Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 4, 2024

Racquel Oden is the first woman in Thurgood Marshall College Fund’s 37-year history to assume the role of Board Chair, announced the organization, which was founded in 1987 by Dr. N. Joyce Payne as a bastion of support for Black students seeking higher education. Racquel Oden Thurgood Marshall College Fund, Inc.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

Hilton This expression is equally relevant to students applying to college. Inferior campus facilities impact the ability to both recruit and retain students as well as attract the best faculty, and the evidence is apparent across the entire higher education landscape. Also, there is the affordability of college. Dr. Adriel A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The College Board has released a revised framework of its African American studies Advanced Placement (AP) course, a course that has received plenty of criticism from both advocates and critics this year. The College Board also faced pushback from conservatives, like Florida Gov. Dr. Terrell Strayhorn With this Dec.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2023

The Department of Homeland Security's Office of State and Local Law Enforcement partnered with HBCUs North Carolina A&T, Benedict College, Southern University and A&M College, and Florida A&M University in its first K9 Bomb Detection Adoption Program. It started just after the turn of the new year.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

Action taken While there has been steady advancement over the past 40 years, the murder of George Floyd in 2020 has proven to be a seminal moment that has propelled student-athletes, coaches, and administrators to face issues of race and racism in college sports. was key,” says Carter-Francique. “To was key,” says Carter-Francique.

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Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 4, 2023

The American Indian College Fund recently received a five-year, $38 million grant from the Lilly Endowment to support American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) students and tribal colleges and universities (TCUs). The grant, which totals $38,775,000, is the largest in the College Fund’s history.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 26, 2024

Throughout this process, I have learned so much about Texas Southern University, and I am honored to join this esteemed institution with such a rich history,” said Crawford. “I Crawford III was selected as the sole finalist for president of Texas Southern University. Crawford retired after 30 years with the U.S. He served under six U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 25, 2024

Roy Davage Hudson Hudson served from 1970 to 1976 at Hampton, then known as Hampton Institute, and played a significant role in shaping the institution's history and fostering its growth. He spearheaded initiatives that expanded educational opportunities and enhanced the quality of education at Hampton University. Williams. “He

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HEPI

MARCH 7, 2023

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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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

26 memorial for Jim Wright, Marine, president emeritus of Dartmouth, champion of education for veterans, who died Oct. The memorial reviewed 53 years of hard work by Jim at Dartmouth as a history professor, administrator and president. In my many conversations with Jim about veterans and college, he always first asked about Betsy.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 9, 2023

Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida and other right-wing conservative legislators would like us to believe that the field of African American studies is “woke’ indoctrination and has no value in K-12 classrooms or college and university curricula. He instituted Black History Week, which is now called Black History Month.

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University Business

MARCH 10, 2023

With every technological innovation comes the need to educate the next generation of students to ensure they can apply those skills to their future careers. In July 2022, more than 500 tech and education leaders issued a call to action advocating for the expansion of computer science education opportunities for students.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Civics education is all the rage. ” Support for civics education cuts across the political spectrum. What does civics education entail? But at the college level, we need to move up a notch. But today, per-pupil federal spending on K-12 history and civics education averages $0.05

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 6, 2023

The bumpy bus ride from Tougaloo College, Mississippi’s private Historically Black College or University that boasts the production of over 40% of the state’s Black physicians and dentists, is punctuated by a steady flow of thick, balmy air desperately trying to provide relief while obviously in need of a refrigerant top-off.

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University Business

JULY 6, 2023

Across the country, new education policies took effect on July 1st, the beginning of the new fiscal year in most states. A handful of them tackle some of the most pressing issues K12 and higher education leaders face today, including school safety and inclusion. Several directly target discussions and instruction in K12 education.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 14, 2023

Q: You call your book “the political history of an idea.” ” What is that idea and why do we need to know its political history? A: The idea really, is how Americans think about education—what we want it to do.

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Liaison International

MARCH 1, 2023

It hasn’t always been easy—or equitable—for women seeking an education, but there are trailblazers who changed the course of history and the world. Do you know who they are? Here’s a chance to test your knowledge by matching the name with her accomplishments. appeared first on Liaison International.

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Liaison International

OCTOBER 5, 2023

This holiday provides an opportunity to honor and recognize the enduring legacies of Indigenous peoples in the Americas, while also shedding light on the often overlooked and misrepresented pieces of their history.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 24, 2024

The introduction and rollout of the new Better FASFA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) form has led to a multitude of challenges, setbacks, and concerns among students, caregivers, and educators.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIU Carbondale) and historically Black college Tougaloo College have partnered for a 3+3 dual degree program, wherein Tougaloo students who qualify will be able to complete both their bachelor’s and SIU School of Law law degrees in six years instead of seven.

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JULY 5, 2023

The court didn’t explicitly rule out consideration of a student’s race, leaving door open to interpretation of college admissions aims Since 1978, when affirmative action in college admissions was first upheld by the US supreme court, civil rights leaders have fended off various challenges to dismantle the policy.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

It coincided with HRC’s HBCU Out Loud Day, which takes place the third Wednesday of October during LGBTQ History Month. of LGBTQ people experienced bullying, harassment, or assault at college, compared to 18.9% Dacey, who recently narrated a video about LGBTQ history at UND, has remained engaged with advocacy at the university.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 6, 2023

Image: Community college baccalaureate programs in California can help more Black and Latino students earn bachelor’s degrees in a state that badly needs a more educated workforce, according to a new report. ” There are currently no community college baccalaureate programs in nursing in the state.

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totallyrewired

MAY 17, 2024

Image of Decentering Education in Bauhus style created using DALL-E. In the first seminar of the Creative Education Online series, David White and Chris Rowell from the University Arts London (UAL) hosted Dr. Natasha Bonnelame, Program Director of Digital Learning at the London College of Fashion. Image was created by DALL-4.

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IHEP

APRIL 25, 2024

Level funding in the fiscal year 2024 appropriations package meant critical need-based financial aid programs, including Federal Work Study and Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants, were not cut. Ensuring students persist in college and complete their degrees is as important as access and affordability.

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Insight Into Diversity

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Following months of discussion and public scrutiny, the College Board has unveiled the final framework for its Advanced Placement (AP) course in African American Studies. The revised curriculum includes more in-depth coverage of topics such as the history of slavery, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Black Power Movement.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 13, 2023

For the first time in history, substantial numbers of young women lived outside of a family home, not as servants but as mill girls, earning an independent income and living with other young women. Today, college serves, for many late adolescents and young adults, a somewhat similar function. It leaves them a changed person.

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IHEP

APRIL 23, 2024

IHEP and fellow higher education advocates are elevating shared priorities to urge lawmakers to appropriate the funding necessary to improve access, affordability, and equitable outcomes for today’s students. Ensuring students persist in college and complete their degrees is as important as access and affordability.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 23, 2023

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. “All of those intersectionalities opened my eyes to a lot of inequity in higher education,” Mora said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 16, 2022

It’s important to know from whence we came,” said Schexnider, former chancellor of Winston-Salem University and author of Saving Black Colleges. Despite that, she sent three of her daughters on to Xavier University in New Orleans and Texas College in Tyler, two private HBCUs. Education was the key then and, I think, now.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Formal education could be the game-changer, offering employers a skilled workforce and establishing much-needed standards. Enter Roanoke College, a small liberal arts college in Virginia, making headlines by launching a cannabis studies program with two majors and a minor—a first in the Commonwealth and a rarity on the East Coast.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 17, 2023

Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) are safe spaces for personal development. Williams They continue to be essential beacons of higher education for the talented students who attend them. Here’s further proof of the impact of HBCUs in the world.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Political interference in higher education, we are told , is increasing. The partisan divide in views on higher education, we hear , is deepening. ” As her own books demonstrate, political attacks on higher education date back much further. Campuses “ are driving political division.”

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Dr Alice Pettigrew, a researcher at the Institute of Education, University of London. Indeed, as research by Kings College London reports , throughout 2020 and beyond, wider concern over representation of Britain’s colonial past became one of the key battlegrounds within national so-called ‘culture wars’.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The June 29, 2023, Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action abruptly ended race-conscious admissions practices in higher education, eroding nearly 50 years of precedent. Ellis The National Council of Churches vehemently opposed the Supreme Court’s ruling on affirmative action in college admissions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 27, 2023

In an effort to cultivate more inclusive campuses for LGBTQ students, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation has collaborated with colleges and universities nationwide to develop its Historically Black Colleges and Universities Program and its PrEP Ambassador Program. According to the CDC, 38% of the U.S.

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Insight Into Diversity

APRIL 18, 2023

Advocates Continue to Fight Proposed Anti-DEI Legislation Proposed laws targeting DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) initiatives and curriculum in higher education are widespread throughout the country. One of seven proposed Texas laws would eliminate DEI offices and positions altogether at the state’s public colleges.

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