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Dr. Michelle Asha Cooper

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

based Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP), one of the nation’s premiere education research and policy centers, Dr. Michelle Asha Cooper has a vision. Since taking the helm of IHEP in 2008, Cooper’s been out front influencing national education policy. As president of the Washington, D.C.-based

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Black Students Less Likely Identified for Special Ed When They Have Black Teachers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Black kids are underrepresented in gifted services and overrepresented in special education services,” said report co-author Dr. Cassandra Hart, an associate professor of education policy at UC Davis.

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Lifting As They Climb

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

At the time, Darling-Hammond was an endowed professor at Columbia University, Teachers College. Today, she is the president and CEO of the Learning Policy Institute and the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education Emeritus at Stanford University, where she founded the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education.

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Updated educational attainment data show progress and gaps

Inside Higher Ed

Image: New data from the Lumina Foundation on college degree or credential attainment rates for U.S. The national share of working-age Americans who hold college degrees increased across racial and ethnic groups and rose in all states between 2019 and 2021. adults show both good and bad news. ” The recent data show 53.7

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The State of Higher Education Part 1: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 159 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Courtney Brown

The Change Leader, Inc.

college or university say their barriers have been to finishing their education over three years. The results come from a study by the Lumina Foundation called “ The State of Higher Education: Breaking down the barriers to student enrollment and retention ” in partnership with Gallup.

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Higher education in London

HEPI

I jumped at the chance to speak to London Higher in part because I am an alumnus of our host institution, having studied here at the end of the last century when Queen Mary University of London / QMUL was known as QMWC or Queen Mary and Westfield College. I am also lucky to be an Honorary Fellow of this institution.

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A People's History of Higher Education in the US?

Higher Education Inquirer

A People's History of US Higher Education is sorely needed, not as a purely academic work to gather dust on shelves, or as internet click bait, but as a way to assess how our nation moves forward as a democracy--or as something less. In 2026 we expect an enrollment cliff to occur, a ripple effect of the 2008 Great Recession.

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