Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 2, 2023

In an attempt to address this disparity, the Lilly Endowment, has announced a five-year, $38,775,000 grant to the American Indian College Fund, the nation’s largest charity for Native higher education. It is the largest gift in the College Fund’s 33-year history. Roessel, president of Diné College, a TCU chartered by the Navajo Nation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 8, 2023

Land-grant universities (LGUs) that are historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs) are significantly underfunded compared to predominantly white LGUs, according to a new report by the Center for American Progress (CAP).

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University Business

JANUARY 22, 2024

Over $900,000 in EAPS funding will help White Earth and nine other Minnesota tribal and private, nonprofit institutions provide campus-run emergency assistance support to students. Since the program’s inception in 2017, the number of colleges seeking EAPS funding has grown each year. Read more from DL-Online.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

Alex Red Corn Title: Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership, Kansas State University College of Education. Red Corn pursued a master’s degree focusing on the infrastructure of tribal governments and how they serve their citizens through educational programs. Age: 39 Education: B.S., education, University of Kansas; M.S.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

On the opening day, academics shared findings on student success at Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs), while others tackled issues of pay inequity in internships. Youngbull studied TCU concepts of student success by interviewing leadership and faculty at five different institutions in New Mexico, Arizona, and North Dakota.

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Insight Into Diversity

JULY 7, 2023

Appointees include academic leaders representing historically Black colleges and universities, Hispanic-Serving Institutions, tribal colleges, community colleges, and the Asian Pacific Islander American Association of Colleges and Universities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

When Dr. Elmer Guy first came to Crownpoint Institute of Technology in 1999 as dean of instruction, he could not have known that, 24 years later, he would oversee the institution’s renaming to Navajo Technical University (NTU). It became the first tribal college and university, or TCU, to offer a Ph.D. Guy agrees.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 22, 2022

Under her leadership, the American Indian Policy Institute (AIPI) has grown and diversified its service to Indian Country via a memorandum of understanding formalizing a long-standing partnership with the Native American Finance Officers Association. Morris holds an M.A. from the University of Arizona in American Indian studies and a B.A.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

. “I think we do remarkably well in offering a liberal arts experience at a public price point, so this seems a really important extension of that, given the environment in the state, the cost of college and the access students have to college classes while still in high school,” said Janet Ericksen, chancellor of UMN Morris.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The Exploring Transfer program at Vassar College is a summer intensive that immerses currently enrolled community college students in an academically rigorous environment, providing vital support and encouragement so they can ultimately continue their education at a competitive four-year institution. This is about equity.

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Insight Into Diversity

JULY 7, 2023

The NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) is calling on over 1,600 public colleges and universities with selective admissions processes to pledge their commitment to diversity efforts. “It is our hope that our nation’s institutions will stand with us in embracing diversity, no matter what. .

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation is awarding $20 million in grants to four academic institutions that serve diverse student populations. FAMU will create a Cyber Policy Institute to integrate science-based and market-oriented domains of knowledge to help students develop expertise.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 31, 2024

Back in February, more than 1,000 practitioners from hundreds of colleges across the nation gathered in Orlando, Florida, to exchange evidence-based approaches to accelerating student success and equity. We are not leaving our colleges in Florida behind, and most importantly, we’re not leaving our students in Florida behind.”

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Insight Into Diversity

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Grantee institutions include the historically Black Hampton University; the University of Michigan (U-M); the University of Minnesota; the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill; and the University of New Mexico, a Hispanic-Serving Institution. The U-M College of Pharmacy also received about $1.5

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Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 4, 2023

The American Indian College Fund recently received a five-year, $38 million grant from the Lilly Endowment to support American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) students and tribal colleges and universities (TCUs). The grant, which totals $38,775,000, is the largest in the College Fund’s history.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

Image: A new research initiative seeks to expand access to clear, precise data about minority-serving institutions. The founders of the Minority-Serving Institutions Data Project say policy makers, researchers and advocacy groups all define MSIs in different ways, which leads to inconsistent and inaccurate studies of these institutions.

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WCET Frontiers

APRIL 11, 2024

The Foundations of Higher Education in America Considered the cornerstone of the American higher education system, community colleges have made post-secondary education more accessible and affordable since the early 1900s. According to the Urban Institute , digital access is the ability to participate in a digital society fully.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College (FDLTCC) will become the first two-year educational institute in Minnesota to get approval to give bachelor's degrees in elementary education, Duluth News Tribune reported. The elementary education degree is the school’s first and only four-year degree.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Department of Education recently unveiled its comprehensive FAFSA College Support Strategy, aimed at enhancing access to financial aid for students pursuing higher education. Our hope is that these steps we’re announcing today are going to go a long way toward helping colleges and universities make the most of the Better FAFSA.”

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

APRIL 1, 2023

Free community college is back in President Biden’s budget. Although Congress is unlikely to support the full $90 billion, experts hope for a smaller budget item to provide free programs for about 90,000 students a year.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 7, 2024

A February 23, 2024, article in Diverse headlined “Growing Number of College Grads Earn Less Than the Typical High School Graduate” was based on a report from the HEA Group – a headline mirrored in other national media (including CBS MoneyWatch, Forbes, and the New York Times ). But the problems continue. rather than the reported 26%).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

and worldwide, have a complicated relationship with institutions of education. Institutions of higher education, specifically land grant/grab institutions, were established as part of these efforts in conquest. My own institution, Kansas State University, used land entirely from the Kaw (Kanza or Kaá?

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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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ACPA

MAY 3, 2023

Topics include: History – First 100 years of ACPA and the history of higher education History – ACPA’s work in the 21st century (Strategic Imperative for Racial Justice & Decolonization, Learning Reconsidered, etc.)

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Insight Into Diversity

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), a nonprofit research and philanthropic organization with a mission to advance the discovery and sharing of scientific knowledge, awarded the funding. Of these institutions, six qualified for the $2.5 Six universities will each receive $2.5 of Montana (UM), and the University of Virginia. .

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Emory University and the College of the Muscogee Nation (CMN) in Oklahoma have partnered and received $2.4 Monte Randall This partnership aims to create collaborative learning communities and research initiatives connecting the two campuses, with the money going towards supporting CMN’s transition from a two-year to a four-year institution.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

With the threat of global languages being lost at the rate of at least one per month, linguists, institutions, researchers, and affected communities are collaborating to maintain, revitalize, and celebrate Indigenous languages. higher education institutions are a part of the movement working to stem this crisis.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 31, 2023

The College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Alabama at Birmingham has been awarded a $4.6 Recipients must complete an internship and work for a federal, state, local, or tribal government organization in a cybersecurity-related position for a period equal to the length of the scholarship after graduation.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Image: Scholars have called a proposal by the Indian Institutes of Technology to quadruple their international student intake by 2025 “feasible” but say they will first need to decide whether they are willing to lower entry requirements for nonlocal applicants.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Many in higher education hold out hope that fixing cancellation, tribal animus and scholarly monocultures will rectify our classrooms and research—but even these can be symptoms of a deeper, thankfully more fixable problem: poor organizational structure. Elevating institutional outcomes.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 2, 2023

As the Hispanic population in America has grown, so, too has the number of Hispanic-Serving Institutions, from under 200 in 1994-95 to 571 in 2020-21. Institutional research teams must be brought into the process early in order to integrate data in proposals, she noted. Santiago, co-founder and CEO of Excelencia.

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WCET Frontiers

MARCH 16, 2023

I feel so lucky to get the chance each year to learn about the meaningful, student-focused work being done by various institutions, organizations, and individuals in our community. Today we showcase Nicolet College’s Native American Art Course Redesign. Thank you to all of you for this work, this post, and the upcoming episode!

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 14, 2023

Community colleges play a critical role, providing affordable and accessible education for diverse populations. According to the American Association of Community Colleges, our nation had over 1,000 public, tribal, and independent community colleges enrolling 10.2

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WCET Frontiers

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

We want (and have started) to reach out to minority-serving institutions and organizations to make connections, engage them with our community, and, most excitingly, shine a light on the promising practices that make a difference for the students who need our help the most.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 6, 2023

Similar to our roads and bridges, the pathways between our colleges and universities have often been marked with potholes, roadblocks and lane closures. Adding Layers With the foundation of a general education core in place, the Legislature turned its attention in 2017 to investing in a set of multi-institutional agreements in popular majors.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 27, 2023

These days it is becoming more common for academic institutions to request diversity statements with job application materials. Today’s college students are demographically, ideologically, neurologically and culturally diverse, and diversity statements are seen as a way to recruit faculty and staff who will serve these students well.

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