Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) “From Learning to Leading: Cultivating the Next Generation of Diverse Food and Agriculture Professionals (NEXTGEN),” UAPB’s Dr. Nina Lyon-Bennett will be heading a scholarship initiative for students pursuing degrees related to agriculture and family and consumer sciences at UAPB and Fort Valley State University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 5, 2024

It’s not an everyday occurrence when a community college leader gets a phone call telling them their institution will receive an influx of funding in the millions. when MacKenzie Scott, one of the richest women in the world, decided to make a major investment in community colleges.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 26, 2023

I should add that neither US News nor the educated public has much understanding of what a first-tier, cutting-edge English or history or sociology department would look like. Would it be judged on scholarship, influence, or some other elements? Has their audacity and boldness faded along with the impetus to shatter existing paradigms?

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 5, 2022

candidate—and became one of the many Ukrainian students currently benefiting from scholarships offered by U.S. colleges and universities. For the Ukrainian students, enrolling in college in the United States offers a welcome reprieve from the horrors of the war at home. So she returned to KU—this time as a Ph.D.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In the just-released Open Doors 2023 report on International Exchange, the US Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and the Institute of International Education found that of the 2.87 million students enrolled in college, just under 170,000 studied abroad in the 2021/22 academic year. Through the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 10, 2024

Over the past decade, Black college and university enrollment has been dropping at alarming rates, declining 22% from 2010 and 2020. Supreme Court decision removing race as a consideration in college admissions. We can expect this recession of Black enrollment to continue in the wake of the recent U.S. Dr. Harry L.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs released the full tally of college and university’s Fulbright award winners last week, allowing the public to take a peek into which schools produced the most. 16) Carleton College, Minn. (14) 14) Barnard College, N.Y. (13) 3) Siena College, N.Y. (3)

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 30, 2024

Education Northwest, an Oregon-based nonprofit organization promoting education for all, unveiled the results on Tuesday of a first-of-its kind, nine-year study of the partnership between Tacoma Community College (TCC) and the Tacoma Housing Authority (THA), called the College Housing Assistance Program (CHAP).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

However, there is a network of tribally run colleges and universities that are the ongoing extension of those sovereignties as well as key vehicles for continuing to liberate the sovereign potential. Most universities and colleges continue to occupy large land bases and are maintained by taxing those stolen lands.

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University Business

MAY 2, 2024

Instead of celebrating decision day on May 1, West Virginia’s colleges and universities are facing a state of emergency. Department of Education officials said this week that many of the problems have been fixed as the June 30 deadline approaches. So far, the department has received applications from about 8.4

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University Business

OCTOBER 12, 2023

A National Science Foundation (NSF) report found that the Department of Defense’s Federal allocation of colleges’ science and engineering programs topped over $2.5 ” The post Why the Defense Department is poised to become HBCUs’ new best friend appeared first on University Business.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

UF President Ben Sasse described an early framework of UF’s new strategic plan in faculty-only presentations across UF’s colleges last week. Sasse discussed adjusting student tuition costs, reducing the total number of academic departments, eliminating "quiet-retired" faculty and restructuring the delivery of education, a professor said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Recommendations: · Pre-work: University should provide departments with an anonymous, structured evaluation forms (with decision criteria and clear rubrics, just as is used to facilitate fairness in student grading) to rate the candidate both quantitatively and qualitatively. Committee members often arrive unprepared.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 13, 2023

In the early 2000s, they adopted a son, who is now a college student. He graduated from Hunter College, part of the City University of New York, with a degree in psychology. Twelve years later, when Couch and Massey married in Canada, their wedding announcement ran in the Times.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Colleges and universities itching to strengthen their students’ workforce readiness may seek to partner with employers. However, Devon Player, a 2023 graduate of Whitman College (Wash.), owes her budding career for the Walla Walla Community Council to the work of the college’s career and community engagement center.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Virginia Tech‘s scholarships and grants are lower than those of the school’s peers, according to the school. The initiative will be headed by Dr. Menah Pratt, vice president for strategic affairs and diversity, and Dr. Matt Holt, professor and head of the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics. “In

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MindMax

AUGUST 4, 2022

One of the biggest mistakes higher education marketing departments make is failing to recognize the distinctions between college freshmen and adult learners. The College Freshman’s Decision-Making Process. Ultimately, they’re looking to find a college that’s the right fit for them in their coming-of-age journey.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 13, 2023

Derrick Brooms will become executive director of the Black Men’s Research Institute (BMRI) at Morehouse College, effective Aug. Dr. Derrick Brooms Brooms is currently associate department head of Africana studies and professor of Africana studies and sociology at University of Tennessee-Knoxville.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Department of Education had a rough launch with its newly updated form resulting in a nearly three-month delay coupled with several technological issues for applicants. That’s according to the latest available data from the National College Attainment Network , which tracks the changes in FAFSA submission rates year-over-year.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 31, 2023

The College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Alabama at Birmingham has been awarded a $4.6 Recipients must complete an internship and work for a federal, state, local, or tribal government organization in a cybersecurity-related position for a period equal to the length of the scholarship after graduation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Cantor will soon embark on a new journey to lead Hunter College, the largest college in the City University of New York (CUNY) system. This is a magnanimous opportunity for Hunter College,” Eatman said. Her father graduated from The City College of New York and her mother graduated from Hunter. “So,

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University Business

JULY 28, 2023

At Wednesday’s National Summit on Equal Opportunity hosted by the Department of Education, presidents, chancellors, provosts, CEOs and secretaries from across the nation heeded Department Secretary Miguel Cardona’s advice to turn this “low point” in higher education into a “turning point.”

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Approximately 29 percent of community college students say they’ve experienced food insecurity, while 14 percent report housing insecurity — and for students of color and those from low-income backgrounds, the challenges are even greater, according to a 2022 survey* by the Center for Community College Student Engagement (CCCSE).

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Insight Into Diversity

MAY 13, 2024

Department of Education (ED) has proposed discontinuing the library component of the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS). As the comment period has closed with a strong response from stakeholders, the future of the library survey in IPEDS remains uncertain, awaiting a final decision from the Department of Education.

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The PIE News

JUNE 1, 2023

Streamlining and prioritising US study visas and creating inclusive and accessible study abroad opportunities are top of the agenda for the State Department in the US. “At the State Department, we are working to expand international education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2023

college enrollment is a lingering concern for both educators and policy makers. College and university student enrollment is down for the third straight year, 7% lower than it was in 2019. Others, alarmed by reports of the high cost of tuition, believe that going to college will require them to shoulder an oppressive debt burden.

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IHEP

AUGUST 16, 2023

Department of Education’s 2019-20 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:20) underscores a disconcerting reality: most students face a gap between what their families can afford and what they must pay to attend college. New IHEP analysis of data from the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The vast majority of colleges and universities are failing their prospective students when it comes to telling them what they can expect to pay, according to a new report from Congress’s General Accounting Office (GAO). 22% don’t provide any information on college costs at all in their financial aid offers.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

A prominent lens into how deeply this perspective is ingrained into our governmental framework is college athletics. Though the growth of college athletics as a business sector has expanded substantially in the past several decades, this practice has even older roots.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Cluster hiring instantly injects diversity into departments that have little, while making the experience easier for minoritized faculty members. We’ve seen a rise in hate,” says Dr. Bridget Kelly, an associate professor and student affairs & diversity officer at the University of Maryland’s College of Education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 1, 2024

But Dr. Ajhanai Keaton, an assistant professor in the Department of Health and Sport Sciences at the University of Louisville, Kentucky, says that, while the NCAA’s policy has good intentions, there are no clear repercussions for athletic departments that do not include DEI programs. Dr. Kathleen E.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Joseph Mwantuali, professor of French at Hamilton College Dr. Joseph Mwantuali said that he didn’t know what to expect when he joined the French and Francophone studies department at Hamilton College in upstate New York. I’m just different in this college. Hamilton has a different interpretation of events.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 31, 2023

Image: Lebanon Valley College in Pennsylvania hosted a full-day advising and career exploration event in lieu of classes on March 21, giving students an opportunity to access resources and develop their success plans. The college offered students an event attendance incentive: a chance to win a $500 scholarship.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Others targeting scholarship diversity programs The Supreme Court’s ruling against affirmative action has empowered other nonprofits outside of AAER to target what they deem discriminatory scholarships and fellowships. link] — Robin Vos (@repvos) June 29, 2023 Can lawmakers, firms target scholarships following the ruling?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 15, 2022

When Cazenovia College, a 199-year-old private liberal arts school in upstate New York announced last Wednesday that it would close after the spring semester, sophomore Ally Ruetton was shocked. “No On Wednesday morning, the board of trustees voted to close the college. Others, like Mills College, merged with bigger institutions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 14, 2023

The Departments of Education and Justice have published their guidance on the Supreme Court’s race-conscious admissions ruling, offering clarity to colleges and applicants about the post-affirmative action landscape. Kellogg Professor of Community College Leadership at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Miguel Cardona, U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 14, 2024

Department of Education delivered the keynote address at Hope 2023 in New Orleans. I can’t apply to colleges outside of New Orleans because I was going to soon be a mother,” Lopez recalled, adding that she ultimately decided to attend UNO, because the school was prepared to provide housing to her and her newborn baby and his father.

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