities, yet they continue to believe in the value of higher education. Despite these challenges, students overwhelmingly affirmed the value of higher education.

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Higher Ed Dive

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Although new policies are propping up workers without degrees, experts say higher education will continue to play a role in hiring decisions and pay rates.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2025

UCLA Graduation As graduates streamed into commencement ceremonies last May, their faces reflected the changing demographics of American higher education. During this period, 25% of each gender between the ages of 25 and 34 held a bachelors degree. In 1995, white men and women showed equal rates of degree attainment at 29% each.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Legacy admissions has an even more corrosive influence: It widens equity gaps in higher education. These college legacies won’t move the needle on national concerns of college attainment, degree completion and economic mobility. Nearly one-fourth of all college undergraduates — roughly 3.8

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 29, 2025

The Scope of Bullying in Nursing Academia Bullying in higher education is a widespread and systemic issue. Conclusion Bullying among nurse educators in higher education is a serious yet underrecognized issue that negatively impacts both faculty and students. Journal of Nursing Administration, 41 (7-8), 324-330.

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Higher Ed Dive

JANUARY 22, 2024

Partnerships between businesses and higher education hold the key to pushing through the growing skepticism around the lasting value of a college degree.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

higher education institutions can strengthen democracy by prioritizing civic engagement and civic education in the student experience. By making civic education a priority, higher education can play a role in fostering civic awareness and engagement skills. released a white paper that outlines how U.S.

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HEPI

APRIL 22, 2025

Amira Asantewa is Director of Programmes, Grit Breakthrough Programmes Reuel Blair is Lead Diversity Programmes Coordinator at the Centre for Student and Community Engagement, Nottingham Trent University Progress on the Black-white degree awarding gap has gone into reverse. For more details email vicky@grit.org.uk

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Higher Ed Dive

JUNE 20, 2024

A higher education researcher breaks down how a think tank attempted to quantify the return on investment for 53,000 different programs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Jamie Merisotis That progress tends to get lost, however, amid legitimate concerns about the cost of education and its efficacy in preparing students for jobs. We get it: Higher education must do better. It’s not surprising to feel a degree of anxiety amid such rapid change. We simply must commit to use them.

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University Business

JANUARY 28, 2025

Coming off one of the most challenging years for the higher education business in recent memory, it would be easy to carry a glass-half-empty outlook into 2025. Here are five key trends shaping higher education this year, offering a roadmap for resilience as only higher education can do.

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Higher Ed Dive

MARCH 13, 2024

New research commissioned by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation focuses on how 18- to 30-year-olds without college diplomas view higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 4, 2025

Jamie Merisotis The Lumina Foundation announced a new goal to increase the number of Americans with education and training to 75%. Seventeen years later, the percentage of adults 25 to 64 who have achieved education attainment after high school has increased from 38% to 55%. We had to rethink how education creates opportunities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 27, 2025

In our quest for anti-racist academic organizations from preschool to higher education, we have urged educators to develop competencies - dispositions, knowledge, and skills - to put philosophy into practice. Figure 2 is our modification or application of the 12 criteria to educational settings P-12 and higher education.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

University announces new BA, after survey found most 14- to 18-year-olds want more rigorous climate change education The University of Sussex will introduce what it says is the UKs first undergraduate degree focused on climate justice. The BA course, called climate justice, sustainability and development, will begin in 2026.

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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% Palmer, Larry J. Walker, Tryan L. or a little over 850,000 of the 18.6

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The PIE News

APRIL 22, 2025

This significant re-regionalisation of higher education is set to accelerate, bringing substantial benefits to the continent’s economic development, knowledge production, dissemination, and geopolitical influence. Home to 60% of the world’s population, Asia is projected to see an increase of 500 million people by 2050.

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HEPI

JANUARY 29, 2025

Degree Apprenticeships (DAs) were launched in 2015, as a novel work-based learning route to obtaining a degree. On their introduction, then Prime Minister David Cameron said they would give people a great head start, combining a full degree with real practical skills gained from work and the financial security of a regular pay packet.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 7, 2025

adults without college degrees continue to place high value on higher education and remain interested in pursuing credentials, according to a comprehensive new study released today. The 2025 State of Higher Education report , conducted by Gallup and Lumina Foundation, surveyed nearly 14,000 U.S.

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

MARCH 26, 2025

As an education marketer, ask yourself: how can you create an experience that ensures students feel supported and motivated to stay the course? Promoting a Flexible and Inclusive Learning Environment Flexibility is key to student retention in higher education , particularly for non-traditional students balancing work, family, and school.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 3, 2025

The number of traditional college-age students is steadily declining, with fewer high school graduates enrolling in higher education. Many potential students feel disconnected from higher education or uncertain about whether college is worth the investment.

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HEPI

APRIL 12, 2025

In this weekend long read, he discusses the history of marketisation in higher education and considers whether applicants have enough information to make informed judgements about where and what they study. Some 40% of undergraduate students might have chosen a different route, although only 6% would not have entered higher education.

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MindMax

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The Power of Data in Shaping Higher Education As Chief Research Officer, Jim Fong evaluates vast amounts of data and research pertaining to higher education. The growing number of individuals with “some college, no degree” presents a unique opportunity. “I Colleges have got to look at greater innovation.

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Wonkhe

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Getting to sustainable international recruitment means understanding international student experience and outcomes, say Rachel MacSween and Debbie McVitty

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University Business

MARCH 19, 2025

Dismissing the value of a college degree has become a national pastime. Everyone from Silicon Valley to Capitol Hill is jockeying to land the hardest punch on higher education. Traditionally, a college degree signals someone has the skills to become a high achiever.

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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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MindMax

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

In a conversation with MindMax’s Lee Maxey, Jim Fong, Chief Research Officer at UPCEA, delves into the latest evolution of the higher education landscape. These students are seeing other alternatives…they don’t want to get caught off guard and commit to a full degree,” Fong explains.

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Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 7, 2025

Can earning a college degree boost civic participation? According to a recent report by Complete College America, the answer is yesbut disparities in college graduation rates limit the role higher education can play in supporting democracy. Emphasize civic education and engagement in curricula.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 27, 2025

The report, "Pathways to Opportunity: Examining Students' Academic and Economic Outcomes at HBCUs, TCUs, and MSIs," found that these institutions consistently outperform non-minority serving institutions in awarding degrees to their target populations and providing pathways to economic success for underrepresented students.

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

MAY 7, 2025

Reading Time: 10 minutes The way higher institutions define and acknowledge student success in higher education today is changing rapidly. In this blog post, we’ll explore the true meaning of student success and what key metrics are best p laced to measure student success in higher education.

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Higher Ed Dive

DECEMBER 20, 2024

We’re rounding up recent stories, from an Illinois institution trimming offerings to higher education associations asking to extend a key regulatory deadline.

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HEPI

APRIL 21, 2025

The APPG for Students has launched the Commission on Students in Higher Education as a means of feeding into the Department for Educations HE Review through a student-centred lens. Alex Stanley is Vice President Higher Education of the National Union of Students (NUS).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 24, 2025

higher education institutions, unveiled a significant redesign today that fundamentally changes how colleges and universities are classified and evaluated. Nowadays, institutions can't be reduced down to the highest degree they award because they exist to serve a wide range of students in a wide variety of ways."

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Helix Education

APRIL 27, 2025

Read the report The old scorecard for student success in higher education was simple: graduate on time with good grades. A single parent completing their degree part-time while working full-time might have very different metrics for success than a traditional full-time student.

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HEPI

JANUARY 2, 2025

Climate hypocrisy in Higher Education The climate crisis and global attempts at strengthening the sustainable and low-carbon transition is arguably the most critical issue we face and there is clear evidence to show strong Higher Education (HE) support for this twin approach.

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