Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 22, 2022

A growing body of research has shown that race-matched instruction—when teachers and learners come from the same background—is beneficial for students. College students have been shown to be likelier to pass courses with race-matched instructors, likelier to receive higher grades in those courses, and likelier to persist in school.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2023

In a closing members’ discussion, we noted that higher education is connected to all of the big political topics of our moment, but rarely seems to be acknowledged by politicians as such. Either way, we inevitably found ourselves wondering what role higher education will play in these parties’ campaigns – if any.

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OCTOBER 20, 2022

First, post-traditional students being recruited aggressively by a surprisingly broad swath of colleges and universities. This target group is now expanding to students who either didn’t complete their degrees or didn’t go to college at all. For students who skipped college, how many of them will come back?

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NOVEMBER 23, 2023

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Paul Angrave , Associate Director of Public Affairs at the University of Leicester. Few would argue with the statements above, least not me as those who know me would testify, but the same could be said of UK higher education. billion a year. Four themes emerged from our discussions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

“Ohio Wesleyan is a distinctive, forward-looking, and appreciably student-centered institution that transforms lives,” vandenBerg said. With initiatives like the OWU Connection, Ohio Wesleyan and its faculty are reimagining the liberal arts for the needs of a new world and a new generation of students. vandenBerg holds an Ed.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2023

The gift comes as part of Fidelity’s $250-million initiative to support education access and economic mobility for up to 50,000 underrepresented African American/Black, Latinx American, Native American, and Asian/Pacific Islander American students. French, Jr., president of UNCF-member Clark Atlanta University.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 23, 2023

Image: When Andrea Mora enrolled at University of California, Irvine, in 2012, she was a low-income, first-generation student. She’d spent seven years as a part-time student at Los Angeles Pierce Community College after graduating from high school and struggled to earn money and find financial aid to pay for a four-year education.

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JANUARY 11, 2023

This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Kim Eccleston, Head of Strategy and Reform – Strategy, Policy and Public Affairs, at UCA S. The report was informed by the voices of 13,000 students and outlined a student-centred programme of reform. HEPI’s recent paper on reforming UCAS personal statements is here.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

A more holistic assessment of students, including the use of the ACT test score alongside HSGPA, acts as a better predictor. That’s according to the latest report from the ACT , which analyzed high school GPAs, ACT test scores, and first-year grades in students from 2017 to 2021. Before the pandemic, in 2017, a student who had a 2.5

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 23, 2023

Hartle had a front-row seat for just about every important federal policy discussion that affected colleges, their students and their employees. Listen to this episode here , and find out more about The Key here. Is this diversity newsletter?: Hide by line?: Disable left side advertisement?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 22, 2024

The Harvard Crimson reports that Muhammad was just one of two tenured Black professors at Harvard Kennedy School and that his departure marks another setback for the school as it struggles to increase diversity among its faculty and student body.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2023

Abrams for her commitment to investing in the future of Howard students as the Ronald W. Ronald Walters, it expands on that legacy by bringing Howard students in dialogue with a contemporary candidate whose work has directly influenced today’s political landscape.” We are incredibly grateful to Ms. Abrams holds a B.A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Flores Per the agreement, the FBI will inform HACU about FBI internships, programs, and hiring opportunities open to college students and recent graduates. HACU is pleased to enter into this agreement to help provide career opportunities within the FBI to students from Hispanic-Serving Institutions,” said HACU President and CEO Dr. Antonio R.

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HEPI

MARCH 10, 2023

This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Eve Alcock, Head of Public Affairs at the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA). Even in conversations with higher education providers, it is clear there is a range of views and approaches in play.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Student outcomes. These are challenges all of us in higher education face today. Is a degree or a professional credential the right path for a student’s desired career? We have to think differently about the future of higher education. Put the student and the research at the center.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2023

Hillary Clinton will become a professor of practice in Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), effective Feb. Hillary Rodham Clinton Clinton – a former senator, First Lady, presidential candidate, and U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The legislation can be broadly split into two categories; limits on temporary residents including international students and workers, and changes to the asylum system. The new figure also accounts for the recent inclusion of graduate students. million in 2023”. million in 2023”.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 30, 2023

Supreme Court should allow colleges to consider race as part of the admissions process, but few believe students’ race should be a major factor, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. The majority of adults in the U.S. say that the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 23, 2022

She brings more than a decade of experience in higher education leadership roles that have required strategic planning and execution of diversity-related efforts. Prior to the University of Nebraska, Jenkins spent 14 years at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC).

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 23, 2023

Higher education has been a top beneficiary of earmarks, which returned in 2021 after Democrats reversed a decade-long ban and made several reforms to the process. Over all, 540 institutions, including community colleges, public and private colleges, and university hospitals and medical centers, received more than $1.73

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Image: Arizona voters will decide next month whether to allow undocumented students in the state to receive in-state tuition—one of three statewide measures on the ballot this November related to higher education. Harnisch said Arizona’s Proposition 308 is “the marquee higher education ballot measure this year.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 5, 2024

Since then, the recipient institutions have put their gifts of millions of dollars to use in several ways, seeking to enhance what they offer to the many – and often underprivileged – students that they serve. For us, this was the largest donation that we had ever received. [It]

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 15, 2023

Image: When the Taliban banned women from pursuing higher education, they did not simultaneously extinguish half their citizens’ educational ambitions. Saleema is one of more than 126,000 students, including nearly 17,000 refugees, studying at this tuition-free, nonprofit online university with an all-volunteer faculty.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Image: After a bruising year of pandemic-related enrollment declines, higher education leaders across the country are anxiously waiting for this fall’s national enrollment picture to emerge. National Student Clearinghouse data released in May showed the enrollment downturn slowing, but by no means reversing. There was a 4.6

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DECEMBER 5, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Paul Angrave, Director of Public Affairs and Engagement and William Wells, Deputy Director of Research & Enterprise at the University of Leicester. This blog is part of series of HEPI publications marking twenty five years of devolution.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Efforts to widen higher education access have tended to focus on the provision of information and supportto those from under-represented backgrounds. However, such a focus can mean that insufficient attention is given to the student voice, and to listening to what they have to say. by Neil Raven.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 19, 2023

Q1: What role does online education play in Syracuse University’s institutional strategy? Even before the pandemic, students were demanding greater flexibility in how and where they learn. This choice is essential in driving innovation, access, and affordability in the higher education ecosystem.

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AUGUST 9, 2024

Repairing the College-to-Career Pipeline A Conversation With Aimée Eubanks Davis, Founder and CEO of Braven Elana Thu, 08/15/2024 - 18:01 Image College to Career First Generation Weekly Wisdom Braven is an inspiring organization: a nonprofit that partners with higher education institutions to guide their graduates into the workforce.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2023

This blog was kindly authored by Helena Vine , Policy and Public Affairs Officer at the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA). The Lifelong Learning Entitlement (LLE) provides a tuition fee loan entitlement equivalent to four years of post-18 education – £37,000 in today’s fees. If done right, it could be revolutionary.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

But just as teaching and administering a college provided Weiss with training that proved invaluable in running the Met, so, too, presiding over a major museum taught him lessons that higher education ought to embrace. Even the most elite and exclusive institutions fail to connect to the public at their peril.

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APRIL 11, 2025

Academic Council Statement: The Defense of the University April 8, 2025 Higher education is under direct and sustained attack. We call on our leaders to ensure the safety and privacy of students, faculty, and staff. Their calls for unity and action should be widely circulated and embraced.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

A Republican Congress’s prime educational target might be President Joe Biden’s student debt forgiveness program, which has attracted close to 26 million applicants so far. I think they could establish a new set of guidelines or procedures that really requires the Department of Education to comply.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Brown, who was vice president of government relations and public affairs for New York University (NYU) on that day, climbed to the roof of Bobst Library when she heard that an airplane had hit the World Trade Center. For these students, the political turmoil of the past few years feels far more relevant than 9/11.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 4, 2023

Foxx is a former college administrator and had previously introduced several pieces of higher ed legislation, including a reauthorization of the Higher Education Act in 2017. Virginia Foxx is deeply, deeply interested in higher education,” said Lindwarm. How much legislation will they be able to move forward?

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 15, 2023

Image: Wellesley College students have made their position clear: the majority of them want the women’s college to open admissions to all transgender people, including those who identify as trans men. "Wellesley College acknowledges the result of the non-binding student ballot initiative," the statement read.

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University Business

JANUARY 4, 2023

There is also concern over whether the app worsens teenage students’ mental health, the Associated Press reports. At least 20 public universities in the state have TikTok accounts, U.S. 8 prohibiting its use by state entities, which higher education institutions would quickly follow. News reports. In Oklahoma, Gov.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 19, 2023

The Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) has long been considered one of most confusing and frustrating governmental forms, a 108-question gantlet of information on finances and family for students trying to pay for college. It’s a surprise for many students. The records came from California.

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