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

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Michigan State University (MSU) will offer in-state tuition to out-of-state Native American students through their Native American Tuition Advantage Program (NATAP), beginning in Fall 2025. After looking into and providing a solution to assist the student, Weatherspoon wanted to know what more the institution could do.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 30, 2023

Image: Residential students benefit from on-campus resources and connection opportunities in a way their peers who commute do not. Through the Fordham Housing Fund, selected upper-level commuter students at the university have the chance to experience on-campus living—for free.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

But like other free tuition initiatives for Native American students, it’s not quite as simple as it sounds. One of the concerns I have is many college-bound students do not have the tools or the know how of securing adequate funding before they go to college,” says Dr. Karen R. The basics are very appealing. Dr. Gresham D.

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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., Dr. Lieras work profoundly impacts students, institutions and the broader academic community. Psychology, San Diego State University; M.A.,

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The Quad Fellowship program for STEM students in Australia, India, Japan and the US was expanded last week to include students from the 10 ASEAN countries. 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.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The landscape of higher education has witnessed a significant shift in recent years, with an increasing number of students opting for nontraditional avenues to pursue their academic goals. While distance learning offers students unparalleled flexibility, concerns regarding classroom engagement persist among online educators.

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The PIE News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Taiwan is aiming to retain 210,000 international students after they have graduated in a bid to boost the region’s workforce. The education ministry will set up overseas offices in countries including Vietnam, Indonesia and the Philippines to help meet its new target of attracting 320,000 international students by 2030.

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The PIE News

AUGUST 30, 2023

The number of international students enrolled at institutions in Australia is largely back to pre-pandemic level, hitting some 683,000 in May 2023, but it remains unclear whether the country is heading towards a boom, analysts have said. Currently, 33 universities in the country are offering scholarships internationally.

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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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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.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 2, 2025

With affiliations in the Gender, Womens, and Sexuality Studies department and the Asian Studies program, Tran brings a multidisciplinary lens to her scholarship that examines the intersections of race, gender, and U.S. Trans journey to academia was not predetermined.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 3, 2025

Doukan Gnaydn A University of Minnesota Carlson School of Business graduate student is challenging his detention by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) through a lawsuit that alleges violations of his rights and a lack of transparency in the government's actions. Doukan Gnaydn, 28, a Turkish citizen who previously attended St.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2025

Dr. Trents leadership is deeply rooted in student advocacy, particularly for underserved and marginalized students. Their leadership provides opportunities for first-generation college students, minority scholars, and women in STREAM fields. The Roueche Center Forum is co-edited by Drs. Roueche and Margaretta B.

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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 program aims to prepare Native American students for careers, especially ones in vocational training and the teaching profession.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 23, 2025

million students enrolled in colleges and universities. 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. Gloria Ladson-Billings.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Brown, is to advance Latino student success in higher education by promoting Latino student achievement, conducting analysis to inform educational policies and advancing institutional practices. There must be deliberate and continuous assessment to identify and implement strategies that improve Latino student achievement.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 15, 2025

This involves evaluating the most effective methods and learning environments to engage students and enhance their achievement of desired learning outcomes. However, delivering online education is crucial in this circumstance as it is really challenging to effectively engage students in the learning process.

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The PIE News

JANUARY 21, 2025

Each year, the Insitute of International Educations Open Doors Report provides an insightful and accurate snapshot of international student migration to US campuses. This years report included a data point with serious implications for US higher education: the decrease in foreign students in bachelor programs at American institutions.

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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. institutions have launched programs to support Ukrainian students on their campuses, ranging from large public universities such as Texas A&M University to small liberal arts colleges like Mount St.

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

MAY 14, 2025

Reading Time: 11 minutes Student retention remains one of the biggest challenges in higher education, with dropout rates continuing to concern institutions worldwide. For colleges and universities today, student retention in higher education has evolved into something far more holistic than it once was. Find out today!

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

They serve more economically disenfranchised students than most U.S. institutions, and they do so successfully, facilitating the upward mobility of the majority of their students. HBCUs have a 34% mobility rate of moving their students from the bottom 40% in household income into the top 60%.

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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. The ability to afford tuition is a major factor impacting student enrollment, retention, and persistence to graduation.” Dr. Nina Lyon-Bennett As part of the U.S.

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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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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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Liaison International

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Embrace holistic, omnichannel strategies that engage individual students on multiple platforms. In Practice: AI tools can help institutions allocate scholarships more effectively. Todays prospective students expect highly personalized interactions across multiple platforms.

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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. Try this: Use the First-year students filter to look at colleges with at least 2,000 freshmen. Interesting, no?

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ACRLog

APRIL 11, 2025

Being a liaison is so much about being relationally connected to your departments, and for me, this manifested as a sort of hyper-focus on immediacy. Early on, the director of my department introduced me to the very small, but very fierce, faculty of our Medical Humanities Department. Of course, it hasnt gone like that.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

At a time when the world’s challenges and opportunities are increasingly global and the resources supporting study abroad have never been greater, why are so few American students pursuing international education? million students enrolled in college, just under 170,000 studied abroad in the 2021/22 academic year. Through the U.S.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

As a result, there was often insufficient collaboration with faculty, staff, and students, which hindered the development of comprehensive strategies for addressing diversity-related challenges. Journal of community engagement and scholarship , 4 (1). Recommendations 1. Nicotera, N., Cutforth, N., Fretz, E., & Thompson, S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 22, 2025

While women comprised 57% of all law school applicants in 2024, they accounted for only 56% of admitted students. The data deck also highlights concerning patterns in student retention. Students of color are disproportionately represented among those who withdraw from law school after their first year. Department of Labor.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 5, 2024

Across higher education, the desire for diversity among student populations is usually the responsibility of recruitment efforts but falls short in retention strategies. Colleges typically use a variety of assessments such as standardized tests, essays, and GPA to determine a student's readiness for life in academia.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Universities are making vocal commitments to recruit faculty who represent the diversity of the student population. Narrow, self-serving yardsticks for assessing impact of scholarship, teaching, and service. In many units, the scholarship alone or largely determines whether the faculty member receives a favorable evaluation.

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The PIE News

DECEMBER 22, 2022

“The Gilman Scholarship will benefit me by expanding my horizon globally and setting me out of my comfort zone,” said Diandre’ Richie, a University of North Carolina junior. Richie is one of nearly 1500 US undergraduate students to receive a Benjamin A. Gilman International Programs vary in length, location, and mode of delivery.

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