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Data and Collaboration are the Key to Preserving Higher Ed’s Hard-Fought Equity Gains

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Over the last four decades, Latino and African-American students were among the fastest-growing demographics in higher education. Since the mid-1970s, the Latino college student population has increased fivefold, with one out of every five college students being Latino by 2017.

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Taylor Cupp When Watford began CEED, the graduation rate for Black engineering students was around 25%. The four-year graduation rate for students who entered in 2012 was 52.8%. for students who entered in 2017. Waller Taylor Cupp “We’re engaged, especially with the student organizations,” Waller says.

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Yale graduate workers form union after decades of organizing

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Yale’s is one of academe’s longest-running graduate student organizing campaigns, dating back to the 1990s. In 2017, Yale student workers in eight departments even voted to unionize as part of an unusual “micro-unit” strategy.