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President’s Corner: Why Lori White believes DePauw is at a nexus point

University Business

In all that she’d learned in her 40 years of working in higher education, Lori White had found herself in entirely new territory. For the first time in her career, she was the president of a university. This also marked the first time in DePauw University’s history that a woman and a person of color was stepping in.

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UA Libraries’ Digital Archival Project Empowers Voices Among U.S.-Mexico Border Communities

Insight Into Diversity

Serving as the heart of knowledge and scholarship in higher education, academic libraries are uniquely positioned to advance and support digital and data-driven storytelling and archival efforts, especially as they relate to marginalized communities. Mexico borderlands. Men in Chihuahua, Mexico, with donkeys, date unknown.

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Colleges used these 3 strategies to spark big enrollment rebounds this Fall

University Business

Higher education stakeholders have been transfixed by declining student enrollment numbers in the past decade, which were only exacerbated further by the pandemic. The University of Arkansas, for example, has welcomed a record number of students this school year, topping 32,000. It’s proven to be the right call.

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How Three Bronx Institutions are Intentionally Hispanic-Serving

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Demographic changes have led to an increasing number of Latinx students attending higher education. population representing a 13% growth from the year 2000, according to the Latino Policy & Politics Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles. The 2021 Latinx population in the U.S. totaled 62.5

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Pursuit of R-2 status can expand opportunity (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

As universities “ascend” from one Carnegie Foundation classification to another, alarm bells often go off—particularly among those who study higher education. To answer these questions, we turned to data, peer institutions and history. What would it objectively add to our mission?

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New Health Care Schools Open with Emphasis on Workforce Development, Addressing Inequities

Insight Into Diversity

George Mason University, College of Public Health. The College of Public Health at George Mason University (Mason) launched in November. Georgetown University, School of Health. In July, Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., University of La Verne, College of Health and Community Well-Being.

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Harvard's Asian American Matriculates, and my Solution to that "Fair Admissions" Lawsuit

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It’s also luck and that may be the answer as everyone in higher ed awaits the anticipated Supreme Court ruling on the lawsuit challenging Harvard admissions. In the meantime, let us honor not just the graduates of the season, but to the matriculates—those committing to Fall’s Class of 2027. Emil Guillermo I love the word matriculate.