Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

The four entities recognized this year span a diverse geographic area, but they share the mission of uplifting their communities while also creating a broader impact in terms of education and the workforce. Espiritu says EPW creates a sense of belonging in the engineering program and in the profession. We are an affordable institution.

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University Business

OCTOBER 25, 2022

“Prospective students are shrewd consumers, and the factors that influence their choice in postsecondary education have grown more diverse,” says Amir Rasool, Hanover Research’s senior managing director. What colleges should do : Institutions must maintain vibrant websites and stress search-engine optimization.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

With parents showing increased interest, students may be swayed more than ever to pursue these pathways, considering that a previous survey by JFF showed parents are students’ top influencers in how they pursue postsecondary education. Educators were also among students’ stop influencers, behind their parents and friends.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Even though there are wonderful colleges and universities across the states and country, they can’t find enough students to enroll, and every year there are headlines about colleges folding or being acquired.” Public universities and private universities all have very different kinds of funding allocations,” said Dirks.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Midlands Innovation is a strategic research partnership of eight research intensive universities in the Midlands. HEPI is running a series of blogs with Midlands Innovation championing the role of technicians in higher education and research. per cent); to have graduated from a post-1992 university (55.3 Women represent 52.3

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Sloan Foundation and RTI International have engaged in a study of Black and Hispanic individuals who have achieved PhD degrees in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields. Half of the top 20 bachelor’s degrees of Black STEM PhD recipients from 2010–20 were earned at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Image: Cameron Mozafari wasn’t surprised when a student walked into his office at Cornell University and started crying. ” The University of North Carolina system recently received a $5 million state grant to extend and update its Mental Health First Aid program , first launched in 2015.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Data gathered by Excelencia in Education, a nonprofit organization working to improve and accelerate Latinx student success in postsecondary education, showed that in 2021, there were 401 emerging HSI institutions across 43 states. Emerging HSIs have a Latinx undergraduate enrollment rate between 15% and 24.9%. totaled 62.5

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

Image: The success rate for new academic programs at colleges and universities depends more on the type of institution launching them than whether a program is in the sciences or humanities, according to a new report identifying what sorts of programs fare better when it comes to growth. ” The study listed a failure rate of 39.4

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Elmer Guy first came to Crownpoint Institute of Technology in 1999 as dean of instruction, he could not have known that, 24 years later, he would oversee the institution’s renaming to Navajo Technical University (NTU). It became the first tribal college and university, or TCU, to offer a Ph.D. Dr. Elmer Guy “The Ph.D.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

More from UB: How to take the ‘value lens’ approach to higher education Yet, experts at Texas Higher Ed are projecting that by 2030, at least 62% of jobs in Texas will require some postsecondary education. The post Texas’ higher education landscape is changing dramatically with Gen Z appeared first on University Business.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

Anyone who cares deeply about American higher education needs to come to grips with a series of hard and unpleasant truths: That this country’s system of postsecondary education relegates the students with the greatest needs to the most underresourced institutions. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Blog: Beyond Transfer One year ago, the Aspen Institute College Excellence Program (Aspen) partnered with the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) to launch the first cohort of the Transfer Student Success and Equity Intensive , a national effort to accelerate transfer reform at scale.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

A recent episode of The Key, Inside Higher Ed ’s news and analysis podcast, examined the data and metrics colleges and universities are using—or should explore going forward—to gauge the value they provide to their students and other constituents. An edited transcript of the discussions follows. We have data from the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2024

Hines Our co-edited book, Black Males in Secondary and Postsecondary Education: Teaching, Mentoring, Advising and Counseling, is one of the most comprehensive textbooks on Black males. This edited volume comprises 19 book chapters divided into two sections: (a) primary and secondary settings; and (b) postsecondary settings.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 21, 2023

colleges and universities. Andrew Koricich is the Executive Director of the Alliance for Research on Regional Colleges (ARRC) and an Associate Professor of Higher Education at Appalachian State University. in Higher Education and a B.S. from Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Koricich earned a Ph.D. That’s huge.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 22, 2023

Encourage and advocate for Black males to pursue dual enrollment and other accelerated course/program options in high school to provide access and help equalize and narrow postsecondary education matriculation disparities. Ford is a Distinguished Professor of Education and Human Ecology at The Ohio State University Dr. Edward C.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 11, 2022

We have tons of evidence, good causal evidence, that for an additional year of postsecondary education, earnings are going to increase by between 8 and 10 percent. They know that chemical engineering, for example, is a really great thing to major in for earnings. The problem is all in the variation.

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Higher Education Inquirer

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

If you report on US colleges and universities, get to know these 19 higher education databases by Denise-Marie Ordway, The Journalist's Resource No matter what issue youre covering on the higher education beat, your story will be stronger if you ground it in high-quality data. colleges and universities.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The report also contends that higher education is an “engine” for economic mobility as one’s median annual earnings increase with levels of education. Higher education offers hope that civil learning remains a priority, rather than an option.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Image: A new National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine report notes some improvement in minority representation in higher education related to science, technology, engineering, math and medicine (STEMM)—but not enough to match those groups’ share in the overall population.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 13, 2024

While there is a broad understanding that participating in higher education leads to increased levels of civic participation, conflicting narratives exist about this link. The researchers found a dearth of longitudinal studies on the intersection of postsecondary education and civic engagement. Dr. Ioana G.

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University Business

APRIL 30, 2023

For example, a student who enrolls in a university to study engineering discovers that they dislike the subject and transfers to another school. Higher education leaders can be proactive in this pursuit by promoting innovation through a learner-centric, data-informed strategy. Lauría, E. R., & Baron, J. Guarcello, M.,

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Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2023

For too long, US higher education has lagged in promoting democracy-focused education as core to the purpose and goals of a postsecondary education. Bridget Trogden is professor of engineering & science education and association dean in the division of undergraduate studies at Clemson University.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2023

For too long, US higher education has lagged in promoting democracy-focused education as core to the purpose and goals of a postsecondary education. Bridget Trogden is professor of engineering & science education and association dean in the division of undergraduate studies at Clemson University.

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WCET Frontiers

JULY 14, 2023

While it is true that the overall enrollment of high school graduates in colleges and universities is dropping, enrollments are also shifting away from small, private institutions and for-profit institutions to larger, public, non-profit schools. According to the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES), higher education in the U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Indeed, among the reasons that this society established one of the world’s first systems of public education was to prepare a citizenry capable of democratic self-government. But today, per-pupil federal spending on K-12 history and civics education averages $0.05 Steven Mintz Show on Jobs site: Disable left side advertisement?:

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 8, 2022

While most target K-12 education, an increasing number concern colleges and universities. Yes, I am a university professor, but before that, like every teacher, I was a student. And isn’t that why education is a publicly funded civil right in America? Doesn’t our children’s education belong to them ?

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 16, 2024

He returned to New York City government as Assistant City Administrator and Director of University Relations. From there, Mike joined the then-new University of Illinois Chicago campus as Associate Vice Chancellor for Urban Affairs and Associate Professor of Urban Sciences.

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Higher Education Inquirer

OCTOBER 2, 2024

The implications for the broader society within which colleges and universities exist – that’s a subject for another post. For example, the work the Office for Postsecondary Education ( OPE ) does would move to the Department of Labor, while “programs deemed important to our national security interests [shift] to the Department of State.” (327).

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