HEPI

JULY 30, 2023

What do we mean by ‘disadvantaged’? We have shown here that at one university (the University of Wolverhampton) in just one intake, the first-year intake of 2021, the life trajectory of more than 700 citizens from the most disadvantaged areas in the country was changed significantly, and for the better.

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MindMax

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Challenging the Structures of Higher Education A key challenge in higher education is the outdated systems that many institutions continue to rely on—systems that often disadvantage non-traditional learners. The credit hour system is a prime example of this structural inequity.

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The PIE News

APRIL 11, 2023

Study abroad experiences empower students to step outside of their comfort zones and develop skills outside the traditional American classroom. This cannot be allowed to happen. For example, according to Amanda Gorman , study abroad “…was so life-changing and phenomenal; I don’t think that I would be who I am today without that experience”.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

While the OfS indulges in the doublethink of simultaneously embracing and disavowing the concept of educational disadvantage, the rest of us are left to consider what really produces a high-quality system for all students, one which is worthwhile for each individual, irrespective of their circumstances.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2024

Other Gates Foundation grantees are hard at work to achieve this goal and ensure better access for more historically disadvantaged students. As a grant recipient of this program, Lumen developed new courseware for Introduction to Statistics, built with equity in mind. But funding is only one piece of the puzzle.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Kevon Chisolm, a Virginia-based attorney, has crafted an Afro-centric program called the Junior Wallstreeters, a nonprofit orgranization that provides financial literacy products and services to historically disadvantaged communities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 5, 2024

It empowers receivers by making them feel valued and by unlocking their best solutions.” The former gives disadvantaged students at the community college the chance to take on research project opportunities. “There is nothing new about amplifying gifts by yielding control,” she continued.

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The PIE News

MARCH 28, 2025

This left her at a severe disadvantage upon arrival. The only thing we can do is empower students with transparent information, encourage direct applications, and provide robust support throughout the application, enrolment, and pre-departure process. We had no indication that the student was not who she said she was in her emails.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

STEM ALL IN Clemson University College of Engineering, Computing, and Applied Sciences (CECAS) STEM ALL IN empowers participants to pursue STEM graduate degrees through on-campus experiences, educational sessions, and network building. Students gain STEM learning experiences that challenge them to think critically.

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HEPI

MAY 9, 2023

We have also opened an Early Years Community Research Centre in a disadvantaged area of North Sheffield, to share best practice and provide much needed nursery provision. This means mobilising and empowering the skills, capacity and resources across our institutions.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The principle that local areas should define their own future aligns with the goal of empowering local decision-makers. It is expected to generate 750 million in Gross Value Added (GVA) and create 2,500 jobs in an area ranked among the 5% most disadvantaged in the country, according to the Indices of Multiple Deprivation.

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SRHE

JULY 16, 2024

Several talked about how their visibility helped them to build rapport with – and empower – disadvantaged or marginalised students. This group tended to be teaching or researching around care issues and often used their profile to challenge negative stereotypes and expectations, as well as pressing for improvements in policy.

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totallyrewired

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Visualize empowering linguistically disadvantaged students with advanced language models, giving them a level playing field. Singh illuminates pathways through which AI might just bolster an anti-racist agenda. Imagine harnessing the power of AI to mitigate deep-rooted biases in hiring processes.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

He added that a funding model largely based on credit hours, like the current one, risks disadvantaging smaller institutions and institutions that serve students with a high level of financial need. The new model has the potential to correct for that.

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Liaison International

DECEMBER 13, 2024

These competencies empower enrollment leaders to go beyond surface-level knowledge. Enrollment teams should emphasize: Bias Mitigation: Recognizing and addressing biases in AI algorithms, particularly those that could unfairly disadvantage certain student groups. Another significant challenge is shifting student expectations.

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SRHE

DECEMBER 12, 2022

First is the commitment of the project team to empower all those involved in the research, and to share power equitably between and across both researchers and other stakeholders. RECs need to enable and not suppress innovation, and to both empower and trust higher education researchers and their research teams.

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Today's Learner

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Aside from time commitment due to work and family responsibilities, students are also at a disadvantage due to lack of cultural capital. To learn more about student retention, watch our Empowered Educator webinar on how to Promote Student Persistence with the 4 Rs of Retention.

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Creatrix Campus

APRIL 1, 2025

A strong learning management system should enable you to create customized tests and assignments that highlight each student's unique advantages and disadvantages. Adaptable evaluations There is no one-size-fits-all solution here. Integration of course schedules Ensure professors and students stay on course.

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Coursera blog

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Several partners were top performers on social mobility for their graduation rates of economically disadvantaged students, including the University of California, Irvine , the University of California, Santa Cruz , and the University of California, Davis. 1 public school in the country by U.S. colleges on economic diversity.

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Liaison International

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Empowering staff to mine data for actionable insights. Institutions should actively work to identify and mitigate biases that may emerge, particularly those that could negatively affect underrepresented or disadvantaged groups.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

In GATE, low test scores often prevent minoritized students from being identified and receiving services; in special education, low test scores often result in misidentification, such as learning disabled, intellectually disadvantaged, and so forth.

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Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 7, 2025

For example, if AI tools are used without human oversight to aid in recruitment or admissions, they may reproduce biases that disadvantage certain student groups, though the understanding of algorithmic discrimination is fragmented and requires further dedicated research.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

The overall effect of empowering frontbenchers at the expense of the wider party membership steepened the hierarchy of influence and weakened party democracy. At some stage, a Minister is going to have to stand up in Parliament and declare a reduction in the number of disadvantaged students in the system a shining policy success.

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Kortext University Leaders' Blog

MARCH 26, 2024

2) Empower staff Ensure that all staff understand how to use AI tools, as well as the benefits and limitations of generative AI for learning and teaching. This seems like a retrograde step that would disadvantage many students and encourage rote, rather than deeper, learning. Should universities return to unseen in-person exams?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

These challenges encompass implicit bias, restricted access to high-quality STEM education, cultural expectations, and socioeconomic disadvantages. These networks and services empower Black scholars in STEM and social sciences to succeed academically and beyond. For instance, while African Americans make up around 13.7%

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EAB

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

I feel like that would be particularly important for people who feel like they've probably been disadvantage by their community or just don't feel like they're a part of their community anymore now that they've been incarcerated. I know even when I did my undergrad, I liked having small classes and getting to meet my teachers.

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ACPA

APRIL 26, 2024

My professional role is in the realm of communication, and has taught me the value of intentional communication structures—because if done correctly, these can be the tools to de-mystify, to reveal, and to empower.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 28, 2025

Critical Pedagogy A core pillar of ADIs approach to anti-racist educationfocusing on empowering learners through empathy, lived experience, and action. So it’s acknowledging when on this hierarchy, you have advantages that have nothing to do with how hard you work or merit, or you have disadvantages.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 13, 2022

We found that student activism was a key characteristic that not only further engaged students in democracy but also empowered them to reimagine democracy starting with the college campus. Our goal was to understand what aspects of the college campus were related to broader political engagement.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 12, 2023

We want to empower our students as writers and thinkers and we know that AI will play a role in their futures. Prepare student writers to consider the benefits and disadvantages of these tools in the context of specific writing purposes. Channel anxiety over ChatGPT into productive experimentation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 22, 2023

Black males are further disadvantaged and marginalized due to being labeled and stereotyped as intellectually inferior to their racial and gender counterparts. Get them involved during meetings and offer professional development that educates and empowers. If we ask and listen, they will speak up.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 25, 2023

Highlights Lucy Cavendish’s Academic Attainment Program first identifies high schools in socio-economic disadvantaged and minority ethnic communities that don’t send pupils to the UK’s top universities. s affinity groups that strengthen these students’ sense of belonging. We know from the US that we have some similarities here.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

It’s a simple fact that students with socioeconomic disadvantages or who are otherwise marginalized have faced steep barriers to accessing higher education. Institutions are now tasked with redefining what constitutes a successful applicant, moving away from historical metrics that disadvantaged marginalized individuals.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Historically Black College or university-enrolled students face compounded disadvantages relative to college students overall. VOTE HBCU/ Xcele ader seeks to empower HBCU students with national programming and resources to amplify their voices and has toured several campuses. But yet, HBCU students want different for this election.

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Today's Learner

DECEMBER 8, 2023

During early America, land grant universities were established to provide education for disadvantaged, underprivileged or marginalized populations, including Black Americans. To learn more, watch his recorded webinar session “The Power of the Learning-Teaching Relationship” from our 2023 Empowered Educator Online Conference.

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Today's Learner

DECEMBER 8, 2023

During early America, land grant universities were established to provide education for disadvantaged, underprivileged or marginalized populations, including Black Americans. To learn more, watch his recorded webinar session “The Power of the Learning-Teaching Relationship” from our 2023 Empowered Educator Online Conference.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2025

The challenges facing racialized, minoritized and disadvantaged populations are not explicitly addressed by the strategic plans of higher education institutions. Systematically renewing our commitment to empowering students demonstrates an intention to fulfill promises and to strengthen the social contract.

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