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College Completion Rates Edging Upward

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Comparisons are available across states, gender, race/ethnicity and age as well as by year dating back to 2007.

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Charitable Giving to U.S. Higher Education Institutions Rises 3% Despite Economic Challenges

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Since 2007, foundations have contributed the largest share, with 42.5 The survey highlights a significant shift in giving patterns over the past three decades. Thirty years ago, alumni provided 27.6 percent of all giving to colleges and universities.

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University of Phoenix Tribal Operations Team Offers Targeted Support for Indigenous and Tribal Students

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Led by Patrick Horning, the university’s National Tribal Strategic Alliance Executive, the team plays a critical role in supporting Native American, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian students.

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Tech Trends 2025: Can Technology Help Universities Avoid the Enrollment Cliff?

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The fertility rate in the United States reached a historic low in 2023, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions National Center for Health Statistics, and data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows the fertility rate dropped more than 22% from 2007 to 2020. Fast-forward to today, and that first cadre

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Dr. Nancy Lynne Westfield, Wabash College

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Additionally, she is the author of Being Black, Teaching Black: Politics and Pedagogy in Religious Studies (Abingdon, 2008), Black Church Studies: An Introduction (Abingdon, 2007) and Dear Sisters: A Womanist Practice of Hospitality (Pilgrim Press, 2001).

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CARLTON SPELLMAN

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Marine Corps from 1984 until 2007. Spellman served as vice chancellor for business and finance at Fayetteville State University in North Carolina. The Saint Leo University graduate served in the U.S.

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Dr. Sylvester James Gates, Jr.: Pioneering Theoretical Physicist Bridges Mathematical Worlds

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Gates often wishes his father, who passed away in 2007, could have been there to witness him receiving the National Medal of Science from the nations first Black president. One of his earliest memories of his mother, who died when Gates was young, is when she took him to see Spaceways, a science fiction movie, when he was four.