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Do test-optional policies increase diversity?

Higher Ed Data Stories

However, critics of test optional like to trot out this study from 2014 , suggesting test-optional policies do not increase diversity. Finally, admissions, opportunity, culture, and policy are complex. The next two shows those same institutions, broken out by college, year, and ethnicity: First, African American and then Hispanic.

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Independent Colleges: Four Headwinds for Leadership to Navigate in 2024

Campus Sonar

Our 2024 kicked off with a trip to sunny Florida for the Council of Independent Colleges Presidents Institute. Although the focus was on independent colleges, the issues and trends affect every institution in some form. Attendees navigated issues and solutions critical for campus leaders this coming year.

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Spelman College Receives Largest Single Gift to HBCU

Insight Into Diversity

Spelman College, a private women’s liberal arts college in Atlanta, has received the largest single donation ever awarded to an HBCU (historically Black college or university). We are invigorated and inspired by this incredible act of generosity,” said Helene Gayle, president of Spelman College.

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Students at Women's College Voted in Favor of Allowing Transgender Men and Nonbinary People Assigned Male at Birth for Admission

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Women’s liberal arts institution Wellesley College students voted Mar. Wellesley College acknowledges the result of the nonbinding student ballot initiative,” the school said in a statement. Since 2015, Wellesley has allowed transgender women to apply for admission.

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Mount Holyoke Taps Howard University Law Dean to Lead College

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Danielle Ren Holley, president-elect of Mount Holyoke College. The Howard University law professor and dean has been named Mount Holyoke College’s first permanent Black female president in the institution’s 186-year history. Mount Holyoke was founded to challenge the idea that women did not need a liberal arts education,” said Holley.

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Support community-to-independent-college transfer (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

The enormous potential of transfer from community colleges to four-year institutions presents a ray of hope among the pandemic-related enrollment declines, which have particularly affected students from marginalized backgrounds. Supporting transfer access to independent colleges has broad implications for strengthening equity in our society.

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Roanoke College to Launch Cannabis Studies Program

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Roanoke College students will soon get the opportunity to learn and even earn a degree in cannabis studies, after approval from school faculty. Dr. DB Poli This will make Roanoke College the first college in Virginia to offer a four-year degree in the field of cannabis studies, according to the school. According to U.S.