Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 10, 2024

SEATTLE-- Prominent student affairs practitioners of color shared powerful stories of leading in higher education amid major challenges, including the recent COVID pandemic and ongoing attacks to diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. "Navigating the Opportunities in Uncertainty: Stories of Diverse Student Affairs Professionals Across the Career Span," was among the dozens of panels held on Sunday during the opening day of the NASPA annual conference--the nation's largest gathering of st

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The Guardian Higher Education

MARCH 10, 2024

Helen Mountfield, principal of Mansfield College, Oxford, hopes to raise £100m to help improve outcomes Oxbridge colleges need to actively help their state school-educated pupils succeed, rather than hope a “magical sorting hat” will uncover their talent, according to the head of an Oxford college who is looking to raise £100m to do just that. Helen Mountfield, the principal of Mansfield College, Oxford, said her college was able to recruit 93% of its undergraduates from UK state schools and see

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 10, 2024

The University of Texas at Austin plans to return to its standardized testing score requirement. “Our goals are to attract the best and brightest students and to make sure every student is successful once they are here,” said President Dr. Jay Hartzell. “Standardized scores combined with high school GPA support this goal by improving early identification of students who demonstrated the greatest academic achievement, the most potential, and those who can most benefit from support through our stu

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Ray Schroeder

MARCH 10, 2024

The presidents of three rural public universities in Colorado are banding together to ask state legislators for millions of dollars in additional funding to recognize the distinctive challenges of regional institutions that operate in less populated areas. The three institutions, Adams State and Western Colorado Universities and Fort Lewis College, are all distanced from other four-year colleges and universities by at least two hours, and their isolation creates limitations that urban and suburb

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Ray Schroeder

MARCH 10, 2024

Colleges of all stripes are facing a much-discussed "demographic cliff," with enrollment numbers already declining at many institutions. Multiple private colleges have seen downward outlook revisions from credit rating agencies due to declining enrollment and its attendant drop in tuition revenue combined with high debt levels. Yet public universities and community colleges in the Midwest face their own unique set of challenges: cuts in state appropriations for higher ed, tuition increases outpa

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