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A small college needs $2.6M to survive. It's raised $178K

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The deadline to raise the $2.6 So far, the college has raised $178,000, according to an email sent to supporters earlier this week. “In order to be prepared for any scenario, King’s has been working with a number of colleges and universities to develop preferred transfer agreements. million was Feb.

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How Three Bronx Institutions are Intentionally Hispanic-Serving

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The school is now eligible for Title V HSI funds that can support student recruitment, education, sense of belonging, and completion. The 2021 Latinx population in the U.S. Delgado came to Lehman in 2021 from the Midwest, where he often heard firsthand from Latinx students how much it meant to see him on campus. totaled 62.5

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Creating Safe Spaces: Future Teachers of Color Summit

The Scholarly Teacher

Keywords: BIPOC Teacher Candidates, Recruitment, Retention, Teacher Preparation The Issue In 2021, most U.S. In our state, K–12 BIPOC students are increasing (37% of the population in 2021–2022; NDE, 2023a), but the shortage of BIPOC teachers is also growing, as White teachers constituted 95% of the workforce that same year (NDE, 2023b).

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How Public Universities Can Tackle the Teacher Shortage

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The nation’s public schools lost 7% of their teaching force between 2019 and 2021, and 4% of all teaching positions in the nation’s public schools were unfilled as of last fall. million students of color, these institutions can be instrumental in attracting, developing and inspiring the diverse educator corps our nation needs.

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The importance of academic mental health

SRHE

The COVID pandemic created a further influx of concentrated efforts in finding supportive solutions for the student mental health crisis ( Chen and Lucock, 2022 ; Copeland et al , 2021 ). Since then Advance HE has also developed the “race charter”. But what do we know about academic mental health?

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How the “next phase” of LGBTQ+ student support is stirring at this Ivy League

University Business

foundations in 2020, only 23 cents specifically supported LGBTQ communities and issues, according to data analyzed from Giving USA 2021 by Funders for LGBTQ Issues. of all NIH-funded studies concerned LGBTQ+ health—excluding projects about HIV/AIDS and other sexual health matters, according to the National Library of Medicine.

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College endowments dropped in fiscal year 2022

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Soaring inflation put a squeeze on college endowments in the 2021–22 fiscal year, driving returns down, according to the annual report from the National Association of College and University Business Officers The report , released today, is a marked change from the booming returns of fiscal year 2021 , when endowments soared.