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New Jersey Secretary of Higher Education Dr. Brian Bridges Appointed Member of IHEP Board of Directors

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

New Jersey Secretary of Higher Education Dr. Brian Bridges has joined the Institute for Higher Education Policy’s (IHEP) Board of Directors. Patterson Research Institute (FDPRI), its Institute for Capacity Building (ICB); and its Career Pathways Initiative. Dr. Brian K.

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UNCF Summit for Black Higher Education: Hit the Target!

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Having spent more than a half-century as a faculty member, administrator, and advocate in higher education, I lost count a long time ago of the number of meetings I have attended, as well as the number of speeches and presentations I’ve made, all of which I gifted to the Indiana University Archives.

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Transfer Students Need Support from Both Two and Four Year Institutions

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Two new reports and an online dashboard from the Community College Research Center (CCRC) at Teacher’s College, Columbia University, are part of an ambitious effort to tell the story of transfer students. Dr. Tatiana Velasco Rodriguez, research associate at the CCRC.

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Purdue Northwest Chancellor Thomas Keon's Mockery of an "Asian" Language is Emblematic of a Wider Problem in American Higher Education

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This has had real effects across the American higher education sector: since 2016, new international student enrollment had been decreasing year over year across colleges and universities in the United States, even before it plummeted in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. That is wonderful news. Dr. Stephanie K.

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Benitez Named 23rd President of Saint Peter’s University

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“As a person spiritually rooted in the Catholic faith, with personal values that align with those of Jesuit education and traditions, I feel blessed to be returning to Jesuit higher education and joining the Saint Peter’s community. in higher education administration from Saint Louis University.

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Transfer Enrollments Increased Fall 2023

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That’s according to the latest report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, a nonprofit studying data from a majority of postsecondary institutions in the U.S. Doug Shapiro, executive research director at the Clearinghouse, said the data is indicative of pandemic recovery. In fall of 2023, 5.3%

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An Invisible Population: Black Undocumented Students

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“Black and undocumented students are socially and politically left out of the conversation,” said Hall, an assistant professor of higher education administration at Kent State University in Ohio. Dr. Kayon Hall, assistant professor of higher education administration at Kent State University in Ohio.