Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 16, 2023

It's one of the new offerings coordinated by the National Education Equity Lab, an educational justice nonprofit that brings credit-bearing college courses into Title I and Title I-eligible high schools, at which large numbers of students come from families with little money.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Meanwhile, UDayton’s new Health Equity Activation Think Tank will work with community partners, initially to address Black infant and mother mortality in Montgomery County, through a three-year grant from the CareSource Foundation. Health equity means that everyone — no matter their income, race, gender, education, location, etc. —

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Creating equity in the classroom requires that educators anticipate individual student needs, consider the delivery and presentation of their content, assign coursework that has real-world meaning, and prioritize skills development — efforts that result in greater student success, according to experts and research.

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Insight Into Diversity

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The University of Dayton is utilizing more than $1 million in donations from two non-profit organizations to launch a fellowship program and think tank dedicated to addressing health equity. Health equity means that everyone — no matter their income, race, gender, education, location, etc. —

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 13, 2025

Often missing is educators having compassion and understanding the root cause of students actions that shifted to them being disciplined to implementing restorative justice measures. In this practice, educators are committed to the success of historically marginalized student subgroups by countering oppressive pedagogies.

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SRHE

APRIL 2, 2025

Although higher education is expected to narrow this divide and build students digital confidence, our findings revealed the opposite. Building on these findings, this blog asks a timely question: as Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) becomes embedded in higher education, will it help bridge this divide or deepen it further?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2024

This is undoubtedly progress, yet Hispanic women still trail behind non-Hispanic women in educational attainment. To truly achieve equity, we must actively invest in their education and building belonging for them in the workplace. Creating More Seats at the Table As Latinas, we often enter the workplace at a disadvantage.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 8, 2024

State financial aid programs across the country have varying levels of accessibility for students and plenty of room to improve, according to a recent report from The Education Trust. Massachusetts’s programs do not require test scores or certain GPAs.

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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The University of Virginia School of Law is launching a new Education Rights Institute to enhance understanding, scholarship, and resources for K-20 schools and disadvantaged students. Department of Education. We’re the only wealthy nation that provides less funding to disadvantaged students. million in anonymous funding.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Through the Community Based Service Learning (CBSL) Program, medical students at Einstein engage with and impact social and health equity in the Bronx community. The NSU College of Optometry offers a comprehensive public health curriculum consisting of four courses that address issues related to health equity in diverse populations.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Department of Energy (DOE) announced the phase one winners of their inaugural HBCU Clean Energy Education Prize in The Partnerships Track. Department of Energy’s HBCU Clean Energy Education Prize, visit [link]. The post Ten HBCUs Win Clean Energy Education Prize appeared first on Insight Into Diversity. On Wednesday, the U.S.

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MindMax

OCTOBER 15, 2024

This blog post was written based on a conversation between Lee Maxey and Paul LeBlanc , author of Students First: Equity, Access, and Opportunity in Higher Education. The Power of Connection in Education At the heart of putting students first is the belief that students need to feel seen, understood, and supported in a meaningful way.

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Liaison International

JUNE 27, 2024

Embracing and refining technology and AI will be crucial for fostering inclusive and diverse academic communities in the evolving higher education landscape. By investing in these programs, institutions can nurture potential students from varied backgrounds, ensuring they have the support needed to pursue higher education.

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University Business

JANUARY 29, 2024

Building strong pipelines between K12 school districts and postsecondary education has long been an elusive puzzle piece. Dotres’ vision is optimal for students seeking pragmatic workforce development tracks in career and technical education. and had the following conversation. What attracts you to it so much?

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University Business

JULY 28, 2023

At Wednesday’s National Summit on Equal Opportunity hosted by the Department of Education, presidents, chancellors, provosts, CEOs and secretaries from across the nation heeded Department Secretary Miguel Cardona’s advice to turn this “low point” in higher education into a “turning point.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2024

Over the last year, many consequential changes have been thrown at higher education – new legislation impacted DEI, artificial intelligence entered the classroom in a big way, and we’re still working through the residual effects of the pandemic. The lack of access to technology for some students has exacerbated existing equity issues.

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HEPI

JULY 18, 2024

This raises an important question: should higher education courses in marketing and PR adapt to this digital era to better prepare students for the specific demands of this industry? Issues related to digital equity, accessibility, and data privacy must also be addressed to ensure inclusivity and ethical practices.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 30, 2024

Board of Education decision , it is crucial to reflect on its complex legacy, particularly its unintended negative impact on special education services for Black children. Board of Education was a landmark decision that sought to dismantle racial segregation in American public schools. Ellis The 1954 U.S.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

State and nationwide efforts to tackle student equity and close the gap on access and affordability for all students have cost millions of dollars and have required mass coordination between higher ed stakeholders. increase in upward transfers in Fall 2023 compared to the year before. Transfer rate of learners aged 40 and older: up 11.8%

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HEPI

APRIL 10, 2025

Ahead of TASOs annual conference, How to evaluate , on 2930 April, Omar Khan, CEO of TASO (the Centre for Transforming Access and Student Outcomes in Higher Education) discusses the challenges facing higher education, particularly in the face of wider discussions around the value and purpose of higher education in the UK and beyond.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Janel George The panel – part of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s larger National Racial Equity Initiative for Social Justice (NREI) Summit – brought together experts to discuss contemporary attacks against the inclusion of Black history in societal awareness and education. the NREI website stated.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 16, 2024

The nonprofit Partnership With Native Americans , or PWNA, recently announced that the consumer financial services company, Synchrony , has awarded $100,000 to support Indigenous education. Synchrony is providing the grant for 2023 and 2024, through its philanthropic program, Education as an Equalizer. We're proud to support PWNA."

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Higher Education Inquirer

MARCH 13, 2025

For decades, Americas elite university medical centers have been the epitome of healthcare research and innovation, providing world-class treatment, education, and cutting-edge medical advancements. (Image: Mass General is Harvard University Medical School's teaching hospital.)

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Byrne to bring her commitment to access and equity to a new area of public higher education. Justice and equity are driving forces in most everything I do.” Her goal is to provide an elite education without elitist practices that exclude communities of color and low-income people. Less than 10% of applicants are accepted.

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SRHE

MAY 16, 2025

by Eleni Meletiadou Introduction Higher education faces a pivotal moment as Generative AI becomes increasingly embedded within academic practice. Building on our QAA-funded project outputs , this blog outlines a strategic framework for deploying AI to foster inclusion, equity, and ethical responsibility in higher education.

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HEPI

JANUARY 17, 2024

I was a first-gen student as the Americans like to call it; the first in my family to stay in education beyond 16. The problem you see is that I fear that individual tales of upward mobility like mine only help to ensure that the class inequities in our education system remain unchallenged and unchanged. My life would change forever.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Limited and costly transportation and mobility options can severely inhibit access to employment, education, health care, healthy food, and other essential destinations, says Tia Boyd, a research associate in planning and corridor management at the University of South Florida’s (USF) Center for Urban Transportation Research (CUTR).

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SRHE

AUGUST 15, 2024

by Lucy Cokes ‘Live briefs’ are used in Higher Education programmes, and I suggest that they can help promote equity and employability if they are used in very specific ways. By not fully embedding these live opportunities into assessments, there is an inadvertent disadvantage to those already disadvantaged.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 1, 2023

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and NCAA President Charlie Baker clearly have different opinions when it comes to the future of diversity, equity and inclusion. Recently, DeSantis signed a biill that will defund programs at all public universities in the state that promote diversity, equity and inclusion.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Furman’s cohort – LCC1 – will facilitate faculty training in values of equity, social justice, and inclusive pedagogy; elevate student voices; improve the student experience; and engage faculty, staff, and students in making sustainable changes to introductory course curriculum.

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Continuous Learning Institute

OCTOBER 2, 2023

LISTEN TO THE EPISODE Learn practical equitable pedagogy practices to improve student success in higher education. It's also important to acknowledge communicative strategy limitations because they cannot address the type of structural barriers that first generation and working class students often face in their educational pursuits.

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University Business

DECEMBER 20, 2022

For the past two years, Santa Clara University has won a DEI award from the publication INSIGHT Into Higher Education magazine. For instance, through this questionnaire it became more vivid how the tenure-review process can disadvantage women and faculty of color. How can we control for bias in our use of assessments?

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The PIE News

MAY 8, 2023

In a recent piece for Science , Ali Khaledi-Nasab, a former graduate of a US PhD program, said that he had almost sold his kidney to pursue his education. “You can give up on education or take desperate measures” “So what do you do? You can give up on education or take desperate measures.” Think about it.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

It is his approach as a CEO, though, which offers an interesting perspective for higher education leaders. Yet, in an era of private equity financialisation, it is all too rare in the modern age. All of these can be adapted for higher education.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Unlike in past economic slowdowns, financial turmoil and spikes in unemployment during the early months of the pandemic did not send large numbers of students fleeing the job market into higher education. Harnisch, vice president for government relations at the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Department of Education to support its growing Asian American student population. The funds will be used to launch the Transformation, Equity, Access, and Sense of Belonging (TEAS) project to improve retention and graduation rates for Asian American students and promote increased advancement to graduate and professional schools.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

A new study conducted by the ultra-conservative Manhattan Institute and published by the City Journal claims to prove that Critical Race Theory (CRT) is being taught in K-12 education. Unconscious bias and white privilege are powerful forces that help to create and maintain barriers to racial equity.

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