Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2024

Diverse: Issues In Higher Education's 2024 Emerging Scholars shared sentiments of drive, hope, community, and validation during a webinar Thursday. Highlighted with individual profiles throughout the magazine, the 15 scholars hail from a range of academic disciplines – including education, STEM, and architecture – and cultural backgrounds.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Sacramento State — home to the largest number of Black students within the California State University (CSU) system — is launching what will become the nation’s first-ever Black Honors College. Slated to begin operating in the fall, the honors college will enroll students who have a GPA of 3.5

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 26, 2024

School: University of Missouri Year: Graduate Student Major: Hospitality Management As the NFL Draft approached this spring, football pundits noted not only Darius Robinson’s athletic prowess, but his versatility and ability to play multiple positions. In 2022 and 2023, Robinson was named to the Fall SEC Academic Honor Roll.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Austin Community College (ACC) will offer free food, housing services, and family support as part of an effort to strengthen student services, KXAN reported. When students are kind of engaged outside of school, outside of the academic realm, they tend to succeed more,” said Vanessa Barrientos, manager of the ACC Student Care Center.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 16, 2023

A new study by EAB highlights a trend among students who feel unsure about their commitment to college due to growing concerns about affordability, academic success, and mental health preparedness. These students started their high school career during the COVID 19 pandemic and are currently making the transition into adulthood.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 17, 2023

City Colleges of Chicago’s (CCC) partnership with One Million Degrees (OMD) will begin at Malcolm X College this fall, providing students at the college dedicated support towards academic and career success. It's the availability of all these supports that a student can tap into in a way that makes sense for them,” said Sohoni.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 15, 2024

He told students they were free to protest but not free to disrupt the academic life at Harvard, which included graduation. And then Garber left it up to the students. When the students did not leave immediately, I feared the worst. Then, the students met and voted this week to end the encampment. Harvard students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Even though the landscape of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in higher education may have changed over the last three years, institutional and academic search firms say their commitment to identifying leaders, staff, and faculty who embody the essence of DEI work remains strong. and even around the world to fill key vacancies.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Domestic abuse can have a lasting impact on the wellbeing and academic trajectories of not just adults but children as well, according to a new report from student parent success organization Generation Hope. And so little is known about IPV when it comes to student parents."

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

It took place in 1984 at a higher education conference at MIT, shortly after they had decided to confront the shortcomings in both the journalistic and academic communities by launching a new publication, Black Issues In Higher Education. My first encounter with Bill Cox and Frank Matthews was quite memorable. Dr. William B.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 15, 2024

He told students they were free to protest but not free to disrupt the academic life at Harvard, which included graduation. And then Garber left it up to the students. When the students did not leave immediately, I feared the worst. Then, the students met and voted this week to end the encampment. Harvard students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 29, 2024

As a collegiate student-athlete, Womack is a three-time All-American, two-time NCAA East Region qualifier, two-time SEC Scorer, and she has run on four of the eight fastest 4x100 meter relay times at Ole Miss. “I She will also plan study halls to help other student-athletes stay on track academically. She’s a great leader.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

And its publication by Wayne State University Press earlier this month comes right on time, as a new academic school year gets underway. Cole, president emerita of Spelman College and Bennett College, the book “is a highly valuable resource for the next generation of academic leaders,” notes Cole. “It She would know.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Sue Zaeske, University of Wisconsin-Madison Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty members: “Enjoy every stage of your academic career. I talk about being mixed-race with my students a lot,” she says. ‘A A lot of our students are mixed race, and I think that’s an important perspective. It’s been the highlight of my career.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

I was a young academic when I first heard a colleague quote Audre Lorde: “For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. Leaders and scholars of color, along with their allies, have sought access to the academy for themselves and for students. The changes we need to make are not solely student-focused nor programmatic.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 29, 2024

Xavier University of Louisiana, an historically Black university (or HBCU) in New Orleans and top graduator of Black students who pursue medical degrees and doctorates in the health sciences, is partnering with Ochsner Health, the area’s leading medical training center, to open Xavier Ochsner College of Medicine (XOCOM).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

Smith acknowledges that much progress has been made since she was a student-athlete at Stanford University in the 1990s — notably DEI divisions in athletic departments — but most athletic staffs don’t reflect the student-athlete populations. “We Basketball Activism and Representation) Invitational.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 21, 2023

Research has well established the importance of academic advisors to students from underrepresented backgrounds, but less work has been done on advising that highlights the identities of the schools that educate them, the 859 minority serving institutions (MSIs) that enroll 35% of all undergrads in the U.S. Dr. Gabriel O.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 8, 2023

Hope Chicago is launching a program to support the parents/guardians of Hope Scholars through postsecondary education pathways, thereby reducing economic and social inequity. The Parent Scholar Program includes debt-free higher education options for more than 4,000 Chicago students and their parents. That's a new frontier.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

million grant – lasting five years – will go toward what this cadre of faculty and staff are calling the Transformation, Equity, Access, and Sense of Belonging (TEAS) project, which is directly aimed at aiding Asian students at UConn’s regional campus in Hartford. And that is because many of our students are first-generation and low-income.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 23, 2023

The controversy began in October, when Dr. The controversy began in October, when Dr. Erika L ó pez Prater, an adjunct art professor, showed students a depiction of the prophet Muhammad. After a student complained, L ó pez Prater was told that she would not be teaching a course in the spring semester.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 4, 2024

Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) offer more upward mobility for their students when compared to Predominantly White Institutions (PWIs), despite having fewer resources. Institutions should really take a look at the strategies that HSIs are using to support low-income, high-needs student groups,” said Gasman.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 11, 2024

Scholars say that they were pleased by the president’s mention of these institutions and hope to see his call to action translate into increased funding for these under-resourced yet high-achieving institutions. “[The It’s not just student loans, it’s trying to engage in addressing the structural funding inequities.” Dr. Royel M.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 22, 2024

I suspect they apply whether you are faculty, staff, or student, and perhaps well beyond the academy as well. Of course, this doesn’t mean violating intellectual property, university policies, or doing anything illegal with student records, protected data, etc. It also made me admire the incredible scholar activists who lit the way.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2023

Villanova University has tentatively agreed to buy the nearby Cabrini University, which will close at the end of the next academic year in June 2024 due to financial issues, The Inquirer reported. The hope is to have something by the end of Summer 2023. A final agreement is pending. The purchase is subject to regulatory approvals.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

LAS VEGAS-- Dr. Joy Gaston Gayles opened the 47th annual conference for the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) in Las Vegas with a call to disrupt the systemic oppression keeping marginalized populations from accessing higher education and burning out academics working toward greater diversity, equity, and inclusion. “If

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 8, 2024

The profile of the average community college student is changing. While two-year institutions still have significant populations of adult students and people desirous of enhancing their career options, there is a growing number of first-time college students, age 18 to 22, that are seeking a traditional college experience.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 9, 2023

Ritu Raju Raju was previously vice president of academic affairs at Tarrant County College ‘s northeast campus in Texas. The college has strong local support and a reputation for its groundbreaking programs, dedication to student success and strong partnerships with industry and community.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 8, 2024

Performers Cultura Lovers and the NJ Bomba Collective played and danced to welcome the assembled professionals, academics, scholars, and high schoolers. “I Shahzaman was joined by other high school students, all men of color from high schools across the state, most located in urban, low-income areas.

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MAY 21, 2024

By the time this blog posts it will either have been a month or roughly a month and a half since our first (and hopefully) last student death on campus this academic year at Wake Forest University. With a student population (undergrad, graduate and the professional schools) of under 10,000 students we do not experience.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2023

It became the first two-year school in the state of Massachusetts to allow students to attain degrees in Black Studies. In 2020, as interest grew and Black student enrollment increased, Sauvignon crafted a Black Studies curriculum and submitted it to the Massachusetts Department of Higher Education. Census Bureau.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 16, 2023

It’s a challenging class that Dr. Kendrick Brown, Morehouse’s provost and senior vice president of academic affairs, describes as the best of what the school has to offer. Grad students serve as teaching fellows, facilitating discussion sections and grading student work. I think they bring that ethos to their work.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 18, 2023

As the higher ed world emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic, academic conferences remain a key way for scholars to convene, network, and learn about the latest research. During the COVID-19 pandemic, academic societies were forced to pivot, with many rapidly shifting to fully virtual or hybrid convenings. An estimated 4.5

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 19, 2024

Columbia University's decision to act against pro-Palestine student demonstrators who had been occupying its South Lawn, culminated in suspensions and subsequent arrests of more than 108 protesters in the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” and a harsh rebuke from scholars from across the world. “The

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Forty-one years had passed since Howard graduated from the school, but his formative years as a student there radically transformed his life and set him on the path to becoming the world class scholar that he is today. Those shifting demographics are broadly reflected in today’s student population.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Some of those difficult decisions had to do with cutting employees – faculty and professional staff – and downsizing NJCU’s academic offerings. Some roles and departments – such as the divisions of administration and finance or student affairs and enrollment management – were consolidated. Enrollment was going down.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 30, 2024

Latine learners now make up nearly one-in-five college students between the ages of 18 and 24. With the share of Latine students doubling over the past two decades, the number of Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) has also risen. There are also about 400 emerging HSIs — institutions where Hispanic students account for 15% to 24.9%

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