Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 2, 2023

In an attempt to address this disparity, the Lilly Endowment, has announced a five-year, $38,775,000 grant to the American Indian College Fund, the nation’s largest charity for Native higher education. It is the largest gift in the College Fund’s 33-year history. Roessel, president of Diné College, a TCU chartered by the Navajo Nation.

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OCTOBER 22, 2022

Under her leadership, the American Indian Policy Institute (AIPI) has grown and diversified its service to Indian Country via a memorandum of understanding formalizing a long-standing partnership with the Native American Finance Officers Association. Morris holds an M.A. from the University of Arizona in American Indian studies and a B.A.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2022

On the opening day, academics shared findings on student success at Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs), while others tackled issues of pay inequity in internships. Youngbull studied TCU concepts of student success by interviewing leadership and faculty at five different institutions in New Mexico, Arizona, and North Dakota.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2023

When Dr. Elmer Guy first came to Crownpoint Institute of Technology in 1999 as dean of instruction, he could not have known that, 24 years later, he would oversee the institution’s renaming to Navajo Technical University (NTU). It became the first tribal college and university, or TCU, to offer a Ph.D. Guy agrees.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 31, 2024

Back in February, more than 1,000 practitioners from hundreds of colleges across the nation gathered in Orlando, Florida, to exchange evidence-based approaches to accelerating student success and equity. We are not leaving our colleges in Florida behind, and most importantly, we’re not leaving our students in Florida behind.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 11, 2024

Biden has made access to affordable education a cornerstone of his presidential tenure, and he reinforced that position by calling for an increase in Pell Grants and a further increase in “our record investments in HBCUs [Historically Black Colleges and Universities] and Hispanic and Minority Serving Institutions [HSIs and MSIs].”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College (FDLTCC) will become the first two-year educational institute in Minnesota to get approval to give bachelor's degrees in elementary education, Duluth News Tribune reported. The elementary education degree is the school’s first and only four-year degree.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 7, 2024

A February 23, 2024, article in Diverse headlined “Growing Number of College Grads Earn Less Than the Typical High School Graduate” was based on a report from the HEA Group – a headline mirrored in other national media (including CBS MoneyWatch, Forbes, and the New York Times ). But the problems continue. rather than the reported 26%).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

and worldwide, have a complicated relationship with institutions of education. Institutions of higher education, specifically land grant/grab institutions, were established as part of these efforts in conquest. My own institution, Kansas State University, used land entirely from the Kaw (Kanza or Kaá?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 1, 2024

These 10 include the likes of American Institutes for Research (AIR), Jobs for the Future (JFF), Morgan State University, and Spelman College. Some of the key metrics listed in the roadmap are related to better funding institutions that serve minority populations. According to the strategy, the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Emory University and the College of the Muscogee Nation (CMN) in Oklahoma have partnered and received $2.4 Monte Randall This partnership aims to create collaborative learning communities and research initiatives connecting the two campuses, with the money going towards supporting CMN’s transition from a two-year to a four-year institution.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 31, 2023

The College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Alabama at Birmingham has been awarded a $4.6 Recipients must complete an internship and work for a federal, state, local, or tribal government organization in a cybersecurity-related position for a period equal to the length of the scholarship after graduation.

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JANUARY 22, 2024

Over $900,000 in EAPS funding will help White Earth and nine other Minnesota tribal and private, nonprofit institutions provide campus-run emergency assistance support to students. Since the program’s inception in 2017, the number of colleges seeking EAPS funding has grown each year. Read more from DL-Online.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 2, 2023

As the Hispanic population in America has grown, so, too has the number of Hispanic-Serving Institutions, from under 200 in 1994-95 to 571 in 2020-21. Institutional research teams must be brought into the process early in order to integrate data in proposals, she noted. Santiago, co-founder and CEO of Excelencia.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2024

. “I think we do remarkably well in offering a liberal arts experience at a public price point, so this seems a really important extension of that, given the environment in the state, the cost of college and the access students have to college classes while still in high school,” said Janet Ericksen, chancellor of UMN Morris.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 14, 2023

Community colleges play a critical role, providing affordable and accessible education for diverse populations. According to the American Association of Community Colleges, our nation had over 1,000 public, tribal, and independent community colleges enrolling 10.2

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 21, 2023

Image: A new research initiative seeks to expand access to clear, precise data about minority-serving institutions. The founders of the Minority-Serving Institutions Data Project say policy makers, researchers and advocacy groups all define MSIs in different ways, which leads to inconsistent and inaccurate studies of these institutions.

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The Scholarly Teacher

APRIL 27, 2022

I deliberately make my reflections broad enough to transfer to other disciplinary contexts and institutions. Sources like these inspired discipline- and institution- specific changes to my pedagogy. colleges and universities can anticipate increased racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic diversity in future enrollment. institutions?

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Ray Schroeder

APRIL 1, 2023

Free community college is back in President Biden’s budget. Although Congress is unlikely to support the full $90 billion, experts hope for a smaller budget item to provide free programs for about 90,000 students a year.

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AUGUST 25, 2023

As it currently stands, no HBCU fits the bill for R1 status, a Carnegie Classification rank that every research institution aspires for. Only 146 colleges and universities—less than 4% of all higher education institutions—have reached this pedestal. However, R1 schools receive significantly more funding than R2 institutions.

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MARCH 28, 2024

The Hallowed Ground Project Reckoning and Reconciliation: Examining Colonialism and Racism on the Landscape Background In 2018, Goucher College began addressing the issues of slavery and racial injustice that have occurred on the land that Goucher College occupies.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 6, 2023

Similar to our roads and bridges, the pathways between our colleges and universities have often been marked with potholes, roadblocks and lane closures. Adding Layers With the foundation of a general education core in place, the Legislature turned its attention in 2017 to investing in a set of multi-institutional agreements in popular majors.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 27, 2023

These days it is becoming more common for academic institutions to request diversity statements with job application materials. Today’s college students are demographically, ideologically, neurologically and culturally diverse, and diversity statements are seen as a way to recruit faculty and staff who will serve these students well.

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JUNE 16, 2023

Becoming a college president is many academic leaders’ greatest dream. Akakpo, a veteran leader with experience across several institutions. Most recently, Akakpo led Bluegrass Community and Technical College as president and CEO. Walters – Tougaloo College (Mississippi) June will be Carmen J.

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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

JANUARY 29, 2024

Per the American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC), studying evaluation frameworks in tribal colleges, few of those folks include: Maori educator, Linda Tuhiwai Smith, who addresses imperialism in Western research and advocates for research agendas that respect “cultural life” (1999). & Spears, B. link] Dyer-Barr, R.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The Dream conference is hosted annually by Achieving the Dream (ATD), a reform network of over 300 community colleges working to equitize higher education. The college has transformed its science building into a STEAM building—Science, Technology, Engineering, Agriculture and Mathematics. Stout, president and CEO of ATD.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2023

Clatsop Community College will become the first higher education institution within the traditional homelands of the Chinook Indian Nation to grant free tuition to tribal members, The Oregonian reported. “By

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Last week, ED announced $50 million in funding for personnel and resources, including technical assistance and support, deployed to support institutions, students and their families with Better FAFSA®. There is an intention to particularly support under-resourced institutions. Dr. Miguel A. Cardona said that by Feb.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Hector Balderas will become president of Northern New Mexico College (NNMC), effective Jan. I’m honored that the regents, faculty and staff will collaborate with me as we take on Northern New Mexico College into the future, building on student success and institutional development.

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Goucher DEI

JANUARY 24, 2012

Goucher College established the Hallowed Ground Project in 2018 to examine the legacies of slavery and racial injustice on the land that the college occupies. As part of this initiative, the college created a land acknowledgement. Each word was specifically chosen based on those conversations.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Perhaps the most significant public policy moment for colleges and universities this year was the failure of President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better (BBB) legislation, after the administration and West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin could not at arrive at a deal. 2023 may be a bumpy ride, at least initially, and Hartle preached patience.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

But the world of higher education will be listening carefully for what Biden may say about the many issues America’s colleges and universities are facing, several of which have assumed national prominence in recent months. Dr. Lynn Pasquerella Two-year institutions are also hoping for recognition. Dr. Kenneth K.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Supreme Court issued a 5-4 decision that states and the federal government have concurrent jurisdiction over crimes committed by non-tribal members against tribal members on tribal lands unless congress states otherwise. Tribal colleges are incredibly important in Indian country,” says Matthew L.M. Oklahoma v.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Image: More than 18 million college students received federal COVID-19 emergency funds in the last two years—money that helped them stay in college and cover the cost of basic needs, the Education Department found in a new report on the federal aid. Nearly 13 million college students divvied up $19.5

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 29, 2023

Cheryl Crazy Bull has been president and CEO of the Denver, Colorado-based American Indian College Fund since 2012, and she previously served as a president and a vice president of two tribal colleges, so she has seen the higher ed landscape for indigenous students change over the years. Dr. Antonio R.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

That book argued that Britain’s Age of Empire was the midwife of modernity, spreading “capitalism, telecommunications, the English language, and institutions of representative government.” Niall Ferguson, who wrote one of the book’s blurbs, advanced somewhat similar claims in his 2008 bestseller Empire. It was not.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 9, 2023

Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida and other right-wing conservative legislators would like us to believe that the field of African American studies is “woke’ indoctrination and has no value in K-12 classrooms or college and university curricula. He instituted Black History Week, which is now called Black History Month.

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