Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

“This program uniquely provides the tools, capital, education and community support necessary to equip the next generation to take control of their financial futures,” Smith said in a statement. The program is supported by Smith and financial institutions Stackwell and Prudential.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Sixty percent of Mason’s College of Public Health student body are from historically underrepresented groups and 38 percent of undergraduates are first generation. The School of Health will largely focus on policy and public health concerns with an emphasis on addressing historical inequities and disparities in underrepresented communities.

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The PIE News

JUNE 12, 2023

“It’s not that the US is declining, it’s just that other countries are also internationalising” He asserted that certain policies are deepening inequalities within some countries which inhibits widespread social mobility and argued that higher education is often being blamed. We incubate critical thinking and creativity.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 1, 2024

Oliver's legacy will continue to inspire our center as we expand access to public service as a profession and promote research and public policy that confronts systemic inequalities,” said Dr. James Jones, a sociology and Africana Studies professor at Rutgers-Newark and co-director of the Sheila Y. Johnson & Johnson is proud to honor Lt.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Carpenter While it is tempting to look at all the external factors that impact every institution’s ability to solve the larger societal problem of historical racism, our colleges won’t make significant progress without efforts to systematically address their institutional structures and practices that perpetuate inequities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

An upcoming exhibition at Brown University will depict the incarcerated life of political activist Mumia Abu-Jamal, through a collection of written papers and other materials, to educate people on the realities and inequalities of the American prison system. 28 to July 2024, across multiple campus sites.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 22, 2023

Omar Ocampo, co-author, and researcher at the Program on Inequality and the Common Good at the Institute for Policy Studies, said he was shocked by the lack of progression on home ownership that the report found. Ocampo said that homeownership is one of the best ways to build generational wealth and close the economic gap for Black people.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 8, 2023

Hope Chicago is launching a program to support the parents/guardians of Hope Scholars through postsecondary education pathways, thereby reducing economic and social inequity. A two-generation program model supporting adults entering or returning to postsecondary institutions or programs at this scale? That's a new frontier.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

As a researcher and tenured associate professor in the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Education, Means’ scholarship “examines racial and class inequities in rural contexts, challenging monolithic perspectives that equate rurality to whiteness,” wrote Dr. Donald “DJ” Mitchell Jr., “It’s all a team effort,” Means said.

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HEPI

MARCH 24, 2024

For the younger generation, whose physical health was less in danger, the pandemic led to a series of changes to normal life, the impacts of which are still being felt, even though the intense and unprecedented experience of lockdown is now increasingly hard to remember. We cannot wish away the effects of the pandemic.

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University Business

APRIL 29, 2024

“It is also likely that the variations in IRR across college majors will persist or even heighten,” the researchers forecast, due to generative artificial intelligence and other high-tech technological tools threatening to eliminate routine jobs.

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University Business

JUNE 27, 2023

“Where enrollment is challenged, it’s going to impact their health and only exacerbate those health inequities.” If I’m talking to a fifth-generation Redhawk, it’s easier to sell that person on Miami than a first-generation college student who has no idea why they should go to this university,” Rice says.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 18, 2024

Coleman argues that focusing solely on race for diversity initiatives perpetuates inequality rather than fostering equality. Despite his critique, Coleman emphasizes that other factors, such as socioeconomic background and first-generation college status, can still be considered in admissions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

it’s no panacea for the structural inequalities built into the current postsecondary system” (Hillman et al., The failure to adequately account for place-bound students in higher education public discourse, policymaking, and practice seeking to address the historical wealth inequalities and declining social and economic mobility in the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 1, 2024

The “sobering reality” is that there is inequity in STEMM education and pay in this nation, said OSTP Director Dr. Arati Prabhakar, noting that, on average, Black workers in STEM are paid 78% and Hispanic workers in STEM are paid 83% of what their white counterparts make. According to the strategy, the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2023

Because the attacks on programs that acknowledge race and racism are an attempt to erase a chapter of American history marred by inequality that I experienced firsthand. So, when the teaching about race, inequality, and DE&I efforts come under attack, how should higher education leaders respond? Should we throw in the towel?

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Insight Into Diversity

APRIL 18, 2023

Housed in the Center for Environmental Futures at UO, the JFI funds various research and digital open access initiatives that foster community-based collaboration and support underrepresented populations impacted by the intertwined issues of climate change and social inequity.

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HEPI

MAY 9, 2023

Being civic… For all the turbulence of the last decade, one theme which remains at the forefront of our politics is the need to address regional inequality. How do we position civic drivers within a business model driven largely by recruitment numbers and research income generation, as well as other national policy levers?

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HEPI

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The full potential of universities to address significant inequality in the UK is often not cutting through. Commission on Greater Lincolnshire Inequality. At the University of Lincoln, this framing led to a re-examining of its role to address regional inequality. A systems approach to the civic university.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 11, 2022

We’re already suffering from the fact that this current generation of 18- to 24-year-olds is the least working in U.S. These stats are all worse for first-generation students. This is a practice that should be banned for the simple fact that it continues to perpetuate inequity in the workplace.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

She says that, in her research practice, she also applies “both holistic frameworks and critical theory” to share stories and explain systemic inequities that marginalized communities face as they persist through higher education. “A affect the day-to-day lives of students.”

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 20, 2023

McElroy is pursuing a career where she can prevent such inequities. However, younger generations have seen progress. Although the issue of gender inequity is a shared responsibility among many groups, higher education is also accountable, he says. “We Women make about 82 cents for each dollar that men earn. Census Bureau data.

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Helix Education

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Hispanic families experience higher levels of economic inequality compared to other ethnic groups. In every case, families of color, lower-income, and first-generation families were more likely to respond they had not seen or received information about the most critical topics in college planning. Crosnoe, R., Cavanagh, S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

These advantages, which can include the effects of academic tracking, teacher bias, and parental involvement, are likely to generate better pre-college school performance, which makes stop-outs less likely. The silver lining of these two big decisions is that there’s a lot of attention to inequality in higher education,” she said. “I

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HEPI

JANUARY 10, 2024

Four years of the sector-leading recognition and reward programme – the UEL Shared Success Award – has generated above inflation average employee pay rises aligned with University performance improvements. By 2035, more than 88% of new jobs will be at graduate level, requiring nearly double the number of graduates we have today.

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Liaison International

JANUARY 27, 2023

New Common App Data Highlights Positive Application Trends Recent analysis of newly released Common App data indicates that applications and admissions could be poised to bounce back in 2023, particularly among underrepresented minorities and first-generation students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 2, 2024

Contributing to that low morale is the pending status of the institution’s MRC, which has helped thousands of first-generation, low-income, and marginalized students find belonging on campus. I have not met very many Black faculty with a sense of belonging at Penn State. Many feel quite alienated. Morale is low, in fact.”

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UW Presidential Blog

JANUARY 13, 2023

‘You are doing such a magnificent job down there,’ he said, a reference to my enrollment at the all-white University of Georgia…King told me that education was the key to our freedom, and then he generously thanked me again and wished me success.”. This coming Monday, Jan. 16, the UW will observe the annual Martin Luther King Jr.

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WCET Frontiers

APRIL 20, 2023

Since our last blog in January on generative artificial intelligence (AI) , the field has changed by leaps and bounds: Open AI released GPT4 , Microsoft released its AI empowered Bing , and, Google recently released Bard. Additionally, students and faculty with AD/HD are finding generative AI useful in approaching research and writing.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Rampant funding inequities have been clear for a long time — colleges enrolling students with the most need tend to have the least staff capacity and financial bandwidth to help. That’s why researchers at Ithaka S&R found that three in four community college provosts rate student physical and mental health as critical to student success.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 23, 2023

However, research has repeatedly shown that even aggressive admissions policies based on SES fail to generate as much diversity as policies that use race. Very, very few states have extreme enough racial segregation between high schools for top 10% plans to generate racial and ethnic diversity,” said Mabel.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

Quantitative data are also essential, especially for documenting patterns of inequity and raising questions about how bias and other forces lead to observed differences. A third category of questions pertains to the experiences and working conditions that contribute to inequity among faculty. What Data Do We Need?

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 29, 2023

” Among the lessons that recent protests should have made patently clear is that social, economic, political, and cultural systems and institutions can perpetuate and reinforce inequalities, regardless of the intentions or beliefs of individuals within those systems. Dr. Nuila quite rightly calls this a national model.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2023

Through her research, she interviewed over 70 grandmothers, ages ranging from 38 to 83, from the south side of Chicago. “I inherently am interested in coping among Black women, particularly Black women who deal with insurmountable odds and raising a second and third generation should not be romanticized,” said Pittman.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

“For us, therefore, the time has come to adapt and evolve—to recenter our support for a new generation of individuals, ideas, and institutions that are leading the way forward from inequality to justice.” ” It’s unclear just what direction the foundation will take now.

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SRHE

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Historically, exploration of graduate movements has been at a regional level, which has become less relevant and valuable at a time when interest also lies in inequalities within regions, as well as between them. This blog will thus focus on a new marker HESA has generated to help our users gain more detailed insights into mobility.

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IHEP

MAY 16, 2023

It can and must lay the foundation for a better life and fortified economic security for generations to come. IHEP recently undertook a strategic planning process to interrogate how we operate, organize ourselves, and leverage our resources. It can and must be a lever for intergenerational mobility and narrowing the racial wealth gap.

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