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Dr. Dara N. Byrne: Leveraging Public Higher Education for the Common Good

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Byrne to bring her commitment to access and equity to a new area of public higher education. This includes scaling up the best of what public education has to offer while eschewing elitist admissions practices that don’t allow for talent identification in diverse context. The racial gap in graduation rates is minimal.

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Community College: The Right Path and the Right Foot

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Currently, students are more immediately aware of the return on interest (ROI), and they want to know —up front — the lasting impact of their choices of when and how they engage in higher education. For public four-year entrants it ’ s nearly $20,000.

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Should African Americans Trust the College Board with African American Studies?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The gap between exam scores among different racial groups has grown since 2003, highlighting a lack of resources and support for some student populations. In 1901, the Board was created in order to standardize college admissions across the United States.

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Black Youth Mental Health: Understanding and Being Culturally Responsive to Promote Homeplace and Black Joy

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

And in a research study among the youngest children — ages 5-12 — Black youth were approximately two times more likely to die by suicide than their White counterparts. Black students also had a higher rate of suicide attempts when compared to their White and Hispanic counterparts. Mayes et al. Collaborate. link] hooks, b.

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Legal Expert Art Coleman Examines the Affirmative Action Ruling

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Art Coleman, one of the nation’s foremost legal experts on affirmative action in higher education, joins EAB’s Tom Cakuls to unpack the recent Supreme Court ruling. My name is Tom Cakuls, and I oversee research publications for EAB's Enrollment Services division. The Court actually refused to do that.

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Coronavirus COVID-19 Webinar: What higher education leaders need to know right now

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Here at the Center for Higher Education Leadership , we are dedicated to providing a space for community, sharing of resources, providing vital content and disseminating information that higher ed administrators need to know, along with mentoring, online courses and webinars. But then, he continued, in 2003 the SARS virus hit.

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2023 Year in Review

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic, 2023 has been a year notable for its ups and downs on the higher education landscape with the elimination of affirmative action and the implosion of President Joe Biden’s student relief program. In response to the decision, the U.S.