Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 4, 2023

National Science Foundation (NSF) aims to bring more Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs) into the artificial intelligence (AI) field. Department of Agriculture, National Institute of Food and Agriculture; National Institute of Standards and Technology and U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2024

Katina Lang-Lindsey, an assistant professor at Alabama A&M University, has been named among the newest cohort of Enriching Learning, Enhancing Visibility & Training Educators ( ELEVATE ) at the Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The report , which is based on survey and interview data from 95 responding institutions, also draws on evidence-based standards for high-impact faculty development. ” At MSIs, the figure was only 29 percent. Responses to questions about CTL staffing were similar.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The differences begin with the types of institutions they attend for their undergraduate educations and continue with the institutions at which they do their doctoral studies. Black students were more likely to graduate from institutions at which the highest degree offered was a master’s degree.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 11, 2023

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's ( NASA) Minority University Research and Education Project (MUREP) has launched an award to help give minority-serving institutions (MSIs) more research opportunities. Those selected will also be put into cohorts for training and support based on topic areas.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 26, 2024

Approved through the DOE Office of Environmental Management’s (EM) Minority Serving Institutions (MSI) Partnership Program, the seven awardee institutions — which are spread throughout the country — will each partner with at least one additional university to advance DEI in STEM education and career opportunities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2024

IHEP identified these two institutions by using the Equitable Value Explorer , a free, publicly accessible site that analyzes data from colleges and universities across the country. UNT is one of the most affordable four-year institutions in the state of Texas, and, with a 27% Latinx student population, it qualifies as an HSI.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 26, 2024

Jhenai Chandler The Postsecondary Student Success Act – a bipartisan effort that seeks to solidify the ongoing existence of the grant program, which gives funds to higher ed institutions striving towards improving student success, particularly for “high-need” students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Ipsen The global 2023 Progress, Accomplishment, Thriving, Hope (PATH) Scholarship consists of $10,000-$25,000 grants to higher ed institutions to help students with expenses such as housing, tuition, and food. The Ellucian Foundation will award grants to 25 two-year colleges to help support students facing economic challenges.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 25, 2023

The Common App is a one stop application process that allows students to apply to over 1,000 member institutions by filling out one form, which significantly simplifies the often-daunting process of applying for college. “As Now, 134 MSIs and 30 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), including NCCU, are members.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 2, 2023

NASA's Minority University Research and Education Project (MUREP) has selected 15 minority-serving institutions (MSIs) to receive the MUREP Partnership Learning Annual Notification (MPLAN) award.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Smith The billionaire – who acquired his wealth through the private equity industry – aims to educate HBCU and minority serving institutions (MSIs) students on financial wellness through his Student Investment Program. The program is supported by Smith and financial institutions Stackwell and Prudential.

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University Business

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The Pamplin College of Business welcomed 25 visiting faculty members and students from historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and minority-serving institutions (MSIs) for the annual HBCU/MSI Research Summit.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Levine Issues include recruitment and retention, professional development, and the role of minority-serving institutions (MSIs). The American Educational Research Association (AERA) has released a handbook discussing issues surrounding teachers of color, Indigenous teachers, and ethnoracial diversity. Dr. Felice J.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Despite pledges from campus leaders to diversify all facets of their institutions, faculty have remained stubbornly white, according to a new report from the Education Trust, a non-profit that works to close opportunity and achievement gaps. “It producing institutions and a lot of [schools] aren’t going beyond that group.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently launched Growing Research Access for Nationally Transformative Equity and Diversity (GRANTED), a program designed to break down systemic barriers that hinder underrepresented investigators, students, and institutions typically overlooked as participants in NSF’s research funding programs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 19, 2024

The Institute for College Access and Success (TICAS) has released its latest policy recommendations to make postsecondary education affordable and completable for all students. “It Institutions are split, advocating for the students, faculty and staff and even for themselves.”

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Insight Into Diversity

DECEMBER 14, 2022

National Science Foundation (NSF), will work to expand the capacity for research, innovation, and career opportunities in technology fields at community colleges and Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs). ” The post NSF to Fund Technology Innovation Capacity at MSIs, Community Colleges appeared first on INSIGHT Into Diversity.

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AACC

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Minority-serving institutions (MSIs) are a source of diversity in the American college presidency, according to findings by the American Council on Education (ACE). CEOs of color comprise 46% of MSI presidencies, compared to 20% of non-MSI presidencies, as ACE’s recent college presidents survey indicates.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The money comes from The National Telecommunications and Information Administration as part of the a $268-million Connecting Minority Communities Pilot Program , aimed at historically Black colleges and minority serving institutions (MSIs) to install broadband internet access service and train IT personnel.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 1, 2024

These 10 include the likes of American Institutes for Research (AIR), Jobs for the Future (JFF), Morgan State University, and Spelman College. Some of the key metrics listed in the roadmap are related to better funding institutions that serve minority populations. According to the strategy, the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 8, 2023

Those awarded will also produce data, instructions, and best practices to serve as a blueprint for other minority-serving institutions (MSIs) and WCUs. “It’s more important than ever we have brilliant, enthusiastic people entering the workforce and ready to take on the ambitious plans and challenges ahead.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2024

Institutions with fewer resources, schools without the sufficient means to adopt or keep current with AI tool usage risk falling behind, subsequently presenting the possibility of another digital divide between those with more and those with less, the report noted. Finch, vice president for enrollment management at the institution.

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University Business

AUGUST 25, 2023

As it currently stands, no HBCU fits the bill for R1 status, a Carnegie Classification rank that every research institution aspires for. Only 146 colleges and universities—less than 4% of all higher education institutions—have reached this pedestal. However, R1 schools receive significantly more funding than R2 institutions.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 12, 2022

" In a speech made at a conference attended by university and college presidents and other leaders in higher education on Thursday, Cardona said that elite rankings are a "joke" and that more attention needs to be focused on the institutions that serve the nation's less-affluent students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

This is a research partnership with an Hispanic-Serving Institution in California, where the mathematics department has committed to examining whether its practices are truly serving Latinx students. “We Another project that he is working on is titled, “Queer Students of Color in STEM,” a multi-institutional study across PWIs and MSIs.

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Insight Into Diversity

APRIL 18, 2023

The VA now conducts programs for more than 120,000 health care students and trainees annually in affiliation with over 1,800 educational institutions, including 97 percent of the country’s medical schools. In the last academic year, over 34,000 trainees from MSIs have worked with the VA, Patel says. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Collaborations between Virginia Tech and historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) or other minority-serving institutions (MSIs) have led to 15 research projects supported by grant funding. to bolster research on campus. The projects will launch this year.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 4, 2023

Even though some of this same technology is already helping to advance better-resourced institutions, many HBCUs have not been able to keep up with investments in technological infrastructure due not only to budgetary constraints, but also to staffing limitations. Department of Education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The conference underscored the mission of postsecondary institutions and academics to work against dehumanizing atmospheres and support the best policies and practices that improve student belonging, community connection, and create thriving faculty. While TCUs are not a monolith, she found similarities in methodology.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The school – it is the third largest public institution in the state of Colorado – is both a minority-serving institution (MSI) and a Hispanic-serving institution (HSI), Davidson said. The NSA is the lead agency in the federal government when it comes to any matters relating to cybersecurity,” Mac Namee said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 30, 2023

Dr. Charlie Nelms Approximately forty-years ago, when a small group of Black executives integrated the C-suite at Predominately White Institutions (PWIs), we relied on each other for pro bono counsel and non-judgmental support. In selecting an executive coach, the following are prerequisites I believe to be of paramount importance.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

A 2022 report from the UCLA School of Law Williams Institute and the Point Foundation, an LGBTQ scholarship fund, noted that 32.6% Jorge Valencia Another report from the Williams Institute and the Point Foundation focuses on the experiences of community college students. Leyva appreciates the institutional support he receives.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

But many of the students who could benefit the most from these opportunities are being left out : only 11% of schools that predominantly serve minorities offer Registered Apprenticeships, according to a report from the Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions (CMSI). These programs stand out in light of how few MSIs offer RAs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 14, 2023

AI also has institutional implications. If artificial intelligence allows professors to reprioritize and focus on the more humanistic aspects of the position, I think that HBCUs and MSIs could use that more than anybody else,” he said. “A It can also look at data in an open-ended way, to find interesting trends and patterns.

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IHEP

APRIL 5, 2023

We are encouraged that the first PSSG grantees include Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), minority-serving institutions (MSIs), and community colleges. President Biden’s FY24 budget proposal included several much-needed increases in higher education funding.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 7, 2023

It’s not like this is a pool of students that’s ‘not college material,’ or couldn’t get into Common App institutions.” In terms of academic readiness, “non-submitters look just like submitters,” said Odle. Many of these disparities mirror gaps that show up later in enrollment and completion statistics.

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