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APRIL 16, 2024

A 2022 report from the UCLA School of Law Williams Institute and the Point Foundation, an LGBTQ scholarship fund, noted that 32.6% About 45.5% Dacey, who recently narrated a video about LGBTQ history at UND, has remained engaged with advocacy at the university. The center director had to be reassigned to a new role on campus.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The four-year, Catholic private school officially became an Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI), meaning over 25% of their undergraduate population are Latinx. Interim Provost Dr. Rani Roy says the school has already applied for two HSI grants and will find out in October whether they’ve been accepted. totaled 62.5

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APRIL 9, 2024

And if we're really thinking about ensuring America's future – whether that's the workforce, the economy, and civil leadership – Latinos are a key demographic and a key group to keep in mind when thinking about federal policy.” Latinos are one of the fastest growing populations and college-going populations.

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JANUARY 24, 2023

Yet despite serving almost 28,000 students yearly, experts say TCUs are often invisible to the public or seen as institutions of lesser quality than other public or private institutions, despite being accredited by state agencies. The 35 TCUs in the U.S. train future teachers, nurses, engineers, and more.

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OCTOBER 25, 2022

Franklin County public schools in Massachusetts have been given a $200,000 grant, which they will use to partner with Greenfield Community College (GCC) to create an early college pilot program, the Greenfield Recorder reported. said Peggy Fallon, GCC’s dual enrollment coordinator. “We

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NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The differences begin with the types of institutions they attend for their undergraduate educations and continue with the institutions at which they do their doctoral studies. Black students were more likely to graduate from institutions at which the highest degree offered was a master’s degree.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) and Temple University have released a guide for higher ed institutions on how to implement completion grants for their students. Dr. Christel Perkins Completion grants are funds given to students who need them to finish out their degree or academic journey.

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JANUARY 5, 2024

The budding Black studies department at the University of Rochester will fast-track their hiring of faculty with the help of a $3 million grant from the Mellon Foundation. You could be looking at disease and interdisciplinary public health. Dr. Jeffrey Q. McCune, Jr. A department really gets to own its future,” he said.

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MARCH 15, 2024

Daysha Jackson-Sanchez Through my conversations with other providers, as well as faculty and institutional leadership at colleges and universities across the country, I am increasingly optimistic that we are well-equipped to handle these shifts. Our industry is indeed at an inflection point.

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APRIL 24, 2024

As the largest champion of the Black college community and the only national organization to provide both financial and professional development support to students attending publicly supported HBCUs, TMCF notes that the delays and lack of clarity surrounding Better FASFA are presenting dire consequences for its students and institutions.

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APRIL 30, 2024

Colby College in Maine has promised the Class of 2029 that middle-class students who enroll will find their private liberal arts degree more affordable than many in-state public institutions. 1% had a nearly 30% admission rate, which caught headlines as its publication last year coincided with the end of affirmative action.

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JULY 18, 2023

Degree completion gaps had been closing up until about 2019, Santiago said. At two-year institutions, the gap increased from -2% to -5%, while four-year schools saw a smaller but still present gap widening from -12% to -13%. 45% and 31% of Latino students are no longer enrolled at two-year and four-year institutions, respectively.

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APRIL 17, 2023

Paxson received the 2023 TIAA Institute Hesburgh Award for Leadership Excellence. Paxson – a globally renowned economist and public health expert – was honored for leadership of efforts bolstering health, education, and economic well-being, diverse recruitment, curriculums, and research about race, ethnicity, inequality, and justice.

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AUGUST 11, 2023

Stressed out and burned out from the COVID-19 pandemic and increased scrutiny of their profession by policymakers and the public, teachers have made good on their recent threats to leave their classrooms. More than 40% — roughly 220 — of the nation’s regional public universities are designated as Minority Serving Institutions.

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MARCH 29, 2023

The Black Men’s Research Institute (BMRI) at Morehouse College hosted its first Spring Symposium addressing health issues for African American men. million grant from the Andrew W. Morehouse College has several professors exploring this subject and encouraging deeper conversations about understanding manhood and masculinity.

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JANUARY 4, 2023

29, the new federal spending plan is set to increase the Pell Grant in 2023, allowing low-income students a chance to access up to $7,395 each year. Coupled with the $400 increase in the 2022 fiscal year, this is the largest two-year increase ever in the history of the grant. With President Biden’s signature on Dec. Federal Reserve. “On

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FEBRUARY 28, 2024

more students than the previous year were able to successfully transfer to a new institution. 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. In fall of 2023, 5.3% respectively.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The University of Arizona is the first four-year public institution in the state to be federally recognized as a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI). López — the daughter of immigrants — says the land-grant university was a promising choice, given its scholars and proximity to the U.S.-Mexico

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JULY 19, 2023

These students are selected for verification, a process in which aid applicants have to provide additional documentation, which can include tax returns, wage statements, and high school diplomas, to each institution to which they’re applying, as a way of proving that their FAFSA information is accurate. It’s a surprise for many students.

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OCTOBER 22, 2023

This extends to education, employment, public services, and beyond. It goes beyond merely granting access; it invites individuals to feel valued, accepted, and embraced for who they are. It's about recognizing and celebrating the rich tapestry of human experiences, backgrounds, and perspectives.

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APRIL 20, 2023

And it is not just about a job. Yet less than 12% of resident 18-to-24-year-old students enrolled in our public universities are Hispanic. About 60% of our state university students graduate within six years. Students receiving Pell grants have graduation rates 21 percentage points lower than students who are not Pell-eligible.

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APRIL 18, 2024

The steady trickle of colleges falling is beginning to reveal the effect it’s having on students, especially those who received abrupt notification from their institution. 29 ), at least four other private non-profit institutions have announced that they, too, are unable to continue operations. Oak Point University (Ill.)

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NOVEMBER 22, 2022

As researchers, practitioners, and healthcare workers reflect on the events of the last two and a half years, programs related to public health have become a priority at many colleges and universities. In response, colleges and universities are seeing increased interest in courses and programs that address issues of public health.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Central State University—a historically Black institution in Wilberforce, Ohio—will announce its next permanent president Friday. High-level administrators like Dr. Paul Schlag, who was the executive director of the school’s Honors College and a member of the president’s cabinet, said that he wasn’t even interviewed about the complaints.

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MARCH 15, 2023

At least some of the enrollment loss is due to misinformation and misconceptions about the relationship between employment and educational attainment. Still others, influenced by dangerous myths, are reluctant to attend an open-access institution like a community college. Dr. George R. attend them.

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MARCH 22, 2024

According to the Community College Research Center, “ the cumulative amount owed after 12 years is an estimated $10,300 per student who started at public two-year college in 2003-04 (for all entrants, not just borrowers). For public four-year entrants it ’ s nearly $20,000. For those starting at for-profit colleges, it ’ s $13,000.”

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DECEMBER 5, 2022

Despite pledges from campus leaders to diversify all facets of their institutions, faculty have remained stubbornly white, according to a new report from the Education Trust, a non-profit that works to close opportunity and achievement gaps. “It producing institutions and a lot of [schools] aren’t going beyond that group. “I

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APRIL 18, 2023

The cases, led by anti-affirmative action activist and SFFA President Edward Blum, allege these institutions discriminated against Asian American applicants by unfairly prioritizing underrepresented minority applicants in violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. will be able to use race as a consideration in their admissions processes.

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MAY 4, 2023

In an effort to reverse this tide, scholars at San Diego State University’s Community College Equity Assessment Lab (CCEAL) have created a series of recommendations for state and institutional policy dedicated to the enrollment, retention, and success of minoritized men. This can make school seem like a less attractive choice.

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OCTOBER 31, 2022

While researching and issuing a report on Californian public postsecondary institutions, Bensimon & Associates and College Futures Foundation, a California organization working towards greater educational opportunity, found troubling patterns that favor white candidates and cultural whiteness in the search for collegiate leadership.

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MAY 23, 2023

However, undergraduate enrollment at non-profit four-year institutions continued its decline, dropping 0.5% at public schools and 0.2% It includes data on students’ degree level, institutional sector, age, gender, and major field, but not race or ethnicity. Brock expressed concern about older learners who may be missing out.

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AUGUST 16, 2023

Racial exclusion from this nation's institutions of higher education has been the norm throughout the vast history of the U.S., and few institutions better represent that legacy of exclusion than the two institutions at the center of the ruling, Harvard University and the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill.

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APRIL 1, 2024

The most common friction point for students is transferring into four-year institutions due to a lack of guidance around which of their earned credits will successfully carry over. This is a common loophole institutions use to ensure transferring students don’t escape the rigor of their courses.

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JANUARY 17, 2024

For Dr. Lauren Christine Mims, few challenges are more important in public education than creating spaces for Black students to flourish and thrive. Much of the language that Mims uses in her research is about liberation for Black students. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.’”

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DECEMBER 8, 2022

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government and higher education institutions have fed the public a steady diet of bad enrollment news. Public health concerns increased responsibilities to care for and educate school-aged children and disrupted jobs and industries. But we need to look closer at the data.

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JANUARY 16, 2024

Not only is there confusion about the value of the liberal arts, but many people really don’t understand what it is or where it came from. In order to dispel the confusion, we need to talk about the difference between a liberal arts college and a liberal arts education. What is a Liberal Arts education?

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MARCH 29, 2024

Jamie Washington — an educator, author, student affairs administrator, pastor, consultant, president and co-founder of the Social Justice Training Institute (SJTI), past-president of the American College Personnel Association (ACPA), and much more. Institutional transformation can take up to a decade of intentional effort.

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