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Dr. Dara N. Byrne: Leveraging Public Higher Education for the Common Good

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Byrne to bring her commitment to access and equity to a new area of public higher education. Photo Credit: Macaulay Honors College Finding a lack of diversity Access to higher education has been an important theme in Byrne’s life in academia. Students meet with Macaulay Honors College Dean Dara N.

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College destiny: Students list their hopes, worries and dream schools

University Business

Graduating high schoolers applying for college are 99% certain that a foray into higher education is going to work out, but several factors contribute to high levels of stress during the application process. Over one-third (35%) said completing the admission and financial aid application was the toughest part of the process.

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Legal Expert Art Coleman Examines the Affirmative Action Ruling

EAB

Art Coleman, one of the nation’s foremost legal experts on affirmative action in higher education, joins EAB’s Tom Cakuls to unpack the recent Supreme Court ruling. Today I have the great privilege of bringing you a conversation with Art Coleman, one of the nation's foremost legal experts on affirmative action in higher education.

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Young, Brilliant, and Ready: Preparing Black Males for Postsecondary Opportunities and Transitions

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Middleton Social media is neither honest about nor friendly toward Black males in P-12 and higher education. Hines, Donna Y. Ford, Edward C. Fletcher Jr, Renae D. Mayes & Tanya J. The hostility is blatant and polemic. Our work challenges these deficit-oriented narratives.

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Fight Over Student Debt Cancellation Hits Supreme Court

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The state of Missouri argued that it would be damaged by the debt forgiveness through loss of revenue to the Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority (MOHELA), a quasi-state loan servicer. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson expressed doubt that that would ever happen, and Justice Sonia Sotomayor called the position “so totally illogical.”

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Supreme Court Rules Student Loan Forgiveness Unconstitutional

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The state had argued that the Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority (MOHELA), a non-profit government corporation, would suffer decreased revenues and be unable to make mandatory payments into a state fund. But when it kicks in, the Secretary can take exceptional measures.”

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HEI Resources 2025

Higher Education Inquirer

Academia Next: The Futures of Higher Education. Johns Hopkins University Press. : A Former United States Secretary of Education and a Liberal Arts Graduate Expose the Broken Promise of Higher Education. The Great Training Robbery: Education and Jobs." Native American Higher Education in the United States.