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What Are the Big Higher Education Stories for 2024?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Access, affordability, and free speech will continue to make headlines in higher education. Dr. Robert Kelchen, professor and head of the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at University of Tennessee, Knoxville, says the administration will likely reintroduce the rule in 2024 using a negotiated rulemaking process.

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Universities Continue to Expand Access, Affordability Despite Federal Funding Slowdown

Insight Into Diversity

Supreme Court striking down the Biden administration’s student debt relief initiative in June, questions about the affordability of higher education continue to grow. According to ATI, their efforts in implementing need-based financial aid programs serve as examples of advancing a more equitable higher education system.

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A Brief History: Black Americans in Higher Education

Today's Learner

Reading Time: 9 minutes Black History includes success stories of numerous Blacks who have contributed to the progress made in higher education. Several Black academicians can be noted as a respected authority in their discipline advancing the field through research and scholarship.

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How Scholarship, Service, and Experience Inform One Professor's Research

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Massey, an associate professor of women, gender, and sexuality studies at Binghamton University, a State University of New York (SUNY) institution, is leading research on the Gay Men’s Health Crisis History Project. Early experiences Massey’s own activism began as a freshman at University of Texas at Austin in 1985.

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Benefits of staying on at university by Professor Wendy Thomson

HEPI

This guest blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Professor Wendy Thomson CBE, Vice-Chancellor of the University of London. Starting university can be daunting. Even more so for those who face additional barriers to accessing higher education. ’ This should not be the case.

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A Brief History: Black Americans in Higher Education

Today's Learner

Reading Time: 9 minutes Black History includes success stories of numerous Blacks who have contributed to the progress made in higher education. Several Black academicians can be noted as a respected authority in their discipline advancing the field through research and scholarship.

History 52
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Yale Pledges $10M Toward HBCU Partnerships, Following Slavery Apology

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Yale University has pledged $10 million toward an initiative to strengthen its relationship with historically Black colleges and universities in the realm of research, teaching, and student access. Dr. Peter Salovey The initiative is part of a redress following Yale President Dr. Peter Salovey and Senior Trustee Josh Bekenstein’s Feb.