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They Don’t Really Care About Us? Ensuring a Better Connection Between Research, Policy, and Practice to Ensure Success for Black Men in Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

McMickens, Morris Thomas, and Calvin Hadley There is deep concern about the status of Black men in higher education. A recent report about the enrollment of Black men in postsecondary education indicates that Black men comprise 4.6% or a little over 850,000 of the 18.6 million students enrolled in colleges and universities.

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Dr. Stevie Lawrence II Appointed Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs at Lincoln University of Missouri

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Stevie Lawrence II will become provost and vice president of academic affairs at Lincoln University of Missouri , effective July 1. Lawrence has served as vice president for postsecondary education at the Southern Regional Education Board. Dr. Stevie L.

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Daniel Greenstein to Step Down as Pa. Chancellor in October

Inside Higher Ed

Daniel Greenstein has announced he will be stepping down as chancellor of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) in October.

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Dr. Susan Gaulden, Passaic County Community College

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Department of Education Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education grant program that re-engages students who return to their studies after stopping out and enrolled students at risk of stopping out.

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At University of Hawai’i at M?noa, Native Hawaiian Representation is Growing

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Fifty-three percent of Native Hawaiians have not enrolled in any kind of postsecondary education. That expansive data disaggregation is deliberate and can be attributed to efforts led by the Native Hawaiian community, faculty, staff, and students on campus, said Dr. Nikki Chun, vice provost for enrollment management at UH M?noa.

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Undergraduate Enrollment Shows Growth for Second Year

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Undergraduate students who stopped out—left postsecondary education for at least 18 months—have been returning at increasing rates. This work, a real testament to the diligence of our student affairs staff, gave students the confidence to register, which resulted in our census number coming in essentially flat year-over-year.”

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Experts Gathered to Discuss Challenges Facing Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As former provost, Fleming spoke at length about how tuition is the grease that spins the wheels of higher education. “But they’re all getting more expensive. All kinds of compromises are being made around what people would like to see, which is lower costs of tuition.” But lowering tuition isn’t a simple task.