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Lumina Reports Highest Recorded Post-High School Educational Attainment

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since 2009. So, while they have increased by more than 9 points, that actually represents a nearly 50% increase, the most of any race or ethnicity since 2009, so they have made incredible progress. In the past 15 years, Utah, Arizona, Indiana and D.C. national attainment rate, 47.1% are degree holders and 7.8%

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After the Election We’ll Need a Strong System of Higher Education More Than Ever

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Economists have warned for more than a decade of a coming labor shortage due to birth rates that slowed at the start of the 21st century and fell further during the Great Recession of 2008-2009. In those and countless other areas, solutions are being incubated right now on America’s college campuses.

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Report Finds That Affirmative Action Only Led to Incremental Progress

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The report is a retrospective analysis of the changing demographics at selective and open-access institutions from 2009 to 2019; researchers ended their analysis in 2019 to account for changing enrollment patterns that resulted, in part, from the COVID-19 pandemic. It comes less than a year after the U.S.

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The Slow but Steady Rise of Women in Higher Education Leadership

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Accolades for the Moving the Needle campaign are not hard to find among women whove ascended to the highest echelon of the academy since the ACE-led initiative began in 2009. Today, the percentage stands at nearly 33%, marking a significant but measured progress in the landscape of academic leadership.

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On a Mission: Damon L. Williams Jr., Takes on the World

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In 2009, he returned to his undergraduate alma mater, Xavier University in New Orleans, an HBCU and the only Black Catholic institution in the world. But all along the way, Williams has worked at both public and private institutions—HBCUs and Predominantly White Institutions—that have become top producers of minoritized students.

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Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson

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Jackson also was the recipient of a 2009 John Hope Franklin Award, presented by Diverse: Issues In Higher Education. In 2009, President Obama appointed Jackson to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. Jackson holds a bachelor’s degree and a Ph.D.

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Report: English Majors Employed at Comparable Rates, Educators Can Do More to Prepare Students for Careers

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Among those ages 25–59 who are English majors, the median earnings of Black graduates in 2010–14 was $46,000 and the median for Latino grads in 2009-2013 was $48,000. Meanwhile, for English grads overall from 2009-2013, the median was $53,000, according to the report. in philosophy. in English. “[It