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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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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. Smith University in North Carolina have hired “scholarship coordinator” staff that is focused on helping students find and secure scholarships and other funding.

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Enhancing Understanding of Urban Community Colleges

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Smith Title: Associate Professor of Higher Education; Provost Faculty Fellow, University of Cincinnati Age: 39 Education: B.S., Miller, professor of higher education and public policy at the University of Arkansas, about Dr. Everrett A. Everrett A. psychology, Middle Tennessee State University; M.S.,

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How Three Bronx Institutions are Intentionally Hispanic-Serving

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The school is now eligible for Title V HSI funds that can support student recruitment, education, sense of belonging, and completion. Interim Provost Dr. Rani Roy says the school has already applied for two HSI grants and will find out in October whether they’ve been accepted. You raise the quality of life for individuals by education.”

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Why we need better data on faculty diversity (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

A diverse faculty brings diverse perspectives, and these diverse perspectives enhance teaching and advising, research and scholarship, clinical practice, and engagement with the community and world. The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, sponsored by the U.S. Yet, at most U.S.

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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Doris Espiritu EPW was created by Dr. Doris Espiritu, Senior Advisor to the Provost, dean of the Center of Excellence for Engineering & Computer Science, City Colleges of Chicago. There is a dual admission program with the Armour College of Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), which provides scholarships.

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Alphabet Soup

Susquehanna President's Blog

. · AAU – Association of American Universities – One of “The Six” Higher-Education Organizations in Washington, DC; this is the organization of leading research universities, 2 Canadian and 60 from the U.S. They work on policies and best practices for research and scholarship in higher education. Department of Education.