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

JANUARY 9, 2023

Virginia Commonwealth University’s (VCU) medical college was “intimately connected” to slavery in the mid-1800s, according to a report commissioned by VCU and published last month, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported. The school owned or rented enslaved people who cooked, cleaned, and maintained buildings.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

middle school math & social studies education, University of Missouri, Columbia; M.Ed., school counseling, University of Maryland, College Park; and Ph.D., I didn’t even know what graduate school was until I was an undergrad,” Mayes recalls. They planted the seed that graduate school was possible,” says Mayes.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 1, 2023

HB 982 will create the Pilot Program for Human Services Careers, changing eligibility criteria for the Maryland Loan Assistance Repayment Program for Police Officers and the Maryland Police Officers Scholarship Program to include probation agents. It also establishes the Pilot Program for Human Services Careers Scholarship.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

Leslie Hall, director of the HBCU Program at the Human Rights Campaign — the largest LGBTQ lobbying organization in the U.S. A 2022 report from the UCLA School of Law Williams Institute and the Point Foundation, an LGBTQ scholarship fund, noted that 32.6% noted they received unfair treatment from school administrators.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 1, 2023

Image: Latinx students can have a tough time navigating the numerous structural and institutional challenges that work against them in academia, especially when it comes to attending and succeeding in graduate school. Graduate school does not need to be a lonely, solitary endeavor, and it’s so much better when it isn’t.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

But all of that changed in 2022, when Steele saw a listing for a job at the University of Rochester’s Warner School of Education and Human Development. 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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EAB

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Press Release PowerSchool and EAB Partner to Simplify College Admissions and Expand College Access for Millions of Students Users of the Naviance platform will now have easier access to offers of college admission and financial aid via EAB’s Concourse technology September 12, 2023 FOLSOM, CALIF.

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University Business

APRIL 4, 2023

Lindsey Ash says she likely would have sought a liberal arts degree in speech therapy — until a high school class steered her toward science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The post College students follow the money into STEM education, killing off struggling liberal arts programs appeared first on University Business.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 31, 2022

Blog: Beyond Transfer Millions of community college students are pursuing their higher education journeys right now. Many aspire to transfer to a four-year college or university. Now that we can look at data from the fall 2017 cohort, we see just three percent of community college transfer students enrolled at selective schools.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

We also offer culturally-grounded recommendations for educators to adopt in order to be more effective with low-income students and students of color; in this same spirit, the recommendations are offered to help marginalized students experience schools as affirming places in every level of education. Student diversity is not an issue.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Brianna Allen’s mother dropped out of high school at 16 years old. But in her junior year of high school, a spring break trip to a lake ended in tragedy with the drowning death of one of her close friends. As a result, I chose to drop out of school.” But by 2016, Allen decided to return to school and complete her education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The Proctor Institute – housed in the Rutgers-New Brunswick Graduate School of Education – hosted the event in honor of Black History Month. The inspiration to form AMHPS came to Sullivan at a National Medical Association meeting when he was developing the medical school at Morehouse College in 1975.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 27, 2023

“Being at the largest HBCU in Alabama, I had the experience of training quite a bit of exceptional male teachers who would go on to do great things in the schools,” Strachan said. “I The MALE program was launched in 2019, months before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Strachan pointed out, but said that has not stopped its efforts.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 22, 2023

In schools across the nation, there has been a heightened awareness of the need for students to earn postsecondary degrees – as there is substantial evidence that it leads to better labor market outcomes and a higher quality of life. Hines, Fletcher, & Moore, in press, p. 2019; Monarrez & Washington, 2020).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

Over the past two decades, promise programs, in which recent high school graduates are offered free tuition to attend local colleges and universities, have become popular tools to bridge equity gaps in higher ed, with over 300 programs active in over 40 states. The study found that KPromise has many benefits.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 21, 2023

National University (NU) announced the launch of the Cause Research Institute (CRI), a new applied Research and Development arm that will coordinate research, scholarship, and other innovation efforts focused on social sector challenges, including education, health, human services, and criminal justice.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In one memorable instance, we stood at the entrance to the Council of Graduate Schools annual meeting, where so many people came up to greet Orlando. Wherever we went, Orlando knew how to engage people’s hearts through his own scholarship and research, from my shy niece to the President of a powerful university.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

I don’t even know if he sees it for himself, but I see it for him.” “Those fellowships as well as Morgan and HBCUs more broadly have helped me to understand that my Blackness is a strength and I don’t have to put it on the backburner to pursue scholarship and knowledge development,” he said. “It

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 18, 2023

But this is not the case in education, in social sciences and in particular in the humanities, all of which are characterized by stable or declining demand for assistant professors. granting universities in the humanities decreased by 16.8 percent between 2011 and 2021. Finally, we only explored Ph.D.-granting is growing.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

Willumstad School of Business The STEM-designated MS in Business Analytics course at Adelphi is dedicated to increasing the number of women leaders in the field. They participate in social activities that create community, such as dining at a faculty mentor’s home, hearing guest speakers, and meeting with medical school representatives.

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Liaison International

MARCH 22, 2023

Number of undergrads who earned a degree fell for the first time since 2012 The number of college students earning an undergraduate degree each year had been rising steadily for most of the past decade, but that trend has come to an end. Yet most U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

In April 2023, Manhattan College in Riverdale, New York, passed a significant threshold. The four-year, Catholic private school officially became an Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI), meaning over 25% of their undergraduate population are Latinx. Manhattan College has been classified as an emerging HSI for years, says Roy.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

As researchers, practitioners, and healthcare workers reflect on the events of the last two and a half years, programs related to public health have become a priority at many colleges and universities. In response, colleges and universities are seeing increased interest in courses and programs that address issues of public health.

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Campus Sonar

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

It’s no secret by now that the redesign and relaunch of the FAFSA form at the federal level has caused stress and confusion for higher ed leaders and college-going families alike. Go beyond your own campus channels, as posters often talking in more general threads focused on applying to college and financial aid.

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Liaison International

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Most Recent High School Grads aren’t Prepared for College and Career Decisions. Most (62%) believe their schools should have played a bigger role in getting them ready to face the future, and more than half said family and friends play a deciding role in the choices they do make. More Employers Drop College Degree Requirement.

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ACPA

MARCH 6, 2023

We’re excited to highlight the scholarship of Dr. Tiera Tanksley , Assistant Professor of Equity, Diversity, and Justice in Education at CU Boulder and a Critical Race Technology Fellow at UCLA. from the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies within UCLA’s Urban Schooling program. She earned her Ph.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 12, 2023

“I can easily see Dom Turner being a college president one day,” said Dr. Frimpomaa Ampaw, chair of the Department of Advanced Studies, Leadership and Policy in the School of Education and Urban Studies at Morgan State University. “I I don’t even know if he sees it for himself, but I see it for him.”

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The late donor, a 1953 graduate, was a disabled student at a time when such services were not the norm on college campuses, but she thrived academically and built a successful career after graduating—outcomes her family members say she credited to her time at Temple. Temple plans to begin awarding the scholarships this coming fall.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2024

We and many others have written about how Black males are the most disenfranchised students in our nation’s schools. Schools as a mirror of society are often hostile to Black males. The career academy as a vehicle to promote Black male student interest in STEM college and career pathways. Dr. Erik M. Hines & E.C.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The prominent UCLA professor remembered the days when he wore a yellow vest and roamed the narrow corridors of Willowbrook Middle School as a proud member of the school’s honor society. Middle school as a turning point Back in the 1980s, droves of Black families clamored to enroll their children into Willowbrook Middle School.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 23, 2022

McWilliams also has experience in administration, facilities and operations, compliance and governance, human resources, and external operations. In 2006, McWilliams was inducted into Temple University’s Gallery of Success and was a member of the inaugural class inducted into the Sierra High School Hall of Fame in Colorado.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 29, 2023

Of course, the rise of academic theorists and college-based critics occurred at the very time that public readership of academic literary criticism has fallen precipitously. How English became an established part of the college curriculum and why it has recently lost ground and has increasingly been reduced to a service department.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 17, 2023

Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) are safe spaces for personal development. Like many students, they need support, and that’s where the tireless work of Thurgood Marshall College Fund comes into play, which is more critical than ever following the disappointing Supreme Court decision regarding affirmative action recently.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2023

UMGC has agreements with all 16 community colleges in Maryland, says Dr. Pam Carter, vice president and dean of the School of Business, which offers seven undergraduate degree programs and 10 stand-alone certificates. Webster’s business school provides an academic resource center. in management and leadership.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2024

He had received a scholarship in the spring semester that covered the cost of any debts he had incurred that year, and he had the receipts to prove it. As he would come to discover, despite being led away in handcuffs by campus police, there was no official school record of the event. Ross was confused. had contemplated suicide.

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