Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 4, 2025

Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy A coalition of 104 education organizations has called on Congress to immediately reverse the Department of Education's recent cancellation of several major teacher preparation grant programs, a move that has disrupted educator pipelines across the country and threatens to worsen the national teacher shortage crisis.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 31, 2024

Department of Education Office for Civil Rights against North Central University in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The nonprofit Legal Insurrection Foundation announced it has filed a legal complaint with the U.S. North Central University North Central University The federal civil rights complaint — pursuant to the U.S.

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Insight Into Diversity

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Department of Education for a longstanding initiative that fosters higher education opportunities for underrepresented and low-income students. Department of Education, was established in 1989. The post Conservative Legal Group Challenges Graduate Scholarship appeared first on Insight Into Diversity. The Ronald E.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The expansion was announced at an event at the White House on February 7 to celebrate the success of the inaugural cohort of Quad Fellows who enrolled on the scholarship in 2021. Often students will secure additional funding through their university or department.

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HEPI

JULY 21, 2024

Promotion for academics, especially those on teaching and scholarship (T&S) pathways, is fraught with challenges. Inconsistencies in promotion criteria across departments and supervisors create confusion and unfairness fostering an environment of inequality and resentment.

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The PIE News

AUGUST 30, 2023

Data from the department of education in Australia shows that international commencements in higher education have risen to 105,000 in the year to May 2023, an increase of 9% on 2019 figures. Currently, 33 universities in the country are offering scholarships internationally. It’s interesting to see where we are heading.”

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The PIE News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Approximately $162 million will be invested in the plan, with eligible international students able to apply for government scholarships and living stipends from sponsoring companies. Yang said the new scholarships will mean students won’t face these issues. “The level of pay is one third of Korea or Japan.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The American Indian College Fund has announced its third American Indian Law School Scholarship for a student entering Harvard Law School in the fall of 2024. Samantha Maltais, an enrolled member of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head/Aquinnah on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, is the current scholarship recipient.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 12, 2023

Northwestern University’s African American studies department will be renamed the Department of Black Studies. The department – housed in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences – is making the change to better reflect the range of its scholarship and teaching, according to the formal name change proposal. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2025

Programs designed to support underserved communitiessuch as arts initiatives for underprivileged youth or scholarships for minority studentsdemonstrate the transformative potential of leadership rooted in empathy and opportunity. Women leaders excel in creating environments that prioritize listening, mutual respect, and collaboration.

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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., Psychology, San Diego State University; M.A., Higher and Postsecondary Education, Teachers College, Columbia University; Ph.D.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

These are last-dollar funds, which means it covers a student’s remaining costs for tuition and fees after all other aid—scholarships, grants, stipends and tuition waivers—has been awarded, and it does not cover the cost of housing, food, transportation, books or supplies. Students and their families don’t understand the inner workings.”

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 30, 2023

The program is funded by the New York State Education Department and supports underrepresented students pursuing careers in health sciences and STEM, Fordham’s CSTEP director, Mike Molina, explains. How it works: Each year, rising juniors in CSTEP apply for a scholarship from the fund.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 15, 2025

Kyung Kate Hyun The transition between South Korea and Irvine, California was, at first, jarring to Dr. Kyung Kate Hyun, an associate professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA), and deputy director of The Center for Transportation, Equity, Decisions, and Dollars at the U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 26, 2023

I should add that neither US News nor the educated public has much understanding of what a first-tier, cutting-edge English or history or sociology department would look like. Would it be judged on scholarship, influence, or some other elements? True then, this is even more obviously the case today.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 5, 2022

candidate—and became one of the many Ukrainian students currently benefiting from scholarships offered by U.S. The scholarships are expected to cost between $5 million and $6 million in total, to be funded through private philanthropy, according to a university spokesperson. So she returned to KU—this time as a Ph.D.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Institutions can implement the following measures to alleviate these challenges: Scholarship Programs: Expanding scholarship programs to include online students can provide crucial financial support. Leveraging Scholarship Programs Scholarship programs can be adapted to support online students from diverse backgrounds.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

The University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff (UAPB) will be part of a federal initiative to recruit and retain underrepresented minority students in food and agriculture careers. Dr. Nina Lyon-Bennett As part of the U.S.

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HEPI

MARCH 16, 2025

Because the steady decline of German learners in the UK, of students pursuing German at the university level, the closure of language departments and the ongoing threat of further closures is a cause for concern. Why are we shouting out for German?

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

. “Howard University’s achievement of R1 status demonstrates our research capacity and reaffirms our deep commitment to tackling societys most pressing questions through cutting-edge scholarship and technological innovation,” Howard President Ben Vinson III, PhD, said in a statement.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 23, 2025

Aside from writing about the plight of Black men in higher education, in our scholarship, we have employed an anti-deficit approach to highlight critical factors that help to facilitate the access, retention, and persistence of Black men in college. In 2020, George Floyd, a Black man, was extrajudicially murdered. Dr. Robert T. Dr. Larry J.

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The Berkeley Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The top-ranked Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures is undertaking a $9 million campaign to add more Ukrainian scholarship and programming. The post With $3 million gift, Berkeley prepares to build premier Ukrainian studies program appeared first on Berkeley News.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Department of Education’s Office of Indian Education will be used to prepare nearly 1,000 Native American students in Nevada for college and the workforce. The post Education Department Grant to Help Nevada Native American Students Prepare for College appeared first on INSIGHT Into Diversity.

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Liaison International

DECEMBER 11, 2024

In Practice: AI tools can help institutions allocate scholarships more effectively. Cornell shared a case where an institution applied AI to distribute scholarships, resulting in a 90% yield among awarded studentsa stark improvement over conventional methods.

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University Business

MARCH 14, 2025

The Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights is investigating over 50 colleges and universities for potentially violating Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, according to a press release. The second set of six institutions face potential Title VI violation for their use of race-based scholarships. It cites the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Department of Education, the Upward Bound program works with students from six area high schools that are identified as potential first-generation college students. Outreach efforts include education on financial aid options, including grants, scholarships and aid for undocumented students. In academic year 2021-22, 45.1%

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

By distributing DEIB responsibilities throughout the institution, universities can ensure that diversity is not treated as a peripheral issue but is embedded within every department and decision-making process (Bisson et al., Journal of community engagement and scholarship , 4 (1). Recommendations 1. Nicotera, N., Cutforth, N.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Colleges and universities use endowments to support several priorities, such as scholarships, upgraded facilities and faculty hiring. However, endowments at HBCUs currently trail those of other institutions by at least 70%. We also have a public policy agenda that includes investing in the institutions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Building on Current Initiatives to Support Prospective Native Students Currently, MSU offers the Maynard Kennedy Turtle Island Acknowledgement Scholarship, which has similar benefits to NATAP but is only offered to a limited number of students each year.

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Higher Ed Data Stories

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The Department Store store down the street sells a very similar cone in its food court for $8, but offers a 75% off coupon. If everyone uses the coupon at the Department Store, their net revenue per cone is also $2. You might offer a coupon, let's say for 50% off a cone. The cone you normally sell for $4, you now sell for $2.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Recommendations: · Pre-work: University should provide departments with an anonymous, structured evaluation forms (with decision criteria and clear rubrics, just as is used to facilitate fairness in student grading) to rate the candidate both quantitatively and qualitatively. Committee members often arrive unprepared.

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ACRLog

MARCH 31, 2025

Were presenting our initial findings of the use of author contribution statements in library and information science (LIS) scholarship, and how gender plays a part in what research contributions (e.g., Which research contributions are most common in LIS scholarship? methodology, writing, project administration) authors play.

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The PIE News

JUNE 1, 2023

Streamlining and prioritising US study visas and creating inclusive and accessible study abroad opportunities are top of the agenda for the State Department in the US. “At the State Department, we are working to expand international education.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

APRIL 11, 2024

This isn’t a story about idiot idealists making futile gestures: Mark Peacock, a 28-year-old postgraduate student in the politics department, rattles through a number of concessions the senior management team at the university has made as a result of the action. So much becomes possible when you’re living together 24/7.” Continue reading.

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LSE Higher Education Blog

JANUARY 30, 2025

The Chinese government has been providing an increasing number of scholarships to African students as incentives to study in China However, the implications of this stark difference between the low number of Chinese students in Africa compared to the high number of African students in China is worthy of further investigation and research.

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The Berkeley Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Members of Berkeley's Ethnic Studies department reflect on its origins in activist movements in the 1960s. The post How the Free Speech Movement and Third World Liberation Front transformed Berkeley scholarship appeared first on Berkeley News.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 3, 2025

Du Bois Department of Afro American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst as doctoral students, they saw similarities in their research but began experiencing challenges within existing organizations aimed at supporting their work.

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